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Show ··----- :- ,f . '* * '* Vecemb. ~~. 1710~ S I F., S I~ C E you are pleaS:d to fay you have receiv'd Satisfaction in what I have written of. the Management af tic War, I. will now give you the fair, and plain Account, you delire, of what has been doing thefe Two Years, with Refped:. to Peace: Ancl I will Jhew you how the Negotiations at the Hague and GertmrJenberg came both to fail of the Succefs that was ex- . petted from them. This is a Task which, I , confefs, at this time I lhould wilh to be ex-, cus'd from; Iince you own your felf convinc'd, from the D. of M.'s Conduct in the, War, that no particular Blame can lye upon him, with Relation to a Peace; which was all I undertook to prove to you: But I am on fo many Occafions made fenlible, how ver'f !itt~ this Affair is underftood, that I can c refufe telling you what I know of it. . I every Day meet with fomerhing o'r other tbat convinces me, · how much this Mat~er wants to be explain'd; there being no Poiric that People are fo uneafy at , or fo much in the dark about, and eonfequemly in which they can \>e fo eafily impos'd on by the (alfe 'B · lnfinu-' |