please Charles the Gross with his want of Sincerity during the whose course of his Reign and the paltry Artifices he made use of to rid himself of his Enemies he never alter'd his Conduct nor his Maxims so long as he had the Power in his Hands he was always the same and it may be said that he never began to live in Repose and to become wise till he was Banish'd into a Village of Swabia with a very mean Pension where he Died for Grief Lothair the Son of Lewis Oultremer the XXXIV King of France was a Prince the most Perfidious and the most Turbulent that ever ascended the Throne of the French Monarchy and as he liv'd so he dy'd and retain'd his abominable Principle to his Death So that we may safely say That so long as the most Christian King continues as Potent as he is at present he will never suffer his Neighbours to be at Quiet and the Confederate Princes must be always preparing themselves for new Combustions after the conclusion of a Peace Which will be fo far from lessening his Forces that it will acquire him new degrees of Glory and Grandeur Since then 't is so absolutely necessary to reject the present Offers of the Most Christian King and that there is no other way to obtain a firm Peace but by the continuance of a brisk War in order to bring down the Power of this Monarch there is no time to lose within a MOnth or six Weeks his Armies will be in the Field and if we may believe him he will be no longer bound to stand to his Royal Word which he gave the 15th of March. The Duke of Luxemburg begins to Liquor his Boots and is preparing in earnest to shew us some new Trick of his Necromancy And this same Marshal whom the Prince of Conde was wont to call L'Enfant perdu or a Child of the forlorn Hope in referrence to his turbulent and sanguinary Genius has promis'd his Majesty that tho' it cost him his Life he will make him Master this Campaign either of Liege or Mastricht or at the worst of a second Field-Victory no less Glorious then that of Landen out of a confidence that one of these Events will force the Confederates in despight of their Teeths to accept the Peace which he Offers But to return to the Battle of Landen I cannot forbear to write a pleasant Passage which is reported of the Marshal So soon as the Battle was over seeing himself inviron'd with a crowd of Lieutenant Generals Camp-Marshals Brigadiers Major-Generals and other Officers of the Army who came all to Congratulate him for the signal Victory he had own Ha! Boys said he How shall we call this Battle Upon which while every one stood gaping one upon another not knowing what to Answer and that some were of Opinion to call it be the Name of the Place where it was Fought according to Custom the Marshal replied No Gentlemen we will call it the Bavin-Battle instead of calling it the Battle of Landen we must call it the Battle of Bavins And indeed he had reason enough to call it so However if he deceiv'd the Confederates by Attacquing an Army of no more then Forty Thousand with another of a Hundred and twenty Thousand let him take heed he be not deceiv'd in his turn if ever he be forc'd to Fight upon equal Terms as in all probability he may be this very Campaign Nevertheless we may be bold to tell him this That if he acted like a Master in the Art of War in time of Fight he committed the fault of an ignorant Apprentice in not pursuing his Victory and reaping no Fruit of so much Blood as had been shed But to return to the Subject Boufflers another Favourite of the French Monarch promis'd him Mountains and Wonders and for a greater proof of his Zeal and Devotion to his Majesty's Service he has already caus'd his Sword to be Whetted and his own and the Arms of the French Guards together with the Flambeaux for the House-Burners to be Bless'd by the Arch-Bishop of Paris with a resolution to fight like a Termagaunt and to lay Waste all before him with Fire and Sword Catinat also no less famous for the Lawrels he gather'd in the Field of Marsaglia makes as great Promises to the King his Master and if his Majesty will believe him the Duke of Savoy runs a great hazard of losing the rest of his Dominions and of hearing French Te Deums Sung in the Cathedral of Turin The Dauphin also who is to Command in Germany if he be not Countermanded wants neither Courage nor good Will He has given signal proofs of both upon several Occasions and if we may believe him Lewis of Baden's Business is only to seek for an Asylum and a Camp that may secure him from the loss of a Battle like that of the last Campaign And as an accumulation to the Vauntings of so many Hero's that labour by Concert for the Honour of their Prince and to draw Dun out of the Mire there wants nothing but a second Smyrna Fleet and Tourville Admiral of a French Navy to render him as Glorious by Sea as the other Generals pretend to be by Land We are then in great expectation of some extraordinary Event which must decide the good or bad Fortune of so many Princes which the Most Christian King has enforc'd to betake themselves to Arms. And the Confederate Princes are so much the rather enclin'd to terminate the Differences by the Sword because they find it impossible to obtain by any other means an Accomodation with France Which is no more then what the most Christian King has