Asiento treaty, 1713

The conduct of the courts of Great-Britain and Spain, as to the present posture of affairs , briefly set forth and consider'd: wherein the reasons that induc'd his Catholick Majesty to seize upon Sardinia, and endeavour the conquest of Sicily, are most evidently made to appear. With the motives that are urg'd in vindication of Sir George Bing's proceedings in the Mediterranean, in Favour of the Emperor, on the Coasts of Italy; and of the Necessity there was to put the Orders which he had receiv'd from the King his Master in Execution, for the Confirmation of the publick Treaties in those Parts, whereof his Britannick Majesty is Guarantee, and the Repose of all Christendom.