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Show have propos'd to get Spain ? Can we do it, unlefs the King of France entirely abandons his Grandfon ? No, certainly; but he has promis'd he will : But is his bare Word a Security that may be depended upon? By no .Meap.s. What then ? Why, he gives you up fo many great Towns, which he would ·not do, if he did not intend to leave his Grandfon to himfelf. Why fo? l-Iow can the giving up thefe Towns to the Allies, be thought any Security? Is it any more than giving the Allies a Barrier, which Barrier they would have infifted on, whatever became of Spai" ? How now comes that ·to be a Security, that the King of Frmzce would abandon his Grandfon which he muft neverrhelefs have colnp!y1d with, tho' he had abandon'd h;m? Is it the fame thing to part with thefe Towns, and keep Spai11, .as to part with them and Spain too? If nor, . then his agreeing to give up one, is no Proof he intends to part with the o~her. Ay, but when the Allies have thefe Towns, they will force him to it. That I deny Wh~ fo, fay they ? The Towns are to be deliver d in two Months; that is, by the middle of Auguft ; and then the Allies will have time enough to enter France, if he fends any Suc. cour to his Grandfon. But Firfr, the Surrender that is to be made in two Months, is . only of thofe Towns that are to make the Barrier for the NetherlandJ ; thofe that are to be refror'd to the Emperor and Empire, are not to be evacuated till the Exchange of . their Ratification;, which is a tedious Work : Ilefides, t110' it be !Hpulated that the Towns in in the NetherlandJ, &c. fhall be given up in two Months, I believe no body wants to be told, that things are feldom fo puntlually execu~ed, as to be perform' d. nicely within the ume agreed. But I will fuppofe for once, rhefe Articles had been effeaually comply'd with within the time, and that the Allies confequently would have been at Liberty to Invade France, if they had openly fent any conJiderable Succours to Spain : but what then ? Could not they have femMoney and Jewels to the Duke of Anjou without any danger of Difcovery ? Or · w~uld they not have Pretence enoup;h for denying it ? And woul,d .the Allies Invade France, upon a bare Sufp1CJ0!1 of fending fuch ~n Affifl:ance to Spain ? And for Men, tho' a Body of Troops could not have been fem thither without being known, might not what Numbers they pleas'd of the French Troops, that wer~ in Spai,J, h~ve ftay'd there, under a Nonon of Defernon, or have been detain'd b): the Duke of .Anfo~t's Order, upon fome bhndPretence or other; a Trick the Grandf: lther has pratlis'd often enough, for the Grandfon to learn it from him ? Well but fuppofe Fra~ce had neither openly, no: un~ der-hand, gtven the Duke of Anjote any Affifrance for that Summer, (not that I can bv any Means gram it) how long wowld that have_ heB? o.r what Ufe WOt~ld the Allies . have .made ?f 1t ? Could the Troops we had th.en 111 Spam, have over-run the Kingdom Wlthcut further Help, or have driven our the Duke of Anfou in one Campaign? Tim i prefLme, won't by any body be pretended. F 2 • - Or |