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Show [ 38 ] Bankers of Paru lhou'd be bound' for it. One wou'd be glad to know, what rcn1edy the A \lies con'd have againfl: l:heir Bankets in cafe of Failure, or how ~hey can reach them. To take Pari-5 it felf, does not feem to me more difficult. But they are Men of Ho'nour, and may be' trufted: 'Tis true, and fo they have been, till the King's Affairs have rnade the ~reateft of them Bankrupts. But if they. were Men of ever fo much Honour, or wete ever fo much concem'd to fupport their perfonal Credit in' their own private Affairs; what is Honour or Credit againll: Reafon of State, where an A rbitrrary Prince is pleas'd to interpofe? which the King has, this Summer particularly, !hewn he knows how ro do ; having for very great Sums taken the Debts of his Bankers on himfelf, and declar'd them his, and by that m~ans has render'd all legal Remedies imronible. Before indeed their Credit was better than the King's, but by being ufed for him, it is funk as low as his, and in effeB: become one with it, tbat is, no Credit at all. And is not this a rare Security for the Allies to truft, for the Payment of fuch Sums as may be fuppos'd to be the K+ng's Share in the Charge of fo expeniive a War? And·if Security cou'd be given for a Sum certain, what is this, but in effeB: to fell a part of the Spanifh Monarchy for a Sum of Money, towards carrying on a War, which he will take care to render ineffeClual? Upon the Report which the Deputies made the 1 8tb, of what had pafs'd in this Conference ; the Allies had feveral Meetings to confider what fuou'd be.the next Step. 'rwas plain ,, I. , ( 39 ] , P am [rom tne account the 0 t' g - h · epu 1es had !ven, ~ at (t,was to no purpofe to th. k f concertmg Me•fures with ~ • 10 . l - "j' .ranee JOr a W q W~t 1 Spam after a Peace mad · ar What had be~n faid about bot~ ~lth them: Money, evidently lbew'd h" roops and kind cou'd be thought of ' 1 ~oft JOg of that not be able to defe t ' W_liC l_France wou'd which they wou'd taak, by the Dlfiicultys with I ecare to puzzl · . h a I Propofals of this nat e It, t at conlifienc with the End £:e w~~e boot only inferences were refum'd ~· ~ IC thefe ConExpedient for the ;h w IC. was to find an the thing delign'd biihe ~rt:~J~, and obtain was a general Peace. bu~e l~lilarys, which what had from the b' . . a o contrary to fi , egmmng of th b uppos d upon the F h em een tion: which cou'd ;~c propo.fing a Partithat they were willin an nothmg elfe, but lbould effeB:ually be :· the Spanifh Monarchy fome part being taken~~~~ f~~ tt~ thbe Afillies, the Duke of An"ou. T . e ene t of earneft need of kor.ce that If there were in Anjou to it, which was o compel the Duke of ought to lie wholly on t~ot~~ all probable, ic from tlie beginnin e. 1ng, ftnce he had of Sp~in and the In~ie~ro;n~'~ ~e ~ef!:itution as. the Foundation o~ n . a laid It down treat ; which left no which they were to tbe King knew he cou'~oom to doubt but that ftraint oblige his Gra d~y Perfuation or Confince othe"rwife f!lch a np on _to confent to it, other meanin . in it romlfe cou'd have no to amufe and i~pofe'o~ut~fr~~·the beginning eve,-, if Force wer e les. But howwilling the Troops th nehceffa.ry, they were ey ad In Portugal and Cat a- |