CXXXIV. Marlborough au Grand-Pensionnaire

Nov. 26, 1706. (*) SIT , I have forbornm writting to you in hopes to have re.

o) Cette lettre se trouve à la date du 29 Nov. 1706. — Dispatch. ILE. 240.

ceiv d some news from Holland; but there being hile likelyhood of itt while the wind continues in this corner, Î wou’d not omit any longer acquainting you with the disposition [ find here for carrying on the warr in Spain. According to the advices from Portugale, that King seems very desirous that the troops gone over with the Earle of Rivers shou’d act on that side without going to Valentia (*), and by what we hear from Lord Gallway (f), he inclines likewise to think it may be for the service, so that if the King of Portugale will join ten thousand foot and two or three thousand horse to Lord Rivers’s troops, his Lordship will be order’d to march into Spain, and to act offensively towardes Toledo in order to open a communication with the army on the other side; whereby (with the assistance of the fleet) wee hope the warr may be carry’d on with success, and Her Majesty does not doubt, but the States will approve of this disposition, as what (according to the present juncture of affaires in those parts,) may most contribute to the publick good. — You will already have heard of the Parliaments being proroou’d for twelve days; by which time it is hoped what remains to be done in Scotland for setiling the Union (() ,

(*) Dispatches, III. 218, 241, 259.

(+) Disp. III. 222, 242, (Lettres du Due à Lord Galway et au Roi de Portugal, 4 Déc. 1706.) V. des détails de la conduite de la cour de Lisbonne à l'égard de la France depuis la mort de Charles II, dans l'ouvrage de M. de Flassan, IV. 367 suiv. 370. Instructions, données par M. de Torcy à l’abbé de Mornay, allant en Portugal, après la paix d’Utrecht. V. encore de Garden, Hist. génér. des Traités de paix, T. II. 232 suiv. 244 suiv.

($) V. au sujet de l'arrangement de cette affaire importante et épineuse, Lord Campbell, Life of Lord Somers, IV. 192—195, 199, 215, 224; Coxe, I. 280, II. 87, IIL. 53, 134, 145 suiv. de Lamberéy, VW: 363 suiv. — L’incorporation eut lieu le 1 Maï 1707. Hallam, Hist. constitut. d’Anglet, V. 198.

may be braught to a happy conclusion. — L am with truth , SIT, Your most obedient humble servant,

Marlborough.