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Show by 'the. ConduCI: of ,th~; Duke of·..M• :~s you canlt but fee in w.hat·l have .~lready fa•d; except that ~hich .~f!leO,l;s the •Duke of Sav?J ; in the favmg hm1 ypl.\ may be apt to thml< the• D.' of M. c~uld have no Part. But not to· tell ·vou he made all the Ufe I,e could of tha •Qtieen's Imereft to fupport Pr: Euge"e at the Imperial Court, where atthatnme~ehad his Enemies, nor ro mention the Supphes he procur'd him frOI\LPl'$/atJd; if you look back five or fix Years, you will find the D1,1ke ma~e iri 'the uepth of Winter a Journey to.Rerlm, whieh obrain'd from the King of Pt·ujfw a ·Succour of 8ooo Men for Italy, which had been often ;msi ab(olutely refus'd to the Imperial Court; and t\1e App\iqtions of the Mihifters of Engf,,,.J and Holland had been made to as little Purfofe. Thefe were the Troops that, as we-al know, enabled Prince .Eugene to make a Stand; and two Years after, the {arne Zeal for the Common Caufe pro, cul:'d for Italy 1"wo IJl{)re Reinforcements, a leffet Qf P.alptine<, and anothct~ of 1oooo He[. fia•u; Which !aft is i,n lo particular a manrwr ·o.wing to the Duke·, that after they had not only'been agreed_ for, but had aCl:ually began .their March , ;they had been diverted from this·Service, and employ'd on the Rhine, had nett he.perfifted for t.hei~ bei11g fen~ tp ltalh :whe~e · fbme wen; mchned to thmk they would not be wanted,upon the Turn that the 13attel of Ra1>,1ellies would probably give to Affairs. But the Eyen,t fhew'd how right the Dukejudg?d: Nothing could h4ve fav'ct Tu-r iri•1 but a Bartel, and wirhout th<;>fe 'J;rOOJ?S a ~tfcl h~d p~en \qJp?fUpls:, wl]is;ll y;a~ r~m~ q1lt enough with·them. , And now· I be)ieve you will allow, I !)ave,.Reafon to· put;- the Methods that were ta,Jfen to pr!:vent. the Ruin of the D. c;>f Savoy.;among the \V;ays the D. of M; has takep. to prevent an ill PAaf:e : ·To wh1ch I oug)lt .. r,o ,add another, which was as ftrange an .1\.Cl:ion in him, as •any of ·t,he reft ; and thany4s ,\lis Journey tp s .. x~ny, ·tO, perfuade the K. of $weden not ro di,fturb .the AJFes by the Jealoufy his Sta1)'; ·i.¥ -s~xony . g~ve the Emperor. What a v.ery ill Jnfluence Ius •Stay there had on Fhe Comqwn ~aufe, we all knpw : ~?w far that Journey co,mrihuted ·to remov~_~t, ' I lim not enough in the S,ecret to know ; tbut 'tis certain he did fro~ that time ' give no frdh Jeal~ufies by makmg any new Demands, but on•the contrary receded f,rom feveral Points and fet hi:nfelf _in earnel,l: ~o. making the ~eceifary D1fpofiuons for qummg Saxony · which he did at the end of tl}.e Summer ,' as foon as eyer the Treaty between him and the' Em pe. ror was fign'd ; which put an elfd to the Fears ~he Allies had been fo long under, and enabled bot!; K. Auguftus and the Emperor to fen~ Troops to t)le Support of the Common, Caufe, mftead of drawing any from it. which had the King of Sw£den not remov'd' they muft have done. Now what Part th~ p. of M. had in .this '· I cap't pretend to affirm; but I beheve I may·vemure to fay, ~~1at had fome other~ done what he did, the would, have ma~e np difficulty co give there Men ~II the Meqt, who are fo unwilling to ~1/GIV an:y thing ~o fh~e D. <?f M. · ,. •••L Now |