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Show •• ~"!·.. m:· m:1. · · tr.r.J [ ~0 J the Part of the D. of A11iou, all the Appear.: ances that could be of a Prince, that thought of nothing lefs. ~or t!le War was pr~fs'd with the urmoft Vtgor m .all Parts; Al~ea11t was befieg'd at a vaft Exp~nce? and oti;:r Places in Valmcia were reduc d Wtth all Dthgence; Preparations were made for t~e Siege of Gironne, and the Army was put mto the beft Condition it cou'd be, to invade Catalonia · and at the fame time the Marq. de Bay adv;nc'd clofe to the Portttgt<efe in Eftrema ·ar<ra with a Defign to give them Batte!; in whi~h, againft the Opinion of my Lord G. thev unhappily p;·cvented him. This did not-look like a Defign to quit Spain to King Charles; but on the contrary, fhew'd a Refolution to drive him out of it, if poffible. But what gave the Allies a greater Jealoufy than all this, was the caufi1~g the Prince of Afturid1 to be acknowiedg'd Prefumptive Heir of sp,•in by all the States of the Kingdom ; which Ceremony was perform'd with the greateft Magnificence the 7th of April, that is, about a Month after M. Rouil!e had been in HOlland ; which Proceeding, y~u may remember, every body was then alarm d at; fuch a Step being plainly taken for no other End, but to lay in Matter for a new War; or rather 'twas a DeclaF:;ttion, That a End could not be put to this , as long as th Reftitution of Spain was made one Conditio of a Peace. The French Minifters had bur on Reply to this; That their Mafter was not an fwerable for what theD. of Anjou had done; bu that for his.ownPart he wasSincere,and wou' .do whatever depended upon him , and th ther • [ ~~ J therefore; if ·a· Peace was not concluded, it could not lie at his-Door. '{he Allies, thp' they could not think what .was urg'd had any Truth in it, yet to :fhew h<(l-v far they were from defigningto impofe upOn._the King impoffible Conditions, thought of an Expe"' diem which could not be .refus'd, without · difcove'ring, that France meant nothing by this Treaty, but to make Peace for them. (elves~ and to leave the Allies involv'd in .a War with Spa!n· ~f it was not in the King's Power to obhge hts Grandfon to retire out of Spain, they declar'd they would be content with his doing what evidently was in his Power; which was to deliver up co them fuch Places in the Spanijh Dominions as were Garifon~d by his own Troops. 'But this Expedient was rejected; and the Mar. quis de Torey, thinking, I fuppofe, that the ~llies infi~ing upon the Duke of Aniou's·bemg Recall d, was a more fpecious Handle to break off the Treaty upon, than the Re" fufal of the Expedient they propos'd inftead of it, he agreed at !aft to let the ~7th. Article hnd as it is now worded ; which is perfeCl:- 1 l~ agreeable to the main Defign of the Trea. t), and to the Tenor of the other Articles . b~ "';ith a Referve, as before, to know th~ JG~ s Pleafure, without whofe further In ·ftrUtions he could not Sign. And thus the <;:omrences held to fettle thefe Preliminanes, ')ded the 28th. of Mlly, and were tbe fa~e 4y Sign'd by the Allies. The Marfuts1 derorcy immediately fer out for Ver/ililhs, eav>g Monfieur Roui!!ebehind, towbom e promld to -return the ,King's Anfwer 'by th~ |