London Pues Occurrences (Newspaper) - November 26, 1848, London, Middlesex W 95 Es Q C C U From SATURDAY ro TV ESD AT November the 29 1748. Pi Extract from a Artifice to a lately The of the the Kings of France and &c. betrayed in the Preliminary Articles at HEN our rs found under a to accept the they pie of this kingdom would be apt to find fault with any Peace that could be the of luch For this all the canning fellows in their pay were fet to ttt contrive methods for deceiving the good people of lb far at as to make them tt believe tbe peace a good At laft one of them hit upon this that a pamphlet be wrote highly reflecting upon the as to the houfe of and injurious to the kingdoms of France and The plan thus it was about above three or fonr months that a pamphlet had been lent to the at Liege 5 bat that the French had got notice ot and had not drily the inv f but alfo the but however that one of oar great and wife abroad had found means to procure a copy of which be Had fent to one of cor here at Whether fuch a pamphlet was at and by the together with the is what I pretend tif for this fad to be I am that ir was not wrote by the or with the of Count any French but that the fet feme and this I am confirmed in by the flUe and manner in it is v - * ' So moth for and I proceed to the arguments which the author makes nfe of for that the them to be fuch as were were and fbr the houfe of In general f muft that the Author has plaid the part he was to aft rery except m that of not talking of our and highly the conduct Jri every the and never flicks at the glaring he they will his According method; he begins with a notorious one: He that the of France and Spain were in the happy and and had in their when the fot s were Can any one agree to who confiders the either of France of Spam With regard to the it is very welf that the of Spain for many years drained both of men and fcr the ambitious projects of its now got years by the or of euf one of their the two Bat was this of tor On the contrary it has an have been be an mof Troops fot Kingdom and the that it can be of to any war they happen to be engaged in. - and which the of the and people of very and a great part of by the war of this Their commerce had wen entirely their American all forts of they by means of the contraband which had hern opened by ferts daring of their 5 the King loft hf and by And growing m as. this Nation td find oat and to make a proper of its feree v. In can any one a er one the that the condition p And then with regard to the is A more which was near Their ow tbe war j plantations both in ini North were of 4fcerolelvR up to any nation that could give them daily and 1 to this nation Their country was fo of that it was with difficulty rhey made their laft Their who iri that country forve in their Armies at their own proper wete reduced the laft by the long continuance and expence of the Their poor were fuch heavy taxes as railed dangerous in pares of the Their merchants every breaking for millions of French to conclude their people were for want of which they could noway have but by the and of Theft were the interior of at the time the late negotiations for a peace were entered at and from let any one judge whether that kingdom was then in the happy and to the of two kingdoms with regard to foreign and I confider the of I have already that the kingdom of Spain for Sany been drained both of its men and y the ambitious projects of its or rather Queen to which I that it had at the fame made the cat's paw bv for interrupting the trade and commerce of By means the Spaniards had for many in a continual of war with thole two they with the when I kf chA J every man but a or an Italianized will I mean the houfe df and As Spain is not by alone a match fbr either bv fea or the Spaniards muft court in with the houie of for them by and with England for them by France for they do their crown muft become dependent upon the crown of which is tbe only nation that ran attack them by and a nation that is powerful enough to them in two or three none of the other powers Europe eome to their and none of them they could expect ir and the bode df the therefore it is the true not only to cultivate a continual and alliance with the houfe of but as any other in Europe of any addition or to the power or dominions of This I fan is the true and it is hardly this be hy any contrary for neither ambition nor can ever tempt the of to fall out with Stain i if tbe latter forms no of or which the Spaniards never if by their the fuch or will always coft them they can bring what is for they will drain them of their which that kingdom can left than any other country in Then with regard to ic is. England never attempt upon Spain ami very they ever attempt any fuch thing in only caufe of that can eves between the two mud proceed from tbe English of and arid what the Spaniards call trade in As to Port mabon and their being in the of England rfc of advantage to by keeping tbe French in and preventing their the dominion of the and it can of any real detriment to the crown or people of it is to td prevent the carif ing on of any between Gibraltar And as to the contraband trade in England has always wiling fallow to by any her trade and navigation in the it prevented if any hannew it muft be the of Si to mm but a ways be tbe governing maxim of every prudent French From the mutual that often the other of a ray happen when may fee it aimoli to form a confederacy and fhe may give her ambition its full Such a conjuncture did by the of the court of uron the death of the emperor Charles the and France did accordingly endeavour to make proper advantage of but the good of the queen of and generals or rather by the bid of the their were at laft Their drove out of with tbe hfs of above men of their beft veteran as I have been certainly by who had an to know the truth They were deferred by all the their in Their the were forced to to a peace with the At their enemy was chofen Emperor of Germany and the with great kept from declaring war Thus loft the beft opportunity that ever for carrying their ambitious projects into execution and from that moment every wile man In France that a peace was become for them by bad in the they were in danger of being undone j and by good they be brought that danger which is their chief maxim to to a powerful confederacy This laft danger would certainly have been b ought upon long before laft if either the late magistracy in Holland had done their or if what was faid to have been the advice of a late in England had been followed fo that the French in the and the their commerce and their were rather owing to the mi of their than to their own or the chance of and in this that a very material change had been and carried a great by the beginning oi laft The form of as well as the in Holland had been that weie friends to France in that had or were in a fair of being every one and fuch men brought into power as in all act wich the vigour and in England they had begun to the of their navy is a proper and had at laft in an effectual to the empire of by which means that powerful empire was become a party in the confederacy the and thereby the influence of their frieals n Germany began to But this was not The French had a greater misfortune to Ifl it was for them to the war with any their enemies were matters of the and this they knew very though they made of 3t order to keep the court of Spain in good As they had no they coold not make any attack upon England nor could attack the dominions of the queen of and if they their attack upon the United Provinces they were fure of bringing the Germanick body into the I it is that the French in the I mentioned By bad were in danger of immediate ruin by good they were irr danger of railing % by which they would at in all human be and will any one fhis was a in their favour * a confederacy as would have been the of the French they They might have made to the Ottoman and it is confidently they did but from the reception it met had no hopes of any and the of that during the war in queen was a that France dan never depem the Ottoman power fbr her from Ute finds defeated 6t her ambitious and a firl or like to be iSe bat that concluding a peace da gee has court of ivet finer cardinal to the of the and w bv Fiance i asit been faithful cafe will as thw or ttf make be