made most clearly apparent by the ridiculous Proposals offer'd by the Ministers of the Northern Crowns So that War being indispensably necessary it behoves 'em to prepare for it in good earnest If we may believe the News that is brought us from some Persons residing in the Court of France 't is said that his Most Christian Majesty was in a pelting Chafe to hear that his Offers were rejected with so much Scorn and there was not a day past over his Head that he did not confer with Marshal de Luxemburg about what Enterprize was fiâ— to be undertaken and where it was most proper to open the Campaign For the King well knowing of what Importance it would be to his Affairs would fain have something done Remarkable to raise the drooping hope of his dejected People and which might aâ— the same time uphold the Reputation of hiâ— Arms and constrain the Confederates aâ— length to accept the Peace which he Offer ' em All these Considerations put him to a great Nonplus To begin in Flanders with the Siege of some Place of Importance would not be amiss But as ill Luck will have it there are no more Mons's and Namur's to take there remain two Places only be worthy the Presenceof so great a King Liege and Maestriecht But the
have made the Court of Spain tremble considering the Misfortunes that threatned the Kingdom being carry'd to Don Lewis de Haro never put so much as a Minutes stop to the Negotiation True it is that de Haro had a deep sense of it but Mazarin who had his Prospects redoubl'd his Importunities and hasten'd more then ever the Conclusion of the Treaty When the Kings of France had the Misfortune to make Alliances that were likely to prove fatal to 'em and which infallibly would have prov'd the Ruin of their Dominions what did they do to break ' em Witness the Conduct that Lewis XII observ'd upon the like Occasion He had concluded a Treaty of Confederacy with the Emperor Maximilian The second and third Article of which Treaty imported that the two Princes should engage themselves to ratify and confirm the Contract of Marriage concluded between Charles Duke of Luxemburgh Son of Arch-duke Philip and Madam Claudia of France the most Christian King's Daughter Lewis promis'd that in case he died without Issue Male that the Dutchies of Milan Genoa as also the Countries of Ast and Blois and all the other Lands and Signiories of his Demesnes should be deliver'd up after his Death and immediately after the Consummation of the Marriage of the Duke of Luxemburgh with Madam Claudia of France into the Hands of that Princess his Heiress to enjoy to Perpetuity upon condition that if she happen'd to have any Sisters she should allow 'em a Dowry in Mony proportionable to their Birth The Ministers of Lewis XII after they had seriously consider'd how disadvantagious this Marriage was to France and how powerful the House of Austria was like to grow set all their Engins at work to break it To which purpose by the King's consent there was an Assembly order'd to be summon'd which was held in the year 1506. at Plesses-Les-Tours where the King was present and by a knack of Policy as daring as well found out they order'd underhand a famous Doctor of the University of Paris to appear upon the Stage who came and made a Speech to the King beseeching him in the Name of all the States of France to match the Princess his Daughter with the Duke of Valois presumptive Heir of the Crown This Doctor with so much Eloquence set before the King the Misfortunes that suddenly threatned France if he suffer'd Madam Claudia to marry Charles of Austria or any other Foreign Prince that from that very moment the Match was brok'n off and by that manner of Proceeding Lewis XII disingag'd himself from his Word and Oath and the Treaty which was made in 1501. and confirm'd by another three Years after at Blois was declar'd null and void There 's no Question to be made but that Lewis the XII himself was the Person who order'd the Duke of Valois to be nominated to him by all the States of the Kingdom to the end that by that means he might bring himself off fairly from his Agreements with Maximilian and Philip his Son who had reckned upon the word of that Prince as upon a thing that was irrevocable This is an Example past all Contradiction besides a great number of others that might be found in History sufficient to justifie the Reasons which the Court of Spain had then has she minded her own Interests to have refus'd the Marriage of the Iufanta to Lewis XIV who was a Foreign Prince that they might have bestow'd her upon the Emperor's Son who was of the House of Austria and had demanded her at the same time However it were Mazarin in this particular acted the part of a great Politician and not to mention other Important Services which he did the French Monarch it may be said that tho' he had done nothing else during the whole course of his Ministry this alone was a thing that never ought to be forgot by France So that he made no scruple to write to Monsieur le Tellier immediately after the signing of the Treaty That there was great Reason to hope a long continuation of the Treaty in regard that both Parties were equally satisfy'd But that in his Opinion the King had reason to be more contented because that all the advantage was on his side