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 of the Ambassador of Prince Charles of Lorrain, at a Confe∣rence Extraordinary of the Allies at Ni∣meguen, the 20th of June, 1678.

THis Declaration could not be opened at large, because the President Canon had only formed the Idea of it in his mind, and return'd but the night before from the Hague; he alledged that Journey, as an excuse for his not having been pre∣sent at the last Conference, saying, that he went to deliver the Lords the States General a Letter from his Master. Then he enlarged upon the in∣justice of the Alternatives, that were proposed by France, as Conditions of Peace: The first, demand∣ing a Country 35 miles in length, and 16 or 18 in breadth, with 26 Cities upon it, and 600 Burroughs and Villages: The other, depriving him of his Capital City, and the convenience of communica∣tion with his own Country, by pretending to pass through some of the best of his High-ways. That both these Conditions were equally hard, he de∣monstrated by the Election that was left his Master to chuse either. For the avoiding such Imperious Laws, he referr'd himself to the Alliances made be∣tween their Imperial and Catholick Majesties, their Lordships the States General, and his late Uncle, and renewed since with his own person with all pos∣sible extension, and withal recommended himself to the friendship and protection of all his Allies, con∣cluding

with a formal protestation, that he would resolve rather to live banish'd from his Country, and entirely to maintain the Justice of his Title, and have his Allies that had contracted with him, con∣tinue under their absolute Engagements, than ever to return upon such hard Conditions, and so scan∣dalous to his Birth, and his undoubted Right of Succession, never having deserv'd so ill of France, as to be used so cruelly.