Neither minister lived to see the result of his policy.

Walpole was driven from power in 1742, and died in March, 1745.

Fleuri died in office, January 29, 1743.
FOOTNOTES: [80] Afterward Lord Torrington; father of Admiral John Byng, shot in 1757.
[81] Campbell: Lives of the Admirals; quoted by Lord Mahon in his History of England.
[82] Lives of the Admirals [83] Martin: History of France.
[84] Burrows: Life of Lord Hawke.
[85] Martin: History of France.
[86] The peculiar political relation which France bore toward England between 1739 and 1744, while the latter country was at war with Spain, needs to be explained, as it depended upon views of international duties which are practically obsolete.

By her defensive alliance with Spain, France had bound herself to furnish a contingent of specified force to the Spanish fleet when that country was involved in war of a certain kind.

She claimed, however, that her sending these succors was not such an act of hostility to England as involved a breach of the peace existing between the two nations.