And besides that there was also this farther Benefit that Don Lewis believing he had don his Business admirably well would never dream of laying hold upon Opportunities for the furture should they present themselves to repair the great Prejudices that Spain had receiv'd by the Conclusion of that Peace However had France stook to this Treaty how disadvantagious soever it was for Spain and had not transgress'd the Limits that were prescrib'd him we should not have now beheld all Eurpoe in Arms and the Princes of the August League unanimously resolv'd not to surcease the War till France has restor'd to every one what she has wrested from 'em since the Conclusion of that Treaty Her want of Faith and Sincerity not only transported her to declare her self the Irreconcileable Enemy of the House of Austria by vertue of those Rights which she pretends to claim as yielded up to her by vertue of that Peace but has openly invaded the Dominions of other Sovereigns of Europe and without any other Right and Title then the Challenges of her Ambition and Power she has run her self into those Excesses that now make her lookt upon with Detestation and Abhorrency We have shew'd ye the Fault never to be repair'd that the Court of Spain committed in consenting to the Marriage of the Infanta with Lewis XIV and to a Treaty of Peace so disadvantagious to her Interests Now let us see the fatal Event that attended 'em and begin with the Bounds that were prescrib'd to France by the Treaty which done we will examin the Conduct which she observ'd to extend those Limits as far as we see 'em now extended And lastly we shall conclude with representing to the Princes of the League the necessity of being inexorable to the Importunities of France for Peace unless extreamly to their Advantage Their Interest to keep inviolably united together and never to listen to the Proposals of France unless she makes Restitution of all that she has usurp'd since the Pyrenean Peace All the World knows that the main thing that obstructed the Pyrenean Treaty was the Accommodation of the Prince of Conde We shall not therefore trouble our selves to recite all the Particulars that pass'd in the great number of Conferences between the Ministers of the two Crowns upon this Subject as being otherwhere to be met with 'T is sufficient to say that Mazarin had the Honour of the Triumph and that he obtain'd of Don Lewis all that he could expect So true it is that the Right and Justice of a good Cause are not battry proof against the Artifices of a Crafty Minister and that Honesty and Sincerity frequently become the Cullies of wily Cunning. Don Lewis demanded that the Prince in consideration
been the Ruin of all the Leagues that have been formerly contracted against her You have to do with a crafty and potent Enemy and as she has found the Benefit of her Maxims practis'd in the late Wars she makes use at present of the same to break your Union How earnest is she at the Court of Rome How importunate with the Northern Crowns and the laudable Cantons to persuade 'em to take the Meditation upon ' em To this purpose she spares neither Gold nor Silver nor Embassies and it is in good part discover'd that she offer'd six Millions to any one that could procure a Peace And which is worse we find to our Sorrow that her Pains have not prov'd altogether fruitless by the Steps that some People tread who interest themselves too much in her Concerns But some zealous Adherents to that Crowâ— will object and say That 't is high time to puâ— a stop to the Miseries that afflict Europe anâ— you ought not any longer to refuse that Peacâ— to France which she demands since she makeâ— such advantagious Offers seeing the Deniaâ— will render you responsible before God foâ— all the Blood that is shed and for all the dismal Calamities that attend War The moâ—â— Christian King say they offers the Confederates Conditions altogether reasonable hâ— offers 'em Barriers sufficient to secure theiâ— Liberty and to secure 'em for the future from the prodigious Forces of that Crown Those Offers are these that follow France proposes by the Danish Envoy That first in respect of the Emperor the Princes and States of the Empire the Dutchess of Lorrain and Savoy the Advantages which his Armies have gain'd upon his Enemies shall make no alteration in the Conditions that have bin communicated to his Danish Majesty That in respect of the King of Spain his most Christian Majesty might justly keep all his Conquests after the Example of the Catholick Kings but that to facilitate a Peace he is willing to restore Roses and Belevers and in a word all that he has conquer'd in Catalonia during this last War He adds That he had still more reason to keep for the safery of his Frontiers all the Conquests that he had won in Flanders yet for the forming of 〈◊〉 Barrier that might remove all occasion of â—isquiet from the United Provinces he would â—estore to the King of Spain Mons and Naâ—â—ur and offer'd to demonish Charleroy As to the Country of Liege he would reâ—ore the City and Castle of Huy to the Biâ—hoprick and make amends for Dinant and Bouilion by reuniting such a Portion of the Country of Luxemburgh as should lie most for the convenience of the Bishoprick and as should be deem'd reasonable by