OCR Text |
Show ' [ 46 J olf· a cert~in prince then, _ w hith 1wa~ t~e _r~in ~f ~lla~ Confedcraf;y ;· ~ft~f'dth~ir Jimil\t~y:_s lied ~fn for fome time jn·otfoq~~. pr_op!l· tl-ng, vnde hand T en:ns of _PefJC(tt,c!aJJd ~u~ea.~ AAring t,9 find, what A rtiC~I!I!Jtne d'f1n~1pa~ AUie:;; !.Sou'd 1be, conuot.; •With ~ru~h.e liCfr· • wJJen1;hey had,learn~ I)) is, tho Uf~;. they made . ~f 't . was to feduce one Qf them, by, offer.in:;; g- ~uch better Terms than. had been M~'d (or h'm ; the J?ait1 tqok, .and '~was ag_reed ~o leavll the. Side he thought h1mfelf _111 us d -li)'._; ~ nothing rcmain'd but to Gontnve how tjJ}s might be done. molt de~ently: the w_ay agreed' on was to mvade h1s Country w1th a nreat Army and lay liege to his ,Capi,tal. '\VlJ.at cou'd tl;e unhappy Prince do in thefe Circumfhnces? he is in the utmol:t Panger, ,rs :\!lies neither do nor can fupport him; the I e is no Safety for him but in a ·Peace. 'fhu·s a Member was brought off from the h!l: Confederacy; and the fal}_le Play th_ey W<)llt to be again at. This Is fo. certa1~, t f1at we are fu re they were trymg this •et y · trick with t he fame Prince. While the Marquifs de_ ToreY_ m~de at th~ Ha~ue fuch mighty Dlfficulttes 111 comply10g with t he Terms demanded fo'r the Duke of Savoy, whom he pretended his Malter had greac U.calo11 to be din'atisfy'd with, this falfe p~rf. Jious Court was at that very time tempting !tim with beqer Offers at Turin; but that P.t:inc~ underll:ood 1 his lnterefts too .well to i1earken again to them. ' T bis is the ur~ the Minill:ers qf ~Yanc; hop'd to make of ~is Demand of tbelfS, tf the , Allies had been • weak ~nougl\ to , ha v:<e · agreed .'[ ·47 J :Jgreed· tl) lt~''-'bufl ~hey were dot to• be fo impos'd' oh, ' dor wou'd;·they. act" in ·fu'; ill'-hi'"' Uary a-1rrnaili'lll'F~ as to •futee an'y of: their Allies · to •fubmirr.to Terms mad'e .Jagaint!: thuir confent, .or without their Mnow l:e:dg""; . ahd rtherefor.e' cou'd noq•.by all the :A'rtifice ofYJfi.rifflde, i1e prevail'.d with tO"· preclude •thefll ~fromt) making foch , further Demands a'S .i they ·lbou'd think rea:fonable. Bot. to lhew then were li'ncer~ ''tbeYLwere wifling to 'defift_ frotn all further {)efiiands for them' felves, .according to tl1e 3 i.ili Atticle · .this they- cou~ do., more in .juftice they 'cou'd n'ot. _A'nd had the Fr~ncb been in earnefl: on. the1r part,·• they won?d, ·without difficulty · have trllfbedlnthe Alli-es in this· Point:-· · fo; they oou'dl'lndti'wi&h .any. colour of R~afon behev'e, tlrat.-whelf'therM"arittime Powers· ani:l the Emper'cir ~were fatlsfy'd, they wou'd •renew the :WaF at the1 end · 6f two Months or what other• time lhou'd,have been agreed on, for the. fake of any further Demands oo ~he part of the other Allies, which it wou d not be very reafonable ' for France to grant them. And therefore · it can't ·be ~hough_t the_Y 'meant any thing elfe by urgmg (hiS' Pom~, • ~ut to make mifchief, . and draw the AU1es If: they cou'd into a Snare . and if 1that•di;d ~ot fu~cee~, -that they migh~ always ha1re It 10 the1r Power to go olf · To· reduce the whole Management of the French in this Aff~ir under one lhort View ; they <prefs the Alhes to an Impoffibility con. trary .co . th.e Preliminaries, and complain at the f~~e ttme .of being prefs'd to an lmpoffibiiity t.hemfelves, tho the Allies ask no-thing |