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him, can denythat thefite Queen, though she wasresolved to treat because íhe w.;s resolved to finishthe w->r, yet was to the utmost degree désirons totreat in a ptríect union with her allies, and toprocure them ail the reafònable terms they cou.ldexpect ; and much hetter than those they redncedthemselves to the nectffity of accepting by endea-vouring to wrest the négociation out oí her handf.The disunion of the allies gave France the advan-tages site iinproved. The fole question is, Whocause d this disunion? and that will be easily decid-ed by every impartial man, who iníorms himfe’.fcarefully oí the public anecdotes of that time Ifthe private anecdotes were to be laid open as wellas thofe, and I thinlc it almost time they íhould,the whole monstrous scene wouìd appear, nifiiock the eye of every honest man. I do n otintend to descend into many particulars at thistime: but whenever t , or an y otlier person aswell informed as I, íliall descend into a suII dé-duction of such particulars, it will become undeni-ably evident, that the most violent oppositionimaginable , carried on by the Germans and theDutch in league with a party in Britain , beganas soon as the first overtures were made to theQueen; before site had ío much as begun to treat:and was therefore an opposition n ot to this or thatplan of treaty, but in truth to ail treaty; andespeciaîly to one wherein Gréât Britain look thelead, or was to hâve any particular a d va Mage.That the Imperialists meant no treaty, uniess apreliminary, and impracticable condition of it was