1^4 A Sketch of the History Let. 7. it 7-

There is no room to wonder if fuch experience shichas LfeWls the fourteenth had upon this occafion, jit kand fuch a face of affairs in Europe , raifing his artyhopes, raifed his ambition : and if, in making iportipeace at Aix la Chapelle , he meditated a new --codW ar , the war of one thoufand fix hundred and ::.M>fevertty-two; the preparations he made for it, by ;:ifohegociations in all parts, by alliances wherever wtrihe found ingreffioii, and by the increafe of his * traforces, were equally proofs of ability, induftry, . eaifeliand power. I fliall not defcend into thefe par*- sa?ticulars: your lordlhip will find them pretty well rat 1detailed in the memorials of that time. But one of fobtthe alliances he made I mull mention, though I ::iargmention it with the utmoft regret and indignation, kindEngland was fatally engaged to adt a part in this tawconfpiracy againft the peace and the liberty of it Bre Europe , nay, againft her own peace and her own ui 'liberty; for a bubble’s part it was, equally wicked Hwand impolitic. Forgive the terms I ufe, my lord, as dcnone can be too ftrong. The principles of the Hips

triple alliance, juft and wife, and worthy of a tdid

king of England, were laid afide. Then, the trait

progrefs of the French arms was to be checked, John

the ten provinces were to be faved, and by faving it p

them, the barrier of Holland was to be preferved. very:

Mow, We joined our counfels and our arms to fad;

thofe of France , in a projedt that could not be ling

carried on at all, as it was eafy to forefee, and pretei

as the event fliowed, unlefs it was carried on fa ]

againft Spain , the emperor, and mod of theprinces of Germany , as well as the Dutch; and fe