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Show 0: .1'4 1 t'hemfelv.es·; itt Y{hi~h j?pin~ }19 bgqy, wqnt~ to JJe.rold, ~j1ey- {ail'9; ~ .gu~ ~hA~ 1~h!~ ~ol)~f.qvenfei Wl\iPh vu: hop'd-t9f {T~n:! . 04f 5U(;:~pS~ n ~jq liB§ follow irom •t, t-hl' A~v,a{\tag~ ~~ J!ild g~in':!l, was tooa!lnfider~4lc r.o#~ parted ~!fl't,; 'foJ bY.. being M;!Iters of B •rf~lofla, we ~e:pt, !J~ \-~{e i]\ lJilr F*Cd$, l!Od ga11e · ~ per~~u.aJrJ\\arm ~q our Enuuic~, whq WJre by tb'i~. Situ~ion''qf ours., ohhg'd tq; J,:Ifen confiperahly tli!!ir J\.rmy on thtl fic\e of l,'or-~ugal, , w~ich OAC roight tJav~; expected would hAve turf!'d to a better Account than it did, and wou'd have enabl'd the ,portu;:uefe to have made fome lmpreffion on sp.in. l:lut that is not all, as long as we hao fuch a Footing, and the Enemy · could not dellt: ll!:l on the Inclinations of tb~ People to the Duk~ of Anjou, Y!bicb by what they had feen in Cat•lvnia, they bad rea ron to be very apprehen. five ot, they.were forc'd w employ an ArJll), much fupedour .w ours, to obferve our M~tioD. s, not kr.owing to which fide we might turn our !Cives, or where an Infurre8ion might br_eak out in favflur of us: All!,\ bdides the k:Hftracbon, Un~afinefs, and great Expen~e ~~is new WJr cr~atcd .tl]c ~uke of Anjou, andtus Adherents, It obhg d hun to difcover his Di ~rufl: of the Spaniards more than he haddo11e bdore; and to !hew, he thought himl'elf fafe ouly in Frmcb Armies, as well as Frencb Coun· ~i!s; which c~nld not but make a g1:eat deal of •U ~lood, tho not fo much as might have been hov d for from the old Spirit of that Nation. Thefe,, yo? ~iJI allow, we(e no fiigh~ Reafons for.mamtaHung the Footing we bad in Catalonia; muchm_ore will y.ou.tbink fo, when you reflefr, that tb1s.lltlle Fiece of Spain had fsmr Y~ :ars gao· t 3s ') go 1et,ptihto hfiill'Po11Cffidrt of the Whote:~ h<ld not a molt fatlll' anll bnaccobntal:ile MiftQalrd§e: ~enf ri1in,'d <lll ; not t8 rrifift on fevet·a1 otnclgood ·E~eas; 'fuch as kee~irig his Hblinel's~ doti tlie olRer IfaJimi Ptinces in 'J.Wr, who difcoter~!i b~: tci~ m~~,tr l~cnnati:ni to a League w lthfrdllt•, llie aJJrrrl!tlg ail th~ Smtlhcfn Cbaft ofFrance1ant1 giv~np En~ouJ-arement to the Severlnolt,' . pml l?hreiN~w-Goiwe\'ts, who l!ad long fbewii they wou1ct ltlr if they could l which created a frtilh Tr?u.b~e ·~~d Ell pence ro eire FrenciJ King, by obhgtfi (!, fnrn to keep Troops on that fid e~ ro 116 other e11d, hut to obferve the M"t~ot1s of his own S'ubje~s; atrd in die J~ft Pfacc, h~XI it fuccceded, 'tis to this we had ow\1 the W noll: of the Grand Proj:tt againft '{ou/on. Tf1eR: ·are fuch Advantages of the Sp.mifh War as will fufficie.ntly juftify the begin ning and purflt'i n;>; df Jt tn the mar,ner we have dorre, elp~cial.l y Iince the Reduction of Mi>ltirc~ has m3de it fo fafe and eafy to k:eep a i {io'lf Squ1d ron all rhe Year in the Mediterranean. But rhcfe Pui'r,tfes are all anfwer'd, whife we confi'nc rh1t ViTar ~it~in m'oderate Sounds, ~n'd pretend to. keep on the Oefenlive only. 1 here ts no need of en~arging. the Scbem~ of the War, vJhich i n~ ftead of d'oing Serl·ice ·to the Common C.1t C· wcrutd make us Jofe fevda1 of th'e Ad vantage~ &e have by ir, while it lies in a narrow Cflmpa~; and WIJUid enda\\'ger what we mighr. mamtairr~! while we 6:re~(l our felves b~yond Oil~ S,trei\'~th, and f?r~frdt m'1re than we ca:1 _l!o\d1 , ., B'et~d'es rhe' oth~r grea-t l n~onv enience>, V:.~1cn; Iila~e !hew11, yo , nluft f6llow the m~KJ~ g .an pft'enflve Wa\i'otl tlli's {]de, which c~ii never poffibly. fucceed, ilhl~!S the CafWianr were ' F 2. more |