The allies of _Seville_ now see in what advantageous situation the treaty of _Utrecht_ has put the Emperor in _Italy_. We find, that the Empire, which in the reign of _Leopold_, could not send 20,000 men to the _Rhine_ or _Flanders_, without subsidies from _England_ or _Holland_, can send 20,000 men to _Italy_, and maintain them there without assistance, its revenue amounting to no less than 15 millions of _Florins_ a year. She now employs her Powers to baffle the projects of those who rais’d her to this grandeur: Projects whose only drift is the Execution of a treaty, wherein the Imperial court is one of the principal parties contracting, which treaty was made with two views. The first was an addition to the power of the Emperor in _Italy_, by bringing under her obedience the two _Sicilies_. The second chear’d up _Spain_ for the losses she had sustain’d, particularly in the fine branches lopt from that crown, by securing to one of her _Infantes_ the uncertain hope of two successions. The catholick King and his allies do not undertake or ask anything that the Imperial court has just reason to complain of. The reasons alledg’d by the Imperialists for their complaints are, that an alteration had been made in one single article of the quadruple alliance, which set forth the _manner_ of securing to the _Infante_ of _Spain_ the eventual succession which had been promis’d him. But, 1. This alteration is of no great importance, because the 6000 _neutral_ troops which by the treaty of _London_ were to be garrison’d in _Tuscany_ and _Parma_, by the treaty of _Seville_ are only turn’d into _Spaniards_, which are in some sort made neutral by being discharg’d from the oath to their sovereign, and made to take an oath to the Great Duke, and Duke of _Parma_. 2. This alteration does not prejudice to the Emperor, or threaten him with any hereafter, because his strict and religious observation of treaties will not suffer him to oppose the _Infante_’s promis’d succession; nor will the _bona fide_ of the king of _Spain_ let him employ his 6000 _Spaniards_ on any design but what is stipulated by the treaty of _Seville_. 3. This alteration was not made without substantial reasons. The Imperialists always opposed the motion for putting _Spaniards_ in garrison in the towns of _Tuscany_ and _Parma_; and were averse even to the admission of neutral troops; upon which the allies passed the 4th article of the treaty of _Seville_.