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9. look deletion unclear /deletion addabroad/add in the reign of his Son; and under Cromwell’s usurpation the balance of Power was quite overthrown by his taking part with France too long against Spain, and by forcing the latter in consequence of his partiality to the former grounded on a low and personal interest of his own to make the Pyrenoan Treaty, and to give the Infanta to Lewis the fourteenth: The fatal effects of which all Europe has felt severely, and we feel at this hour.

From the time this Treaty was made, and the dangerous consequences of this Marriage were apparent to every eye, Our Politicks have carried us into great extremes. We neglected openly at one time all concern for the Continent; or we were secretly in a very iniquitous concert with France. This was our case in the time of King Charles the second. Since the Revolution of 1688 We have much perhaps a little too much into another extreme, and have sacrificed ourselves beyond all proportion, not only to the common cause, but to the private Interests of an Ally, if the House of Austria, who never helps nor furnishes any thing more than claims or pretensions of Her own, and has been always calling for help, may be reckoned properly an Ally.

I quoted Queen Elizabeth’s reign, as an example fit to be deletion followed /deletion set before the Eyes of our Young Prince, and to be seriously considered by Him in the management of Foreign Affairs; and I know none so fit to be followed likewise in that of our Domestick affairs. She knew perfectly well that constitution of this Government and the Character of this People; and by conforming Herself to both, She secured One, and made herself deletion perfect /deletion absolute Mistress of the other.

I mentioned this the rather because a Prince may be easily led, or may lead Himself to observe that an absolute Power must be established somewhere in every Government.