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Show c 18 J has ever been, when they ~~ve thouf;ht the War he made unjuft. But tis not enough to fay the Allies wo?ld not be fal~e, nor a~ againf\: the Intennons of a Pubhck Treat), I think I may affirm, they ~an't be.~?· A lingle Potentate is Mafter of l11S own\\ 11!, ~nd can aa: V\ithout Conn·oul; but a Confederacy can do nothing wit_hout .a Concurrence of a~l Pam; which in lo unJuf\: a Caufe as th1s there would be no Reafon to apprehend. When all the mof\: j uf\: arid neceffary Caufes of a War concur, 'tis very hard to keep a Confederacy long together ; much Iefs can it be imagin'd it fl10uld be kept up to opprefs a Prince, who has done. all h~ can to fatisfy the Demands of all Pames. Either Honefty or Imcref\: will certainly dif~r~ fame of them. No Ally, when he has gau~ d all he can hope for by the War, vyil! be Willing to continue the Expence of It 111 Com· plcment to any of the reft, efpecially whe? the Caufe is manifeftly unjuf\:: No, were It ever fo juil:, this is hardly tO be hop'd for. 11\'hcn a Confederacy is very fuccefsful, Jealoufies naturally arife among themfelves; and they are more concern'd, that one Part fnould not be too great Gainers, and have too much to their Share, than that any other fhould not have enough. Of which we fee 'an Inil:ance, though a very foolilh one, a_ mong our [elves; our prefenr Mafters of Politicks, to render the very Succeffes of :he War odious, alarm us with .new Fears, wh1ch no body before ever thougf1t of; and tell us, 1 The Dutch will have by this Trea.ty a bett~r "CoUI1try'than thei:r own. And· 1f a cerram ' .. · Cor- Correfpondence by way of Calah, has bo.en continu'd, France might be affur'd, that no Advantage would be taken of the nth Article, tho' Spain was not relinquilh'd in the Time ftipulated; and t~a: th.erefore they mio-ht fafely fign the Prelumnanes, for that rh~ War could not be renew'd, Iince they might depend on it, that England would never confem to ufe info barbarous a Manner, a Prince whom fo great a Party among them have always had fo much Refpea: for: And without England they know the ref\: of rhe Allies could do nothing. Bur whether ir was more reafonable for the Allies to truft France, or France the Allies, was not left at this time to general Retletti~ ons. What was doing at this very JunCture in Spain, gave the Allies abundant Caufe to fufpea: the Sincerity of France; that they meant nothing lefs, than the Reftitution of that Monarchy. No body that looks into the Accounts of that time, and fees how thick Expreffes went one upon another between · France and Spain, can doubt, whether the King and hisGrandfon did not perfeCtly ;veil agree: And not only the News of that t~~1e, but the FaCts themfelves lhew, that the Kmg gave him all poffible Affurances, that he would not abandon him, tho' it was neceffa: ry for his Affairs to promife it. This, I far .. is very plain from what was at that time doing in Spain; for tho' the Marq. Je T~cy t~l~. the Allies, He did not know but K. Phzl•p might be at Ptmr before him, there was not the leaft Sign of any Intention to relinquifh Spain; but on the contrary, there were o?- .D 2 the |