Whereas "by Letters from Mr. Thompson, His Majesty's Minister at Paris, to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Dated the Twenty-eighth March, N.S. There is an Account that the French Secretary of State, M. Amelot ... Notified to Him in Form, that Things Were Now Come to Such a Pass Between the Two Nations, that France Could No Longer Avoid Declaring War Against Great Britain ... Given Under My Hand and Seal at Arms in New-York, the Sixteenth Day of May ... in the Year of Our Lord, 1744