Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1900-01-01 · Heft 5 · p. Seite 271

Die ■englische Interrention z. Gunsten d. böhmischen Juden i. J. 1744. 271 from tlie guilty, and pnnish those only who have deservedHer said Majesty’s dipleasure. And Yonr petitioners, as in duty bound, sliall ever pray & cet. Moses Hart. Aaron Franks. III. Aus einem Briefe des englischen Gesandten, Sir Thomas Robinson. Bear Sir Vienna, Dec., 26. 1744. A severe order is said to liave beeil sent into Bohemia for the total expulsion of the Jews, who are very numerous in that King dom. It is to be hoped that the Queen will by the advise of Her counsel revake the order which will otherwise be a sad delusion in political arithmetick, paiticularly at this time of day. Th. Robinson. IV. Brief des englischen Ministers Lord Hamngton an T11. Robinson• Whitehall, 28 fch Dec. 1744. Sir The principal merchants of the Jewish nation established here having made an humble application to His Majesty that■ he would be pleased to intercede withthe Queen of Hungary for a reversal of the sentence passed upon their brethren in Bohemia, (amounting, as they affirm, to 110 less than sixfcy thousand families) by Her Majesty’s late edict, whereby they are ordered to depart that kingdom in six montlis time, and His Majesty finding that the States -General liave already interposed their good Offices in their behalf, it is the Kings pleasure that you should .join withMons1* Burin anta in endeavouring to dissuade the Court of Vienna fron! putting the said sentence in execution, hinting to tliem in the tenderst ־ & most friendly manner the prejudice that the world might conceive against the Queen’ s proceedings in that afifair, if numbeis of innocent people were made to suffer for the fault■ of some few traitors, and at the same time shewing them the great loss that would accrue to Her Majesty’s Revenues & to the wealth and stiength of her Kingdom of Bohemia by depriving it at once of so vast numbers of its inhabitants. You will find inclosed the petition presented to His Majesty by the Jews liere,