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Show [ 18 ] . read;. Jritf; dna I ll01!1 going tO b ~~tout, ··fl!•ifl gi1.le joitl'. Holincfi a plain alfd ftih!lt'.JA~~flf t~. Di]lrofltlo'n roe are in' /or Peace. Wlf.wtU ibercfo/",e) acquain' your Holinefs, that the King. ornvra!Ui.71, Jon bris' inttufted us with fuU P fvo/ •tor convey rhe "Arch-Duke a Part of thl)fe •'Eftat,es tha corllpofe the ' Spanifh Monarchy. JlThe !&atholiei IKing h{II th'e Hearts of the true SpamarLi!;· and <if, content to reign over them. ' , ' It only depends therefore on the Eniperor M t~· plain himfdf at thi1 time, who may have, if he ple!f~s, for ever re-uni~e4 tu his Family; The Mi· l.mefe, Naples, arzd SJtlly, wtth the other Jjlands h< longing to Spain, that are fituote in the Meditet• ran'ean Sea. We fhould eafily aJ!,r(e about ~ Danier for the Republick of the United Provinces : .And the 'T"wo Pretences for the War being thus remov'd, it wou' d not be difficult to put an End to thofe Mif fortuncr, which Europe has been fo long oppreft'd with. • We pray God that he wiU preftrve your Holineft d grtt~t m1my Teat'r in the Government of !lis Cburch. Your Devout Son, the King of Franc~ and Navarre, s. Louis. I fhaU leave it to your felf to make the Refte· Aions which naturally arife from this · Le~ter; and having thus.plainly !hewn you hqw.ground· · · Iefs [ 1.9 ], lefs the firft Complaint of thefe Writers is, I. lllalf endeavour to prove to you with th~ fame Clearnefs~• that there is as little Ground fpr thl'!' ndict; which is this-: ~z • . l'hat the War in Spain has been fi1ame-, flllly neglet.ted, tho' the Recovery of that,Kint\•,' dbm was the chiefthing we propos'cl by ~mring into the War. . This is the mofl: plaufiblc of all their Complaints,. and yet I doubt not bur. I !hall cafily con 'Iince you, that it I InS, ifpollible, lef; Scnfe in it than any of the rell:. We t ha t live at home have for the moll: pan, no other W JY to jud ~e of Affairs · abroad, but by Events; and thm ~.s having fucceeded but ill on the Side of Spain, or at leafr very !hart of the Expectations we were fill'd with, that a Revolution there might be compafs'd with as little Trouble as ic was here, we readily give into any Inli.tuations or Surmifes, be they never fo groundlefs or ex-, travagant, that impute the Event we did not expefr, to illCondufr or Mifmanag<ment? 'tis the Nature of Mankind ; they would fatn be knowing, or judging -at k afi, whether they know or not which makes them C3tch at ever'{ Shadow of a Reafon, to account for things, efpecially when they don't go to their .Mind ; they take for granted, whet·ever there IS want of 5uccefs there is a Fault ; and 'tis fome Amends the~ fancy for a Difappoinrment, if they can lay the Blame fomew here, no matter where : ' ris this Humour makes this Compbint fo p£Pular; and when the Faction has givea out that rhe War in Spain has been neglechd, ..'ds ea!ily believ'd by thofe th•t k now no better~ bu~ a yery little Examioa tion w iii dear up [IJis· D 2 Marter |