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fay the united fpirit of his people; greater ftill bythe ill policy, and divided intcrefts that governedthofe who had a fuperior common intereft tooppofe him. He found that the members of thetriple alliance did not fee, or feeing, did not thinkproper to own that they faw, the injuftice, andthe confequence of his preteniions. They content-ed themfelves to give to Spain an adt of guarantyfor fecuring the execution of the treaty of Aix laChapelle. He knew even then how ill the guarantywould be obferved by two of them at leaft, byEngland and by Sweden . The treaty itfelf wasnothing more than a compolition between thebully and the bullied. Tournay , and Lille, andDouay, and other places that I have forgot, wereyielded to him: and he reliored the county ofBurgundy, according to the option that Spain made, againft the intereft and expe&ation too ofthe Dutch, when an option was forced upon her.The king of Spain compounded for his poffeffion:but the emperor compounded at the fame time forhis lucceffipn, by a private eventual treaty ofpartition, which the commander of GremonvillEand the count of AversberG figned at Vienna.The fame Leopold, who exclaimed fo loudly, inone thoufand fix hundred and ninety-eight, againftany partition of the Spanifh monarchy, and refufedto fubmit to that which England and Hollandhad then made, made one himfelf in one thoufandfix hundred and fixty-eight, with fo little regardto thefe two powers, that the whole ten provin-ces were thrown into the lot of France .