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Show Country, where nothing was to be had ; an Army may make a Famine, but they can't follow one. Thefe fee.m to have l:)een the Motives that dctermin'd them .tQ put an End to the Treaty, when they had drawn it out intO' length enough, to anfwer the J?u~po\es for wl'rrch it was begun: And then t~e¥as\t. might fafcly be taken off. J\.nd tl;lis 1 ta'ke ·~Q be the hue Reafon, that Monf. Rofli/le gavp llimfelf f u.ch Airs in his !aft Conferences; and . refus'd in the King's Name to agree to the ~7th Article, without offering anyl;,xpe, dient .at all for it ; whic.h was fomet,l)ing ftrange, .confiderin?: the Allies had before the Marquis de Torey's Departure, urg'd with fo inuch ·Earneftnefs the neceffity th\!Y were 4nder to adhere to. it. Tlwrefore, I think, t\1is can bave no other Meaning in it, butthacunon. the MarquiS's Return~ tbe State of Fran" being throughly confider'd, 'twas judg'd; t)1at i:hey might without any great. Rifque hazat~d one Campaign more; 11nd· that determin'd the King to break off the Treaty as he did ; which, by offering no Expedient, he lhew'd his Affairs did no longer, in his Opinion, want• T his; .tho' the heft Account I can fend you of this .Affair, is, I am fenfible, extremely fuort of what _it might be : But conf)dering the Secrecy with which things of. this Nature are, arid ought to be tranfaCl:ed, Jflattcr my felf, you will be content to_find I know fo much of them, rather than wonder I qn'.t tell you more. And .as imperfeCt: as this Ac.eount is, if what I have faid be rrue in FaaCnld:, ) r.,, • t ( ' · ' ! ~ ..- fT ~ l , A . F 0 U R T . H ,r r-, LETTEIZ T 0 A Tory- Member. |