THE
CONDUCT
OF
FRANCE
Since
the
Peace
of
NIMEGUEN
.
THere
is
not
any
tho
but
little
verst
in
Publick
affairs
ignorant
,
what
't
was
some
years
since
induced
France
to
make
a
Peace
;
She
then
saw
the
better
Part
of
Germany
United
against
Her
,
and
Spain
with
Holland
agreed
to
the
same
purpose
,
And
though
till
then
their
Arms
had
all
along
met
with
favourable
Success
,
being
more
then
they
could
promise
the
continuance
of
,
was
glad
to
prevent
with
caution
those
Possible
misfortunes
,
which
might
have
happened
in
case
once
their
Good
Fortune
should
begin
to
leave
them
:
But
what
most
powerfully
obliged
to
the
taking
of
those
measures
,
was
,
finding
●er
self
loudly
threatne'd
from
England
,
whose
Weighty
Arms
in
Conjunction
with
so
many
others
,
were
capable
of
Sinking
Her
to
as
low
a
Pitch
,
as
She
then
seem'd
Flourishing
in
a
topping
Condition
.
It
had
been
Remonstrated
by
more
then
one
hand
to
the
Kingdom
of
England
,
that
of
all
Things
they
should
lay
hold
of
the
Fair
Occasion
to
invade
France
,
where
they
had
formerly
been
the
Masters
of
many
Fair
and
Rich
Provinces
,
that
whilst
France
had
her
Forces
imploy'd
without
,
and
her
hands
full
abroad
,
those
of
England
would
meet
with
no
resistance
,
means
not
only
to
an
accession
of
Dominion
,
but
also
of
Glory
.
These
Considerations
,
or
the
Jealousies
rather
that
people
had
of
the
Growing
Greatness
of
the
French
,
sway'd
with
them
to
resolve
to
do
something
more
,
then
the
bent
of
some
Private
Interests
had
a
mind
they
should
:
There
being
then
a
good
understanding
between
the
Court
of
France
,
and
that
of
England
,
a
Rupture
of
this
Kind
went
much
against
the
hair
:
The
French
no
sooner
sensible
how
far
those
reasons
I
now
touch't
upon
were
prevailing
,
presently
satisfied
England
they
not
only
were
ready
to
lay
down
their
arms
,
but
even
to
submit
to
Terms
.
Store
of
good
Guineys
cleverly
bestowed
in
the
right
place
,
and
amongst
those
most
violent
for
a
War
with
France
,
rebated
immediately
the
passion
,
and
rendred
their
propositions
for
a
Peace
the
most
reasonable
imaginable
;
upon
the
point
of
declaring
,
England
was
now
become
a
Solicitous
Mediator
of
an
accommodation
.
Proposals
were
accordingly
made
on
either
side
,
and
whilst
each
insisted
upon
the
matter
of
their
right
,
which
was
long
in
debate
without
Redressing
of
the
mischief
in
matter
of
Fact
,
France
,
whose
Aim
it
was
to
take
Holland
off
from
her
other
Allies
,
handsomly
in
the
mean
while
insinuated
by
her
Agents
thither
express
sent
amongst
the
Common
Sort
of
People
,
How
their
State
was
not
to
be
Retriev'd
in
Nature
,
but
by
the
means
of
a
Peace
,
that
their
only
Shoulders
had
hitherto
born
the
burthen
of
the
War
,
and
must
expect
to
bear
on
so
long
as
War
continued
:
That
trade
never
flourisht
in
a
time
of
desolation
and
misery
,
and
since
in
Trading
their
chiefest
welfare
,
as
that
of
their
State
it self
did
absolutely
consist
in
,
the
regaining
of
their
Peace
again
,
which
had
made
that
State
once
so
flourishing
,
ought
now
to
be
the
scope
of
their
utmost
endeavours
.
The
strength
of
these
reasons
carry'd
a
poison
not
to
every
Eye
perceivable
,
for
though
a
truth
it
was
the
United
Provinces
did
really
stand
in
need
of
a
Peace
,
they
should
however
have
had
regard
to
the
proper
Interest
of
their
respective
Allys
,
who
for
their
only
preservation
had
engaged
in
the
War
.
But
as
reflections
of
that
kind
went
not
with
the
Grain
of
the
People
,
who
long'd
for
nothing
so
much
as
the
return
of
their
dear
Trade
,
they
made
no
impression
.
They
were
besides
extreamly
harrast
now
,
and
weary
of
War
,
for
as
the
French
had
right
enough
observed
to
them
,
that
State
of
theirs
was
forc'd
to
pay
a
good
part
of
the
Emperor's
Brandenburg's
,
and
other
of
their
Allys
Forces
,
which
occasioned
of
necessity
an
Augmentation
of
Subsidies
,
&
Subsidies
so
extraordinary
heavy
that
the
whole
thing
it
was
rais'd
out
of
,
did
not
answer
:
And
indeed
a
Man
of
Four
hundred
Pound
a
Year
Rent
was
obliged
to
pay
the
State
Five
hundred
,
and
to
see
himself
undone
,
and
mouldred
to
nothing
,
without
the
possibility
of
a
remedy
:
Every
Body
then
sensible
of
their
particular
inconveniencies
,
thought
of
nothing
but
present
redress
,
without
the
least
concerning
for
what
might
be
hereafter
:
Of
the
whole
Body
of
that
Common-wealth
,
none
but
his
Highness
the
Prince
of
Orange
truly
penetrated
the
consequences
of
the
Peace
,
which
in
that
present
face
of
things
must
of
necessity
to
all
the
Allys
in
general
prove
very
disadvantageous
;
since
without
lending
hand
to
deceive
our selves
,
we
could
not
flatter
with
the
hopes
of
Restitution
from
France
,
high
,
and
haughty
,
in
the
glories
of
her
Conquests
;
and
common
sense
might
tell
us
,
we
first
ought
to
have
obliged
it
to
one
by
force
of
Arms
,
before
so
much
as
the
proposal
of
any
thing
like
it
could
be
proper
.
Now
to
leave
France
in
the
actual
possession
of
so
many
important
places
,
bordering
upon
Germany
and
Flanders
so
close
,
and
so
many
Baits
to
its
usual
Ambition
,
was
properly
by
leaving
him
one
foot
in
the
Country
,
to
give
him
the
opportunity
of
placing
the
other
,
as
they
saw
occasion
;
't
was
a
thing
not
unnotic'd
the
great
difficulty
occurr'd
in
the
uniting
of
the
German
Princes
,
which
neither
more
nor
less
,
but
just
like
an
Engin
of
many
Springs
,
was
brought
into
motion
,
but
with
all
the
pains
and
trouble
in
the
World
:
It
was
rational
then
Enough
to
fear
,
if
once
suffered
to
knock
off
,
they
were
not
when
one
would
have
them
to
be
got
together
again
;
the
Prince
of
Orange
had
represented
all
this
at
large
in
the
Assembly
of
the
States
General
,
where
some
he
never
mist
of
,
opposing
his
Opinion
,
't
was
flatly
told
him
there
,
the
Charge
of
the
War
was
not
a
thing
supportable
,
the
excess
of
which
had
quite
already
drain'd
their
Bank
,
and
reduced
the
People
to
the
last
degrees
of
Indigence
;
that
a
respite
of
necessity
must
be
given
,
or
resolve
in
a
very
little
to
see
the
utter
ruine
of
the
Nation
:
That
Prince
would
have
reply'd
the
respite
not
at
all
like
to
last
,
and
France
seeking
but
to
sever
them
from
their
Allys
,
having
,
once
wrought
their
Ends
,
would
again
be
playing
over
her
Old
Pranks
within
a
Year
or
two
:
But
Burgimaster
Ofteè
,
of
Amsterdam
,
stopt
his
Mouth
,
in
telling
the
Provinces
were
indeed
consenting
with
all
their
Hearts
to
the
carrying
on
the
War
,
if
his
Highness
could
but
hit
the
way
of
doing
it
without
▪
Mony
,
that
the
Province
of
Holland
would
give
not
a
Stiver
more
towards
it
,
or
at
least
the
City
of
Amsterdam
would
not
,
as
whose
Representative
he
was
commission'd
to
speak
:
Now
you
must
know
all
the
Subsidies
whatever
,
rais'd
upon
the
Seven
Provinces
,
that
of
Holland
furnishes
almost
the
half
,
and
of
that
half
more
then
the
two
Fifts
are
paid
by
the
City
of
Amsterdam
.
That
in
the
Quota
of
Subsidies
if
the
Province
of
Holland
be
reckon'd
to
pay
Fifteen
Millions
,
of
that
Fifteen
,
Seven
is
near
pay'd
by
that
City
.
After
Ofteè's
having
thus
declar'd
himself
there
was
no
likelihood
of
thinking
to
continue
the
War
any
longer
,
chiefly
for
that
the
rest
of
the
Provinces
conformed
for
the
most
part
in
Opinion
much
with
that
of
Holland
,
was
easily
observable
,
and
that
though
they
yet
had
not
explain'd
themselves
so
fully
upon
the
point
as
Holland
had
,
their
great
inclination
to
Peace
was
like
their's
apparently
obvious
.
As
the
Emperor
thoroughly
understood
at
bottom
,
the
French
intentions
drove
of
a
long
time
at
Universal
Monarchy
,
at
hearing
what
had
past
in
Holland
was
much
concern'd
at
the
News
:
Yet
to
divert
if
possible
those
Provinces
from
the
resolutions
they
had
taken
,
had
it
told
them
,
he
required
no
more
of
them
the
Subsidies
they
us'd
to
pay
him
,
offering
to
return
them
again
upon
the
like
occasion
the
same
assistance
:
The
Hollanders
thank't
the
Emperor
for
his
good
will
,
but
could
not
be
induced
for
that
to
continue
the
War
,
adding
that
seeing
his
Imperial
Majesty
as
well
as
the
rest
of
the
Allys
produced
every
day
some
fresh
Obstacles
or
other
to
the
Peace
then
in
Treaty
at
Nimeguen
,
warn'd
him
,
that
if
he
did
not
think
good
to
conclude
the
Peace
,
and
that
very
suddenly
,
they
should
be
oblig'd
to
do
it
without
him
;
what
made
the
Dutch
so
pressing
was
,
that
as
France
laid
the
conditions
of
the
Treaty
very
disadvantageous
to
the
rest
of
the
Allys
,
as
advantageous
and
beneficial
were
the
Terms
she
made
for
Holland
,
for
Mastrícht
they
offer'd
to
restore
,
the
only
remaining
place
of
all
their
Conquests
,
upon
that
State
since
the
first
of
the
War
,
so
that
though
once
reduced
within
an
Inch
of
their
Destruction
entire
,
they
were
now
in
prospect
of
a
re-establishment
by
Vertue
of
the
Peace
to
the
same
it
ever
had
in
times
of
its
greatest
Prosperity
:
Something
too
there
was
over
and
above
that
caress't
their
Courage
in
the
proposed
Treaty
,
as
they
saw
the
King
of
France
made
it
his
business
to
distinguish
them
from
the
other
Allys
,
they
thence
imagin'd
they
should
retrieve
their
lost
reputation
amongst
other
Nations
,
who
formerly
held
their
Forces
in
such
good
Opinion
,
and
should
yet
think
very
well
of
them
,
seeing
they
were
able
to
make
their
party
good
,
and
to
defend
themselves
against
a
prevailing
Power
so
very
formidable
:
To
say
the
Truth
't
is
wonderfully
strange
,
and
worthy
without
doubt
of
the
admiration
of
Posterity
for
ever
,
that
a
little
Nook
of
Land
,
as
one
may
say
,
and
Handful
of
People
,
has
not
been
only
able
to
withstand
such
mighty
Armies
,
but
likewise
in
condition
to
afford
succour
to
her
Neighbours
.
