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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On April 15 from Vienna: Austrian, Russian, and French ministers at The Hague deliver a joint declaration responding to the British-Prussian November 25 peace proposal. They agree to a congress for the war against Prussia if all allies (including Poland/Saxony and Sweden) are invited, while France accepts Spanish mediation for separate peace with England.
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The following is a Translation of the Declaration delivered on the 3d Instant, by the Austrian Minister residing at the Hague, to His Serene Highness Prince Lewis of Brunswick, in Answer to that which His Highness had delivered on the Part of His Majesty and the King of Prussia on the 25th of November last, to the Ministers of the Belligerent Powers. A like Declaration was also delivered, Separately, at the same Time, by the respective Ministers of the Courts of Russia and France.
THEIR Britannick and Prussian Majesties having tho't proper to make known, by the Declaration delivered, on their Parts, at the Hague the 25th of November last past, to the Ambassadors and Ministers of the Courts of Vienna, Petersbourg, and Versailles; residing there;
1. That being sincerely desirous of contributing to the Re-establishment of the Publick Tranquility, they were ready to Send Plenipotentiaries to the Place, that shall be judged the most convenient, in order to treat there, of this important Object, with those of the Belligerent Parties which think proper on their Side, for attaining so salutary an End.
Her Majesty the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, her Majesty the Empress of all the Russias, his Majesty the most Christian King, equally animated by the desire of contributing to the Re-establishment of the publick Tranquility, on a solid and equitable Footing, declared in return,
That His Majesty the Catholick King, having been pleased, to offer his Mediation in the War, which has subsisted for some Years, between France and England, and this War besides, having nothing in common with that which the two Empresses with their Allies have likewise carried on for some Years against the King of Prussia.
His most Christian Majesty is ready to treat of his particular peace with England through the good Offices of his Catholick Majesty, whose Mediation He has a pleasure in accepting.
As to the War, which regards directly His Prussian Majesty; their Majesties the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, the Empress of all the Russias; and the most Christian King, are disposed to agree to the appointing the Congress proposed. But as by Virtue of their Treaties, they cannot enter into any Engagement relating to Peace, but in Conjunction with their Allies, it will be necessary, in order they may be enabled to explain themselves definitively upon that Subject, that their Britannick and Prussian Majesties should previously be pleased to cause their Invitation to a Congress, to be made to all the Powers that are directly engaged in War against the King of Prussia; and namely, to his Majesty the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, as likewise to his Majesty the King of Sweden, who ought specifically to be invited to the future congress.
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The Hague
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3d Instant (April 3)
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france accepts spanish mediation for separate peace with england; agreement to congress for prussian war conditional on inviting all allies including poland/saxony and sweden.
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Austrian, Russian, and French ministers deliver declarations at The Hague responding to British-Prussian proposal for peace congress, separating Anglo-French war from anti-Prussian war, accepting mediation for the former, and conditioning the latter on full allied participation.