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Show can be faidar;;ainftwha't I have rrdV'aq'd upo11 this Head; and that is, "'.:Ilf!Hlle Allios; fltd they make Veace Wit'h Fra..Ce~ !f!Ydnldf·ilill keep up their Armies, and then .Wdnc~ wdrtfa dare to give t'he Duke of Y!tljvu ah' great )\ffiftanc¢: ·Btttfirft', 'I ha~e ahei18y"fh'ewn, tha:r this is a very uh.reitfonabk Supppfi'ticm~ i:He AII'ies tnoil: cerralnLy'¢v66.ld'nbr-cbndntfe FO ·keep 'up their Armies, were 'a'Ptll'cc with ·France once made: But let us' ·noW 'fuppofe they would, how will this mend rhi:'M:trter? If we keep on Foot :rs great Anni.~s .~'s we have n6w, we lhould:be 110 more at Liberty to fend Men to Spall•, than wi:: !tre n:ow: And if we 'ferit any confidedtlle Number to Spain, they wou'd be wanted elfewhere; ahd the K. of Fra11ce wou'd have b.otlri'ng ·ro .fdr fro!n us, for want of a fuffici~nt Stf!mgth to all: offenfively, in ·Cafe we fl10uld 'thittk bur [elves fufficiently provdk'd to ir~ by dny't:Hing he does 'in Violation of the Treaty i nay, confideiing the Number of Tdwns given up to the Allies,· which allmuil: have Garlfons in them; and thofe not very fmall ones to keep 'their new Subjects in Awe, ;ve lhould w'ant a greater Kr!ny in Flanders than'before, to be in a Cohdition to act offenfively : iAnd if fuch Armies mull: be kept lip /l c:an1t1fee why they fhould not be employ'd; that is, why we may not as well continue rhe·War; or to what Purpofe we lhould make ·'Peace. To me, continuing the War feemsmuch more eligible, than fuch a Peace, for this pl~in Reafon, that Plttnce wou'd certainly make a great Advantage of Peace; while we muft, under the Natne of Peace; cominne in a State •. ·State of War, without the Fruits of it. For Exa,mp\e, all we have done thls Campaign, J,\IO>Jlil. 1.1~!1 tl;l}t ~uppofition have heen undoM.; ,and W'Yt fho~.<ld have been fo ll\uch fanhes off, tl:\an we are, fn;)J;ll puttin,g France un®.r1 a1N~}:eflicy t~ g~ve us Spain. For tho' th~ S~Jccrifes of ~~\s '1;' ear h:we been fo flight~d, Jl.S tQ b,e thought HOt WOrth l'\1entiouing, wh~re WJ.C would have molt, expected it ; ,J .k~ll ~e:\1 you, Doway alone is ill the Opinion. pf Frq'!~e, pf that mighty Cpnfeguence, that in aU the Negotiations that have been carry'd on, [!nee the Refufal of the Prelimip. aries, to find an Expedient for the ~7th Article, Dmvay has always been excepted out .of the Number of the Towns that they have pretended to give as an Equivalent. • Now this ~nd the other Conquefts of this Calllp.aigp., have brought us much nearer to ~our End, chan if our Armies had gone out of the Field, as they came in, and had done nothing. I nmit therefore il:ill maintain, that upon all Suppofitiqns, the ;7th Article is neceifary in Order to a good Peace; unlefs fome real Expedient could be found out, which has hitherto been in vain look'd for: But that and vyhat elfc has been done towards a Peace, fincethe Preliminaries were rejected, I mu{t refeFve for another Letter. l lhall , conc!ud.:; this with lhewing you, what 3t firft Sight you will think verv ihange; an.d that is,, that even a fcparate Peace could not Ia ll: ,y ,e_jlr have been made with Frana ; tho' t}le • A!lit:s had b~en wi!ljng to recede from the ~ ;7th Art:i~;:le. G 2 You |