The Queen’s Death occasion’d no alteration in Affairs; for she meddled with the Government very little, and left all the care of it to the King and his Ministers: But in matters of Pleasure she was not so unconcern’d; and she understood them so well, that she was soon miss’d. The Courtiers sustain’d a Lose that was irreparable; for this Princess, who knew every body, was perfectly acquainted with every one’s Birth and Merit, and took a delight to distinguish them. Being lofty, but at the same time polite, she knew better than any body in the World what it was to keep a Court; and being virtuous without meanness, she could tell (which is no easy matter) how to prescribe just Bounds to that Air of Gallantry, which alone is capable of rendering a Court agreeable, and preserving Politeness in it. The only Princess capable of supplying her place was the Margravine _Philippa_, who then held the first Rank at Court. She was the Daughter of the Prince of _Anhalt-Dessau_, and of the Princess of _Orange_. She was good-natur’d and merry, and fond of Pleasures, but understood the delicacy of them. She might sometimes have made us forget the loss of the Queen, if the austere and perhaps jealous Humor of her Husband the Margrave _Philip_ had not inclin’d that Prince to prefer his Residence at his House at _Schwedt_ to the Court. Soon after the Queen, died the Emperor _Leopold_; which was an Event that affected us not so much as the other, but concern’d the rest of _Europe_ more. It was presently imagin’d that the Views to the Succession of _Spain_ would have suffer’d some alteration by this Prince’s Death; for the Emperor _Joseph_ who succeeded his Father having no Son, the Archduke his Brother who disputed the Crown of _Spain_ with the Duke of _Anjou_ was his only Heir, and might one day or other by his Death become Master of the Empire, and of the Dominions of the House of _Austria_. Therefore they who dreaded to see the two Crowns united upon one Head, had as much and more reason to fear the Archduke’s making himself Master of _Spain_; the Duke of _Anjou_ who was already in possession of that Crown, being at that time very remote from that of _France_, by reason of the great number of Princes that had a prior Right to his. Nevertheless the Powers of _Europe_ were not mov’d by these Reflections, and the War was continu’d on the side of the Allies with considerable Success.