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Show [ 44 J ~~t 'tlfl!e.r!!l; <{liey· had "aiiOt tlifTRefdt't •be- 111n~J r!by4vt~ith l11ey ou*d <'llt~ time tontound \:tfl t11at had bee!YJdQfi'e;rta ~ nud~rc§t Hbp<-'s;£-at ttle fame rim~q tHh'tl rhe ' AII iance t"ll"ght tie bt'bke by it. 1Alhd11t flat ·~as t l\is; rhey flr~tehde they ·conTU rtndt''exectlte ·any part ~f t he Pttlimi'naries,'· urfler'snthe :A!tlie's wou'd oblige tncmfel ~es hot lt6 m':f~e an.y .f&rthcr Denlar\"ds,' than ~ ha't 1 w~~e 'already contain'd in tbote Articles ·, or ' that they -fhou'd be now ·aeclar'd : w hi eli is contrat y to the 3Zd Anic!e, in which th'ere is :i Power cxprcf!y rcferv'd f br t he Empire, the four Affociatcd Circles, the 1\ ings of Portugal and Pru/fitJ, and the Duke of Savoy, to make what further Demands they lha\1 fi nd reafollable. T his the French in!ifl:d on, for no other rca fon but becJufe they knew 'twas impoffibJe for the Allies in juftice to comply with it, unlefs the re fpec1ive Powers above-nam'd had had Minifters at the Hague with full ln!huttions from each of them ; which they knevr they neither had, nor cob'd have without Joling a great deal of time: Bell des, this Demand of the French is t onfraty not only to the expre fs T emJs of the Preliminaries, but to the very Nature of therrl ; for if noth ing is to be left to be adjufted at a general T reaty, how -does a Preliminary Treaty differ from it? Dut it was very much for the Purpofe of the Fw :cb, who mea nt nothing but to ~mufe the Allies and make mifch1cf, to in fill: on it ; which dccordiogly they diO, being fufe wlllch ever pllt·t the Allid to6k, t hey fhou'd fipd their Aceount in it. :For it the All ies wdu'd not agree to this Demand, then. there w:l's always [ 45 J ~'VV ~1~):;};1 3J1AII(. ready to break off the Treaty upQn · . s \ong as further Demands may be m"ade! ~ pon ~hetlJ, they ca n'~ be fure, any .<AIJ!cefiions wj ll procure a lafting Peace, and th~y J])(Jjl ·~e Jin .,d,anger of having the War ~e n eiY~sl uvon them, after all they lhail have .o~p.e .to put- ~n end to it. And this is very ptau!ible aJJd fpecious; but as 1 lhall fhew yq,u by and by, has at the bottom nothing ;~ t1 ail in it. l.lnt if the Allies had comply'd With t bJS Demand, and declar'd no further Demands lhou'd be intifl:ed on, what a fine Game wou'd the FrenciJ have had? They bad nothing elfe ~o do, to break the A Ilia nee but to reprefent to fome of tbefe Member; of it, how their Interefts were neglected and what poor Terms the Maritime Power; and the Emperor have made for them. You , fee, Gentl ~ men, the utmoft yoDr Allies ask •for you; you fee the whole you are to expea from them ; thefe are t he Terms they have m<1de for you, and they have promis'd to obl1ge you to acquiefce in them : Are thefe Allies worth ad hering to ? Come over to the lntereft of the King, and fupport his firft P~eten !ions, anq you will find both him and Ins_ Grandfon more grateful ; you fhal! ha~e th1s and that and t'other good thina th1s Town, that Principality, fo much Mony: , fu~h a valuahl r: Match, in fuort, Terms in-fimtely more advJntageous to your Mafl:ers an~ the I ntet_eft o.f their Familys, than any t~mg the A Illes w1ll do for you. This Ar. t1fice the 1-"~ench found the good EffeCts of •the.lall: ~ar, and_ their Fingers itch to be .agam at It; fqr th1s !\'aS the way they drew _, oW |