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Excerpt from The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1765 Spain, on occafion of which he whofe firength mull ever be in parted with his Tufeau dominions. Proportion to the weaknefs of But it is not probable, that thefe thofe in the op ofite interefi. Be alliances can afl'eft the tranquility fides, the chic of the latter have -of europe, till molt of the princes been of late equally attentive with who have made thefe contraéts the former, to preferve that com for their children are removed paéiriefs fo neceflary to all poli from the reins of government; tical bodies by treaties of inter events, confidering their ages, of marriage; in the cementing 'of no very near profpeft. In time, which, as no ceiiions or transfers5 no doubt, thefe'marriages and cef of territory haye been made, fo no fions will give rife to troubles, feeds have been fown of future filial love and refpeét giving way difcontent and difcord.' Not to to the more' powerful pallions fpeak of the late renewals of ami of ambition and avarice; and ty between the branches of the mankind may again fmart for the Brunfwick family, by the nuptials honour, which fome fovereigns of the princefs Augufia, .his ma do their fubjeéts, of making them jefty's eldelt filter, with the heredi over to each other, without their tary prince of Brunfwick Lunen Eoncurrence, like beafts of the burg, and of a filler of that gal eld. The fuccelfor to the\au lant prince with the prince royal firiandominiqns, in right of the ofpruflia, nephew to the reigning prefent emprefs dowager, may king; the treaty ofintentnarriage look upon himfelf as equally in lately concluded between anotherof titled to thofe of Tufcany in right his majeliy's fliers, and the prince of the late emperor, efpecially as royalofdenmark, bydrawing fiill it does not appear, that, as legal clofer the already very clofe bands heir, he has received any equivalent of friendfhip between thefe two fo for them; whillt a king of Spain great and (0 good monarchs, how may think it his duty to protefi much foever it may contribute a filler, a coufin, or their ifl'ue, to the {atisfaéiion and honour of in the enjoyment of dominions their refpeéiive families, and the purchafed, perhaps, for them by happinefs and fecurity oftheir fub no inconfiderable portion. And, jeéts, cannot but contribute Jiill after all, it mull be owned, that. More to the firengthening of the this is but a (mall part of: that Protefiani interell. Trouble and confufion, which mull: Thefe two fyf'tems, which we probably attend thefe ineluéiable have been furveying, the Proteliant events, confidering the complica and the Roman-catholic, are not ted claims of Spain and Fauna to however, and, in all probability, the throne of the Two Sicilies, and never will be, either of them, fo that of a D011 Lewis to Parma much one, as to contain no devi itfelf. Ous, irregular bodies, politically Butgloomy as this profpeft may tending to the other. For the be in regard to the great Roman prefent, thefe bodies are'chiefl: on catholic nations of Europe, it can the Preteliant fide, proteliant Swe give no alarm to Great Britain, or den, and on the Roman catholic.
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