'T
will
be
subject
of
surprize
enough
to
them
who
shall
succeed
us
,
to
read
in
History
,
that
Hollanders
,
Spaniards
●rreconcilable
Enemies
,
should
be
the
People
who
have
sav'd
the
Provinces
to
the
King
of
Spain
,
nor
the
Spaniards
heretofore
so
inveterate
against
●●e
Hollanders
,
to
find
no
where
a
more
firm
support
,
nor
a
more
ready
assistance
,
then
that
they
receiv'd
at
hands
of
their
most
Ancient
Enemies
:
That
by
a
fetch
of
Fortune
so
very
strange
,
the
Spaniards
must
have
been
ruin'd
had
those
of
Holland
never
revolted
from
the
Spanish
subjection
,
&
should
there
come
to
find
their
safety
,
where
they
ever
reckon'd
on
as
their
certain
Destruction
:
One
may
well
enough
say
the
Hollanders
have
twice
scap't
a
scowring
,
by
their
freeing
of
themselves
from
the
Tyranny
of
the
Spaniards
,
for
had
they
still
continued
under
that
Dominion
,
the
whole
Seventeen
Provinces
had
equally
been
lost
.
And
indeed
there
needs
no
stress
of
Politicks
to
discover
the
safety
,
and
well
being
,
of
the
United
Provinces
,
is
meerly
to
be
own'd
to
the
prudent
conduct
of
those
who
were
at
Helm
,
as
a
peculiar
reward
in
store
from
Heaven
,
for
what
their
Fore-Fathers
had
endured
for
their
Religion's
sake
:
But
to
resume
my
Discourse
,
the
Hollanders
suffering
themselves
to
be
thus
over-reach't
by
all
those
glossy
appearances
,
signed
cheerfully
to
the
Peace
apart
,
seeing
their
Allys
remain'd
obstinate
in
pursuing
of
the
War
,
contrary
to
their
Opinion
;
I
shall
neither
say
in
doing
so
they
did
well
or
ill
,
one
may
judge
enough
of
it
by
what
since
has
happen'd
:
The
Emperor
,
however
and
Spaniard
,
finding
their
strongest
recourse
had
thus
abandon'd
them
,
accepted
of
the
Peace
on
their
side
too
,
and
in
like
manner
abandon'd
the
Duke
of
Brandenburg
,
who
could
not
be
brought
to
admit
of
Conditions
offer'd
him
so
very
prejudicial
.
France
then
direct'd
her
Arms
that
way
,
and
as
that
Elector
was
not
of
himself
to
resist
alone
,
did
what
seem'd
good
in
her
Eyes
in
Treaty
with
that
Prince
,
with
this
comfort
at
the
least
,
what
he
was
forc't
to
by
France
,
was
with
his
Sword
in
his
Hand
,
and
that
his
last
action
did
not
derogate
from
a
Thousand
others
,
wherein
he
had
during
the
War
so
worthily
behav'd
himself
:
The
Peace
being
then
so
happily
finisht
to
the
content
of
France
,
as
it
rather
had
suspended
then
relinquisht
its
design
of
Universal
Monarchy
,
began
now
to
manage
those
Princes
she
saw
divided
,
where
there
was
ground
to
hope
she
might
do
it
to
effect
,
The
Duke
of
Brandenburg
could
not
be
well
more
discontented
with
the
Emperor
,
then
he
then
was
,
obliged
to
restore
back
all
he
had
made
Conquest
of
,
without
the
least
shew
of
the
Imperial
assistance
,
France
therefore
proposes
an
Alliance
with
him
,
with
high
Promises
of
a
more
Honorable
Faith
then
he
had
yet
found
with
any
of
the
other
;
at
the
same
time
the
French
Money
was
not
wanting
in
its
Benevolencies
to
that
Court
for
the
acquiring
of
some
confiding
Person
proper
for
the
backing
their
design
,
and
soothed
was
that
Elector
with
the
assurance
of
a
prop
from
such
a
Crown
as
shak
't
besides
those
of
all
its
Neighbours
,
great
things
were
offer'd
him
and
to
say
in
a
word
his
resolutions
in
the
Matter
stagger'd
by
Thousand
of
advantageous
tempting
proffers
.
He
did
object
though
against
the
project
of
that
Alliance
his
Disputes
with
Swede
at
that
time
siding
with
the
Interest
of
France
,
&
as
those
Disputes
have
often
produc't
but
ill
effects
,
't
is
not
forreign
to
our
purpose
for
the
Readers
better
instruction
,
to
discourse
it
in
a
word
or
two
.
A
certain
Marquis
of
Brandenburg
,
made
in
former
time
some
agreement
with
the
Duke
of
Pomerania
by
which
they
settled
their
Dominions
respectively
upon
one
another
,
and
to
their
Children
after
them
of
both
Parties
in
case
any
who
succeeded
of
either
should
happen
to
decease
without
Issue
of
his
Body
:
The
Entail
taking
place
,
and
the
Duke
of
Pomerania
dying
without
Issue
some
Two
hundred
years
ago
,
or
thereabouts
,
the
Marquis
of
Brandenburg
by
Virtue
of
the
said
Settlement
succeeded
to
the
Dutchy
of
Pomerania
remaining
the
peaceable
Possessor
thereof
till
the
Great
Gustavus
took
it
from
him
by
force
of
Arms
:
Gustavus
or
his
Successors
were
confirmed
in
their
possession
of
that
Country
by
the
Treaty
of
Munster
,
but
as
the
Marquis
thereunto
consented
but
with
regret
and
per
force
,
a
secret
certain
inckling
of
having
it
again
has
remain'd
,
which
so
often
as
the
occasion
presents
him
't
is
not
to
be
doubted
but
he
makes
it
his
endeavor
.
When
France
then
understood
what
't
was
stuck
with
the
Duke
of
Brandenburg
,
and
hinder'd
his
engaging
in
her
Interests
in
favour
of
him
she
resolv'd
to
make
a
Sacrifice
of
Swede
,
but
previous
to
it
,
made
first
sure
of
the
King
of
Denmark
for
that
Crown
,
then
in
conjunction
with
Brandenburg
,
found
her self
by
the
projection
of
that
Confederacy
of
Strength
enough
in
the
North
,
not
to
fear
what
the
rest
of
its
Princes
might
be
undertaking
in
opposition
to
the
French
designs
:
The
King
of
Denmark
who
had
a
sample
himself
like
others
of
the
Puissant
force
of
France
in
the
last
War
,
rejected
not
the
Alliance
;
but
as
Brandenburg
had
before
opposed
the
interferings
too
of
his
Interest
with
that
of
Swede
,
let
France
understand
it
only
declin'd
Proposals
upon
that
account
:
France
was
otherwise
not
over
satisfied
with
Swede
,
for
its
hovering
as
one
may
call
it
so
long
about
the
Matter
before
it
could
finally
declare
it self
in
the
late
War
,
that
after
its
declaring
,
had
acted
nothing
answerable
to
that
high
Reputation
the
great
Gustavus
had
gain'd
his
Nation
by
the
great
things
he
had
done
,
that
far
from
managing
as
formerly
that
People
seem'd
to
have
no
great
regard
of
upon
several
occasions
.
The
first
token
she
gave
of
this
was
in
the
pretentions
she
made
appear
relating
to
Homage
claim'd
for
the
Dutchy
of
Deux-ponts
of
which
she
was
got
seized
in
the
War
time
,
even
in
the
life
of
its
late
Duke
,
upon
pretext
of
keeping
it
for
the
King
of
Swedes
Use
,
who
was
then
the
presumptive
Heir
,
but
in
effect
to
keep
it
for
themselves
,
and
to
make
their
own
uses
of
it
,
for
the
Promotion
of
their
Designs
:
And
since
it
here
falls
out
to
treat
of
the
Fealty
and
Homage
that
Crown
lays
claim
to
from
so
many
Sovereign
Heads
,
't
will
not
be
improper
to
relate
upon
what
bottom
that
Chimera
is
grounded
,
&
which
at
this
very
time
is
the
coercive
cause
why
the
quiet
of
all
Europe
is
so
unhappily
disturbed
.
At
Metz
there
is
a
Sovereign
sort
of
Court
of
Judicature
,
and
a
Solicitor
General
belonging
to
it
,
who
having
had
commands
from
the
King
of
France
to
give
in
an
exact
Memoir
of
all
that
ever
was
within
the
jurisdiction
,
limits
,
and
precinct
of
that
Parliament
,
and
to
remit
up
the
same
to
Court
,
he
presently
fills
his
Paper
with
several
Villages
which
never
had
been
belonging
,
but
withal
with
their
remarks
upon
them
,
how
they
had
been
formerly
separatd
,
&
how
they
had
acknowledged
the
jurisdiction
of
other
Neighbouring
Princes
who
had
been
very
well
satisfied
to
Usurp
that
Power
.
The
Instrument
was
drawn
with
Argument
enough
,
and
though
it
might
want
a
foundation
,
did
not
want
for
colour
and
pretext
;
the
State
Ministers
relishing
the
Draft
,
Mr.
Solicitor
General
is
forthwith
sent
for
to
Court
,
to
help
clear
some
few
Scruples
,
which
yet
remain'd
upon
their
Mind
,
the
Solicitor
come
not
only
maintain'd
what
he
had
before
sent
up
,
but
pleasing
of
himself
with
the
officious
part
of
useful
Man
deposes
he
had
found
some
old
Records
by
which
it
was
to
be
made
out
that
the
Dutchy
of
Deux-ponts
had
ever
held
of
the
Bishoprick
,
and
that
many
more
considerable
Lands
by
the
connivance
,
and
contrivance
of
the
several
Bishops
with
their
own
private
Relations
had
been
alienated
and
dismember'd
,
for
that
those
Bishops
being
but
Tenants
for
life
,
were
well
enough
content
in
Estates
of
easie
acquisition
to
accommodate
their
respective
Families
with
the
conveniencies
of
Church-Lands
.
