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England.-How Interest

France.-The Two Dau

Marries One, in Spite

Allies.-How the King

the King.-Prepa

or his genial temper, nor his amiable frankness. After the death of Henrietta of England, his beloved sister, he remained for some time longer our ally, but only to take great advantage from our union and alliance. He had made use of it against the Dutch, his naval and

cently gone into mourning for that robber; that there had been granted neither guards, nor palace, nor homages of state to the Queen, his mother, although daughter and sister of two French kings; that this Queen, in a mode

lost her sleep, and was given soporific pills, on account of which Henrietta of France awok

uccumbed to the horrible tortures of a poisoning even more visible and manifest; whils

hat he ought to detach himself from France, who was not helpful enough; and, by deserti

had none by the Queen, his wife. The presumptive heir to t

llor, Lord Hyde, had himself only two daughters, equally beautiful, who,

incesses conformably with our interests, when the Prince of Orange cros

and refuse his daughter; but, in royal families, it is always the head who makes and decides marriages. William of Orange

Britain stood definitely on their side; he made common cause with them, and soon there appeared in the political world an audacious document signed by this prince, in which, from t

ish monarch, France o

y, and, further, the t

uilain, Tournai, and Val

mte; moreover, France w

rles, and places in Germ

e referred the decision of his difficulties to t

a particular treaty at La Hague, to constrain France (or, rather, h