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 this time, as is well known, the king of France dimied Choieul from his employments. What effect this revolution of the French court had upon the Spanih counels, I pretend not to be informed. Choieul had always profeed pacific dipoitions, nor is it certain, however it maybe upected, that he talked in different trains to different parties.

eems to be almot the univeral error of hitorians to uppoe it politically, as it is phyically true, that every effect has a proportionate caue. In the inanimate action of matter upon matter, the motion produced can be but equal to the force of the moving power; but the operations of life, whether private or publick, admit no uch laws. The caprices of voluntary agents laugh at calculation. It is not always that there is a trong reaon for a great event. Obtinacy and flexibility, malignity and kindnes, give place alternately to each other, and the reaon of thee