The
French
Ministers
savour'd
well
the
Opinion
of
Mr.
Solicitor
,
and
order'd
him
diligently
to
inspect
all
publick
Registers
,
for
what
might
there
be
found
of
New
,
and
thereof
to
forthwith
make
an
Abstract
with
Care
,
to
be
afterwards
made
use
of
in
time
&
place
.
But
to
avoid
a
partiality
which
all
should
do
,
who
undertake
a
publick
Information
;
something
there
was
of
what
Mr.
Solicitor
did
alledge
for
many
of
the
Good
Bishops
to
oblige
their
Kindred
,
had
truly
let
them
have
some
Lands
within
their
particular
Donation
,
but
in
exchange
had
received
other
Lands
back
again
in
lieu
;
so
that
those
Lands
in
Justice
ought
to
be
restored
again
which
had
been
given
to
the
Bishops
,
or
to
what
had
been
alienated
and
granted
by
the
Bishops
to
make
no
pretence
.
But
to
the
thred
of
my
Discourse
,
the
Solicitor
General
was
no
sooner
return'd
home
again
to
Metz
,
but
fell
a
searching
not
only
all
the
public
Registers
,
but
too
of
all
the
old
Archives
of
Churches
and
Abbeys
he
could
lay
his
Hand
on
,
and
as
he
was
provided
with
Commission
from
above
Express
,
swept
them
all
away
without
the
act
of
any
Witness
or
making
of
the
least
Inventory
in
the
point
,
which
he
ought
not
to
have
done
,
that
every
Body
that
way
might
have
the
better
understood
what
properly
pertain'd
to
them
,
and
that
the
Jealousie
since
conceived
of
the
great
Antiquity
of
those
Parchments
,
(
not
so
very
Old
as
made
believe
)
might
so
have
been
remov'd
;
so
be
it
Mr.
Solicitor
was
observ'd
long
closeted
close
up
about
fixing
his
Memoirs
,
which
having
fram'd
as
he
pleas'd
himself
returns
again
to
Court
swell'd
with
the
presumption
of
an
Eminent
Service
,
not
doubting
what
he
brought
could
be
ill
received
:
Now
the
Contents
of
those
Memoirs
are
the
pretensions
which
we
have
since
seen
break
out
,
and
at
this
day
make
such
a
rattle
all
Europe
over
.
The
Marquis
of
Louvois
State-Secretary
at
Wars
,
who
has
a
very
great
Interest
in
that
Kingdom
,
whom
Mr.
Solicitor
presented
his
Memoirs
to
,
could
not
at
sight
of
them
forbear
laughing
,
for
tho
't
was
his
Business
more
then
any
Bodies
to
disturb
the
Peace
which
turned
not
to
that
account
time
of
War
might
do
,
perceiving
little
in
them
that
would
hold
Water
,
was
not
so
willing
to
expose
his
Master
upon
a
light
occasion
,
who
when
he
had
mind
to
be
making
of
a
War
,
wanted
not
variety
of
specious
pretexts
:
He
would
needs
know
tho
of
the
Solicitor
whence
he
had
fisht
all
those
Discoveries
;
Mr.
Solicitor
General
seeing
him
so
hard
of
belief
draws
out
of
his
Pocket
another
Schedule
which
contain'd
the
Dates
of
all
the
true
and
false
deeds
from
out
of
which
he
had
collected
the
Instrument
he
before
had
given
in
;
as
Mr.
Solicitor
proposed
to
himself
the
making
of
a
great
fortune
from
the
success
of
that
Affair
he
so
closely
ply'd
Mr.
De
Louvois
with
the
Scheme
of
so
many
useful
things
that
at
last
prevail'd
with
that
Minister
to
promise
,
when
at
better
leisure
,
the
full
perusal
of
his
Memoir
,
and
thereon
to
return
his
Answer
.
The
Answer
to
Mr.
Solicitor
prov'd
more
in
his
Favour
then
off
hand
the
first
Reception
had
given
him
reason
to
expect
:
Mr.
De
Louvois
directs
him
to
pursue
his
undertaking
,
and
after
the
Institution
of
a
judicial
Court
for
the
Examining
of
such
pretensions
which
the
King
of
France
might
have
to
several
Territories
and
Principalities
;
Mr.
Solicitor
for
his
pains
was
nominated
of
that
Court
Judge
in
chief
which
is
no
more
than
setting
the
concern'd
party
in
the
Cause
upon
the
Bench.
I
know
not
if
I
have
exspatiated
a
little
too
far
upon
the
subject
,
but
I
thought
it
an
incumbent
upon
me
to
report
here
the
Original
causes
of
the
Miseries
which
afflict
us
,
and
ready
now
to
involve
so
many
States
in
trouble
and
confusion
.
We
revert
then
to
where
we
left
,
which
as
I
take
it
was
,
the
King
of
France
not
caring
greatly
for
his
Swedish
Alliance
,
Summons
that
Crown
to
do
him
Fealty
and
Homage
for
the
Dukedome
of
Deux-ponts
:
The
King
of
Swede
being
a
young
Prince
,
brave
,
and
inferior
to
none
in
Resolution
and
courage
,
thought
the
Chimerical
pretention
very
strange
,
but
not
willing
to
fall
out
with
France
upon
a
frivolous
Matter
,
his
Ambassador
had
Instructions
to
shew
that
King
the
injustice
done
him
.
That
the
Dukedom
of
Deux-ponts
had
ever
been
a
Sovereign
State
,
and
that
they
who
had
it
acknowledg'd
Fealty
and
Homage
for
it
to
no
Man
living
,
except
they
meant
for
a
Fealty
and
Homage
,
the
usual
investures
they
were
obliged
to
take
at
the
hands
of
the
Emperor
.
These
Reasons
the
Court
of
France
approv'd
not
of
,
proceeding
on
still
in
her
unjust
demands
of
a
Homage
,
and
after
a
canvas
past
of
pro
and
con
between
the
Ambassadors
and
Ministers
,
the
new
Court
of
Justice
pronounces
roundly
decree
of
Re-union
,
and
that
Dutchy
to
be
annex't
to
the
Crown
of
France
,
unless
within
such
a
set
time
the
King
of
Swede
acknowledged
for
the
same
his
Fealty
and
Homage
:
Now
that
the
World
might
see
it
was
not
from
any
covet
of
our
Neighbours
goods
that
Decree
of
Metz
aris'd
,
the
King
freely
offer'd
the
Investure
of
that
Dukedom
to
the
Duke
Adolphus
Uncle
to
the
King
of
Swede
in
case
the
King
his
Nephew
conform'd
not
to
the
Tenure
of
the
Decree
which
to
be
sure
he
was
not
like
to
do
.
Whilst
Duke
Adolphus
halted
between
the
hopes
of
getting
that
Dukedom
and
fear
of
disobliging
the
King
his
Nephew
the
King
of
France
sends
in
the
interim
the
Prince
Palatine
of
Birkenfield
,
a
Prince
of
the
Palatine
Family
,
to
keep
that
Dutchy
in
the
Name
of
Duke
Alfonsus
his
near
Kinsman
,
promising
in
case
that
Duke
accepted
of
it
not
upon
the
conditions
proposed
him
,
he
himself
should
be
then
immediately
invested
;
the
Prince
of
Birkenfield
having
return'd
his
thanks
for
the
Kings
good
will
towards
him
,
and
having
done
him
Fealty
and
Homage
for
the
the
Dukedom
in
name
of
Duke
Alphonsus
,
he
repair'd
accordingly
to
the
Execution
of
his
Commission
,
I
shall
be
silent
here
in
reflecting
upon
the
Extravagancys
of
this
way
of
proceeding
.
A
Reader
does
not
so
much
care
to
have
the
point
decided
to
his
hand
,
't
is
limiting
his
Fancy
,
and
by
reasoning
first
upon
the
subject
,
but
giving
Laws
to
his
Faith
in
what
he
should
believe
:
And
indeed
't
is
as
much
as
is
requisite
for
the
Relator
to
tell
of
things
as
they
nakedly
are
,
and
for
the
Reader
to
judge
as
he
thinks
good
:
But
to
close
the
small
digression
not
unseasonable
to
the
profession
of
Writers
,
the
King
of
Swede
had
no
sooner
heard
what
had
been
transacted
in
France
,
but
upon
it
immediately
deserted
the
Alliance
he
had
embrac't
during
the
late
Wars
at
the
hazard
of
his
whole
Country
,
and
peril
of
his
Life
,
having
exposed
himself
the
first
Man
in
Person
,
in
Three
or
Four
several
Battels
for
the
sake
and
interest
of
that
Crown
,
expecting
another
kind
of
usage
for
his
pains
from
France
then
that
he
met
with
:
Denmark
and
Brandenburg
no
sooner
well
assur'd
what
side
the
King
of
Swede
would
take
,
but
both
strike
up
with
France
,
which
had
engaged
to
furnish
the
King
of
Denmark
both
with
Ships
and
Men
for
the
recovery
not
only
of
some
Provinces
which
the
Father
of
this
King
of
Swede
had
taken
from
the
Dane
,
but
likewise
for
that
of
Lubeck
,
upon
which
City
by
vertue
of
some
imaginary
Titles
Denmark
of
long
hand
had
great
Designs
:
Brandenburg
did
promise
to
himself
too
a
beneficial
Alliance
;
insomuch
as
these
Three
Potentates
united
but
to
the
breeding
a
disturbance
in
the
Northern
Peace
:
France
having
thus
made
sure
of
these
two
leaning
Staffs
,
by
Vertue
of
the
like
Decrees
I
now
mention'd
,
proceeds
in
the
same
way
against
other
Sovereign
Princes
,
requiring
of
them
the
submission
of
Fealty
and
Homage
:
Many
who
saw
themselves
not
in
condition
to
resist
acquiesc'd
in
all
they
would
demand
,
others
shew'd
themselves
more
stubborn
,
but
smarted
for
their
standing
out
by
the
Quartering
,
and
Garisoning
their
Country
,
forc't
by
fowl
means
,
to
do
what
by
fair
they
had
refused
.
