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Show [ 6t J pWn heavily that they 1 are not believ'd. Now in lefs than a Month !rftt!t 1~he- Confe· rences were ended there h'apperfs the befl: Opportunity in th; Worlff for0 the ~ing tCJ fhew his great Sinceri~y; the O~lhucbon to <a Peace, is t\le Evacuauon of Spam. Let noW" the King but keep his Word, and be paffive only·, and the Thing wi.ll do1 it relf; the Al1. lies can't fail of Spain, tf the Kmg <loes not fupport his Grandfon again!!: them. What part now does the Kin.g take ? Doe~ he fend to the Allies that he wtll abandon h1s Grandfan in earne!l, if that will ~on tent them,? Nothing like it: he ballances mdeed for fo~ time what to do, and holds frequent Councils · but for what? Not becaufe he has any doubt whether he lhou'd act agreeably to hfs Word: or !hew he is !incere : for that l.bave already obferv'd he ccru'd no~ be; he mull: deceive either us or the SpantardJ. All the Debate therefore was, which he !hou'd do': at fir!!: their Affairs [eem'd to be in [o de[• per ate. a· Condition, as to be bey on~ re~rieve.; and that all the Support he cou d gtve lm Grandfon wori'd be infignificant; and there~ fore; there wHe fome thoughts of making a Virtue of. Neceffity, and to procure a Peace to France by abandoninl? Spain, Iince, if he did not abandon it; it mu'!l: be loll. And had the Action of Saragolfa happen'd a Month fooner it's very likely ii: 'had prov'd fo ; for th~ Hands of the French were too full of other Work to fend any confiderable force fo Spain, till the Campaign was· if1 other parts, Sa-voy particularly, dra~i.ng to an, end. After many Confultattons, m · refolv d tCJ rnakc [ 63 J make the utmoft Efforts to fupport the Duke of-Anjou, notwitljftanding all their Pretences . to leav~ him, to. himfe!f, or rather to perfuade hun to qUJt a K1ngdom which, without their -Help, all the World fees he cou'd not have kept. vVhat fuccefs this Affiftance that has been given him, has had, I need not tell you; nor what further mifchief the oommo~ Caufe is like to fuffer from it. 'Tis great p1ty the Conferences did not !all: one Month longer; which wou'd have put the French under a Neceffity of keeping their Word, or in the moll: infamous Manner breaking it, t~ fupport a Caufe they ·had fb often, and with fo much feeming Earneft~ efs promis'd to renounce. As it is, there lS b)lt one excufe for them, which thofe I am arguing againfl:, had rather !hou'd not be made; and that is, to plead that the Cafe is alter'd, Affairs are not in the fame Condition they were in, when they made thefe Promifes. They have a Political Obfervatory at Par~ w~e~e the Marquifs de 'farcy, and the French M101fters frequently examine what Appearances there are in the Heavens of all the Countries in War wi~h them, and according to theft: they take their Meafures of \l\Tar and ~eace ; and 'tis by this they juftify their amftlng the Duke of Anjou. What paft in Spain the 20.th of Auguft, they thought fufficiently . pallan~'d by what happen'd to 'the North· }IV eft of them the 19th. What preceded that · P.ha:no~e,non, a11d has Iince follow'd it, bas · determm d the French not only to fupport· the Duke of 1»jou, but to detift for the prefenc. |