59^ A. D. 1678. 



Article IT) The peace of Munfter, or Weftphalia, in the year 1648 

 is declared to be the bafis of this treaty. 



IV, V) France yields Philipfburgh to the empire, and the emperor 

 Leopold yields Friburg to France. 



XII, XIII, XIV, XV) The country of Lorrain to be reftored to its 

 duke ; only Nancy, its capital, fhall remain for ever united to France ; 

 which fliall alfo have ways half a league in breadth, to be fet out by 

 the French king and the duke, for the more eafy paffiige of the French 

 troops through Lorrain to the city of Nancy, and from Nancy to Al- 

 face, alio from Nancy to Befanfon, in Franche Comptc. Whereby 

 that unfortunate prince, fcr having fided with the emperor againfl 

 France, was defpoiled of his capital city, and the reft of his duchy now 

 -laid quire open to the armies of France at pleafure, in an unheard-of 

 manner. 



It was alfo to be free for the French king to keep garrifons in the 

 towns of ChafTelette, Huy, Verviers, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dueren, Linnick, 

 Nuys, and Zons, until peace fhould be concluded between him and Swe- 

 den, Denmark, Brandenburg, the bifliop of Munfler, and the princes 

 of Lunenburg ; when they were to be reftored to the empire. 



And thus alio France gradually gained ground on the German em- 

 pire, of which Lorrain, as well as Alface, formerly were parts, to the 

 ftill farther deftroying of the equilibrium of power in Europe. 



The French exclufive Senegal company was now ereded, for the 

 trade of gold duft, leather, wax, gums, &;c. and it was confirmed in the 

 year 1681 by the name of the royal Senegal company. But, being 

 unable to pay their debts, they were diflolved in the year 1696. 



So rapid were the naval and commercial improvements ot France at 

 this time, according to the ingenious author of the work entitled £ri- 

 tannia languetis, that there were now forty French trading veflels for 

 every one that there was tv.'enty or thirty years before. The king of 

 France alfo eftabliflied a fifliery to the great prejudice of ours. 



1679. — The fame author afterts, that the Dutch herring and cod fifli- 

 ery employed 8000 veifels and 200,000 failors and fifliers, whereby they 

 annually gained five millions fterling ; befides their Iceland, Greenland, 

 and Newfoundland, fifheries, and the multitude of trades and people 

 employed by them at home. 



1680. — The Dutch Eaft-India company having aftifted the king of 

 Materan, who ftiled himfelf emperor of Java, againlt two of his rebel- 

 lious fons, he thereupon yielded up to the Dutch the towns of Cheri- 

 ' ban and Tarpa. 



This year feems to have been remarkable for new projeds in Eng- 

 land, which were patronized by Prince Rupert duke of Cumberland, 

 more elpecially fuch as related to mechanics. We have a yellow metal 

 much refembling gold, which in our days is ftill named prince's metal, 