But
here
I
must
give
account
what
happen'd
to
the
Rinegrave
,
his
Authority
in
the
Country
being
great
,
and
his
example
of
influence
to
others
,
France
let
him
understand
he
had
to
comply
immediately
without
a
boggle
,
and
that
after
they
would
replace
him
again
in
all
his
Rights
&
Priviledges
:
The
Rinegrave
not
suspecting
the
honorable
Word
of
so
august
a
Crown
was
overjoy'd
to
be
so
advantageously
distinguisht
among
so
many
unfortunate
sufferers
,
and
having
given
his
Obedience
wrought
in
others
the
same
acknowledgment
,
which
as
they
thought
was
unavoidable
,
having
without
so
much
as
hesitating
seen
the
Rinegrave
Count
perform
the
like
submissions
,
but
when
the
Count
on
his
side
expected
they
should
keep
their
Word
with
him
,
was
told
they
were
not
the
Masters
,
and
that
he
must
make
his
Applications
to
the
Court
,
thither
then
must
he
take
a
Journey
&
little
to
the
purpose
,
for
instead
of
gaining
the
thing
he
made
demand
of
,
they
e'en
told
him
he
might
go
as
he
came
,
and
wonder'd
in
their
Hearts
such
a
petty
Fellow
as
he
should
be
unwilling
to
hold
his
Country
in
Fee
of
so
great
a
King
as
was
the
great
King
of
France
:
A
little
before
such
another
Answer
had
been
made
to
the
Palatine
Elector
who
sending
to
the
Court
of
France
to
complain
of
his
Country
being
made
daily
havoc
of
by
the
Licentiousness
of
the
French
Forces
,
to
an
infringement
of
the
late
Peace
,
the
complainer
was
answer'd
when
a
little
Prince
like
that
Elector
had
the
Honour
to
be
Neighbour
to
so
great
a
King
't
was
not
for
such
as
he
to
be
that
nice
:
Short
and
sweet
this
,
hitherto
Roses
;
but
in
conclusion
we
shall
have
Thorn
and
all
.
France
still
claims
on
their
right
of
Dependencys
,
and
finding
Spain
weak
&
apparently
helpless
,
the
County
of
Alost
is
demanded
of
them
as
an
appertenance
of
the
late
Conquests
;
Spain
troubled
at
the
demand
,
because
Oudermond
with
other
Towns
and
Villages
did
all
belong
to
the
same
County
,
let
France
understand
the
great
Iniquity
of
her
pretended
right
,
but
whilst
this
was
under
debate
between
the
Spanish
Embassador
and
the
Ministers
they
yet
made
more
demands
as
intricate
all
out
and
as
perplext
as
their
first
:
The
County
of
Chini
had
been
granted
France
by
the
Tenure
of
the
Treaty
with
all
its
appertenancies
,
and
as
those
Dependancies
had
not
receiv'd
their
full
Explanation
in
the
wording
of
the
Peace
,
France
now
become
what
Spain
did
use
to
be
,
to
say
,
a
wrangler
,
and
full
of
her
fetches
,
and
quibling
tricks
,
alledged
the
Dependancies
of
Chini
reacht
to
the
very
Gates
of
Luxemburg
,
and
therefore
requir'd
to
have
possession
thereof
given
them
by
the
Spaniards
,
if
not
they
would
give
it
themselves
:
The
Spanish
Embassador
as
very
able
Man
as
he
was
,
was
puzzled
at
the
new
quiddity
,
and
demanded
time
to
make
his
Master
acquainted
;
the
time
he
ask't
was
granted
him
,
but
when
expir'd
,
France
finding
Spain
endeavouring
to
elude
its
pretensions
causes
Forces
openly
to
march
into
the
Country
of
Luxemburg
,
blocks
up
all
the
High-ways
that
lead
to
the
County
,
Town
,
raises
Forts
round
about
,
and
tho
then
in
the
midst
of
a
profound
Peace
,
commits
all
the
acts
of
an
actual
Hostility
which
could
possibly
be
committed
in
a
declar'd
War
;
the
Governor
of
Luxemburg
sends
his
Trumpet
to
the
Commander
in
chief
of
those
Forces
to
know
if
France
mean'd
a
Declaration
of
a
War
with
Spain
:
But
he
was
answer'd
they
meant
no
such
thing
,
and
that
they
only
were
about
taking
possession
of
what
belong'd
to
them
.
Mean
while
under
the
Notion
of
possession-taking
they
hindred
every
thing
from
coming
into
the
Town
of
Luxemburg
,
and
every
thing
from
going
out
on
't
,
and
if
any
offer'd
to
pass
their
way
,
they
sent
them
back
to
the
Town
again
,
pretending
they
came
out
as
Spies
upon
their
actions
,
and
if
there
came
any
from
the
Country
,
such
as
their
Market-people
,
or
the
like
with
Provisions
to
sell
in
Town
as
they
were
us'd
to
do
,
they
sent
them
back
too
,
having
first
strip't
them
of
all
they
had
,
to
teach
them
not
to
come
again
a
second
time
,
and
if
those
Country
People
offer'd
to
pass
them
without
Provisions
were
suffer'd
to
go
by
after
a
due
Examine
of
all
they
had
about
them
,
but
when
they
would
repass
home
again
,
were
drove
back
into
the
Town
,
that
so
the
Provisions
of
the
Place
might
be
consumed
the
sooner
.
When
for
my
part
,
I
reflect
upon
these
violent
Courses
I
could
not
but
be
extreamly
surpriz'd
to
see
England
the
Mediator
and
Garanty
of
the
Peace
,
troubled
themselves
no
further
in
its
due
execution
,
they
saw
before
their
Eyes
what
pass'd
,
but
without
the
least
concern
for
the
visible
infraction
;
and
as
if
France
had
made
all
sure
upon
that
hand
,
pursued
in
their
constant
and
daily
acts
of
open
Hostility
;
but
yet
offer'd
still
to
make
England
the
Umpire
of
their
debate
,
which
left
Spain
without
all
sort
of
hope
;
for
upon
one
side
not
having
confidence
enough
in
England
to
trust
its
Interest
in
their
hands
,
upon
t'other
knew
not
what
well
to
say
to
the
King
of
France
so
fairly
offering
to
refer
the
Matter
:
Perplext
on
both
hands
,
Spain
resolves
to
put
something
to
the
venture
of
a
chance
,
and
seeing
the
Town
of
Luxemburg
must
apparently
be
lost
for
want
of
Provisions
sent
the
Governour
of
the
place
private
Orders
to
open
a
passage
by
force
come
what
will
:
The
Governour
who
for
a
long
time
desir'd
no
better
,
sallies
out
at
a
time
when
the
French
least
expected
him
,
and
setting
upon
one
of
their
Quarters
,
charged
them
home
as
they
just
were
upon
the
point
of
making
head
to
dispute
the
passage
:
The
French
made
a
great
resistance
,
but
over-power'd
by
number
,
being
forc't
to
give
way
,
the
Governour
advancing
and
joining
his
convoy
which
he
of
long
hand
held
before
in
a
readiness
,
put
his
relief
into
the
Town
.
Some
two
hundred
of
the
French
were
killed
in
the
action
,
and
about
Eighteen
or
Twenty
of
the
Spanish
,
but
among
all
these
not
a
Man
of
note
lost
,
nor
so
much
as
one
Officer
.
France
no
sooner
had
the
News
,
but
thunder'd
it
against
the
Spaniards
as
much
indeed
to
blame
they
quietly
would
not
endure
starving
:
Drew
every
where
presently
their
Forces
down
towards
the
Towns
that
held
for
Spain
,
but
at
the
instant
of
acting
with
them
,
England
hinder'd
from
further
proceeding
by
making
France
get
full
satisfaction
in
the
point
from
Spain
,
who
disown'd
not
only
all
the
Governor
of
Luxemburg
had
done
,
but
offering
even
to
discharge
him
of
his
Government
,
and
in
short
so
supinely
weak
,
paid
for
the
Damage
in
conclusion
sustain'd
by
the
French
,
for
a
certain
Sum
of
Money
agreed
upon
.
After
this
delicate
Treaty
,
the
Blocus
of
Luxemburg
was
afresh
begun
again
,
and
the
French
reinforc't
their
Quarter
,
and
patrol'd
the
Avenues
duly
for
their
greater
security
of
being
in
haste
catcht
as
they
before
had
been
:
Truly
I
can't
contain
from
a
little
digression
here
,
and
say
Posterity
will
be
hardly
made
believe
that
in
the
mid'st
of
Peace
,
the
one
side
shall
be
allow'd
them
to
make
War
,
but
the
other
shall
be
punisht
because
they
submit
not
in
every
thing
their
Enemies
would
impose
upon
them
.
Howbeit
the
Luxemburg
Garrison
being
large
,
and
the
Convoy
not
sufficient
for
a
long
supply
began
again
to
feel
the
same
inconveniences
it
had
before
:
The
Governour
being
a
brave
Man
,
who
had
much
rather
have
chose
to
die
with
his
Arms
in
his
Hand
,
then
lead
out
a
life
so
very
shameful
and
so
unworthy
of
any
Man
of
Courage
,
was
for
all
that
necessitated
to
bear
with
a
Thousand
of
their
Insolencies
,
and
insults
without
the
least
daring
to
gainsay
:
For
the
French
who
well
knew
his
Instructions
,
and
whose
Fingers
itcht
to
be
doing
,
would
frequently
come
within
half
a
Mile
sight
of
the
Town
,
where
having
trodden
down
the
Corn
under
their
Horses
feet
made
shew
of
a
defying
to
engage
.
Whil'st
this
was
doing
France
Treats
for
Cazal
,
with
the
Duke
of
Mantoua
,
which
threw
not
a
little
Jealousie
Italy
all
over
:
The
Emperor
too
resented
it
in
a
high
measure
for
Cazal
;
besides
,
being
a
Feif
of
the
Empire
,
he
was
by
descent
too
the
presumptive
Heir
,
and
so
doubly
intitled
as
Emperor
,
and
the
next
near
Kinsman
to
the
Duke
of
Mantoua
:
It
was
not
to
be
expected
,
the
King
of
France
would
so
much
lessen
himself
to
be
sending
to
the
Emperor
,
to
demand
investure
as
was
customary
to
be
done
for
all
Feifs
of
the
Empire
,
he
was
not
a
Prince
to
be
prescrib'd
the
conformity
of
ordinary
rules
,
and
his
uncontrolable
power
freed
him
in
every
thing
;
which
indeed
Mr.
Solicitor
General
of
the
Court
of
Metz
,
of
whom
I
have
before
spoken
,
did
ingenuously
confess
as
much
one
day
,
to
some
of
his
Friends
taking
freedom
to
be
telling
him
they
did
not
conceive
the
strength
of
his
Decrees
was
of
validity
sufficient
to
be
binding
in
the
case
of
so
many
Sovereign
Princes
:
Reply'd
he
serv'd
a
Master
who
had
at
beck
,
a
Hundred
pieces
of
Canon
,
a
Hundred
thousand
Men
,
and
a
Hundred
Millions
of
Money
to
put
those
Decrees
in
Execution
.
