Memoirs of the Life And Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford 2
Memoirs of the Life And Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford 2
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between the Imperial^ British, and French plenipotentiaries, had so alarmed the king of Spain, and created so much uneasiness in the queens that they required from the -Em*' peror a positive declaration on the subject of marrying the two archduches9es to tbe two In- fants of Spain, and his refusal to explain hiin^ self, excited their resentment to such a degree^ as to give England and France an opportunity of detaching them fi^om tbe Emperor.
The breach being now made, a reconciliation speedily...^ took place betw;een the allies of Han- over and Spain. Philip sacrificed the Emperpi^ Y 2 \y 324 C^^O'^ ^0 M E M O I R S O F [chaf. S3.] as the Emperor, by decliniDg to cooperate in the siege of Gibraltar, had sacrificed him, signed the preliminaries at Pardo, and concluded, at Seville, the 29th of November, 1729, with Great Britain and France, a treaty of peace, union, and mutual defence. This treaty, besides the resto- I ration > of peace, and the renewal of all former / / treaties between Great Britain and Spain, stipu- / lated the introduction of six thousand Spaniards, instead of neutral troops, as speciiied by the qua- druple alliance, into Tuscany, Parma, and Pla- centia, for securing, to Don Carlos the eventual succession to those duchies, should the reigning sovereigns die without issue male; and if the Emperor would not acquiesce, forcible means were to be used for effectuating the intro- duction^ In return for this single article granted to Spain, Great Britain obtained immediate redress of some grievances, the promise of redress in others, new guaranties of all her possessions, and rigbts of trade, and a tacit exclusion of any claim to Gibraltar, upon which to be silent, after the clamorous demands made by Spain, was the same as a public renunciation.* Although Walpole suffered the negotiations to be ostensibly managed by Townshend^ and seemed to take no part in the various trans- * The contents of the part of this chapter which relates to foreign afikirs, have been principally drawn from the various dispatches of Horace Walpole and William Stanhope, in the Walpole and Stan- y hope Papers, and from the state of the negotiation, fhom June 17S8 V to June 1*730, drawn up by Mr.
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between the Imperial^ British, and French plenipotentiaries, had so alarmed the king of Spain, and created so much uneasiness in the queens that they required from the -Em*' peror a positive declaration on the subject of marrying the two archduches9es to tbe two In- fants of Spain, and his refusal to explain hiin^ self, excited their resentment to such a degree^ as to give England and France an opportunity of detaching them fi^om tbe Emperor.
The breach being now made, a reconciliation speedily...^ took place betw;een the allies of Han- over and Spain. Philip sacrificed the Emperpi^ Y 2 \y 324 C^^O'^ ^0 M E M O I R S O F [chaf. S3.] as the Emperor, by decliniDg to cooperate in the siege of Gibraltar, had sacrificed him, signed the preliminaries at Pardo, and concluded, at Seville, the 29th of November, 1729, with Great Britain and France, a treaty of peace, union, and mutual defence. This treaty, besides the resto- I ration > of peace, and the renewal of all former / / treaties between Great Britain and Spain, stipu- / lated the introduction of six thousand Spaniards, instead of neutral troops, as speciiied by the qua- druple alliance, into Tuscany, Parma, and Pla- centia, for securing, to Don Carlos the eventual succession to those duchies, should the reigning sovereigns die without issue male; and if the Emperor would not acquiesce, forcible means were to be used for effectuating the intro- duction^ In return for this single article granted to Spain, Great Britain obtained immediate redress of some grievances, the promise of redress in others, new guaranties of all her possessions, and rigbts of trade, and a tacit exclusion of any claim to Gibraltar, upon which to be silent, after the clamorous demands made by Spain, was the same as a public renunciation.* Although Walpole suffered the negotiations to be ostensibly managed by Townshend^ and seemed to take no part in the various trans- * The contents of the part of this chapter which relates to foreign afikirs, have been principally drawn from the various dispatches of Horace Walpole and William Stanhope, in the Walpole and Stan- y hope Papers, and from the state of the negotiation, fhom June 17S8 V to June 1*730, drawn up by Mr.
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