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King--By virtue of an act passed in the late reign the Parliament continued to set after the King's death the business of the intended war with France was detaled in the privy Council and their resolutions were communicated the same day to the commons and war was declared in form two days after--One of the first acts of the Queen after her accession had been to confer the order of the garter on her favorite the Earl of Marlborough and to appoint him Captain general of all the forces, employ'd by her in conjunction with the troops of the Allies and to dispatch him to Holland in the character of Embassadors extraordenary to the States--On assurances that the Queen would look on the enterists of England and the United Provences as inseparable, the States had agreed to all the proposals of the favorite-- In the Queens proclamation the King of France was taxed with the having seized the greater part of the Spanish dominions with the design to invade the liberties of Europe, to obstruct the freedom of navigation and commerce and with having offered an unpardonable insult to the Queen
