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 French, we are told, are otherwie employed; the contets between the King of France and his own ubjects are ufficient to withold him from upporting Spain. But who does not know that a foreign war has often put a top to civil dicords? It withdraws the attention of the publick from dometick grievances, and affords opportunities of dimiing the turbulent and retles to ditant employments. The Spaniards have always an argument of irreitible peruaion. If France will not upport them againt England, they will trengthen England againt France.

let us indulge a dream of idle peculation, and uppoe that we are to engage with Spain, and with Spain alone; it is not even yet very certain that much advantage will be gained. Spain is not eaily vulnerable; her kingdom, by the los or ceion of many fragments of dominion, is become olid and compact. The Spaniards