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I hear, that in his conversation with the Queen, the Duke of Marlborough has spoken against what we are doing; in short, his fate hangs heavy upon him, and he has of late pursued every counsel which was worst for him. —Bolingbroke's Letters, i. 480. Nov. 24, 1711.

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Parl. Hist., 10th December 1711.

10

Swift's Journal to Stella, Dec. 8, 1711. – Swift said to the Lord Treasurer, in his usual ironical style, "If there is no remedy, your lordship will lose your head; but I shall only be hung, and so carry my body entire to the grave." – Coxe, vi. 148, 157.

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Cunningham, ii. 367.

12

Burnet's History of his Own Times, vi. 116.

13

Mém. de Torcy, iii. 268, 269.

14

Swift's Four Last Years of Queen Anne, 59; Continuation of Rapin, xviii. 468. 8vo edit.

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"The French will see that there is a possibility of reviving the love of war in our people, by the indignation that has been expressed at the plan given in at Utrecht." —Mr Secretary St John to British Plenipotentiary, Dec. 28, 1711. – Bolingbroke's Correspondence, ii. 93.

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Coxe, vi. 189, 184.

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Mém. de Villars, ii. 197.

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"Her Majesty, my lord, has reason to believe that we shall come to an agreement upon the great article of the union of the monarchies, as soon as a courier sent from Versailles to Madrid can return. It is, therefore, the Queen's positive command to your Grace that you avoid engaging in any siege, or hazarding a battle, till you have further orders from her Majesty. I am, at the same time, directed to let your Grace know, that you are to disguise the receipt of this order; and her Majesty thinks you cannot want pretences for conducting yourself, without owning that which might at present have an ill effect if it was publicly known. P.S. I had almost forgot to tell your Grace that communication is made of this order to the Court of France, so that if the Marshal de Villars takes, in any private way, notice of it to you, your Grace will answer it accordingly." —Mr Secretary St John to the Duke of Ormond, May 10, 1712. Bolingbroke's Correspondence, ii. 320.

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Eugene to Marlborough, June 9, 1712. – Coxe vi. 199.

20

Parl. Hist., May 28, 1712. Lockhart Papers, i, 392

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Coxe, vi. 192, 193.

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"No one can doubt the Duke of Ormond's bravery; but he is not like a certain general who led troops to the slaughter, to cause a great number of officers to be knocked on the head in a battle, or against stone walls, in order to fill his pockets by the sale of their commissions." – Coxe, vi. 196.

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Lockhart Papers, i. 392; Coxe, vi. 196, 199.

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The words of the treaty, which subsequent events have rendered of importance, on this point, were these: – Philippe V. King of Spain renounced "à toutes pretentions, droits, et tîtres que lui et sa postérité avaient ou pourraient avoir à l'avenir à la couronne de France. Il consentit pour lui et sa postérité que ce droit fût tenu et considéré comme passé au Duc de Berry son frère et à ses descendans et postérité male; et en defaut de ce prince, et de sa postérité male, au Duc de Bourbon son cousin et à ses héritiers, et aussi successivement à tous les princes du sang de France." The Duke of Saxony and his male heirs were called to the succession, failing Philippe V. and his male heirs. This act of renunciation and entail of the crown of Spain on male heirs, was ratified by the Cortes of Castile and Arragon; by the parliament of Paris, by Great Britain and France in the sixth article of the Treaty of Utrecht. —Vide Schoell, Hist. de Trait., ii. 99, 105, and Dumont, Corp. Dipl., tom. viii. p. 1. p. 339.

25

Coxe, vi. 205.

26

Cunningham, ii. 432; Milner, 356.

27

Mém. de Villars, ii. 396, 421.

28

Mr Pitt to Sir Benjamin Keene. —Memoirs of the Spanish Kings, c. 57.

29

Life of Marlborough, 175.

30

"At the future congress, his Imperial Majesty will do all that is possible to sustain my Lord Duke in the principality of Mendleheim, but if it should so happen that any invincible difficulty should occur in that affair, his Imperial Highness will give his Highness an equivalent out of his own hereditary dominions." —Emperor Charles VI. to Duchess of Marlborough, August 8, 1712. – Coxe, vi. 248.

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Coxe, vi. 249, 251.

32

Duke of Marlborough's Answer, June 2, 1713.

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