The
Taking
of
Cazal
was
not
the
only
thing
Italy
was
alarm'd
at
,
France
,
whose
ambition
nothing
less
then
the
subjection
of
the
whole
World
could
satisfie
,
began
now
to
grumble
too
at
the
Republic
of
Genoua
,
to
have
that
colour
of
invading
its
liberty
:
They
of
Genoua
send
their
Embassador
to
France
at
the
same
time
,
to
excuse
themselves
in
what
they
could
,
but
as
France
was
not
without
her
Reasons
,
I
mean
good
or
bad
,
the
Excuses
of
the
poor
Genoesses
were
ill
received
,
took
the
occasion
to
pick
a
New
quarrel
in
requiring
them
to
make
restitution
of
an
Estate
formerly
of
the
House
of
Fieske
,
with
the
Interest
of
the
whole
for
an
Age
before
since
accrued
;
now
as
every
Body
is
well
satisfied
what
the
case
of
the
House
of
Fieske
is
,
and
how
they
were
,
and
for
what
expell'd
Genoua
would
be
here
superfluous
to
mention
:
I
shall
but
say
,
never
Demand
appear'd
more
extraordinary
then
that
did
,
not
to
say
never
a
more
unjust
,
and
a
more
unreasonable
.
France
would
oblige
a
Gree
State
to
restore
to
the
Heirs
and
Successors
of
a
Traitor
,
and
Estate
forfeited
and
confiscated
for
its
delinquency
,
as
if
France
never
had
her self
confiscated
,
and
daily
did
not
confiscate
Estates
of
such
as
she
found
faulty
,
and
deficient
in
their
duty
:
Mean
while
though
the
Matter
has
not
been
drove
much
further
,
't
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
notwithstanding
wholly
laid
aside
,
't
is
a
smothering
Fire
in
Ashes
,
which
one
day
will
consume
all
Italy
,
if
not
prevented
by
the
Hand
of
Heaven
;
and
indeed
't
is
not
to
be
thought
France
has
quitted
therefore
the
Design
of
mastering
that
Common-wealth
,
because
she
defers
the
doing
it
to
another
time
,
for
that
the
present
was
of
more
consequence
to
be
looking
to
the
Conquest
of
Flanders
which
hitherto
had
been
so
tedious
a
work
,
and
now
lay
naked
and
exposed
to
his
ambition
through
the
unfortunate
diversion
of
the
Imperial
Arms
:
'T
was
then
ill
Policy
to
draw
so
many
Enemies
upon
her
Hands
at
once
,
whose
Business
she
the
easier
might
all
do
,
the
one
after
the
other
:
'T
was
an
advice
worth
taking
which
a
grand
Politician
once
gave
his
Children
upon
the
point
of
Death
,
caus'd
a
great
many
arrows
to
be
laid
before
them
,
some
of
which
in
bundle
,
others
lose
,
and
bid
the
Children
to
try
the
breaking
of
those
unbound
,
which
they
easily
snap't
in
two
,
then
commanded
them
to
try
the
other
,
bidding
them
to
break
those
likewise
,
but
that
being
more
then
they
were
able
,
took
his
occasion
from
that
Instance
to
admonish
them
to
remain
ever
in
Union
with
one
another
,
if
they
expected
their
Enemies
should
take
no
hold
upon
them
.
Now
France
deals
with
most
of
the
other
Princes
,
as
the
Children
by
those
Arrows
not
bound
together
,
she
easily
subdues
them
one
after
another
,
which
in
case
they
were
linkt
,
and
united
as
they
should
be
,
might
perhaps
be
in
a
posture
of
reducing
her
again
within
the
bounds
of
Reason
:
Indeed
what
hinders
the
setting
Armies
upon
foot
as
well
as
France
,
and
thereby
an
endeavor
used
for
the
resettling
of
things
in
that
condition
again
,
where
every
one
concern'd
might
find
his
security
.
It
looks
as
if
our
Fore-Fathers
were
much
the
prudenter
People
:
For
I
remember
well
after
the
Battel
of
Pavie
,
where
Charles
the
Fifth
Triumph't
over
the
Affairs
and
Fortune
of
Francis
the
First
,
they
wisely
consider'd
not
fit
to
suffer
any
more
the
growth
and
mightiness
of
that
Power
,
which
already
was
become
but
too
formidable
among
them
,
and
so
retrieved
again
the
State
of
France
at
that
time
much
more
desperate
,
&
at
a
lower
Ebb
then
is
ours
now
.
But
't
is
not
for
want
of
every
Bodies
knowing
what
course
was
taken
in
the
times
of
our
Ancestors
,
but
few
they
be
make
a
true
use
of
what
they
know
.
But
all
this
while
,
I
perceive
not
my
deviation
insensibly
stealing
me
from
my
Subject
,
too
far
carried
off
by
force
of
Truth
:
To
come
then
to
the
point
again
,
I
shall
tell
you
,
that
whilst
Italy
took
the
alarm
at
the
surrender
of
Cazal
,
another
business
was
then
brewing
in
that
Country
,
which
might
well
occasion
its
further
disturbance
.
Savoy
,
as
every
one
knows
,
lies
closed
up
between
France
on
one
side
,
and
the
Provinces
of
Spain
:
I
mean
between
those
Countrys
in
Italy
under
Spanish
Dominion
:
The
Neighbourhood
of
these
two
Powers
has
been
Reason
enough
in
all
former
Ages
,
why
the
Dukes
of
Savoy
enjoy
little
quiet
:
For
at
the
same
time
that
either
of
those
two
Crowns
denounced
War
upon
the
other
,
he
must
of
necessity
side
with
one
of
the
two
,
to
prevent
his
Country
from
being
over-run
by
both
,
as
is
the
general
case
of
all
Neuters
.
Now
as
Savoy
turn'd
very
much
the
Scale
to
the
side
it
inclin'd
to
,
the
two
Crowns
strove
their
utmost
which
should
have
him
of
their
party
,
that
sometimes
the
Daughters
of
France
,
sometimes
the
Infanta's
of
Spain
found
Wives
of
State
for
that
Duke
,
and
the
need
both
had
of
him
,
was
still
the
Mediums
of
new
advantages
from
either
:
France
who
knew
at
what
dear
rates
that
Alliance
was
sometimes
to
be
purchas'd
,
projected
a
Treaty
with
him
,
such
as
for
ever
should
debar
him
from
being
Spanish
any
more
.
The
Cardinal
Destrée
they
send
to
Savoy
,
a
Relation
of
that
Dutchess
,
and
as
she
Govern'd
all
during
the
Minority
of
her
Son
,
proposes
to
her
a
Match
between
the
young
Duke
,
and
the
Infanta
of
Portugal
,
his
Cousin
German
,
Heir
presumptive
of
that
Crown
,
the
then
Prince
Regent
having
no
more
Children
:
The
Dutchess
of
Savoy
being
Born
in
France
,
and
French
in
all
her
Inclinations
relishes
the
Proposal
with
pleasure
:
Thinking
the
Quality
of
a
King
of
Portugal
,
was
every
whit
Equivalent
to
a
Duke
of
Savoy
:
But
as
they
have
a
Law
in
Portugal
,
which
Forfeits
in
a
Daughter
her
right
of
Succession
to
the
Crown
in
case
of
Marriage
with
a
Stranger
,
that
Law
how
to
abolish
must
first
be
thought
of
;
The
Cardinal
Destrée
in
Name
of
his
Master
undertook
the
thing
:
France
sends
then
to
Portugal
to
that
effect
,
and
as
she
was
in
a
happy
post
of
carrying
all
before
her
,
did
in
that
conjuncture
too
carry
that
Affair
,
insomuch
as
the
having
of
that
Law
abrogated
,
and
the
Dukes
Marriage
with
their
Infanta
finally
agreed
upon
:
The
Grandees
of
Savoy
,
without
whose
advice
this
Business
had
been
determin'd
unsatisfied
with
the
Match
,
which
ended
in
a
deprivement
of
their
natural
Prince
,
and
the
Subordination
of
a
Governour
,
had
their
private
Cabals
to
consult
the
breaking
the
Neck
of
the
Marriage
,
and
stop
it
from
further
going
on
.
I
cannot
justly
say
,
if
they
confederated
for
sake
of
public
good
,
or
meerly
for
their
private
ends
;
howbeit
the
Portugal
Match
far
from
being
of
advantage
to
the
Duke
,
one
may
truly
say
he
was
a
loser
by
the
Bargain
,
no
less
then
the
Princes
in
general
of
his
Family
;
besides
,
whilst
he
was
to
have
resided
in
Portugal
who
should
have
succor'd
Savoy
,
in
case
France
had
had
a
mind
to
set
up
right
of
Conveniency
,
a
right
which
they
endeavor'd
equally
to
establish
as
well
as
right
of
Dependency
,
and
for
no
other
Reason
indeed
was
the
Prince
of
Montbelliard
drove
out
of
his
Country
then
that
it
did
accommodate
the
Crown
:
But
they
heeded
little
all
that
could
be
said
against
it
,
and
still
went
on
their
Road
,
where
but
a
glimpse
appear'd
of
probable
sucscess
:
Madam
,
the
Dutches
of
Savoy
smoakt
the
drift
,
as
well
as
any
,
but
the
powerful
desire
of
Sovereign
Rule
,
carried
it
above
all
other
considerations
;
and
as
Alexander
of
Farnese
,
Duke
of
Parma
sent
off
his
Mother
in
former
days
,
not
to
be
oblig'd
to
share
with
her
the
Government
of
the
Low-Countries
:
So
the
Dutchess
of
Savoy
was
for
packing
away
her
Son
,
that
she
might
remain
still
the
absolute
Mistress
of
that
State
:
She
knew
well
enough
they
would
not
fail
detaining
the
Duke
in
Portugal
to
inure
him
to
the
ways
and
customs
of
a
Nation
which
one
day
he
was
design'd
to
govern
;
and
by
the
shift
secure
to
her self
the
Supreme
Authority
:
In
the
mean
while
discontents
amongst
the
Grandees
encreas'd
daily
,
and
have
frequent
meetings
to
advise
upon
what
they
had
to
do
;
could
not
for
all
that
meet
so
in
private
,
but
the
Dutchess
had
Intelligence
,
willing
to
secure
her self
from
the
Designs
her
Grandees
might
well
have
of
troubling
the
Government
,
caused
Forces
to
be
fetcht
from
France
in
good
store
to
be
dispers'd
in
the
Neigbourhood
about
,
under
a
pretence
of
covering
Cazal
.
