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perpetual servitude. I11 proportion as the affairsof the States rose, the kings funk in their de-mands ; but the States still funk lower in theiroffers ; and it was found impossible for the partiesever to agree on any conditions. After the Frenchevacuated Holland, the congress broke up; andthe seizure of prince William of Furstenberg bythe Imperialists afforded the French and Englisha good pretence for leaving Cologne. The Dutchambassadors in their memorials expressed all thehaughtiness and disdain , so natural to a free state,which had met with such unmerited ill usage.

The parliament of England was now assembled,and discovered much greater symptoms of illhumor , than had appeared in the last session.They had seen for some time a negociation ofmarriage carried on between the duke of Yorkand the archdutchess of Inspruck, a catholic ofthe Austrian family; and they had made no op-position. But when that negociation failed, andthe duke applied to a princess of the house ofModena , then in close alliance with France;this circumstance, joined to so many other groundsof discontent, raised the commons into a flame;and they remonstrated with the greatest zealagainst the intended marriage. The king toldthem, that their remonstrance came too late; andthat the marriage was already agreed on , andeven celebrated by proxy. The commons stillinsisted ; and proceeding to the examination ofthe other parts of government, they voted thestanding army a grievance, and declared, thatthey would grant no more supply, unless it

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