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[Letters Historical and Galant. 389]

[?] France. His Electoral Highness in Particular will take it on him as a Duty, to
[?] the Means conducing thereto, which can be desired of him: Nothing in Nature being
[?], after the many great things which her Britannick Majesty has done with her triumphant
[?] for the Common Cause from the Beginning of her glorious reign. And this way appears to
[?] Electoral Highness to be more sure for procuring this End, and for preserving such Advantages,
[?] Great Britain should endeavour it, without the Concurrence of the Allies by a Separate Negotiation.
[?] anything be more Advantageous to France, than if by her Dexterity she could dazzle the
[?] of the Maritime Powers, so as to induce such Power to accept of some Advantages so
[?] the Prejudice of the other, that the Jealousy thence arising might become an Obstacle to their Union
[?] future, which Union constituting their reciprocal Security, is look'd upon by France as the
[?] Hindrance of it's vast Designs.

[?] His Electoral Highness can answer for it, that the Imperial COurt never formed the Design impu-
[?] of entring with France into a Secret Negotiation to the Prejudice of the Interests of Great Britain:
[?] removing all Cause of Umbrage on that account, as well with respect to the Emperor, as to the States
[?] of the United Provinces, new Engagements may be entred into with those two Potentates, and it may
[?] depended on, that they will make no difficulty to promise the Queen, in the most binding and most
[?] Manner, never to enter into any Negotiation with the Common Enemy, or ever to receive any offer
[?] imposition from him without Her Majesty's Participation, and without taking common measures
[?] with her. It has been alledged, that the Imperial Court will make no Difficulty to renounce
[?] the Indies, provided the Dominions in Italy and the Netherlands be given them: But upon this
[?] just to hear the Mind of the New Emperor, who 'tis known has entirely at heart the Affairs of
[?]

'Tis easy to see the pernicious Consequences which there would be ground to Apprehend, if Spain
[?] Indies were left to the Duke of Anjou. Her Majesty her self has delivered her own Opinion clearly
[?] in her Speech at the Opening of the very last Session of her Parliament, recommending the War
[?] as that which most particularly concerned the British Nation, who will in no wise find Amends for
[?] trade to the South Sea with which they are flattered, which trade, if given them in Reality, (as
[?] be doubted it will not) would however be but precarious, and last no longer than France &
[?] should please to permit.

These two Crowns cannot in that Case be considered otherwise than as one Potentate: All the
[?] knows that 'tis France that Governs the Spaniards in their Councils, in their Finances, in their Mili-
tary affairs, and even carries on their Commerce with the Indies by her Ships. France has already made
[?] the Mistress of all these, that if the Spaniards would reassume their Independance, either after the
[?] or after the Death of the present King of France, 'tis no longer in their power; nor can any Treaty
[?] sufficient to oblige France effectually to quit these Advantages. Besides, 'tis to be conside-
red [?] if the Descendants of the Duke of Anjou, or the Male Line of the Dauphin his Brother, should
[?] later come to fail, those two Crowns would be absolutely united under one Head: No Treaty
[?]ciation could be strong enough to hinder that Union in such a Case, of which the Renunciation
[?] the Peace of the Pyrenees, and the Treaty of Partition, are, among many other Examples, Evidence
[?] Tis very certain likewise, that the King of France, who notwithstanding the Peace, and his
[?] with King William III of glorious Memory, acknowledged, in his Lifetime another for King
[?] as soon as he thought himself, by his grandson, Master of Spain, will no sooner see this Grandson
[?] on that throne, but he will endeavour also to place his Creature upon that of Great Britain,
[?] accomplish it, having augmented his Power with that of Spain, and his Riches by those of the Indies.
[?] to foresee the Danger the Queen's Person would then be in, and what would become then of the
[?] Great Britain under a master educated in the Maxims of France, and in Hatred to the best English
[?] have abjured him according to Law: There would then, in consequence, be an End of the Liberty of all
[?] of the Protestant Religion, by a League founded on Obligation, Necessity and Gratitude, between
[?] of an Opposite Religion, and of so great Power by Sea and Land, under the Direction of that
[?]. These are Consequences in which his Electoral Highness is too nearly interested and con
"cerned