The
Nobility
of
Savoy
,
though
alarm'd
at
the
French
assisting
thus
of
the
Dutchess
,
gave
not
over
for
all
that
their
Intentions
of
helping
their
young
Duke
,
and
having
found
her
out
in
her
Treaty
with
France
,
into
whose
hands
she
had
agreed
to
deliver
the
most
important
places
of
strength
in
the
Country
,
in
Pledge
of
some
Loans
of
Money
she
had
borrow'd
of
them
,
for
the
defray
of
her
Son's
Marriage
,
were
unanimously
resolv'd
to
hazard
all
than
suffer
thus
a
general
ruine
;
and
as
they
watch't
their
opportunity
to
compass
their
design
,
the
Dutchess
her self
favour'd
them
with
one
,
which
they
conceiv'd
might
serve
their
turn
,
for
having
left
her
Son
at
Turin
,
contrary
to
her
custom
,
whilst
her self
stept
a
Mile
or
two
out
of
Town
,
the
Grandees
,
took
that
Time
to
speak
to
their
Duke
:
That
he
must
look
upon
himself
in
French
hands
,
every
where
surrounding
him
as
now
their
Prisoner
in
a
manner
,
that
the
Dutchess
his
Mother
had
sold
them
his
best
Towns
,
and
would
yet
be
selling
what
remain'd
if
not
prevented
by
his
great
goodness
to
his
People
:
That
she
sent
him
to
Portugal
not
to
be
the
Soveraign
there
,
but
that
at
home
she
might
be
so
:
That
in
case
he
met
with
freedom
to
his
Person
there
,
he
must
at
least
expect
to
meet
a
Master
,
whereas
if
he
vouchsafed
to
stay
with
them
,
he
should
meet
with
nothing
but
their
entire
obedience
and
dutiful
respects
,
that
the
Portuguises
naturally
hated
Strangers
;
and
if
they
did
assent
to
his
marrying
their
Infanta
,
't
was
by
constraint
,
and
with
regret
:
That
he
might
rest
assur'd
the
Prince
Regent
once
dead
,
they
would
retract
again
from
what
they
had
done
,
and
bar
him
of
his
Crown
as
formerly
they
had
done
to
the
King
of
Spain
,
that
it
was
not
easie
to
foresee
what
might
then
become
of
him
,
for
that
the
French
having
once
seized
his
Country
perhaps
might
not
be
in
humor
to
restore
it
him
again
.
These
remonstrances
startled
the
young
Duke
,
who
yet
had
not
Brains
ripe
enough
to
apprehend
among
a
great
many
Truths
they
represented
,
there
was
Lies
in
an
equal
number
,
he
ask't
them
what
best
for
him
to
act
to
shun
so
many
threatning
misfortunes
:
They
answer'd
no
other
way
left
,
then
the
securing
of
his
Mother
;
the
expedient
was
surprizing
,
but
finding
they
had
struck
from
the
first
an
impression
upon
the
young
Prince
,
gave
him
no
time
to
the
recollections
of
a
Natural
affection
,
prest
him
with
telling
his
own
safety
lay
for
the
future
in
his
own
power
,
to
resolve
for
good
and
all
of
being
a
happy
or
unhappy
Duke
the
remainder
of
his
life
;
as
for
their
parts
resolv'd
to
be
the
lookers
on
of
what
every
Day
produced
no
longer
,
had
design'd
retiring
into
some
other
Country
,
where
at
least
they
should
gain
that
comfort
of
Knowing
they
had
no
kind
of
Hand
in
any
thing
that
would
be
attempted
against
his
Dignity
or
Person
.
A
few
Tears
artificially
shed
,
or
out
of
compassionate
good
Nature
,
accomplisht
persuading
of
the
Duke
,
calls
for
Pen
and
Paper
,
and
signs
a
Warrant
immediately
for
the
seizing
of
his
Mother
:
In
the
mean
while
before
they
could
get
together
to
take
their
measures
for
execution
of
their
Order
,
the
Dutchess
was
return'd
into
the
Town
,
and
being
arriv'd
at
her
Palais
was
extremely
surprized
to
find
her
Son
sad
and
pensive
,
and
much
beside
himself
,
askt
what
he
ail'd
,
conjuring
him
to
tell
her
,
but
finding
him
not
answering
,
she
adds
to
her
entreaties
the
blandishments
of
a
Mother
,
as
she
embraced
him
,
perceiv'd
he
wep't
,
and
Tears
to
tricle
down
his
Cheeks
which
troubled
her
to
the
highest
degree
,
sell
then
to
a
redoublement
of
muching
,
calls
him
her
own
dearest
Child
,
falls
her self
a
crying
,
and
in
the
end
so
softens
,
he
confesses
to
her
they
had
surprized
him
,
and
that
he
had
signed
an
Order
for
the
commitment
of
her
Person
:
The
Dutchess
was
her self
struck
with
amaze
at
the
sort
of
News
,
but
having
now
no
time
to
lose
,
and
that
every
Minut
was
to
her
of
highest
consequence
,
sent
for
those
about
her
immediately
she
could
most
confide
in
,
doubles
the
Palace
Guards
,
and
causes
those
to
be
seiz'd
in
fine
who
had
resolv'd
her
ruine
&
makes
her
manifesto
,
those
very
Persons
were
intended
to
take
away
the
young
Duke
,
and
carry
him
to
Spain
,
which
is
more
then
I
can
say
they
meant
,
not
knowing
whether
true
or
not
,
or
whether
only
a
Sham
to
render
them
the
more
odious
to
the
People
:
Be
it
as
't
will
,
the
Dutchess
having
once
retriev'd
her self
from
so
very
great
a
danger
,
order'd
the
French
Forces
to
March
into
the
Town
thereby
to
shew
she
trusted
more
to
them
,
then
to
those
of
the
Country
.
A
certain
Print
for
all
this
remain'd
with
the
young
Duke
of
what
had
been
remonstrated
;
insomuch
that
though
his
Equipage
was
gone
already
before
to
Portugal
,
and
himself
soon
to
follow
after
,
he
talk't
no
more
of
the
Voyage
:
And
as
still
some
body
there
was
in
place
about
him
,
who
privately
cherisht
the
suspicion
they
had
rais'd
,
broke
him
clean
off
,
order'd
his
Family
to
return
their
ways
home
again
,
to
the
unspeakable
satisfaction
of
his
whole
People
;
France
only
remain'd
much
mortifid
,
promising
already
to
it self
the
conjunction
of
Savoy
to
that
Kingdom
,
and
to
enchase
it
amongst
the
fairest
Flowers
of
the
Crown
:
The
dissatisfaction
conceiv'd
lay
not
long
hid
,
the
Count
of
Soisson
who
in
case
of
decease
of
the
young
Duke
was
Heir
presumptive
to
the
Dukedom
of
Savoy
,
after
the
Death
of
Prince
Carignan
his
Uncle
,
was
then
in
love
with
a
private
Damosel
in
France
,
call'd
Madamoseille
de
Beauais
;
all
the
Relations
had
thitherto
opposed
the
thing
,
in
fear
of
his
design
to
marry
her
,
the
King
himself
had
signifi'd
as
much
,
and
that
he
ought
to
think
of
bestowing
himself
some
other
way
,
but
being
thus
disoblig'd
by
the
Grandees
of
Savoy
,
he
suffer'd
Count
Soisson
to
do
what
he
had
most
mind
to
,
to
humble
him
,
and
that
Count
did
do
what
his
passion
persuaded
.
This
what
past
in
Piemont
,
let
us
now
go
see
a
little
what
a
doing
in
Germany
;
France
for
a
long
time
had
a
Months
mind
to
the
City
of
Strasburgh
,
it
had
defeated
them
a
number
of
its
measures
during
the
late
War
,
and
France
had
so
well
felt
the
importance
of
that
place
to
resolve
upon
the
having
it
,
cost
it
ne're
so
much
:
To
speak
of
having
it
by
force
,
lookt
a
little
difficult
,
and
to
do
that
a
War
must
be
openly
declar'd
,
and
the
adjacent
Princes
round
about
would
have
engag'd
in
her
defence
.
The
easier
way
then
seem'd
the
getting
it
by
trick
:
A
Resident
they
kept
at
Strasburgh
,
in
Character
more
of
Spy
then
public
Minister
,
whose
Business
was
to
observe
all
that
past
;
he
had
given
the
King
often
times
account
no
good
was
to
be
done
till
those
Burgemasters
of
the
Town
in
present
station
were
out
of
place
,
when
new
came
to
be
made
,
had
by
that
time
gain'd
a
great
many
of
the
Votes
,
got
Persons
elected
to
the
Magistracy
affection'd
to
the
Interests
of
France
,
ready
fitted
to
make
sale
of
their
Country
for
a
piece
of
Money
,
with
these
after
that
,
he
strikes
a
Bargain
for
the
delivery
of
the
Town
upon
the
first
occasion
,
and
they
for
their
Reward
to
have
each
a
Hundred
Thousand
Crowns
a
Man
.
The
Market
being
thus
set
,
these
Traytors
give
the
Town
to
consider
the
great
Burthens
of
their
Debt
they
stood
charg'd
with
occasion'd
by
her
vast
Expences
incurr'd
in
the
late
War
,
and
that
now
in
time
of
Peace
they
should
reduce
the
Garison
which
was
too
numerous
:
That
the
King
of
France
,
whom
they
had
the
most
cause
to
fear
,
had
his
whole
thoughts
took
up
towards
Italy
,
whither
he
had
drawn
the
best
part
of
all
his
Forces
,
and
that
before
he
could
march
them
back
again
they
should
have
time
enough
to
implore
the
assistance
of
their
Neighbours
,
whose
proper
concern
in
their
preservation
was
too
great
not
to
afford
them
aid
;
happen
what
would
they
had
the
Winter
before
to
look
about
them
,
which
was
now
at
hand
:
That
the
King
was
great
way
distant
from
them
,
as
indeed
he
was
,
and
Summer
then
near
spent
,
there
was
no
manner
of
likelihood
,
he
durst
undertake
any
thing
actually
that
season
,
&
by
the
means
save
a
good
Sum
of
Money
in
their
Purses
;
that
when
Spring
time
came
,
they
then
should
see
what
other
measures
were
fittest
to
be
taken
.
The
advice
took
with
the
People
,
who
were
all
for
the
sparing
point
,
and
for
all
the
ablest
men
amongst
them
could
formally
oppose
what
the
People
once
would
have
of
necessity
to
be
,
there
was
no
withstanding
,
one
part
of
the
Garison
must
then
be
dismist
,
and
which
was
remarkable
of
those
the
Forces
of
the
Eldest
standing
:
But
as
the
King
of
France
lay
perdue
,
but
for
the
occasion
,
took
Journey
forthwith
from
Fountain-bleau
at
the
same
time
caus'd
his
Men
to
draw
down
with
expedition
and
invests
the
City
,
at
a
time
they
imagin'd
him
in
the
midst
of
his
Kingdom
.
