Duke of Anjou should happen to Die, or Inherit the Crown of France, the Succession of the Crown of Spain shall pass to the Duke of Berry, his Brother, and if the same should fall out, in the Person of the said Duke of Berry, his Brother, his Majesty calls to the Succession, the Arch-Duke, Second Son to the Emperor, and not the King of the Romans, his Elder Brother, for the same Reasons which regard the Duke d' Anjou, and in case the Arch Duke Charles should by the same Accident of Death be wanting, his Majesty appoints the Duke of Savoy and his Children, Willing and Commanding, That his Will be punctually executed without any Partition or Dismembring of the Monarchy; and his Majesty desiring Ardently that the Peace, and Union between the Emperor and the Most Christian King, be Conserved; he Recommends and Exhorts, that for the better Confirmation of this Union, and the Tranquillity of Europe, the same the rendered in∣dissolble by the Marriage of the Duke d' Anjou, with one of the most Illustrious Arch Dutchesses, &c.
Answer.
Right! the Renunciation was certainly made to hinder the Two Crowns from being United in the Person of one Sovereign, but how well this Declaration agrees with it, may be easily perceiv'd. The Design of it, without doubt, was to keep a French Prince from Sitting on the Throne of Spain, and to continue the Succession in the House of Austria. Now That this is Frustrated to all intents and purposes, by calling the Duke of Anjou to the Possession of a Prince of the Austrian Family, is very Apparent; and that an Union of the Two Kingdoms is now more to be feared than ever, may appear from the French King's own Words, who said, France and Spain should be one, at his acceptance of the Will. Which may be more easily made so by the Contiguity of their Fron∣tiers to each other, when it had been much more un∣likely, to have been effected by the Germans, because of the distance of their Territories from each other, had the