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Show ever a., Treaty lhou'd commence, the A \lies ha:d ~rolar'd long before, in anfwer tq -the EleCtor of B.warite's Letters at the end ofJthe Ramillir.t>Campaign, they wou'd not enter on it till fome fu ndamental Points :were firfi: fe~tled; the neceility of which they yvere coovinc'd of by the dear-bought Expemen<;e ctf former Treatys; and the fame Expenence has taught the Allies, that no Tr~taty with France can be effeCtual, if the fundamental Articles are not executed as well as agreed on before the genera I Treaty is concluded : which Security the Marquis wou'd entirely take awav, by deferring the Execution 'till after Ratificqtion. Thus the two great Ends of a Prelimi Jary T reat y, which are to agree on fome fnndamental Points, and fecure the Exec·trion of them, are by this Anfwer utt erl¥ de!hoy'd; and the Allies are not only where ~hey were before that Tre~ty ':'~'as ~egun, but are really the worfe for It; 'It be10g of greater Ad'vantage to the French to know bcbre-hlnd what are the particular Demands which t he Emperor a nd Ma1 itime Powers infi fi: on for themfelves, and in behalf of the refr nf tho A 1\ies. As for folving all now by two \V <'His, Fo> m and Subfl ~nee; two other Wot s, the Letter a nd Ppirit of the Partition- 1 r~arv are !till t no well remember'd forth~ A \'ics r~ he ar ain deceiv'd by French Difti ntti~ o·.s; V'hch 'f thv wn'd now paf.> uron thell?, 'u~ c1fr t·• lee, that d>e Form of rhefe APt!· clc" ·, 'n·'a lnve been fc und to be the Subfran · c r1t r num, a;td t he preteuded Subfra nce v.oud •h·1vc p ' 1•'d J. Sltado\\ o11l )'· Hne t hcHDut.:b Bluntnefs artd Plain-dealiug prov'd tOQ [ -2.1 J too hard for ' the finenefs of tlre French.;-a Word not more peculiar to the~ tban , the Thing me'lnt by•it.v The States, having con~ der'd this Anfwer more th'ln, it deferv'B, with the Miniftcrs of the Allies, who all eafily agreed in the fame Opinion of itj in .a Refolution they took Dec. I4- which hfiS likewife been made publick ; declar'd it was notfatii;. · faCtory, .and -:efalv'd to pulh tbe, War with the utmoft VIgour. . About the time that Monf. Petkum .r.e~ turn'd, the King of Fr~tnce w,rote to the Duke of A njou, to acquaint him w.ith wh11t had pafr, and alfure him, that tho he was oblig'd to recal hrs Troops, he need · not be alarm'd at it, for that he wou'd never abandon him ; and that he had ordcr'd Twelve of ~i? Regimen~s, tha.t were t.hen i11 Spain, to JOin the Spaniitr_ds, !n cafe King Charles lhou'd make ao IrruptiOn Into Arragon. And a little after Monf. Jbbcrville was fent to Madrid· but both his Journey and Bllfinefs were mad~ fo great a Secret, that it was not for fome time known whither he was gone; and when be came to Mudrid, where be arriv'd Dec. 26. >his- Inftruaions were ro communicate his Bu.: fi?efs to no body but the King hi!Ufelf. He ~drd not make a lqng fray, .nor .was he in appearanc,e well receiv'd; but _no judgment cou d be made from thence what his JWrand was, there , was no way to difting'\ lifb •between what was real and what dif.. guife. ,But to judg from other Steps, 'tis mo!l:.reafonable to think his Bufinefs was to Jearn the State the Duke's Affairs were in, 1and give him his_ Lelfon, how he lhou'd 1 manage |