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during many years, the influence thefe treaties hadgiven him among the princes and ftates of theempire. The famous capitulation made at Frankforton the election of Leopold, who fucceeded Fer-dinand about the year one thoufand fix hundredand fifty-l'even, was encouraged by the intriguesof France ; and the power of France was lookedupon as the foie power that could ratify and fecureeffectually the obfervation of the conditions thenmade. The league of the Rhine was not renewedI believe after the year one thoufand fix hundredand fixty-fix; but though this league was notrenewed , yet fome of thefe princes and ftatescontinued in their old engagement with France :whilft others took new engagements on particularoccafions , according as private and fometimesvery paultry interefts, and the emiffaries of France in all their little courts, difpofed them. In fhortthe princes of Germany fhowed no alarm at thegrowing ambition and power of Lewis the four-teenth , but contributed to encourage one, and toconfirm the other. In fuch a ftate of things theGerman branch was little able to affift the Spanifhbranch againft France , either in the war that endedby the Pyrenean treaty, or in that we are fpeakingof here , the fhort war that began in one thoufandfix hundred and fixty-feven, and was ended bythe treaty of Aix la Chapelle, i,n one thoufand fixhundred and fixty-eight. But it was not this alonethat difabled the emperor from acting with vigorin the caufe of his family then, nor that hasrendered the houfe of Auftria a dead weight upon
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