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made; and the reft of thefe, as well as thofe thathe formed againlt the Turks, might be deferred.But the councils of Vienna judged differently, andinfilled even at this critical moment 011 the moftexorbitant terms ; on fome of fuch a nature, thatthe Turks fhowed more humanity and a betterfenfe of religion in refufing, than they in alkingthem. Thus the war went on in Hungary , andproved a conflant diverfion in favor of France ,during the whole courfe of that which Lewis thefourteenth began at this time : for the treaty ofCarlowitz was polterior to that of Ryfwic. TheEmpire, Spain , England, and Holland engaged inthe war with France and on them the emperor leftthe burden of it. In the lliort war of one thoufandfix hundred and fixty-feven, he was not fo muchas a party, and inftead of affifting the king ofSpain , which, it mult be owned, he was in nogood condition of doing, he bargained for dividingthat prince’s fucceflion, as I have obferved above.In the war of one thoufand fix hundred and fe-venty two he made fome feeble efforts. In this ofone thoufand fix hundred and eighty eight he didftill lefs : and in the war which broke out at thebeginning of the prefent century he did nothing,at leaft after the fir ft campaign in Italy , and after theengagements that England and Holland took bythe grand alliance. In a word, from the time thatan oppofition to France became a common caufein Europe , the houfe of Auftria has been a clogupon it iA many inftances, and of confiderableaffiltance to it in none. The acceflion of England

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