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French dominions--that the French King had agreed to make an absolute cession of the Island of St Christopher to restore the whole Bay and streights of Hudson; to deliver the Island of Newfoundland with Placentaa to cede Anapolis with the rest of Acadia or Nova Scotea: to demolish the fortifications of Dunkirk, to leave England in possession of Gibraltar; port Mahon and the whole Island of Minorcia and that France would acknowledge the electoral dignity in the House of Hanover-- It was in the last day of March 1713--when the peace of Utricht so long in agitation was signed by all the belligerent Powers except the Emperor--Harassed with frequent illness and sensible of the decay or her constitution the Queen at the latter end of her life began to form real designs of securing the succession to her Brother the Earl of Oxford entered coldly into the Queen's views and it is thought betrayed his counsels to the Whigs-- The forwardness of Oxford who from the most condescending complacency was grown