chosen Arbitrators He consents to the re-settling of Trade with the States General according to the Agreements in the Treaty of Nimeguen without any Alteration In case of the King of Spain's Death he consents that the Elector of Bavaria shall enjoy those Countries provided the Emperor will declare the same to be his Will and Pleasure And that tho' the Deceased Queen's Renunciation to Spain during her Minority be Void for the Reasons already made publick to the World his Majesty is willing as well for himself as for the Dauphin to confirm he said Renunciation in favour of the Duke of Bavaria with all the requisite Formalities adding withall that he makes no question but that this Engagement will convince the Confederates beyond all other things of the reality of the Peace which he proposes to ' em As to the Affairs of England the Royal Majestyâ— being wounded in the Person of the K. of Greaâ— Britain his Most Christian Majesty makes no question but that the King of Sweeden and the Emperor himself will propose some Expedient to put an end to that Difference And moreover his Most Christian Majesty has no pretention directly nor indirectly to England excepting what he claim'd during this War to the Islands and Continents of America of which he demands Restitution being ready to renew with that Crown the last Treaty of Commerce which was in force when the War began As for what concerns Germany his Most Christian Majesty-consents that the Treaty of Munster and Nimeguen shall remain in full Force and Vigour That the Truce in 1684. might be chang'd into a Definitive Treaty of Peace nevertheless with these Exceptions That in compensation for Strasburg France shall Surrender up Mont Royal and Trarbag after the Fortifications are Demolish'd granting that it be for the security of the Empire Besides that his most Christian Majesty will restore Philipsbourg and Fribourg to the Emperor and the Empire together with the Fortifications in the same condition as now they are That Fort Lewis and Huninghen shall be Demolish'd That Heydelburg and the Palatinat shall be restor'd to the Palatinate France taking upon her to make Madam amends for the Succession of the Electors her Father and Brother an Article which his Most Christian Majesty stands very much upon In regard of the Duke of Lorrain the Most Christian King consents that the Treaty of Nimeguen shall be observ'd Sar Louis Briche and Hombourg excepted for which there shall be an Equivalent given of an equal Revenue That the most Serene Republic of Venice shall be Arbitratrix if there be any Reunions to make and for the putting a conclusion to all Differences between France and the rest of the Princes she will agree to any just and reasonable Proposals that shall be made on their Part and in their Name In truth we must acknowledge that France is become all on a sudden very Tractable and very Consciencious she who was wont to gripe all and restore nothing now offers the Confederates the Restitution of all the Places during the last War Most Serene Princes here is a particular Favour which the Most Christian King vouchsafes ye He is willing notwithstanding your Obstinacy to continue the War to heap his Graces upon ye to the end you may have reason to forget the Mischiefs he has done ye He offers to be Reconcil'd with ye and lay down his Arms provided you will accept of his Propositions of Peace and rely upon his Promises After this 't is to be thought that you will have no cause to Complain And the Adherents of France will be apt to tell ye that Lewis XIV is at this day Triumphant and Victorious and consequently that 't is for him to give Laws to his Enemies and to make no Restitutions at all but what he pleases himself But to this I answer If France has got such great Advantages over the Princes of the League and is so much a gainer by the War why do's she talk of Peace To spare you therefore the pains of alledging some good Reason or other in justification of a Prince whose Interests you so heartily Maintain I shall only repeat what Mazarine upon the like occasion wrote to M. Lionne Secretary of State concerning the Negotiation of the Pyrenaean
at so cheap a rate as the restoring 'em in the same Condition as actually now they are which without Contradiction is far worse then what they were in when she first seiz'd upon ' em For examgle Alsatia Franche Conte the Dutchies of Burgundy Lorraine and Bar of Luxemburg and Deux Ponts the County of Chini the Principality of Orange part of Brabant and Flandâ—â—s all which she has usurp'd and annex'd to the Crown No Body can be ignorant that all these were opulent and flourishing Countries under the Dominion of their Lawful Soveraigns whereas at present they are impoverish'd and reduc'd to utmost misery Could a true Computation be made of the Wealth which they abounded in before they were invaded by France I am perswaded there would not now be found so much Mony in all together as one single Principality was worth at that Time So that if France be discharged for making Restitution of 'em in their present condition she must needs be a prodigious Gainer considering that she goes clear away with all the Spoils of which she has stript those Provinces to their Skins to erect a Puissance always formidable to her