POETICAL MISCELLANIES. The two following Satyrical Pieces are privately banded about, and need no Preface or Introduction. B Ehold the Monarch Oaks that rife With lofty Branches to the Skies, Two Bards, that now in Fashion reign, If This with Stars and Clouds will venture, More to explain the thing I mean, This Moral is fo plainly hit, etratativetratatatatatatert etratatatatatatatatates Feat To the AUTHOR of a late Celebrated Epiffle. THE Man who has a deal of Wit, T You fay, for Bus'nefs may be fit; Treaty TREATY of Peace between his Imperial and Catholick Majefty Charles VI. and his Royal Catbolick Majefty Philip V. concluded at Vienna the 30th of April, 1725. In the Name of the most boly and undivided Trinity. Amen. Be it known to all and every one whom it doth or may any way concern. W HEREAS, about the End of the Year 1700, when the Catholick King of Spain and the Indies, Charles II. of famous Memory, died without Iffue, a long and bloody War arofe about the Succeffion to his Kingdoms, between the most ferene and most potent Prince and Lord Leopold, Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduke of Auftria, &c. of moft pious Memory, on the one part; and the most ferene and moft potent Prince and Lord Philip V. Catholick King of Spain and the Indies, in Affiftance of the moft ferene and most potent Prince and Lord Lewis XIV. King of France, on the other Part; into which War the holy Roman Empire, as alfo the most ferene and moft potent William King of Great Britain, and his Succeffor in that Kingdom the most ferene and most potent Queen Anne, and the high and mighty the States General of the United Netherlands, entred afterwards as Allies: But Peace being made between them at Utrecht in the Year 1713, the War which then ftill continued between the most ferene and moft potent Prince and Lord Charles VI. Emperor of the Romans, and the Empire, on the one Part, and the aforefaid King of France on the other Part, was likewife ended by the Peace of Baden, which followed in the Year 1714. and at length that War alfo, which ftill remained between his faid Imperial and Catholick Majefty, and the Catholick King of Spain, Philip V. was happily brought to an End, 2d of Auguft. N... by the Acceffion to the Treaty made at London the 22d of July. O. S. 1718. and by the Acceptance of the Terms therein propofed to each of them, and to the King of Sardinia; certain Articles ftilk controverted between them being referred to a special Congress afterwards opened at Cambray, to be decided through the friendly mediatorial Offices of the most ferene and most potent King of France France, Lewis XV. and of the most ferene and most potent George King of Great Britain; The Plenipotentiariés fent by all the Parties to that Place, having for three Years taken great Pains, under the aforefaid Mediation, but by reafon of various Difficulties, without the expected Effect: This, and there being no Hope of any happier Succefs for the future, was the Reason that induced the most ferene Catholick King of Spain to take a Refolution to adjust amicably with his Imperial and Catholick Majefty in the City of Vienna, by Minifters provided on both Sides with full Powers for that Purpose, the faid Articles yet remaining in Difpute. To which End, his Imperial and Catholick Majefty appointed the most high Prince and Lord Eugene Prince of Savoy and Piedmont, his faid Imperial and Catholick Majefty's actual PrivyCounsellor, Prefident of the Aulick Council of War, and his Lieutenant-General, Field-Marshal of the holy Roman Empire, and Vicar-General of his Dominions throughout Italy, Knight of the Golden Fleece; as likewife the moft illuftrious and moft excellent Lord Philip Lewis, Hereditary Treasurer of the holy Roman Empire, Count of Sinzendorff, free Baron in Ernftbrunn, Lord of the Lordships of Gfoll, the upper Seloviz, Porliz, Sabor, Mulzig, Looz, Zaan and Droskau, Burgrave in Reineck, fupreme Hereditary Shield-bearer and chief Carver in upper and lower Auftria, Hereditary Cup-bearer in Auftria on the Ens, Knight of the Golden Fleece, his Imperial and Catholick Majesty's actual Chamberlain, Privy-Counfellor, and firft Chancellor of his Court; and the most illuftrious and moft excellent Lord Gundaccar Thomas Count Starbenberg of the holy Roman Empire, in Schaumburg and Waxenberg, Lord of the Lordships of Efchelberg, Leichtenbag, Rottenegg, Freyftatt, Haus, Oberwalfee, Senfftenberg, Bottendorff, Hatwan, Knight of the Golden Fleece, his Imperial and Catholick Majefty's actual Privy-Counsellor, Hereditary Marshal of the upper and lower Arch-Dutchy of Auftria: And his Royal Catholick Majefty appointed the most illuftrious and most excellent Lord John William Baron of Ripperda, Lord of Jenfema, Engelenburgh, Poclgeeft, Koudekente and Ferwert, Hereditary Judge of Humfterlant and Campen. Who, having had Conferences together, agreed at length upon the following Articles and Conditions, having firft exchanged their full Powers. Article Article IT