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Show [ n -~u ~ .( ... mana~e info nice a Junetllre;, ~ith (\Irurances, that ui. fpite of all Appearan~5s . to }he ?P!\trary, which the neceffity of )1lS, Affa1;s nng?,t oblige the King to make, l)e. wou d nev.er deferi him, much lefs agree. Wlt,h the A~ltes upon any terqJ.s to turn hts Arms agatnft him But this Journey was made a great -Myftery of, to' make the Allies believe, _the Bufinefs of it was to perfuade th.e__Du~e ,~f .Anjou to retire out 9f Spain, Iince 'It wl: o~ d be impoffible for the King to fup'j1<fr h1m any longer. If this King were not a perfea: Malter in all the Arts and M<_:th?ds 'of D;ceit as great an Enemy as lie LS, I Ihou d be ~lmo!l: tempted to pity him, to Hie how hard a Game he has to play. He has to deal with two Parties, one of which mull: be it~lpos'd on; he a!fures fj1e Spaniards he w1ll · affi!l: and fupport his 'Gral!dfon, coft w~at it will · and at the fame t1me he pronufes mort f~lemnly the Allies, tha_t he. will not give the lea It A~llance to htm dm;Ct!y. or indirea:!y. Now tf h~can find cre~itt w1t~ both Partys, either he IS a very cunmng Man, or one of them are very great Fools. Ip the prefent Cafe I !110u'd · fuf(}ea: the Ia~, tf the Allies cou'd be thus impos'd on: for 1f we confider which Side, both by Nature and I~· terell he is moll: inclin'd to, or allow his Aa:io~s . to be a setter Proof. of his Meanin,g than his Words, 1there is no room, to do~'6t ·but the Allies are the Party he wou d decetve ·if he cou'd · Iince 'tis evident from what .I have alre1dy f::tid in the beginning of tht,s Let'ter, he has, e•rer !ince the Conferences ~t the Harrue broke off, beetr doing all he cou d f fur [ 13 J fur the Service of his Grandfon, that be may be able ~o· fupport himfel~ without a~y .v~f]ble Affi!l:an~e from Fr.ance, .t1ll ~er Affam · are fo far retn~v d, as not to make any Manage, ments in doing it longer necelfary. But a l .r]le Inference '~ wo~'d at prefent make from thi~ is, that, fi~ce the Spamards mull:. be de· ceiv'd, if we ar• not, or we mull:, tf they !ire not, no. Word~ oi P~omifes, be. they ever fo fair, Jhou'd we1gh With us, or be thought an Argument of his Sincerity, unlefs his Aa:i·. ons go along with them. But to .return to the Negotiations, after the Paper brought by Monf. Petkum, no new Advances were made till the beginning of Fe· bnuzry, when an Exprefs brough.t him a frcfu j:'rojeB: of Peace to be commumcated to the Allies, which dilfer'd little from the other, or rather was an Amplification of it. 'Twas in the main the fame with the Preliminaries, but call: into another form, which as effeB:u· ally de!l:roy'd the Preliminaries, as .it it had. been put into no form at all: be fides feve· ral material Alterations, for the Re!l:itution of the Spanijh Monarchy there is a Promife only ; the Claufe in the 4th Article, whereby the King engages to take in concert with the Allies proper Meafurcs to oblige his Grandfan to it, is left out; the reftoring of the Two EleB:ors is infifted on as a Preliminary, and of the EleB:or of Bavaria in particular to the Upper Palatinat, in contradiCtion to the Pre· ' liminarics, by which 'tis agreed it lhou'd re· m~in to the EleB:or Palatin, whom the Em· Jleror had fome time before put into Po!feffion of it, than which nothing cou'd be more rea· fonable |