make this diverfion; and not only a diverfion dur ing the fummer, but the winter too, by taking quarters on this fide of the hills. Only, in order to make him willing and able to perform this work, two points were to be fettled: first, it was neceffary to end the difpute between the imperial court and his royal highness, which had no other foundation than the Emperor's refufing to make good fome articles of that treaty, on the faith of which the duke engaged in the present war, and for the execution whereof Britain and Holland became guarantees, at the request of the late emperor Leopold. To remove this difficulty, the earl of Peterborough was dispatched to Vienna, got over fome part of those disputes to the fatisfaction of the duke of Savey, and had put the reft in a fair way of being accommodated at the time the em, peror Jofeph died. Upon which great event, the duke of Savoy took the refolution of putting himfelf at the head of the army, although the whole matter was not finished, fince the common cause required his affiftance; and that, until a new emperor were elected, it was impoffible to make good the treaty to him. In order to enable him, the only thing he afked was, that he should be reinforced by the imperial court with eight thoufand men before the end of the campaign, Mr. Whitworth was fent to Vienna to make this propofal; and it is credibly reported that he was impowered, rather than fail, to offer forty thousand pounds for the march of thofe eight thousand men, if he found it

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was want of ability, and not inclination, that hindered the fending. them. But he was fo far from fucceeding, that it was faid the minifters of that court did not fo much as give him an opportunity to tempt them with any particular fums; but cut off all his hopes at once, by alledging the impoffibility of complying with the QUEEN's demands upon any confideration whatsoever. They could not plead their old excufe of the war in Hungary, which was then brought to an end. They had nothing to offer but fome general fpeculative reasons, which it would expofe them to repeat; and fo, after much delay, and many trifling pretences, they utterly refused so finall and feasonable an affiftance; to the ruin of a project that would have more terrified France, and caufed a greater diverfion of their forces, than a much more numerous army in any other part. Thus, for want of eight thousand men, for whose winter-campaign the QUEEN was willing to give forty thousand pounds; and for want of executing the defign I lately mentioned of hindering the enemy from erecting magazines, towards which her majefty was ready not only to bear her own proportion, but a share of that which the States were obliged to; our hopes of taking winter-quarters in the north and fouth parts of France are eluded, and the war left in that method which is like to continue it longest. Can there an example be given in the whole courfe of this war, where we have treated the pettieft prince, with whom we had to deal, in fo contemptuous a man

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When Portugal came as a confederate into the grand alliance, it was ftipulated, that the empire, England, and Holland, fhould each maintain four thousand men of their own troops in that kingdom, and pay between them a million of pattacoons to the king of Portugal, for the fupport of twenty-eight thousand Portuguefe; which number of forty thousand was to be the confederate armý against Spain on the Portugal fide. This treaty was ratified by all the three powers. But, in a fhort time after, the Emperor declared himself unable to comply with his part of the agreement, and fo left the two thirds upon us; who very generously undertook that burthen, and at the fame time two thirds of the fubfidies for maintenance of the Portuguese troops. But neither is this the worst part of the ftory; for although the Dutch did indeed fend their own quota of four thousand men to Portugal (which however they would not agree to but upon condition that the other two thirds fhould be supplied by us); yet they never took care to recruit them; for, in the year 1706, the Portuguese, British, and Dutch forces having marched with the earl of Galway into Caftile, and by the noble conduct of that general being forced to retire into Valencia, it was found neceffary to raise a new army on the Portugal fide; where the QUEEN hath, at

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feveral times, encreased her establishment to ten thousand five hundred men; and the Dutch never replaced one fingle man, nor paid one penny of their fubfidies to Portugal in fix years.

The Spanish army on the fide of Catalonia is, or ought to be, about fifty thousand men, exclufive of Portugal. And here the war hath been carried on almost entirely at our coft. For this whole army is paid by the QUEEN, excepting only seven battalions and fourteen fquadrons of Dutch and Palatines; and even fifteen hundred of these are likewife in our pay; befides the fums given to king Charles for fubfidies and the maintenance of his court. Neither are our troops at Gibraltar included within this number. And further, we alone have been at all the charge of tranfporting the forces firft fent from Genoa to Barcelona; and of all the imperial recruits from time to time. And have likewife paid vaft fums as levy-money for every individual man and horse so furnished to recruit; although the horfes were fcarce worth the price of tranfportation. But this hath been almost the conftant misfortune of our fleet during the prefent war; inftead of being employed on fome enterprize for the good of the nation, or even for the protection of our trade, to be wholly taken up in tranfporting foldiers.

We have actually conquered all Bavaria, Ulm, Augsbourg, Landau, and a great part of Alface, for the Emperor and by the troops we have furnished, the armies we have paid, and the diverfions we

have given to the enemies forces, have chiefly contributed to the conquefts of Milan, Mantua, and Mirandola, and to the recovery of the duchy of Modena. The laft Emperor drained the wealth of thofe countries into his own coffers, without increafing his troops against France by such mighty acquifitions, or yielding to the most reasonable requefts we have made.

Of the many towns we have taken for the Dutch, we have confented, by the Barrier-treaty, that all those which were not in the poffeffion of Spain, upon the death of the late catholic king, shall be part of the States dominions; and that they shall have the military power in the moft confiderable of the reft; which is, in effect, to be the abfolute fovereigns of the whole. And the Hollanders have already made fuch good ufe of their time, that, in conjunction with our general, the oppreffions of Flanders are much greater than ever.

And this treatment, which we have received from our two principal allies, hath been pretty well copied by most other princes in the confederacy, with whom we have any dealings. For inftance: feven Portuguese regiments, after the battle of Almanza, went off with the rest of that broken army to Catalonia: the king of Portugal said he was not able to pay them, while they were out of his country; the QUEEN confented therefore to do it her felf, provided the king would raife as many more to fupply their place. This he engaged to do, but never performed. Notwithstanding which, his sub

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