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to take those measures by which alone it waspossible to cover the empire, to secure the Kingof Spain , and to reduce that potver which wasprobably one day to dispute with him this princessuccession, Tekeli and the malecontents madesuch demands as none but a tyrant could re-fuse , the préservation of their ancient privilè-ges, liberty of conscience, the convocation of afree diet or parliament, and others of léssimportance. Ail was in vain, The war con-tinued with them, and with the Turks, andFrance was lest at liberty to pufli her enterpri-íes almost without oppolìtion, against Germany and the Low Countries. The distress in both wasso gréât, that the States General fa w no otherexpédient for stopping the progreís of the French ,arms, t ha n a cessation of hostilities, or a trace oftwenty years ; which they negociated, and which■was accepted by the emperor and the king ofSpain , on the terms that Lewis the fourteenththought lit to osier. By these terms he was toremain in full and quiet possession of ail he hadacquired since the years one thouíand six hundredand seventy-eight, and one thousand six hundredand seventy-nine ; among which acquisitions thatof Luxemburgh and that of Strafburgh were com-prehended The conditions of this trace wereso advantageous to France, 'that ail her intrigueswere employed to obtain a définitive treaty ofpeace upon the famé conditions. But this was nei-th.-r the intereít nor the intention of the otherçontracting powers. The impérial arms hadbeen