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Show [4] ·'!:~g&·ho further back •tl1~n~ ~:tey.X~[ 'lt'e/?llff'l which· is frelh in e\Ti!ry•Boqle5 ~~> · r~ifHY· J 'the 'Frmch wetCJ 1tto a@ilten.t; nbr-ta ex~u;e· great part of what•by·dlat 'I're2tJ 1:treY were'oblig'd to, a11d;.rou:exaoute _o,hei :Parts of it ift fo fcandalous a;omanner, as de. fi!ated in v;re1lt flleafur-e the lhtenriorr. tJf j:hc Articles ' but at: the very 1firfi -op:n•<l.~nfe'! renee they iliew'd what was tjl) IDe expe6fed from' ~hem: What they had ptomis'd ·as the ·Foundation of the Treaty, bo~h at the Hag:t~, and at the Court of Swidw, who were to be the Mediators, • they n~t only refu~d t~ comply with, but utterly difown d the havmg C" ver promis'd, becaufe it was Verbal only, and could not be fhewn under their Hand . • And with ref pea to Englantl in particular, r1cis notorious that when my Lord Purtlm-J -demanded the Removal of the Englijb 'Court from St. GeYman< , 1190t1rdin~ to . what Marefchal Boujflm had in the Name of the 'King' agreed to ; the King, wheQ t~ Matefchal could not deny the' Prpmifer dclny'd his having given him any Authon~y to make it. But this ~ a Fault that will, I kn:ow, be eafily forgiven the F1·encb King by feme Men, for theJ"ake of a Correfpondepae which could not .fo eafily be carxyd un, if the St. Germ1111< Court were remov'd farther off. Frefher ftill in our ~emor~es,; is the ftrange P~rt the Fmuh acted in,che flmouSJ TFeacy_ of Partition. They JNere not onl)'• follicicjng at Madrid a Will ·in, .fa-vour • ..o~ France, a~ the time the Treaty was making'~ b~t .the· very rreaty.it felf, was the -~, AtlS!lment made nfe of, to. induye the·spjfflift ). Court l 5 ] (i1our t6 ~~to fuch ~ :w~U) .:¢ t~o.\i,ly wll)l w:pt~vent.the Partitien t)1ey. w~re .4~ averfe to. >J ;o compl~at the ·pe~diouJr J:~efs, pf Erano in ~his :Affair, whe)\ the Iau; Kill@> upon otjce.o£ what Marefcha\ Jk,: ..t:ollrt \\(as · ng - ~t MAJrit/; feq~ a Miniftel.' liitp&fs.:· Verjaille< to q>mpl:tiAo£ it, tl'!,C lOOtg of•Framt vor orly deny'd)US· knowing :in ·~ clung o the Matter, ~t .,under his Hand. d'eclar?d, in a Letter ~o ~he late l(in~ ';fhat tho! a1 Will {hould be made in favour of .~is Family, he•would tak~ !lo A&vall;taf;e of 1r, but adhere to .the Parumon. • Th1s 1s the. PFince we have been thefe two Yea.rs ·rrcatitlg. with; whofe!llany Breaches·of Publick ~aith, and bafe Artifices, E~~rope has fuffcr'd Jo·much by, that no body, who is in earneft fona good Peace, can wonder that' the Allills ,think no Care and Circumfpettion to9 grea~.not to be deceiv'd any more ; ·at leaft .not in fo important a Point as the Reftituti: on of rhe Spanifl'. Monarchy ; upon wi1ic~ the Safety, ancLL1berry of us and ollr Allies, and .l may add of all Europe, fo much depentl, • France coulQ. never have fo great a Temptation · to de7eivr, as now ; ,fince, unlefsthey. can dece1ve us, the Point they have been labouring for above 6o Years muft be loft; t~e Ufurpation of the Span;fo Mon:uc; hy bemg the Grand lntri~ne, by which they have govern'd all the1r Motions Iince th_ Treaty of Mrmfter : For it was with this '{1e,w, as we fee by rhe Memoirs.lately pub] Jfb d of~ that Tneaty, that Cardinal Maz.ari11 py.efstd ~he Spanijl, Match ; whofc Words in a l\!,l~ter, te the ·Frmcb P~enipotentiari~s in Jlln. ' liJ') 46. |
