Letters On The Study And Use Of History A New Edition PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 edition. Excerpt: ...improved this advantage by her arms, and more by her negotiations. Nimeghen was, after Cologn, the scene of these. England was the mediating power, and I know notwhether OurCHARLES the second did not serve her purposes more usefully in the latter, and under the character of mediator, than he did or could have done by joining his arms to her's, and acting as her ally. The Dutch were induced to sign a treaty with him, that broke the confederacy, and gave great advantage to Franoe: for the purport of it was to oblige France and Spain to make peace on a plan to be proposed to them, and no mention was made in it of the other allies that I remember. The Dutch were glad to get out of an expensive war. France promised to restore Maestricht to them, and Maestricht was the only place that remained unrecovered of all they had lost. They dropped Spain at Nimeghen, as they had dropped France at Munster; but many circumstances concurred to give a much worse grace to their abandoning of Spain, than than to their abandoning of France. I need not specify them. This only I would observe: when they made a separate peace at Munster, they left an ally who was in condition to carry on the war alone with advantage, and they presumed to im pose no terms upon him: when they made a separate peace at Nimeghen, they aban doned an ally who was in no condition to carry on the war alone, and who _. was reduced to accept whatever terms the common enemy prescribed. In their great distress in one thousand six hundred and seventy three, they engaged to restore Maestrieht to the Spaniards as soon as it should be retaken:, it was not retaken, and they accepted it for themselves as the price of the separate peace they made with France. The Dutch had engaged farther, to make...