A collection of all the acts, memorials & letters, that pass'd in the negotiation of the peace with the treaties concluded at Nimeguen / translated from the French copy, printed at Paris with privilege ; The articles of peace between the Emperor and the French King, and those between the Emperor and the King of Sweden, translated from the Latin copy, printed at Nimeguen.

A Declaration on the behalf of the Elector of Brandenburg upon the Sub∣ject of the Peace.

THe Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten∣tiary of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg; having seen what has been communicated to the Ministers of the Confederates at the Hague; to wit, that his Most Christian Majesty, upon the overture made to him by his Excellence the Sieur de Beverning Ambassador of the States General, hath granted to their Highnesses by a Declaration in writing, dated the first of June, at Wetteren, a Cessation of Arms for Six weeks, to commence from the first of July next, to the end that in the mean time they may confer with their Allies, and obtain their consent to the Peace, upon condition that their Highnesses would promise his Most Christian Majesty, in case they shall not be able during the said Truce to perswade their Allies to accept of the Terms which France had offered, that then they should no longer assist them against him or his Allies, during the present War: To which Declaration the Duke of Luxemburg has Order to expect their Highnesses answer to the end of this Month; hath not failed to acquaint his Electoral Highness his Master with the Contents of that Declaration, and to require his Order therein, which he now waits for. But in the mean time he thinks himself obliged to say beforehand, that his Electoral Highness having always reposed great confidence in the Sincerity, Integrity, and Justice of their Highnesses, the States General of

the Low Countreys, as those that have been his an∣cient Friends and Confederates, and whose interests are in many respects the same with his own, assur∣eth himself that their Highnesses will not make any promise to his Most Christian Majesty, that shall at all interfere with their Alliances, or be prejudicial to his Electoral Highness, who hath not spared his own Estates, nor his Blood, to save their Countrey from utter ruine and destruction, with which it was threatned when three whole Provinces were torn from it though since by God's great mercy they have been reunited. Besides, his Ele∣ctoral Highness promiseth himself that their Hi. and Mi. will be so reasonable, since even his Most Christian Majesty hath been willing to allow them the whole month of June to acquaint the Duke of Luxemburg with what they shall think fit to resolve upon his said Declaration, as not to anticipate the Term to the prejudice of his Electoral Highness, but will allow him a con∣venient time for mature deliberation, and the dis∣patching of such Order as shall be necessary to his Ministers here and elsewhere. His Electoral High∣ness takes it likewise for granted, that their Hi. and Mi. will never come to a Treaty, much less conclude any thing whatsoever with France, without first procuring for his Electoral Highness the satisfaction promised him in the 14 and 24 Ar∣ticle of their Alliance, and without reserving the same Liberty to themselves with relation to their Allies, which his Most Christian Majesty might or should reserve in favour of his; Especially since it is evident, that his Electoral Highness did not engage in this War out of an airiness of mind, but for the safety of the Low Countreys, the

preservation of his own Estates, and to secure himself against the injuries and attempts of others, and that he hath not been more desirous of any thing since the first beginning of this War, than of a firm and sure Peace upon reasonable Terms. And that he will always take in good part the good offices that shall be used to attain it, and that he will make appear as well his moderation with relation to the Terms and Conditions of it, as his due consideration of the reasons and ne∣cessities alledged by their High and Mighty for a Peace. Provided things may be so ordered, that he may obtain his ends, which are no other than the safety of the publick, and that of his own Countrey. This is what the said Ambassador hath thought fit to represent by this writing to their Excellencies, the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of their High and Mighty that are here present, desiring them not onely to recommend the Contents thereof to their Lords and Masters, to the end they may make their joynt Reflections, when they shall come to deliberate upon a matter of so great im∣portance, but also to support it as much in them lies by their own credit and wise conduct. Given at Nimeguen the 10th day of June, 1678.