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ail her allies ever íìnce. Bigotry, and its inséparablecompanion, cruelty, as well as the tyranny, andavarice of the court of Vicnna, created in thosedays, and has maintained in ours, almost a perpé-tuai diversion of the impérial arms fr o m ail eiiect.uaopposition to France . 1 mean to fpeak of the trou-bles in Hungary . Whatever they became in theirprogrefs, they vvere caufed originally by theusurpations and persécutions of the emperor: andwhen the Hungarians were called rebels first, theyvvere called fo for no other reafon than this, thatthey vvould not be slaves. The dominion of theemperor being léss supportable than that of theTurks, this unhappy people opened a door tothe latter to infest the empire, instead of makingtheir country what it had been before, a barrieragainst the Ottoman power. France became a sure,though secret ail y of the Turks, as well as theHungarians , and has fou n d her account in it, bykeeping the emperor in perpétuai alarms on thatside, vvhile sire has ravaged the empire and theLow Countries on the other. r I hus we faw, thirty-tvvo years ago, the arms of France and Bavaria inpossession of Paífau, and the rnalecontents of Hun­ gary in the fuburbs of Vienna . In a word, whenLewis the fourteenth made the sirst eífay of hispower, by the war of 011e thoufand six hundredand sixty-leven, aud founded. as it were, thecouncils of Europe concerning his pretensions onthe Spanisli succession,' he found his power to begréât beyond what his neighbours or even he pet-haps thought it: gréât by the wealth, an,d greater