Trials > Tryal of Richard Francklin

made of Gibraltar and Port-Mahon, in Purfuance, as
the Spanijh Secretary faid, of the then late Treaty
concluded between his Mailer and the Emperor of
Germany, at the Court of Vienna. Mr. tfilfon was
ask’d, how he came by that Letter ? To which he
anfwer’d, amongft other Difpatches from his Maje-
fty’s Minifter at the Court of Madrid, brought by
a Courier.
Mr. Blare was next call’d upon, and fworn, who
depofed. That he had tranflated the faid Letter, which
contained a Demand of the Reflitution of Gibraltar
and Port-Mahon; and had likewife tranflated the Ar¬
ticles of the Treaty of Vienna. Then the Tranfla-
tipns were read in Court, which he farther depofed
were a juft and true Tranflation from the Spanijh
Originals.
Here Mr. Solicitor-General took Notice, That the
Treaty of concluded in the Year 1725, be¬
tween the Emperor and the King of Spain, was very
prejudicial to his Majefty’s Subjects; upon which his
Majefty’s Minifters (with his Majefty’s Confent)
concluding a Treaty of Peace, Union and Friendlhip
with the Kings of Spain and France, in order to
qualh the ill Confequences that muft have attended
the laid Treaty of Vienna, had it not been timely
djfappointed by the Conclufion of the Seville
Treaty, which Mr. Franklin had in his Journal of
the 2d of January laft, ridiculed falfely and fcanda-
loufly, in a pretended Extraft of a private Letter from
the Hague.
The Council for the King then propos’d to enter
into a Proof of the Publication of the Craftfman of
the 2d of January laft on Mr. Francklin, for which
Purpofe they call’d one Smith, who being fwom, de¬
pos’d,That he went to the Houfe of Richard Franck-- 1
im, and ask’d for fix Country-Journals or Craftsmen,
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