Neighbours On the other side it may be said that if the Confederates enforce that Crown to dismember from her Dominions so many potent Principalities and so many lovely Acquisitions they may justly promise to themselves a just and durable Peace by disabling her to extend her ambitious Incroachments as hitherto she has done There is no doubt but the Predecessors of Lewis the Great would shave been as active and as troublesome to their Neighbours as he had they had the same Force and the same Treasures The Desire of growing Great is natural to all Sovereigns and it is look'd upon as a Noble Passion when it is sufficiently supported to carry on Great Enterprizes and is attended with Prosperity So that if the Raigns of Henry IV. and Lewis XIII were not so fortunate and flourishing as that of Lewis XIV 't was because they wanted Power and because their Revenues were so small that they could hardly bring into the Field an Army of above 40 or 50000 Men whereas France under this Ragin has extended her Limits so far as she has done by the vast Augmentation of her Forces and prodigious Advancemen of her Revenus to which her Violation of Treaties has greatly contributed She finds herself enlarg'd by a great number of Dukedoms Earldoms Principalities Lordships Signiories and Territories sufficient altogether to compose a Kingdom as vast and of as large an extent as ancient France nay tho you should consider it as it was before the Pyrenean Peace 'T is Time then most Serene Confederate Princes to bethink your selves of prescribing Bounds to this ambitious Puissance such as may secure your Liberty your Repose and the Welfare of your Dominions You know full well what your staying so long has cost ye and past Experience ought to instruct ye that you have no time to lose and that if you let slip this favourable Opportunity which Fortune has put into your Hands such another may not suddenly return The Marquiss of Louvois told the King some Months before his Death That he foresaw this War would be like the Preceding That your Projects and your Enterprizes would vanish in Smoak That Misunderstanding began to get footing among ye that one Campaign more would shatter the Vnion and that there wanted nothing but the Loss of a Battle to make a second Peace of Nimeguen That is to say a Peace both Glorious and Advantagious for France and unfortunate to the Confederates This Minister zealous for his Master's Interests grounded his Arguments and Conjectures upon the small Resistance which you made till now which occasion'd the loss of several Battels and the taking of several considerable Towns And to speak as we find things it was not greatly for the Honour of so many Princes as the Confederacy consiss of that only England and the Vnited Provinces have fought effectually against France These Two Potentates have done every thing have paid every thing have supply'd every thing So that ' is no wonder if they have obtain'd signal Advantages At the same Time France assails ye on every side Her Armies are early in the Field they ravage your Territories and carry all before 'em with Fire with Sword and Desolation while you remain immoveable in Winter-Quarters till the Enemy has made himself Master of the most Advantagious Posts and consum'd your Forrage I bury in silence a great number of Defects and Failings which King William has endeavour'd to repair with indefatigable Pains and Industry 'T is to that great Prince to whom all Europe is at this Day heholding for the happy condition of her Affairs which put all the Confederates in hopes of a speedy and solid Peace It is only to be wish'd that the Zeal of that undaunted Monarch were well seconded and that all the Confederate Princes and States would push on their utmost Efforts towards putting a final End to so glorious an Enterprize after which so many People under Oppression so earnestly pant Now to be convinc'd that there needs no more then the good fortune of one Compaign successful to the Confederates to obtain of France what has been usurp'd since the Pyrenean Treaty let us only consider her Advances and her Condescensions to obtain a Peace Having hitherto sown in vain her Treasures in all the Courts of Europe to purchase the Neutrality of several Members of the Confederacy or the Mediation of the Northern Crowns and other States and Princes devoted to her Interests finding that all this produc'd nothing she flatter'd her self as her last Remedy that the Court of Rome would have Authority enough to awe the Catholick Princes into an Accommodation To that purpose she left nothing omitted to procure the Favour of that Court and it may be said that her Sedulities were not Fruitless on that side and that it was none of the Holy Fathers Fault if the Emperor and the Catholick King did not abandon the Common Cause to make a separate Peace It had bin well for France that the presenâ— Pope had had the good luck or the Genius oâ— Clement VIII at the Peace of Vervin concluded in 1598. That Holy Father press'd sâ— importunately upon Henry IV. and Philip Iâ— that he perswaded those Two Princes at length into a Reconciliation and to restore Tranquility to Christendom Nevertheless it was not procur'd without a world of Toyl and Difficulty witness the extraordinary Painâ— that the Popes Legate Cardinal Alexander dâ— Medicis took who was sent to Henry IV. and had not that Cardinal bin as cunning as he was he had never succeeded nor done his Business as he did with that Prince Nor was the Reverend Father Friar Bonaventure Calatagirone General of the Franciscan Order less dextrous in perswading Prince Albert Archduke of Austria and Nephew to Philip. II. So that the Holy Father wrought so effectually by the means
