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Show a new War ; if the Support of the Duke of .Anjou makes it ne.ceifary ? No_, fure ; we fuall never think our felves in' a Condition to break with him ; n9r ·{half. we be able to perfuade our Allies to it:-No.J?al't . therefore will be left us, but to fubmit r6 fuc\1 a Peace with his Grandfc;m, as he fuall iri his Plenfure think fit to prefcribe. I need not enlarge upon the Difficulties pf .making War in Spain~ after what I have faid _in J.TIY Firft Letter: Tis eafy to fee, how the :Quke of .Anjou may find us Work enough for Two or Three Years, if he do but avoid coming to a General ACl:ion; Sieges will coft Time, as well as Men and Money ; and many muft be made before fuch a Kingdom can be reduc'd; and that will give the King of France epportt~nity enough to do what he will , to fuppott. his Graf).dfon fecretly or openly , or to pre(c:ribe a Peaq:, orbegin a new War, which 'tis always eafy to find a Pretence for; and we are fure he can't want Inclination to do whatever .is in his Vower, which fu~h a Caufe calls for; nor is he fo little known;~s to leave us the leaftRooni to think, that any Treaties or Engagements can bind him, when Inclination and Power t~mpt him to break thro' them . . His whole Rt;ign is one continu'd Proof of this: I have faid foml!thing of it already ; and therefore fh~il dM but one Inftance, which is a little Paplliel to the Cafe before us; and that is, the Manner in which he kept the Promife he made ahe· Spaniards at the Pyrenel)rl Treaty; Nqt ,to affift the Portuguefe , who were then at Wr_r , ,With them. 'Never was Treaty-made· with mots 1110re Solemnity; and yet what did thofe Engagements lignify? All the time the Treaty .was J?aking, France was concet'ting Meafures to fupport the Portt~gt~e(e; and the King the. prefem King, who was then but Young in Perfidy, had io little Regard to cover or palliate what he did, that he fent iri the Face of all the World, an Af!uy to th(} Affifl:ance pf thofe, whofe Defence he had renounc'd, commanded by a Marefchal of France. And can we after fuch an Inftan:ce, depend upcn Jlis Word?' Has he not much greater Temptation to affift Spai11 againft usJ than he had then to fupport the Portuguefe againft Spain ? ls not the Honour of his Grandfon tbe ~nfereft of his family, and the Acquifition of .fo great a Monarchy, of infinitely more Concern to him) than the Defence of Portugal could be? A Man muft be blind not to fee there is no Conipar1fon betwee~ the Two Cafes; and 'tis inexcufable when w:. are fenfible tf this, to thinkJ that a Print~ who has been fo falfe iri one lnftance J cad be ever true in. the other. . The Sum 9f this Argument is, That if a feparate Peace be made with France, upon th~ Foqt of the Pr_eliminaries, without the ~ ) t11 Amcle, nothmg can hinder France frorri affil1:ing the Duke of .Anjo"; and if he be affifl:ed bv Fr111ic~, we can !)ever b'e able to dri~e hirn out of ~pai'?; and .confeqt.:~mly if Spam be e1~cr had, rt muft be by a Treaty : It therefore no Peace can.be.a good one Withput Spain; t11en t,he ~7th .Artic!C is nec~!fa-ry W prder .to .a. good Peaye; . Which 1s the Pomt 1 was to prove. I know but one thine: G ctl:' |