Peace, and fincere Friendship between his Imperial HAT there be a chriftian, general, and perpetual and Catholick Majefty, and his Catholick Majefty the King of Spain, their feveral Heirs and Succeffors, hereditary Kingdoms, and the Subjects and Provinces thereof; the faid Peace to be inviolably obferved and cultivated, fo that each Party shall promote the Intereft, Honour, and Advantage of the other, and hinder his fuffering any Damage or Injuries. II. The Bafis and Foundation, the Rule and Model of the faid Peace, is, and fhall be the Treaty of London, concluded the 211 August, N. S. 22d July, O.S. 1718; as likewife the Conditions of Peace proposed therein, approved the fame Day by his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, and by the Catholick King at Madrid the 20th of January, and at the Hague the 17th of February, 1720. and mutually accepted by both Parties to have the Force of a perpetual Compact: By Vertue of which Conditions, the faid King, to make good all that had been done contrary to the Treaty concluded at Baden the 7th of September, 1714. and contrary to the Neutrality eftablished for Italy by the Treaty of the 14th of March, 1713. actually restored to his Imperial Majefty the Island and Kingdom of Sardinia, in the fame Condition it was in when he made himfelf Master of it; and renounced, in Favour of his Imperial Majefty, all Rights, Pretenfions, Demands, and Claims on the faid Kingdom; fo that his Imperial Majefty might fully and freely. difpofe of the fame, as of his own Property, in fuch manner, as he has done for the fake of the publick Good. III. Forafmuch as the only Means that could be found out to establish a lafting Balance in Europe, was to fettle for a Rule, that the Kingdoms of France and Spain fhould never at any Time be joined and united in one and the fame Perfon, or in one and the fame Line; but that the faid two Monarchies fhould in all Time coming for ever remain feparated: And whereas, for corroborating this Rule, fo neceffary to the publick Tranquillity, the Princes, who by the Prerogative of their Birth might have a Right to fucceed in either of thofe Kingdoms, have folemnly renounced for themselves, and all their Pofterity, one of the two; fo that this Separation of the two Monarchies became a fundamental Law, which was paffed at Madrid by the General Affembly commonly called the Cortes, on the 9th of November, 1712. and D confirm confirmed by the Treaties of Utrecht the 11th of April, 1713: His Imperial Majefty, to give the laft Completion to fo neceffary and falutary a Law, and being defirous to take away all Occafion of finifter Sufpicion, and to promote the common Tranquillity, accepts of, and confents to all that was done, established and tranfacted by the Treaty of Utrecht, in relation to the Right and Order of Succeffion to the Kingdoms of France and Spain; and renounces, as well for himself as for his Heirs, Defcendants and Succeffors, Male and Female, all Rights and Pretenfions whatfoever in general, without any Exception, to any the Kingdoms, Territories and Provinces of the Spanish Monarchy, whereof the Catholick King was by the Treaty of Utrecht acknowledged lawful Poffeffor; as he has already caused to be dispatched in the beft Form, and to be published and registered in the proper Place, his folemn Acts of Renunciation; and has actually delivered the ufual Inftruments thereof to his Catholick Majefty, and to the contracting Parties. IV. By Virtue of the faid Renunciation, which his Imperial Majefty made for the Sake of the general Safety of Europe, and in Confideration that the Duke of Orleans had renounced, for himfelf and his Defcendants, his Rights and Pretenfions to the Kingdom of Spain, on Condition that neither the Emperor, nor any of his Defcendants, fhould ever fucceed to the faid Kingdom, his Imperial and Catholick Majefty acknowledges King Philip V. for lawful King of Spain and the Indies; and will likewife let the faid King of Spain, his Defcendants, Heirs and Succeffors, Male and Female, peaceably enjoy all thofe Dominions of the Spanish Monarchy in Europe, in the Indies, and elfewhere, the Poffeffion whereof was fecured to him by the Treaties of Utrecht; and will never moleft him in the faid Poffeffion directly or indirectly, nor affume to himfelf any Right to the faid Kingdoms and Provinces.. V. In Confideration of the Renunciation and Recognition made by his Imperial Majefty in the two preceding Articles, the Catholick King on his Side renounces, as well for himfelf as for his Heirs, Defcendants and Succeffors, Male and Female, in favour of his Imperial Majefty, his Succeffors,Heirs and Defcendants, Male and Female, all Rights and Pretenfions whatsoever, without any manner of Exception, to all and every the Kingdoms, Provinces and Dominions, of which his Imperial Majefty is actually poffeffed in Italy, or in the Netherlands, and which came to him by Virtue of the Treaty of London; and renounces in general all the Rights, King doms |