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Show Minifters of F'rance to come to 'HoUanJ; · firft to Monfieur RoniUe, and afterwardS' tO the Marquis Je To•'C]; who .both cim'd their coming thither, too remarkably not to be taken notice of. The D. of M. made two V oyages that Spring to Englat~J,. one in the Beginning of .Mflrch, N. S. whtch was the (ooneft rhe Affairs of the War would admtt of his Return, after the Campaign of LiUe ; the ocher about the End of .April, when he went to communicate to the Queen what had pafs'd, and co r~ceive Her Inftructions. ;Now Monfieur Rouille came to Holland, almoft as foon as the D---- was gone from thence the firft time ; and the Marquis de Torey follow'd foon after the D----'s leaving it the Second : By which it fhould feem, they thought. they might make fome Advan- ~ of his Abfence ; and that it was for r Mafter's Service, to have the Dt•tcb1 as• ch ';l.s they could to rhemfelves, as the ltke- 1 f way to procure fuch a Peace as they had a mind to. I can't but obferve on this Occafion, that the Gentlemen, who are ~6 angry with the D. of M. have t~e ~apP,tnefs to have the French on thetr Stde, tn what relates to 'Peace as well as War : For they roo, it fhould feem, dinike the D--- for .a Plenipotentiary, as much as they do for aGe. neral · much lefs can they endure the Thoughts, that he ·1bould be both, Iince .they are fure to be obftructed by ~im in all their Defigns, and carl make ne1ther ~Var nor Peace to their Minds, as long as he ts ~t the Head of them. Thefe are the Sent~-. ments of the Fremh ; and in them 'tis natural enough; l(liOu!ih; put f11re this mull feem .ftralj~e Language here iii cl1e Momhs of 'Men,.!.\'vno would~be ' thO\l~hc t6 be the impllcite A11mircrs ot Her ¥;-.-:,-'s_ Royal Wifdom : 'Tis But an odd way, for a Parry to exprefs their great Deferel).Ce to che J t~dgment of ;I SoV'ereign they cell yo.u, they Ad01'e, to 1idiculC the Choice She has macle of a Plenipotentiary. Infallibility, I confefs, is no Part of the Prerogative, tho' it feem> to be growing fafhionable of late with thefe Men, to chink, or rather fay fo '; which makes it the more extraordinary for them, to c~nfure Her M-----Y [o freely as they do ; which a very little Modefty would keep them fron1, in this Point at leafr, fince all the Allies approve Her Choice, and the Emperor has done the fame thing himfelf. Thefe two great Princes think rhofe the ficteft Perfons to treat a Peace, who have ca:rry'd on the War with fuch Succels ; whole Conduct fuews, chat they have nothing [o much at Heart, as the lntereft and Glory of thofe they fen'e; and char they chink nothing.fo truly an Honour to themfelves, as to fimfh this great War by a L'lfe and honourable \Peace. Thefe are the Views the D. of M . 1tnd Pr. Eugene have acted with, and 'cis this has recommended them tO the Favour of .thefe Princes, who from the Experience they had of them as Gemrals, c.hofe them for their Plenipotentiaries. But the :Frmcb ir feems, .and rhcir :Prien~s hcrc.z are Of, ~n?ther Mmd.· ~nd for tl11s Rea!on Mon11eur ~o'llille, dnd the Marquis de Torey came neitll< ltlof<•tltero irlto HollanJ,., till .the D. of 'iVf. , •n. c · · 'mil |