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Show [ 6 ] hove three that there is any Difpute about: Till then, all is allow'd to have gone.well for certain Reafons that held good, t1IT aboul the time, that the Frenc/J King difmifs'd Monfieur Chamillard from the Finances, for no other Reafon that I have ever heard, but to fhew us wh~£ we ought to have done here at the fame time· and 'twas not the Fault of thofe, who ha~e play'd th~ir G~me better fince, that we did noE. Th1s was m February, J 70f, all the Complaints we have heard of the Management of the War, are from the ~eginningoftbat Year, butwithout much Notfe till thefe Jail: fix Months. ·Since then we have been told, every thing re ating to the War is wrong, and are fill'd with loud Clamours of Griev-ances, which before went abroad in gentle Whifpers only, or were not at aU heard of. And- Firft, They tell us, a good Peace might have been had at the End of the Rame/lies Campaign. Now to decide this Quell:ion, we muft firll: fettle what a good Peace is; and in order to that mull: confider, what it was we went into the War for. No body wants to be told, that this was chiefly to obtain thefe two Ends, the Reftitution of the Spanifh Monarchy to the +loofe of Auftria, and the procuring of a good Barrier againl!: France on the fide of the Netherlands. Without which two Points there can .be no Security for Great Britain, that their befi: ~rade will not be loll:; and with it th~ir ReligiOn and Government, and every thmg that is dear to lhem ; for we lhould every Minute be io danger of having ~he Bigotry, Slavery and r 1 1 and Poverty of Fr~ce forc'd ufx!ri· us; b~ the exorbitant Power of that mofi: arb1trary Pnnce, if he lhould be fu!fer'd to fi:rengthen himfelf with the Addition of that vail: Monarchy, who was before much too great for his Neighbours • to fay nothing of the Safety of the Dutch • or the Liberty of Europe ; the laft of which' moll: of us, I fear, have little or no Senfe of; and for the Safety of the Dutch, fo fatal a Delufion has poffefi: many of us, that one may every Day meet with Men, who are filly enough to wilh again~ i~. New th~ Sp~.,. ni{h Monarchy, the Rell:ltUtJon of ~h1ch !S the firfi: Article of the Grand Alltanc~;, IS known by every body to confifi:, befides the Spanifh Netherlands, of thefe two ~reat P11rts, of Spain and the Indies, and of Mtlan, ~aples, and Sicily with Sardinia, and the adJacen£ Ifies. An'd a good Barrier againll: France , means at leal!: a better than the Dutch had before; which by the Experience of fifty Years has been found. to be much too weak for fo large a Frontier ; the Spanifh Flanders and its Capital City Gand, having in truth no Cov_er at all ; and Brabant but a very poor one ; while the French being intire Maf_l:ers of ;he Lys an.d Schelde both Provinces he expos d to the1r · Invafi~ns. Look but on fome large Maps of thefe Provinces, fuch as have been printed of 1ate Years, and your own Eyes. will pre_fenti.Y convince you of the Truth of this. But 1f thiS Reftitution and this Barrier were.thought gecclfary at our ent'ring into the War, no body, I I?ref11me, win fay, they are Jefs neceffary no~, when fo much more has been done,~ to ~am thefe E11M1 tha!l any body ali the Be&m- - mng· |