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Additionai initrwtionà to sir Harley^ ,at Utrecht. (De. la correspondance de L. Bolingbroke, tom. 2, pag. 189.)

An expédient, on that article,, by virtqe.of whicb themost eff(^ctual mensures aire to be taken to prevent the uni^i^ of the two crowns, pf ^rance^ and Spain , wili prove on point of the greatest difificulty, and it is of the utmost conséquence. None caii te oitered which wîll not be liable to several objections; but, besides that mentioned in the last dîspatch from my lords plenipotentiaries of the 26*^ February, her majesty thinks that it might be proposed that the entail of the Spainiks crown should be expre$sly settled in the treaty, that the case of Philip

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— li57 — or kîs chîldren coming to hâve or right to the crown of France; should be déclare to be, in ail respects, the same as the case o^ thë extinction of 'that branch; that thé next successor in esther of thèse cases, should be named in the treaty. That, if it is practicable, the states of Spain themselves may be made parties to ibis agreement

« Additional minutes of instruction for M. Marly, at Utrecht.

» Besides the points already mentioned , it has been thoughî proper toadd thèse whichfolow : uponthc news of the death of the dauphin, and the nèarer approach of that case, where the same person may hâve or tîtle to the two crowns of France and Spain : that the entail of the crown of France bet settled, after the présent dauphin and bis children, on the dukc of Orléans and bis children, and so on to the rest of the family of Bourbon, exclusive of Philip and bis issue.

That Philip make a formai renunciation for himself, and for bis issue, of ail right to the crown of France ; and that the cortes, or the States of Spain, may be, some way or other, as shall be found most practicable, made parties to the exclusion of the rest of the bouse of Bourbon , and to the farther seulement of the crown, of Spain, in such other family as shall be agreed upon.

Renonciation de Philippe, duc d^ Anjou et roi d^ Espagne, à la couronne de France,