ee 
Palfion of the Englith 5 diffentions oe her enemies, who 
were too numerous to agfee lo 
who — already pee ee by the fplendour of their vic- 
tories, {oon he ent aturn to her y saosin vee affairs, 
_were a poi ed, By mutual jealoufy, from forming any con- 
enterprize, and being continually harafled by’ the 
“ themfelves. gradually exhanfted, without coming to any de- 
el aétion. e defeGtion of the king of Pruilia from the 
alliance with France, and his treaty with Maria Therefa in 
.the rane of 1742, completed the ruin of the emperor’s for- 
tune, and threw the whole burden oft the war on the ¥F aie 
e queen of Hungary 
ath of May ae : ~ ed 
e to fave Bavaria; but b 
ies 
‘ant ae war, which 
fucceffion to the cape hee ae fenwele for fupe- 
‘riority between France and . They tried their 
. Rrength at oe — of eee in 1743, and the Englifh 
were decidedly vi€torious. France began now to tremble 
‘for her own fakety, ond oe ie energy which, in oe 
_as well as in individuals, is roufed by the appearance of ey 
traordinary danger, the canted all the arts of pig and 
‘warfare to avert the ftorm with which fhe was menaced 
Pruffia, who began to dread that the rapid fuccefs 
queen of Hungary migh ive hi i 
The firlt ee of the refolute fpirit which a&tuated d the 
French councils was in a. = Fah off ‘Toulon i in 17 
{elf made the mpaign, in which he obtained many fig- 
nal vidtories, till hie was topped in his career by difaitrous 
news from his own country. Leavin canqgueits: 
in Flanders, he flew-to the protection 
he arrived at Metz he had the fatisfaction to hear that -Fre- 
ie had poured an immenfe army into emia, and another 
o Moravia; that he had iaeed Prague to furrender, and 
oe rifoners‘ of war. Here he was taken 
feioufy ill, and his indifpofition filled the court and people 
confternation :2 nd grief ; 5 and his recovery | caufed the 
Charles VII. re Aerered Bavaria, eee hie f 
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ines o 
n any general plan, and = 
ef Dutc wi 
allies — where unfuccefsful, ses i dare 
ted by de ho nev t fe 
o- the fettlements of both countries in .A: 
» parties in this conteft. The world ee th w 
-been 
were opin us. for 
ed over to her fide the king of w 
of the 
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n of France, and when: 
marthal Saxe took. Brufels in the riddle of winter : An- 
twerp was taken by the king in perfon ; Mons, Namur, and: 
other places pen to the arms of France, till at a 
the entire congue aie a 
- The articles. of this 
ape manent tranquillity.. 
manner in which the boundaries of 
fixe 
igned April 30, 
all the ieee en durin ng the ¥ 
peace were ill caleulated to produe 
The “ee and ieee 
by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and th 
tions and quarrels which this circumftance naturally tended: 
to Loa a aera the one nation-with a ae occafion 
for cenfure seal for recrimination ; 
produce Other 
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Nothing was heard an in ingles cc om ae Bets but loffes 
and misfortunes. Minorca was taken, admiral Byng 
tary. 
ae as ote “pine of fai cin my ae to drowas- 
d the clam off fa ction. And the people, al- 
molt a to defponden ; i 
1s time the sare 
afer of the king by their who ad- 
hered to the bull cee 1ey éeded. 
fo far inthis oppofition as fee oe to regifter es eed 
abfolutely neceflary for the carrying on the war. By this: 
the king was fo irritated, “that he fappreffled the fourth and 
fifth chambers of inque 
ny of the princi-.. 
pal members. of the different parliaments refigned their ‘of+ 
fices. An attemptwas made b n to affaffinate the 
king, who was-flightlp wounded, in ae ey Ses of his fon, | 
and pabnel oem by his guards. The affaffin was put to the: 
modt exquifite tortures, in fi 
