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Show [ 6o J Succefs. He has not got yeU what be wants, I mean a Separate Peace, by affeCl:ing to tr,eat for •a Gene1 al one; whiclto~Qt!WQI1'cl.,of all things keep off. A Man .muft. 4hut• hiSi EyeS very hard, not to fee the Frenc& ffijlant :nothing by t hefe Conferences but tp amufe the Allies and k-eep it in their power to make what u(e of then1 they fbou'd have occaf10n for; and that they never defign'd to conf~nt to wha wa;; necelfary to make a Genetal Peace praa:i- · cable: they either meant no Peace at all, or only a feparate one for thePJfelves; whicl:t thev hop'd, from the Temper of the Dutch, the. Nature of their Government, and the Experience they ~ave for?Jerly had o~ them,1 they might be fnghtned tnto: to wh1ch End they affeCted from the very fir!!: Confer:nce to Jet nothing fall from them that m1ght look like a Defire to retard the Operations of the Campaign, but on their own part threatned what mighty things they wou'd do upon the Rhine and in Spain; and to intimidate them t he more, Marefcbal VtUars· condefcended to the mean.Artilice of writ ing to the French Minifters, from time to t ime Letters fill'd with the grolfefr Gafconade,' what a brav.e Army he had; how de· firo ~ r hey were to come to an .Engagement; and r Lat if the Allies had a mmd to a Bat~ t ie they lhou'd meet with no Intrenchments, bu; lhou'd find him r eady to receive them in •n open Plain. Thefe poor tricks they fan<'y'd wou'd pars upon Dutch Deputies: bQt t hey were too we ll known to be ?eliev'd ? and! t he E. vent lhew'd -thet'e was nothmg elfe-Jn. all thcfe Boafts aim'd ilt, but to cleceive: fo~ the : , · · mmutc [ 6t J tninute Douay began to qpitulare the Marefcbal retir'd to fafe gro.Q~d, and intrench'~ with all-his might, and dar'd not offer them Battle all the1 reft of the Campaign tha l!lore Battalions had been weakned by the Siegeq of Douay and l!ethune, than the Battle of .Blenheim was fought with; and almoft as many_ more were afterwards at t.he fame time employ'd in the Sieges of St. Venant and Airc. • B~t thefe and all the other Artifices of France cou'd not delude or drive the States to quit the common lntereft, or induce tfie Allies to hear~en to a feparate Peace with the French, who they knew, were taking the· molt effeCtual Means to make the Red uCl:ioq ?f Spain impo!Tible, while t hey were treatmg ?f Terms f or the Surrender of it. B u~ not.hliJg can dtfcover more plainly the Into.: centy ,of France, than wha!i happen'd after thefe Conferences were ended : Two Days after their Plenipotentiaries were gone the Duke of Anjou receiv'd a conudera ble 'Dif~ race atAlmenara, and in about th ree \Veeks ~fter that his Army was intirel1 defeated a~ S~>·agoffa, beyond a po!Tibility of maintaining h1s. Ground, or recovering his Affairs with~ aut ~he A{ijftance Qf France. Here now was a. fa)r Occa!ion for tbe French King to Jbew h1mfelf; hi,s Language had . been all along, ~hat he cou d not be aCl:ive to dethrone his Grandfon,, bu~ wou'd confeot abfolutely to a~ndon _h1m, If that wou'd procure a Pe3ce. T~~ Allies cant take his bare Word; his !\'f~t_frers make the moft folemn Proteftatioos. 1,~ h1~ ~a me' and give repeated Alfurances o£.tllts 1¥.~~ JllOfi: exprefsWords, and com:.~ ·• plain |