Just at this moment despatches of the gravest importance arrived from Guelders at Whitehall.
The long negotiation touching the Spanish succession had at length been brought to a conclusion.

Tallard had joined William at Loo, and had there met Heinsius and Portland.

After much discussion, the price in consideration of which the House of Bourbon would consent to waive all claim to Spain and the Indies, and to support the pretensions of the Electoral Prince of Bavaria, was definitively settled.

The Dauphin was to have the Province of Guipuscoa, Naples, Sicily and some small Italian islands which were part of the Spanish monarchy.

The Milanese was allotted to the Archduke Charles.