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The King informed the two Houses of Parliament that prelimenaries of Peace were actually signed and that the basis of the accomodation was a general restitution of conquests and this treaty was concluded at Aix la Chapelle where the Earl of Sandwich and Sir Thomas Robinson assisted as plenipotentiaries from the King of Great Britain-- In the Year of --1751-- the Prince of Wales died after a short illness-- Soon after the death of his Father Prince George was committed to the care of the Earl Harcourt as Governor and to that of the Bishops of Norwich as preceptor--but soon after they resigned their Offices to Lord Waldegrave and the Bishope of Lincoln who succeeded them-- As several of the Nations on the Continant had reformed their Calender under the auspices of Pope Gregory the thirteenth, the British Parliament decreed that the New Year should begen-- agreably to the Gregorian reform, and that eleven intermediate nominal days between the second and