Some
playing
with
the
Cannon
there
was
upon
both
sides
,
to
take
off
all
suspicion
off
Intelligence
,
which
hinder'd
not
,
but
those
of
Strasburgh
well
enough
understood
themselves
betray'd
.
And
tho
they
now
understood
so
with
the
latest
,
they
yet
entertain'd
thoughts
of
making
a
Defence
:
But
a
rable
of
People
hired
at
the
same
time
by
the
French
Resident
,
or
it
may
be
as
well
by
the
Burgemasters
themselves
came
flocking
to
the
Town-house
,
crying
out
for
a
surrender
of
the
Town
,
which
otherwise
would
be
suddenly
consum'd
by
the
Fire
of
the
Booms
,
and
by
the
red
hot
Bullets
.
The
Burgemasters
soon
listn'd
to
that
demand
,
cause
beat
a
Parly
,
set
up
the
White
Colours
for
token
of
a
general
readiness
to
capitulate
,
and
in
a
word
to
say
all
,
yields
up
the
Town
.
I
do
not
condemn
France
,
for
an
act
of
this
importance
,
since
not
of
humor
to
matter
much
her
Faith
in
point
of
Treaty
;
but
what
I
am
most
scandal'd
at
,
to
have
the
Face
to
colour
it
with
a
shew
of
Justice
.
The
Emperor
indeed
having
sent
Count
Mansfeld
to
complain
of
the
Breach
of
Peace
,
was
answer'd
that
they
much
wonder'd
the
Emperor
would
concern
himself
,
where
he
had
not
to
do
,
that
it
was
but
lawful
for
the
King
to
reduce
a
rebellious
City
:
That
Strasburgh
,
as
the
Capital
of
Alsace
did
belong
to
him
,
by
Vertue
of
the
Munster
Treaty
,
and
if
he
did
not
lay
hold
on
't
sooner
't
was
because
he
had
more
pressing
work
in
Hand
:
But
any
would
but
answer
me
,
if
that
City
had
been
granted
him
as
pretended
,
why
entertain'd
he
there
his
public
Ministers
so
long
time
,
why
did
he
in
the
last
War
treat
with
her
in
Order
to
her
remaining
Neuter
,
and
why
so
often
complaining
of
her
not
remaining
so
?
But
all
that
France
can
say
upon
the
subject
,
is
indeed
not
so
much
as
worth
an
answer
,
&
so
I
proceed
to
her
Enterprizes
elsewhere
:
The
taking
of
Strasburgh
open'd
the
Eyes
of
a
great
many
German
Princes
,
lull'd
for
a
long
time
like
England
in
a
profound
Sleep
.
Every
one
was
for
revenging
the
injury
,
but
when
they
came
to
act
according
there
was
none
but
met
with
a
Difficulty
and
Lyon
in
the
way
,
one
had
no
Money
to
begin
a
War
,
another
for
not
hazarding
his
Men
,
which
he
reserv'd
for
some
other
time
,
another
he
would
first
know
,
to
whom
the
Town
should
fall
when
retaken
;
in
short
,
if
any
seem'd
to
be
accorded
together
't
was
but
as
they
conspir'd
each
by
their
mutual
ill
conducts
in
the
twisting
of
Cords
for
their
own
Bondage
.
In
the
mean
while
France
lost
not
her
good
time
thus
in
unuseful
Discourses
:
During
the
last
War
had
all
along
kept
a
correspondence
with
Teckely
,
by
the
help
of
one
Bohan
of
Ardenn
by
Nation
,
and
whom
I
remember
to
have
seen
a
Lieutenant
of
Horse
in
the
French
Army
.
He
afterwards
was
in
Service
with
the
Pole
,
but
being
reform'd
upon
the
Peace
made
between
the
Port
and
that
Nation
,
went
to
seek
his
Fortune
with
Teckely
,
who
took
care
to
advance
him
,
for
that
besides
being
a
Man
of
good
parts
,
was
very
likely
to
make
a
good
Officer
;
some
three
or
four
years
since
he
had
been
in
France
,
discours'd
the
Ministers
,
&
setled
there
correspondence
with
them
,
that
being
call'd
upon
to
make
good
his
Word
he
had
given
them
,
order'd
so
his
matters
,
as
to
content
their
expectations
,
and
to
the
purpose
;
Teckely
engages
to
give
diversion
in
Hungary
,
and
that
he
might
be
the
better
in
condition
to
bring
in
the
Turks
,
has
granted
him
great
supplies
of
Mony
,
and
far
greater
promis'd
him
,
if
once
able
to
put
in
execution
,
the
thing
he
had
undertaken
.
This
Business
has
been
so
generally
known
,
that
't
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
by
any
who
have
had
the
least
instruction
of
what
passes
in
the
World
:
Letters
went
from
France
to
Germany
,
from
Germany
to
Bohan
by
the
means
of
a
Secretary
,
to
a
certain
Envoy
the
King
there
entertain'd
,
and
from
Bohan
to
Teckely
:
The
Secretary
lay
long
by
the
heels
for
this
Business
,
and
had
not
the
King
of
France
clapt
up
Count
Mansfeld's
Secretary
in
requital
,
he
had
not
been
freed
upon
so
easie
a
reckoning
;
but
he
being
committed
to
the
Bastille
,
and
told
he
might
be
sure
to
have
the
same
usage
,
whatever
the
other
had
at
the
hands
of
the
Emperor
,
oblig'd
him
quickly
to
post
some
a
way
to
Vienna
to
give
notice
:
The
Emperor
upon
that
stopt
any
further
proceedings
,
and
rather
chose
to
forgive
the
Guilty
,
then
destroy
the
Innocent
;
yet
to
let
see
how
sensible
he
was
of
the
Injury
,
had
the
Prisoner
let
loose
,
but
at
Brisac
,
where
for
the
greater
Marks
of
Infamy
he
was
brought
upon
a
Cart
,
bolted
with
Irons
Hand
and
Foot
,
and
under
Guard
sufficient
;
't
was
fear'd
France
provoked
by
the
Treatment
,
might
do
as
much
to
Count
Mansfeld's
Secretary
;
but
whether
out
of
a
better
knowledge
of
her self
,
or
that
she
fear'd
offering
violence
to
the
Right
of
Nations
,
of
which
I
must
needs
say
she
is
a
most
Religious
Observer
,
he
was
let
go
out
of
the
Bastille
,
without
using
of
any
Reprisals
in
the
case
,
and
even
suffer'd
to
continue
in
Paris
,
where
I
have
been
told
he
yet
remains
.
The
Mighty
Huff
that
follow'd
after
the
taking
of
Strasburgh
being
vanisht
into
Air
:
France
as
I
said
before
,
whose
Stomach
still
mended
at
the
sight
of
a
fresh
Dish
,
began
again
in
Right
of
her
Dependencies
,
which
in
proportion
to
her
greedy
Belly
she
extended
,
to
demand
one
part
of
Liege
,
even
to
the
Moity
of
its
Capital
City
,
mean
while
as
a
Country
frontier
to
Germany
,
as
well
as
the
Low-Countries
,
and
for
the
designs
she
had
on
both
it
was
expedient
for
her
purpose
to
meet
with
no
resistance
,
she
had
during
the
late
Wars
,
thrown
down
all
the
Forts
,
and
dismantled
the
Walls
,
already
was
in
possession
of
the
Castle
of
Dinan
,
by
force
of
an
Article
in
the
Nemiguen
Treaty
by
which
the
Spaniards
lay
under
an
Obligation
to
procure
them
the
Propriety
of
from
the
Elector
of
Cullen
,
Prince
and
Bishop
of
Liege
,
to
whom
it
of
Right
pertain'd
,
and
the
same
to
get
ratifi'd
at
the
Diet
of
Ratisbonne
,
or
otherwise
to
give
them
Charlemont
in
stead
.
The
Spaniards
not
able
to
prevail
with
the
Bishop
of
Cullen
,
to
dismember
the
place
from
off
his
Country
,
or
rather
France
having
underhand
hinder'd
him
from
dismembring
to
have
always
pretext
in
hand
to
be
tormenting
of
the
poor
Spaniard
with
,
when
they
so
pleas'd
:
Besides
,
the
Diet
of
the
Empire
would
consent
to
no
such
alienation
;
France
finding
all
these
obstacles
lay
daily
pressing
of
the
Spaniards
to
put
Charlemont
into
their
Hands
,
according
to
the
Tenure
of
the
Treaty
;
the
Spaniards
they
hung
back
all
they
could
,
as
if
they
had
foreseen
what
would
come
on
't
.
But
at
last
seeing
France
,
who
well
knew
how
to
make
her
use
of
the
misunderstandings
of
one
and
t'other
,
threatned
to
fall
downright
upon
Flanders
if
they
made
not
good
their
Engagements
,
Charlemont
was
deliver'd
,
which
is
one
of
the
best
places
France
is
this
day
in
possession
of
,
though
possessing
of
a
great
many
good
ones
.
When
once
Charlemont
was
in
their
Hands
,
the
redelivering
of
Dinan
,
was
no
more
mention'd
,
and
so
blocks
up
Namur
by
the
Meuse
,
that
when
she
pleases
,
can
hinder
any
thing
from
coming
to
it
by
Water
carriage
:
For
as
Mistress
of
the
whole
Liege
Country
,
I
know
not
which
way
Namur
can
receive
relief
,
but
on
the
Land
side
.
The
Spaniards
might
complain
their
Heart
out
of
being
thus
dealt
with
France
,
was
ne're
the
more
concern'd
,
but
the
contrary
,
the
first
to
cry
out
,
The
Spaniards
had
not
perform'd
to
them
their
Peace
of
Nimeguen
,
since
as
yet
they
could
not
oblige
them
to
a
rendidition
of
the
County
of
Alost
,
which
of
Right
did
to
them
belong
.
All
the
Electors
,
bordering
upon
the
Rhine
,
had
a
Crow
to
pull
with
France
,
about
her
Right
of
Dependance
by
the
help
of
it
pretending
to
swallow
all
places
that
lay
commodious
for
her
purpose
,
but
when
the
thing
demanded
was
had
,
or
indeed
the
thing
she
would
give
her self
,
like
the
Fire
which
having
consum'd
all
near
to
it
insensibly
spreads
it self
to
places
more
remote
,
so
she
having
laid
her
clutches
upon
an
infinite
Tract
of
Country
pushes
on
her
designs
upon
the
very
Capital
Towns
of
the
Electoral
Princes
;
to
that
effect
alledg'd
she
that
the
ground
where
stood
the
Stables
belonging
to
the
Elector
of
Mayence
did
appertain
with
all
the
Hame
,
Country
Soil
,
remarkable
for
the
excellent
Rhenish
that
there
grows
:
Her
pretentions
upon
the
City
of
Cullen
,
and
upon
that
of
Mayence
,
bounds
not
with
so
small
a
Business
;
France
maintain'd
that
as
these
two
Cities
were
much
encreas'd
by
length
of
time
,
all
that
had
been
built
for
Four
or
Five
preceeding
Ages
;
was
built
upon
what
was
granted
her
by
Vertue
of
the
Treaty
,
that
therefore
the
buildings
must
be
demolisht
,
and
the
City
restrain'd
again
to
its
Antient
limits
,
or
the
Proprietors
of
those
Houses
from
thence
forward
to
pay
Allegiance
to
the
Crown
of
France
.
