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dom : That though the prefent miniftry, having chap.entered into views fo. conformable to national txiv.intereft, promifed greater firmnefs and conftancy,it might ftill be unfafe, in a bufmefs of fuch con-fequence, to put entire confidence in them: Thatthe French monarch was young, haughty, andpowerful; and if treated in fo imperious a man-ner , would expofe himfelf to the greateft ex-tremities rather than fubmit: That it was fufficient,if he could be conftrained to adhere to the offers,which he himfelf had already made; and if theremaining provinces of the Low Countries couldbe thereby faved from the danger , with whichthey were at prefent threatened : And that theether powers, in Germany and the north, whofeafliftance they might expedl, would be fatisfiedwith putting a ftop to the French conquefts ,without pretending to recover the places alreadyloft.
The Englilh minifter was content to accept ofthe terms , propofed by the penfionary. Lewishad offered to relinquifh all the queen’s rightson condition either of keeping the conquefts,which he had made laft campaign, or of receiving,in lieu of them, Franchecomte, together withCambray, Aire, and St. Omers. De Wit andTemple founded their treaty upon this propofakThey agreed to offer their mediation to the con-tending powers, and oblige France to adhere tothis alternative, and Spain to accept of it. IfSpain refufed, they agreed, that France fiiouldnot profecute her claim by arms, but leave ft