Le Sr.

Hyde demanda que le roi s'engagea a ne point attaquer les pays bas et meme Strasbourg, ternoignant que le roi son maitre ne pournoit s'empecher de secourir les pais bas, quand meme son parlement ne seroit point assemble.

M.
Barillon lui repondit en termes generaux par ordre du roi, que sa majeste n'avoit point intention de rompre la paix, et qu'il n'engageroit pas sa majeste Britannique en choses contraires a ses veritables interets." It is here we are to fix the point of the highest exaltation which the power of Lewis, or that of any European prince since the age of Charlemagne, had ever attained.

The monarch most capable of opposing his progress was entirely engaged in his interests; and the Turks, invited by the malecontents of Hungary, were preparing to invade the emperor, and to disable that prince from making head against the progress of the French power.

Lewis may even be accused of oversight, in not making sufficient advantage of such favorable opportunities, which he was never afterwards able to recall.