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Show [ I 4 J iho' lrhe Battle ·was fought Jn ..April, 'and our Arm'y•was i.S a · manaei! rmin'd by that Blow, all chty did thatYeat,'•w-ll~ enly to take hefi, J~. But that Reinforoertttnt could not ha"'e beei1 ·Jtenr ,. had bot l the ' SecvetJ Tr~ary for'•J the tEvacootion o6 'the Mif,,,[e been made: ~nd the Treaty H:td nor been· ilili:lde, had ·dot t)w Jealoufy r::ti~~cl; in rhe lmP-!i'i· al Oout'tr by the In:clln~rion fome. · Pe()• pie' f"exprefs'd to .. hear~cn ro rhe · Otfdr of the FrPnc:h, made,· rh§lll r.-folve '·u~ fecur\ng iomething '-fl'lr • thcomfelves: ,'·And the fame Jealoufy ·put thGm; up()n t3king another Step, no lefs prejulllcial ro the cCJ.Ql• mon Caufe; and that w-:as;i:ihe Expedition,· to :f{apler, 'which they could n'ot be p.revaU'd with to defer upon the repeated. and·moft preffing Inftances that the Ma~irirne Powers made to them by their Mini.!ters, both at Vielma and Italy. And the Confequence of the Expediti. on was, that it not only diverted a great part of the Troops, that were to execute.the Projetl: oti Toulon, but retarded for a contld'erobll: time tlie March of there~ 'i and this L()fs -of Time; and lelfening ef thelt· Numbers, feem to have been the chief Occafiom of tlie Mifcarri\ tge-of that gloFiblls Enterpri'le. No~hing madi:rhe llilperial C?~rt fol()h~iflate!ybe?.oo~ I that unhappy Expedmon; ' but the Fears;. rlll!y bad, ·th<tt Napier as -A.vell Rs' Milan,• wou!.d.at the H rgr<e be given 'up to Eidlit~te a Peace~ wl\.ich rhev were refo!vitl •to prev.enr,..'Py ge:· tine; Pofi"e.ffion as foo)l. 'as' ~hey cc1Uid.. .Wh!S is all we have got by heark'nihg to thofet ~f· fers, which 'tis now thought a great'Drllll¢ we l?s[ ]1 willll:l!'Mt d0fbvith$;1the Lofs of l.tle1:B!ttte. of .Almar'z..a, and t11~ Mlfcarri~ge of the ·Pro-1 jell! bn if.wlrm, tl<la 1,reo.ttlft, tnoft itnpott\mt beft•~oncerteEl Ernetpri'ze ehat was·ovep efi~ trtd oft· ·· And both thefe Mislbrtu.nes'had in • dlH'_IobahHiry been ~n:~Vtlnted, had ·the Offers e ·l!!i Fr•·t~cb 'been· 'tNfndly rejetted at the · flrft; ~i1d uo Occafib;1 of jtaloufy had, by tift- . nif1g'eo th~1h , l'lt:Lhf;iven th~.: i'mp~rial Gourt. -:£:liisisa l plain nah.:d Truth and FaCl:, which • clll!le Writers, or fhofe M !taft that di6l:ate · to thun; -know as~cnainly, as they ao, that: t\YO and two m<tke f!JUf ;.and if they have any Mode fly, th~y wilt blufh when you let them' fe'e the if. Tnvcn:ions thus expm'd. After i:1ying fo much'of that Part df the Offer the Frmcb made, which concerns the Partiti? n they propos'd of the Spanijh Monarchy,. wh1ch we ought nor to have acceptea if we could, and could net -if-we would · there is no need of telling you, what. Barrie~ was offer'd for the Netherlands, which the Dutch were moft fPQCern'd in, · who .don'~ ufe to negletl:. &ood Offers,~? come ar.Peace, if we may belteve the faci:Jon, who ha~~ for a long time pretended to fear nothing fo much, as their quiniBgt~e Alliance (or their own . feparate . lntereil:. · Tho' now the .~oble Firmnefs 1hey have fhe\yn in ad_h~ring to It, till Ten;ns n;tay be had ro the,Samta&ion gf all Parties, is·by thefe ill deligni.ng Polici«i\lns, \I. ho q."ll' take ev'ery,_thing by a wrong , H,md1e, imputed to th,em fon a Crime ; a Crime perh~ps, t}lat ~~!!y, may. not, be _gujlty of n1~;ch lon_ger; or , tf;,,c_~y ar~, ' tis not ~q~ want o~ fome.}ylen~ taJqng ·the lnoft ·eff~Cl:ual Methods co 'cure them |