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A Sketch of the History Let. 7 .

one way or other had pofTeffed herfelf of. Thepretenfions of the Dutchefs of Orleans on the ® a( ^fucceifion of her father, and her brother, which Mwere difputed by the then elector Palatine, and ^were to be determined by the laws and cuftomsof the empire , afforded as little pretence for begin- ® [

ning this war, as any of the foimer allegations. ^

The exclufion of the cardinal of Fukstenberg,who had been elected to the archbifbopric of 4™Cologne , was capable of being aggravated : but pi®'

even in this cafe his moil chriftian majefty oppofed ton

his judgment and his authority againft the judge- foui

ment and authority of that holy father, whofe Cat

eldeft foil he was proud to be called. In fliort, the Eir

true reafon why Lewis the fourteenth began that tic

cruel war with the empire, two years after he had 4e

concluded a ceffation of hoftilities for twenty, was kthis: he refolved to keep what he had got; and as:

therefore he refolved to encourage the 1 urks to Sis

continue the war. He did this effectually , by g> (

invading Germany at the very inftant when the tfa

Sultan was fuing for peace. Notwithftanding this, 1®

the Turks were in treaty again the following vet

year: and good policy lhould have obliged the om

emperor, fince he could not hope to carry on this Ml

war and that againft France , at the fame time, tap

with vigor and effect, to conclude a peace with ci

the leaft dangerous enemy of the two. The decifion enj

of this difpute with France could not be deferred, lie

his defigns againft the Hungarians were in part an

accomplilhed, for his fon was declared king, and in

the fettlenient of that crown in his family was up

made; ^