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Show ' r s. J ]l'tng could ev:~r hope to' fee. All~ i{ t,he~\1 two Points are necelfary, then no Peace, Without them can be a Good Peace. Let us then compare this Good Peace wi~h what the Frenc& o!fer'd ,at the end of the }?ameUies Campaign ; which is fo far from being a Secret, that the Letters written to the Mariti mil Powers by the Eleel:or of IJavaria, who ~as ~mploy'd by -t~e King of France to make the firll: Overture, were immediately compmnicated ta all the Allies, and by their Confent made publick : And whoever will be at the Pains to look back to . the News Papers and Monthly Accounts of that Time, or will confult even the i:ommon Yearly ColleCtions, will fee there is no Myftery in the Whole of that Affair; which, in lhort, is no mor·e than this, that the French olfer'd to give. up to the Allies, which of tbefe two they lik'd bcfr, either Spain and the Indies ; or .Milan, Naples, and Sicily, &c. Which Offer was uoanimouny rejeCted. I fuppofe there is no need ct proving, that the Allies ought not to ha e accepted either Part .of this Alternative, it being io lhort of what upon our Ent'rance into the V.'ar was thoughtnece!Tary. To have been content with a Moiety of what we went into the War for, after fo many Succe!Tcs, and not ~ few furpri· zingly Great, would have rend'rcd us inexcu• fable to all Poll:erity; and fome body, who, we are now told, prolongs the War, would have been faid tp have heen well paid for fuch a Peace ; 'twould have been in the Language of the "faaion, a plain Cafe we were fold w France, and nothing lefs than his Head could have [ 9· l have aton'd for it.' But infteadofproving~he Abfurdity of acceptin'g iuch a Peace, I iliall fhe~you rather, .what to every body is notfo plam; anq that 1s, that the trench were not fincere .i they ~eant nothing by their Offer but to amule th~ Allies, and knew, they could not n.ll agree to accept either Part of the Altern a. uve,- and that Englar~d and HoOand without the Emperor c~mld npt take Sfain and the Indies, were they ~ever fo much mclin'd to it. For had the Allies hearken' d to this Propofal, it' had, bee1_1 m th~ Power of the French to have clos d wnh wh!ch they wou'd. Now'tis eafy to fee what ~~1s muft have ended in: For in fuch a Pamtton, there is no doubt, but as ~he Dutch and we iliould have been for Spam and the Indies, the Emperor would ha:re made the other Pare his Choice, which is evidem.ly ~eft .for him. Which Part now of th.e ~lhesm this Divilion wou:d Fran,·e bemoft Wil!mg to comply with? oi in other Words, which Part of the Monarchy would they c~ofe of the two to quit? A M,m muft 'be bhnd not to fee, that the Part the Emperor ~ould like heft to have, the fame France would like heft to part with: Behold then .the necelfary Confequence of heark'ning to fuch ~:rms; the Confederacy broken, aud the Ma.. n~Ime Po\~ers left to lhift for themfdves, Without bemg able to obtain either of the P.arts, when they ought to be concent, accor.d1!' lg to the Terms of the Grand Alliance, With nothing lefs than both. R Who now, I would fain know have moft eafon to complain that rhefe Offers were re- C jetl:ed,_, |