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Show [ I 'l 1 we~e all undone, if we did not ·lea\oe tht) skilful and able Hands we had long us'.d with fo much Succefs, ro try their boafted Medicines, when we w~re not in the lea~ wantr of them. No body, if you will believe them, have ltJch univerlal Remedies fbr'all'the EvHs of the State as they; and under chis popular Pretence of curing. the· Nation; they tal<e all che Pains they can to. poilon it ; · of which l have already given you one Example ; you fhall have more in what follows. ' But before I dilmifs this Subject, I muft beg leave to oblerve one thing farther, which is of too much me>ment to be pail: over; and chat is, That they who have clone their Country fo muc;h SerYice in rejecting this Offer from the French, would have done it ftill much greater, could they have pre~enced any Regard being given to it. For tho' the refufing l:hefe T erms c;oulddo no harm, the hearkning to them I will fhew you did a great deal. The Inclination lome People of the fame CompleJ> ion with the' Allthor of the Secret Hi(fory, exprels'd co come tQ a Treacy with the French upon d)e Term~ offer'd, rais'd in the Imperial Court a great J ealoufy, th:it the Maritime :Powers were tampering with France, and ma! dng Terms forrhemlelves, co which the Intereft of the Houle of Auftria was to be facrific'd: This put that Court upon Meafures that had a fatal ln~uence on' che next Campaign, ·and Pccafion'd the i wci moft unfortunate Events ~hat have ha\'pen'd' all thjs War. Firft, This Sufpicion made them begin and conolude .a 'f•e:ny with the Fr,nch for evacuating ehe ' ' ., Mi/,;. ·. ; [ q J Milane(e, · without the Privity of E11gla,nJ and. Holia,d;, who did not know one Word. <'lt: the Matter. 1 And what do you think was the C!!lrifeq111encc of this? Why, it gave the f rench an1 Opportunity of fending immediately in,tq Spain a great Body of good Veteran Troops; andltis· to this Reinforcement fent the Duke of . .Anjou, that we owe the Lofs of-the Batde of .rJim~nz.-a, which prov'd fo fatal to our Affilirs on that Side; if thofe Troops had nof joyO:d, we had been Superior to the Enemy, and that Battle had ei~her not been fought, or it had been won, and Spain with it, confiderin~~; the-iii Cbndi'tiqo, the Duke of Anjou's Affairs ,~·ere then in·;. and the crue Reafon we venru{ d that Battle; wa ~ to prevent the Junction, which we did not know, or at leafi did not beli~ve, •was made at the T ime we fought·; a Milh ke we may think, very eafily made in Spain, -when 'cis known, we owe the Victory of Ramelliu to the Fren1bmaking the very fame Miftake in Flandm, where they thought the Englifh h·td nor at that Time joyH.'d the Con. fed<.rate Anny, ~.nd. reckon'd for certain that the Danes at \.eaft; neither had, nor could: And rbJs Perf wafioQ made them venture a Batde, s which the h ench have fo much realon to remember, without waiting for. a confiderable. Bocly of Troops, that were coming to them from the Rhine, the Head of which were a&ually at Namur, when Monfieur Viileroy began his March cowards the Confedecates. . But to return, 'tis plain the French had iiot gain)i the Battle of Almanz-a without that R.ci¢Qo;ement h;om Italy, and even with it, ·. ' tho' |