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by the United spirit of his people ; greater still bythe ill policy, and divided interests that governedthoss who had a superior common interest tooppose him. He found that the members of thetriple alliance did not see, or seeing, did pot thinkproper to own that they saw, the injustice, andthe conséquence ofhis pretensions. They content-ed thenaselves to give to Spain an act of guarantyfor securing the exécution of the treaty of Aix laChapelle. He knew even then how ill the guarantywould be observed by two of them at least, byEngland and by Sweden . The treaty itself wasnothing more t han a composition between thebully and the bullied. Tournay, and Lille , andDouay, and other places that I hâve íorgot, wereyielded to him: and he restored the county ofBurgundy, according to the option that Spain made, against the interest and expectation too ofthe Dutch, vvhen an option was forced upon her.The king of Spain compounded for his poffeffion :but the emperor compounded at the famé time forhis succession, by a private eventual treaty ofpartition, which the commander of Gremonvilleand the count of Aueksberg signed at Vienna.The famé Leopold, who exclaimed so loudly, inone thousand six hundred and ninety-eight, againstany partition of the Spanilli monarchy, and refufedto fubmit to that which England and Hollandhad then made, made one himself in one thousandsix hundred and sixty-eight, with ío little regardto these two powers, that the whole ten provin-ces were thrown into the lot of France .