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to compound with France on her former préten-tions, and they must and they would hâve cora-pounded on these, with an Anstrian prince onthe throne, just as they compotmded, and probablemnch better than they compounded, on thepretensions tve supported against them, when theyhad a prince of Bourbon on their thrône. France could not hâve distreífed the Spaniards, n or hâveover-run their monarchy, if they had been United ;and they would hâve been untted ìn this case,and supported by the whole confederacy: as wediílressed both France and them, over-run theirmonarchy in one hemisphere, and might hâvedoue so in both, when they were disunited, ándsupported by France alone. France would nothâve acted, in such négociations, the ridiculouspart which the emperor acted in thofe that ledto the peace of Utrecht , n or hâve made herbargain worfe by neglecting to make it in time.But the war ending as it did, though I cannot feehovv king Willeam could avoid leaving theCrown of Spain and that entire monarchy at thediscrétion of Lewis the fourteenth, otherwisethen by compounding to prevent a new warhe was in no fort prepared to make; yet it isundeniable, that, by coníenting to a partition oftheir monarchy, he threw the Spaniards into thearms of France . The fìrst partition might hâvetaken place, perhaps, if the électoral prince ofBavaria had lived. whom the French andSpaniards too would hâve seen much more'willmgly than the archduke on the throne of