An Universal History (Volume 25); From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: S EC T. XVI. t-ewis treSfs Courts of Judicature in the Empire;.lit augments bis Marine, bombards Algiers and Genoa, and at length involves Europe in a general Wat about the Spanilh SucceJJion. fbe Confederacy formed againft France j and the Evettts of tbefwft Cat paigns related. A S the emperor had not yet acceded to the treaty of Nimeguen, the war ftill continued. Nuitz was befieg- ed and taken, but reftored to the eleftor of Cologne, as foon as the court of Vienna confentcd to fign the peace, which A- D. happened tpwards the end of the year. It was now thai - 79- Lewis began tp exert that defpptifm, and afTume that fupe- jriority over other princes, which marked the infolence of power more than all his conquefts. Courts of jurifdic- tion were eftablirtied at Metz and Brifac, to re-unite to his crown all thofe territories which had been deemed appenages and dependencies on Alface, notwithstanding they had, by fe- flpe power veral late treaties, been adjudged to other mafters. The which king of Spain, who claimed feveral bailliages in this diftrift, Lewis ff- the elector palatine, and feveral princes )f the empire, re fumtsin cited before this tribunal, to do homage'to Lewis, or be pu- thi em- jiifoed with the confifcation of their eftates., The electors fir1' palatine and Treves were Stripped of feveral lordfhips; they carried their complaints to the diet of Satflen, and received the empty fatisfaftion of vain protefts. The intrigues of f ranee, and the dread of her power, which had opened the gates of fo many other cities, gained the magistrates of Stra/lurg. The inhabitants, whofe love of freedom for fo faany ages enabled them tp preferve their liberties, 6 themfelves, m the midft of prwound peace, the fubjects of defpotic king, and their ramparts lined with 20,000 men ....