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Show Or could a fufficient Reinforcement have been fent time enough to them, either from Italy or England, to do anv great Matters that Year·? That, I fuppofe; will be pretendeditS little, by t!:JOfe that copfider, it was 'June 'tv hen thefe Preliminaries were finifh'd. 'Tis plain then, S[ain could pot have been gain'd chat Year, unlefs the Duke of Anfou hall confented to HeFnquifh it : Let us then in the next Place fur pofe the Summer fpent, and rhe Armies gene out of the Field, and fee w\1at we are to exreCl: then. A Peace is n1ade wirh France, the Allies have got each of them their refreCl:ive Shares, and have notping more to hcpe for; they renew perhaps the Grand Alliance, with great Expreffions of mutual Zeal ; the Emperor at leaft, and the Maritip1e Powers ; but fame of the leifer Princes might poffibly fh~w tpemfelves difgufted, and think they have beep neglecd : For; as the Preliminaries are now fenl'd, 'tis certain more than one of them are not fatisfy'd. Supppfe the ~ing of Pm[( ta, or Duke of Sa'Uoy, for Example, had thought dueCare had nor been ta~en of the111, 'tis plain in that Cafe, their Alliance is no ]onl/;er tO be depended on ; and either of thefe falling off, would very much weake11 the Confederacy.; efpecially rhe !aft, whom the Frerch would be very glad to draw into their Int~refts. :J3ut fuppofe none of the Allies have f!ny of tbefe Refenrments, or at Jeaft ftifle them, and all confent to renew tht: Grand Alliance; what becomes of the Armies upon leaving the Field ? Is it not fcpain, that they wil~ oil all Sides difmifs Pre~t great part of their Forces? Will not the Ma; ritime Powers fend home the Foreign Troops in their Pay, except fuch as Holland keeps for the Defence of their new Frontier ?f Shall we hear of any more Armies upon the Rhine, or in Sa'Uoy, when they have made Peace, when the Articles of the Treaty have been all Execute(!, and there is no more any Enemy to moleft them, no Caufe of Complaint, or Pretence for a new Campaign left ? I think nothing can be furer, than that this would have been the Cafe; the Allies would have thought no more of War in the Places that have been hitherto the Seats of it, nor have made any Preparations for taking the Field another Year. All Sides. would have made what Hafte they could to have leffen'd the Burthen, which during the War they had been opprefs'd with. Hollrmd particularly wou'd have had full Work t<? take Care of their ne':" Frontier, to pro: v1de fo many Towns w1th fufficient Garifons and Magazines, and fettle what Foot the feveral Parts of their new Acquifitions fhould be put upon, with RefpeCl: to War Trade, and Subfidies; and befides the grea~ Expence this would for the prefent put them to, they would be at a very great Charge to pay the Arrears due to the Foreign Troops without wl;ich they could not be difmifs'l Ad? to th1s tl;e e~tr~ordin~y Allowance, wh1ch upon the1r D1fm1ffing IS to be made to carry them home: This would put the States pnder a .Neceffity of retrenching, as much as poffi.~le, the Expences of the next Year: And dus laft Article E11gland would be proportionably |
