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Show [ -8 J frmch Towns .on the Fontier of Spai,, fltch as B • .yonne and Perpignab, whiCh wou'd have enabled the Allies to fend Forces to Spaln with infinitely Jefs Exp'ence and Trouble, and in a 'quarter of the time they cah now ; and at the fame time have oblig•tt the Frencl1, pretty etfe8:ua\1y to keep their Promife, not to a!fil:t the Duke of AnjoJ, by-· cutting off in great meafure the Com?'unication between France and Spam. Th1s was an Expedient which the Ki,ng cou'd not. fay 'twas not in 'his Power to comply with; but when one has not a mind to do a thing, nothing is fo. eafy as to find out a Reafon for not dding it. If this cou'd not be faid 'to be an impofTible Expedient,' 'twas ~afy to })l'etencl, that it did not fuit either with the Safety or Dignity of F.rance to put the K~ys of his Kingdom into the Hands of the Allies, fincc he cou'd not be fure what ufe they might make of them, o~ when he lh?u'd g~t them again. And tim w~s very nght arguing for a Man who never Intended ~hat !hou'd be done, which is made the Conditwn, on which the Caution he depofits, !hall be re!tor'd. · If the King does not delign Sp.tin fhon'd be quitted by his Grandfon, It mu.lt be own'd it wou'd not be very prudent In him to give the. Allies fuch ir:nportant Phces under the NotiOn of Cauttonary Towns; which mnft either defeat his Defign of fopporting his Gnindfon , or if that Delign fucceed coo'd nevq of rig,ht be demanded back of them; not but that a Prince of hik known Abilities wou'd, we may be fure, fool\ find a Pret ence to ask for them, and that Pre- [?l Prete_nce he wou'd juftify, if not readily fubmttted to, the fame way he has fo many others no lefs groundlefs, by Force and Arms, which with him have always been the Meafures of Right and Wrong. But if he were finccre, if he really meant tilat Sp11in fhou'd be reftor'd, what Inconvenience con'.d there be in complying with this Expe~ tent? 'fhat ill ufe cou'd the Allies make of tt? Con d they by the Help of thefe Towns hurt .France, before they had reduc'd Sp · ) C tbe .. ,d am. an 1 tmagm that. wou'd not find them Work enough? Or Is there any room to fear an Invafion from Spain afterwards) ~o f11re, however fignificant Spain may b~ tn F~ench Hands, it won't in hafte be ver formidable out of .them; they wou'd hav~ too ~uch Bufinefs m looking to thcmfelves to thtnk of difturbing fo powerful a Neigh~ hour; and there wou'd be a thoufand times more Reafon for them to be afraid of France than for France to apprehend any thing fro~ them. No: .can there be the leaft Pretence for a Sufptcton, that the Allies if thefe Towns were .once in their Han'ds, wou'd never part wtth them; fuppoling the End an.fwer'd' for which they were entruftcd . Wfth ~hem.: fo~, betides that fuch a Breach 0 f Fatth ~~ without Example on the Side o the Allte~, they can't for the Reafon$ I !?ave you tn my laft, aa: a falfe part in thts D?att~r, if they wou'd, efpecially not hnd thts Stde of France; where if the Allies ha ever fo much Juftice o; their St' de dte ycou' d !lot 1ong l-uppo· rt themfclves un-' er the mtgbty Difadvantagcs with which C they |