Bayerische HISTORY O F ENGLAND, FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND. BOOK I. CHA P. X. § I. Negociation for peace ineffectual. II. The allied army befieges and takes Tournay. III. The French are defeated at Malplaquet. IV. Mons furrendered. V. Campaign in Spain. VI. The French King's propofals of treating rejected by the States - General. VII. Account of Dr. Sacheverel. VIII. He is impeached by the Commons. IX. His trial. X. Debates upon it in the House of Lords. XI. He is filenced for three years. XII. Conferences at Gertruydenberg. XIII. Pride and obftinacy of the Dutch. XIV. Douay befieged and taken by the confederates, as well as Bethune, Aire, and St. Venant. XV. King Charles obtains a victory over Philip at Saragoffa, and enters Madrid. XVI. Battle of Villaviciofa. XVII. The Whig-miniftry difgraced. XVIII., The parliament is diffolved. XIX. Meeting of the new parliament. XX. The Duke of Marlborough infulted and reviled. XXI. Inquiry into the conduct of the war in Spain. XXII. Severe votes in the House VOL. III. B of Commons against those who invited over the poor Palatines. XXIII. Harley flabbed at the council-board by Guifcard, and created Earl of Oxford. XXIV. Death of the Emperor Jojeph. XXV Representation by the Commons to the Queen. XXVI. Proceedings in the convocation. XXVII. The Duke of Marlborough continues to command the allied army. XXVIII. He furprifes the French lines. XXIX. Reduces Bouchain. XXX. The Duke of Argyle commands the British troops in Spain. King Charles elected Emperor. XXXI. Expedition to Canada. XXXII. Infolence of the Facobites in Scotland. XXXIII. A negociation fet on foot between the courts of France and England XXXIV. Prior is fent to Fontainebleau. XXXV. Menager arrives privately in Eng land. XXXVI. The French King's propofals difagreeable to the allies. XXXVII. Violent debates upon them in the Houfe of Lords. XXXVIII. The Duke of Hamilton's title of Duke of Brandon difallowed. Bill againft occafional conformity paffes. XXXIX. Duke of Marlborough difmiffed from all his employments. Twelve new Peers created. XL. Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives in England. XLI. Walpole expelled the Houfe of Commons. XLII. Votes against the Duke of Marlborough. XLIII. Refolutions against the barrier-treaty and the Dutch. XLIV. Acts unfavorable to the prefbyterian difcipline in Scotland. 1 BOOK SI.THE French King was by this time reduced I. 1709. to such a state of humiliation by the loffes of the last campain, and a fevere winter, which completed the X. 1709. mifery of his fubjects, that he refolved to facrifice all CHA P. the confiderations of pride and ambition,as well as the intereft of his grandfon, to his defire of peace, which was now become fo neceffary and indifpenfible. He dispatched the prefident Rouillé privately to Hol land, with general proposals of peace, and the offer of a good barrier to the States General, ftill entertaining hopes of being able to detach them from the con-federacy. This minister conferred in fecret with Buys and Vanderduffen, the penfionaries of Amfterdam and Gouda, at Moerdyke, from whence he was permitted to proceed to Woerden, between Leyden and Utrecht. The States immediately communicated his proposals to the courts of Vienna and Great-Britain. Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough arrived at the Hague in April, and conferred with the grand penfionary Heinfius, Buys, and Vanderduffen, on the subject of the French proposals, which were deemed unfatisfactory. Rouillé immediately difpatched a courier to Paris, for further instructions; and the Duke of Marlborough returned to England, to make the Queen acquainted with the progrefs of the negociation. Louis, in order to convince the ftates of his fincerity, fent the Marquis de Torcy, his fecretary for foreign affairs, to the Hague, with fresh offers, to which the deputies would make no anfwer until they knew the fentiments of the Queen of GreatBritain. The Duke of Marlborough croffed the feas a fecond time, accompanied by the Lord Viscount Townshend, as ambaffador extraordinary, and jointplenipotentiary: Prince Eugene being likewife at the Hague, the conferences were begun. The French |