The King of _Prussia_, besides his Interest in common with the other Electors, to hinder _France_ from becoming too powerful, for fear lest hereafter the said Court should saddle them with whom it pleas’d for an Emperor, had Engagements subsisting with the Court of _Vienna_ and the King of _England_. And in consequence of those Engagements he furnish’d the Emperor with 6000 Men, and gave Orders for a Levy in his Dominions of 20,000 Men, which King _William_ had demanded of him, and which were during the whole War in the Pay of the United Provinces. _France_ had no Allies but the Electors of _Bavaria_ and _Cologn_, who suffer’d themselves to be prevail’d on by the Promises of _France_; the chief of which was, That she would not make an end of the War till she had caus’d the Elector of _Bavaria_ to be declar’d King of _Swabia._ The Duke of _Savoy_ was proof against the Advantages offered him by _France_: And notwithstanding the Marriage of his two Daughters to the Duke of _Burgundy_ and the Duke of _Anjou_, King of _Spain_, he was the most zealous Ally against those two Crowns. He foresaw too very plainly, that as long as those two Powers were united, such was the Situation of his Dominions, that they wou’d hem him in between them; and therefore when the Duchess his Mother, who was a thorow _French_ Woman, ask’d him, What would become of his Daughters, if he dethron’d the King of _Spain_, and ruin’d _France_, he reply’d to her, _And if I do not, what will become of my Son?_ These, _Madame_, were in general the various Motions that affected _Europe_ when King _William_ of _England_ died: Nor did this Accident occasion any Alteration; for the Princess _Anne Stuart_, who succeeded him by the Name of Queen _Anne_, pursued the same Views as her Predecessor, and the War of the Allies against _France_ was carried on with the same Vigor. By the Death of the King of _England_, who was the last Prince of the _Orange_ Branch, our King was Heir to all his personal Estate; yet his Right was contested by the Prince of _Nassau-Friesland_, who, tho’ not so nearly related as the King, had the Advantage of Kindred by the Male Line, and had a Will of King _William_ in his Favor, which intitled him to his Succession. As the States-General of the United Provinces were the Executors of this Will, the King immediately communicated his Pretensions to them, as he did also to Queen _Anne_, by M. _de Spanheim_ his Ambassador at _London_. He founded his Right upon a Will of _Frederic-Henry_ Prince of _Orange_, King _William_’s Grandfather, who had a Son and three Daughters, the eldest of whom married to the Elector of _Brandenburg_ the King’s Father; the second to the Prince _de Simmeren_, a younger Prince of the present reigning _Palatine_ Family, who dying without Issue, left his Right of Succession to the Electorate, to the Branch of _Neuburg_; and the third was married to the Prince of _Anhalt-Dessau_.