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A37429 The interests of the several princes and states of Europe consider'd, with respect to the succession of the crown of Spain, and the titles of the several pretenders thereto examin'd Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. 1698 (1698) Wing D836; ESTC R4999 18,910 37

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THE INTERESTS Of the several Princes and States of Europe With respect to the Succession of the Crown of Spain THE INTERESTS Of the Several Princes and States of Europe Consider'd with respect to the SUCCESSION OF THE Crown of Spain AND THE TITLES of the several Pretenders thereto Examin'd LONDON Printed in the Year M DC XC VIII The Interests of the Several Princes of Europe with respect to the Succession of the Crown of SPAIN c. THE present Indisposition of the King of Spain seems to put a great part of Europe into a Consternation The Apprehension the most Judicious Persons have of a Breach in the short Tranquility this part of the World has enjoy'd makes the Concern be very just For they who know how ill we are able to enter upon a Second War and what deep Incisions the Last has made into the soundest Members of the Confederacy have good reason to be very chary of the present Peace 'T is true our Adversaries have felt the Effects of the War as well as We and 't is reasonable to suppose have as little need of another as they had real need of the Peace But what we know of that is but suppos'd what we feel we are sensible and sure of Besides the Case here would exceedingly differ for the Kingdom of Spain which perhaps were it rightly managed is the Richest as well as the Largest Government in the World is a thing so valuable that 't is presum'd there is no Monarch in Christendom were he in the King of France's stead but would push for it at the extremest hazard And the present King of France has never given the World any reason to expect he will omit the Addition of such a Trophy to his Glory especially when he has so high Pretensions to the Claim In this Case it seems very proper to enquire a little into the present Prospect of Affairs as they respect the several Interests of the Princes of Europe and what probable Effects the Decease of his Catholick Majesty may have as to Peace War and Trade that from thence we may judge what we ought to expect from such an Event To come at a full understanding of the Case in hand 't is necessary to take a short View of the Succession of the Royal Family of Spain and enquire who has the fairest Claim in case of the Demise of the present King The House of Austria have had an undoubted Possession of the Crown of Spain and Charles the Fifth being chosen Emperor of Germany enjoy'd a Sovereignty of the largest Extent perhaps that ever any One Prince in the World had under his Government For he had at once the Empire of Germany the Kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia of Spain Naples and Sicily all the present United Provinces under the States of Holland all Flanders with the Countries of Luxemburgh Franche Comte and Burgundy the Dukedom of Milan the Islands of Sardinia Corsica Majorca and Minorca with a boundless Empire in Mexico and Peru besides a multitude of Petty Sovereignties Dukedoms and Principalities All this Vast Dominion the Empire of Germany and its Dependancies excepted descended to his Son Philip who added to it the Kingdoms of England and Ireland by his Marriage with Queen Mary but that unhappy Match neither raising him any Children nor keeping him in any long Possession of this Crown he lost it by her Death and in the next Reign lost the Low-Countries also and by that long War so impoverish'd his own Kingdom that it never recovered it to this hour After his Decease he left his Kingdoms to his Son Philip and he to Philip the Fourth Father of the present Charles the Second who has yet no Children Philip the Fourth left One Son and Two Daughters the Eldest Daughter Maria Teresia was married to the present French King and was Mother to the present Dauphin of France and in case of the Death of the present King of Spain the Dauphin of France is Heir Apparent to the Crown of Spain and to all its Dominions and one Clause excepted has an Unquestion'd Title to the Succession of the said Kingdoms But in answer to the Succession of the Dauphin 't is objected That at the Marriage of Lewis the Fourteenth of France with Maria Teresia of Spain aforesaid his Most Christian Majesty with all the Princes of the Blood did by a Writing under their Hands and Seals ratified and exchang'd on the Borders and firm'd by their Solemn Oath at Fonterabia in the Year 1659 renounce and relinquish all Right or Title Claim and Pretensions for himself or his Successors which they or any of them had or should have by reason of any Alliance from the said Marriage The Spanish Ministers of State who foresaw the possibility of a Claim upon the Crown of Spain from the Children of that Match took all the care imaginable to bind His most Christian Majesty from so much as a Pretension to it and to that end made the Words of that Oath as full and the Ceremony of Making and Exchanging it as Solemn and as Publick as possible How far His Most Christian Majesty will think himself bound by such an Oath time must determine I know 't is Argued that the Dauphin and his Sons can be no way obliged by an Oath made by their Father or Grandfather before they were born and that the Father could only relinquish for himself but not for them on whom the Right of Succession devolv'd long after the Oath of their Father That the Inheritance was a Natural Right to them which their Predecessors had no power to dispense with and therefore they are no way concern'd in the Oath of Renunciation but ought to Succeed as if no such Oath had been taken Though much might be said on this Point it being not the Design of this Paper I shall only Note this That whether the Oath by which His Most Christian Majesty Renounced the said Succession be binding to the Dauphin and his Sons or no this is certain That it is effectually binding to the King himself if there be any such thing as a binding Force in the Obligation of the most solemn and sacred Oaths in the World Now if the Obligation be so sacred as to the Most Christian King himself 't is most certain the Dauphin or his Sons will never be Kings of Spain if the said Most Christian King be so just to his Obligation as not to aid and assist them in pushing at the Succession The Emperor of Germany who is the next Branch of the House of Austria is Heir to the Crown of Spain in case the Title of the said Maria Teresia be laid aside being the immediate Line of Ferdinand Son to Charles the V th King of Spain and not only so but his Issue has a Claim by Virtue of his Marriage with Margaret Teresia the Second Daughter of Philip the IV th by whom he had One Daughter who was Married to the present Duke of