and Spaniards was as we may say a Throne upon which a King of England could decide without Appeal the Differences between France and Spain In short to crown all this King Charles found the most liberal People that ever was Now after this who will deny that England was then in a condition to restrain the French and oblige them to stand still tho' they had bin in a much better posture then they were For these Divisions were not altogether appeased and their Fleet at that time was so very inconsiderable that they made but a very little figure at Sea By what has bin said I hope it appears That if a Peace has not reigned in Europe since the Pyrenean Treaty it is not because there was not an Equilibrum set between France and the House of Austria but only because those whose gloriuos Province it was to maintain the publick Peace were corruptible Men and therefore I conclude that if that Treaty be restor'd if the Affairs of Eurpoe were reduc'd to the same Condition as they were then in we shall enjoy a lasting Peace For it is not to be supposed that any King of England for the future will be persuaded to sell Dunkirk to the Franch to teach them how to manage their Fleet to join with them against the Dutch our Confederates and in a word to suffer them to swallow Flanders or any other Country 'T is said indeed that Glory is the inseparable Companion of Princes but sure I am that the Prince we speak of must be excepted out of that Rule for had he felt any sting of that noble Passion is it to be believ'd that he would have divested himself of the most glorious Advantage and Title that ever any Christian Prince enjoy'd viz. of being the Vmpire of Europe and the Defender of the Peace as well as of the Faith Now since the Restitution of the Pyrenean Treaty is so absolutely necessary for the Peace of Christendom 't is plain That England aâ— well as other Nations now in Confederacy witâ— her must be engag'd to continue the War tiâ— we obtain it but besides we are engag'd by the Ties of Honour and Glory in thâ— Quarrel It hath been our ofrmer Princes Negligence or our own that hath made sâ— wide a Breach in Europe and are we noâ— bound in Honour as well as in Justice tâ— make it up We have lost the fairest Floweâ— of our Crown in parting with the Advantaâ— ges I have mention'd are we not bound therefore for the Glory of our Country tâ— strive to regain them Dunkirk I know waâ— not yielded to the English by the Pyreneaâ— Treaty but was it not then our own sinoâ— soon after King Chrales sold it How much the loss of Calais was bewail'd by our Fore-fathers I think needless to teâ— my Reader since it hastened the death oâ— Queen Mary her self but with what Tranquility we suffer'd the loss of Dunkirk is indeed a Subject of Wonder but I think it still a grerter to hear many People say that it is against our Interest to demand the Restitution of that Place unless they will say that Calais was of more advantage to England which I have no reason to believe as I could easily shew if I would break the Bounds which I have prescrib'd to my self I would conclude here and truly 't is high time but I think my self oblig'd to answer or at least to prevent an Objection which some People may possibly make If almost all the Princes of Europe in Confederacy together are scarce now able to resist France how is it possible that England along should keep the Balance even between that Kingdom and the House of Austria To this I answer that if France was supposed to be always as powerful as it is at this day or as it has been for many Years of late the Objection would then hold good and I should reckon my self something worse then a Fool to believe that England and Spain would be able to counterbalance it since as it is observ'd so many States in conjunction together find it a difficult matter to do it but if the French are once brought back to the Pyrenean Treaty and once shut up within these ancient Bounds then I dare say That England will be able to turn the Scale to what side soever she pleases and especially if Dunkirk be rrestor'd to us All the World knows that the French have made great Conquests and consequently that they must be stronger then they were formerly but the better to make this Truth sensible and to give at the same time a just Idea of their present Strength I 'll offer to the Reader a List of the principal Towns and Countries which they have acquir'd to use their own Phrase since the Pyrenean Treaty Dunkirk Bergue St. Vinox Ypres Menin Furnes Tournay Lille Douay St. Omer Valenciennes Conde Bouchain Cambray Aire St. Guilain Mons Charleroy Namur Huy Dinant Charlemont Maubeuge Luxemburgh with all its Dependencies The whole Dutchy of Lorrain The County of Burgundy in which are very Considerable Places as Besancon Dole Salins c. 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