These
Things
thus
acted
by
that
King
,
nothing
more
could
shew
how
extremely
they
were
deceived
who
said
he
aimed
so
much
at
having
his
Son
chose
King
of
the
Romans
,
so
far
was
he
from
designing
that
he
should
ever
arrive
at
the
Empire
,
that
't
was
his
Business
to
give
it
rather
an
absolute
overthrow
;
and
so
began
first
with
the
Electors
,
that
for
the
future
such
a
thing
as
Emperor
might
be
no
more
in
Nature
.
The
Emperor
,
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
the
Spaniards
,
and
in
fine
,
all
those
of
the
Cordial
Allies
saw
but
too
plain
the
tendency
of
all
these
Designs
;
but
it
seems
such
was
the
Fate
of
Europe
,
whilst
they
lost
whole
years
in
deliberating
about
triffles
,
France
brings
them
under
in
the
mean
while
,
and
prepares
their
Chains
,
whose
weight
is
known
by
none
,
but
by
those
they
load
:
For
in
fine
,
her
own
Ancient
Subjects
,
and
those
very
Men
,
who
daily
spend
themselves
to
the
last
drop
of
their
Blood
in
assisting
them
to
compass
their
intentions
meet
with
the
same
sort
of
Treatment
is
mett
to
others
,
and
to
begin
with
those
who
serve
in
their
Armies
must
be
understood
are
all
obliged
to
make
a
profuse
Expence
till
their
all
be
whole
run
out
,
when
she
Knows
they
have
nothing
left
them
,
they
pick
a
Fob-quarrel
as
one
may
call
it
,
are
after
all
glad
to
take
to
an
Hospital
for
the
final
recompence
of
Service
.
'T
is
for
that
end
,
has
she
truly
built
,
and
that
a
most
sumptuous
one
,
but
which
stands
them
not
in
no
great
matter
of
keeping
,
having
laid
hold
on
certain
Lands
which
the
particular
Devotion
of
some
People
had
given
towards
the
relief
of
Lepers
,
and
converted
to
the
use
of
that
Hospital
,
but
as
those
Rents
suffice
not
for
the
maintenance
or
at
least
will
have
it
so
supposed
,
she
detains
in
her
Hands
a
certain
Sum
from
both
of
the
pay
of
Souldier
and
Officer
,
and
that
way
makes
them
purchase
their
Places
beforehand
which
each
is
very
well
pleased
to
do
for
that
they
are
satisfied
,
thither
they
all
must
come
and
lay
their
Bones
.
And
those
out
of
her
Service
have
not
a
much
better
time
on
't
,
for
though
not
oblig'd
to
so
great
an
Expence
as
others
are
,
they
squeese
them
to
little
by
little
till
they
have
squeezed
out
the
last
of
what
they
have
.
And
though
they
have
continu'd
some
time
in
Peace
,
they
have
diminisht
nothing
of
their
Taxes
,
so
that
their
King
is
the
only
Gainer
by
the
War
,
all
besides
losers
.
The
Franch
County
he
has
added
to
his
Provinces
with
a
great
many
more
several
Conquests
,
which
have
very
much
augmented
his
Revenue
,
which
by
his
several
new
impositions
he
has
greatly
added
to
,
readier
to
lay
more
on
then
to
suppress
the
Old
.
Now
if
they
who
serve
,
and
who
serve
him
not
have
so
much
to
suffer
,
there
yet
remains
another
sort
of
People
in
that
State
who
certainly
are
yet
much
more
to
be
pittied
:
I
mean
those
of
the
Reform'd
Religion
,
who
must
endure
on
all
sort
of
outragious
violences
,
for
tho
they
do
not
outright
put
them
to
death
by
the
Hands
of
a
Hangman
,
as
they
are
daily
made
to
perish
by
little
and
little
,
their
death
is
but
the
crueller
in
that
it
is
the
more
languishing
,
and
have
for
all
that
never
given
but
Eminent
proofs
of
their
Fidelity
and
Allegiance
;
and
though
when
Henry
the
Fourth
came
to
the
Crown
did
he
desert
them
,
it
came
not
into
their
Thoughts
to
do
as
much
by
him
,
which
at
that
time
had
wholly
ruin'd
his
Affairs
;
some
time
they
did
remain
quiet
,
and
enjoy'd
the
benefit
of
their
Edicts
,
but
just
it
was
they
who
were
the
great
disturbers
of
Europe
,
should
too
disturb
a
company
of
poor
unhappy
wretches
,
excluded
for
ever
from
all
Marks
of
Honour
and
places
of
trust
,
have
this
however
to
comfort
themselves
,
that
for
their
Religion
't
is
that
they
suffer
.
Amongst
the
many
of
all
sorts
France
thus
undoes
,
whether
within
or
without
the
Kingdom
,
the
Prince
of
Orange
was
the
only
,
as
one
may
say
,
that
nos'd
them
.
And
though
his
power
was
no
more
then
what
the
Common-wealth
of
Holland
were
pleased
to
limit
him
,
his
great
Heart
was
not
so
bounded
,
and
was
incomparably
greater
then
his
Fortune
,
he
never
gave
over
remonstrating
to
some
,
that
rather
they
should
choose
to
perish
,
then
submit
to
Power
so
terribly
dangerous
,
to
other
some
the
absolute
necessity
of
arming
against
her
:
many
things
that
Prince
had
retrencht
himself
to
raise
a
Fund
for
the
subsistance
of
some
well
deserving
Officers
,
which
that
State
at
making
of
the
Peace
had
reform'd
,
that
so
through
necessity
of
Bread
,
they
might
not
be
oblig'd
to
seek
Employment
elsewhere
,
and
when
he
had
occasion
for
them
,
might
know
where
to
find
them
.
France
which
knew
she
had
in
him
an
Enemy
she
most
of
all
fear'd
,
resolv'd
he
should
feel
in
his
Personal
concerns
,
a
touch
of
her
Resentment
,
not
to
say
of
her
Injustice
,
his
Principality
of
Orange
lies
between
Languedoc
and
Avignon
,
which
as
Sovereign
of
,
he
had
enjoy'd
,
he
,
and
his
Predecessors
from
the
time
it
past
out
of
the
House
of
Chalon
into
that
of
Nassaw
.
But
that
King
who
was
for
suffering
no
Sovereign
in
France
,
nor
in
Europe
neither
,
besides
himself
,
had
the
Town
of
Orange
dismantled
;
and
the
Prince
of
Orange
left
without
any
reparation
,
what
complaint
soever
at
that
time
he
made
of
it
to
the
King
never
so
Instant
:
But
the
King
stopt
not
there
in
relation
to
his
Affairs
,
for
having
resolv'd
to
strip
him
absolutely
of
that
Sovereignty
,
he
makes
the
Dutchess
of
Nemours
put
in
,
who
by
colour
of
some
foolish
and
idle
pretences
,
had
the
Prince
cited
at
Law
to
their
Courts
of
Judicature
,
where
not
giving
his
appearance
,
the
Principality
of
Orange
was
adjudg'd
her
;
no
body
can
,
no
more
than
I
,
tell
upon
what
bottom
that
Decree
could
ground
:
For
if
by
Vertue
of
some
pretended
old
Entail
from
the
House
of
Chalon
,
to
which
they
will
say
the
Predecessors
of
the
Prince
of
Orange
did
not
comply
with
,
as
it
is
easie
to
give
proof
sufficient
to
the
contrary
,
't
is
not
without
a
likelihood
of
Truth
to
say
,
that
tho
Madam
de
Nemours
could
make
out
the
Title
,
her
time
was
laps'd
in
point
of
claim
;
for
that
by
the
Laws
of
that
Kingdom
,
such
at
least
as
I
have
seen
them
in
case
of
Custom
,
the
prescription
of
Thirty
years
Possession
was
sufficient
to
quiet
a
Title
,
and
that
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
I
mean
,
the
Prince
and
his
Predecessors
together
have
enjoy'd
for
above
a
Hundred
and
fifty
years
:
But
whether
this
be
so
or
not
,
it
hinder'd
not
,
but
Madam
de
Nemours
obtain'd
her
Decree
,
which
tho
has
for
all
that
been
since
revok't
,
in
the
mean
while
the
Prince
has
sent
Mr.
Hemsius
to
Paris
,
to
shew
the
King
the
wrong
done
him
:
The
States
General
upon
their
part
have
particularly
recommended
that
Affair
to
their
Embassadour
in
France
,
but
hitherto
ineffectually
;
and
tho
't
is
now
six
Months
that
Mr.
Hemsius
is
working
at
it
,
it
yet
appears
not
to
have
made
any
progress
;
but
let
us
pass
to
some
other
matter
,
this
being
but
trifle
in
comparison
with
what
I
have
yet
to
say
.
The
King
of
Poland
had
ever
been
a
Friend
of
France
,
't
was
by
her
means
he
got
the
Crown
which
every
foot
was
sending
him
presents
,
in
token
of
her
Friendship
,
had
given
him
her
Order
of
Holy
Ghost
,
and
the
only
Prince
she
in
fine
,
thought
well
of
in
Europe
besides
.
Now
let
us
see
how
they
came
to
break
with
him
,
and
at
whose
Door
lies
the
fault
;
't
is
indeed
with
difficulty
I
must
discover
this
,
but
out
it
must
being
got
so
far
there
is
no
going
back
:
The
Money
sent
by
France
to
Teckely
was
no
useless
supply
,
he
had
for
it
engag'd
the
Turks
to
fall
upon
the
Emperor
;
and
France
having
due
Intelligence
of
all
that
past
,
both
of
time
and
place
,
and
of
the
other
side
preferr'd
the
carrying
on
of
her
Intregues
to
all
other
concerns
,
made
no
Bones
of
Soliciting
the
King
of
Poland
at
that
time
to
attack
the
Emperors
Country
upon
his
side
,
as
the
right
of
conveniency
was
an
attractive
sort
of
right
in
her
Eyes
,
which
sway'd
with
her
,
imagin'd
it
might
do
the
same
with
the
King
of
Poland
,
and
propos'd
to
him
the
Conquest
of
Silesia
,
where
in
probability
he
was
not
like
to
meet
with
any
great
resistance
from
the
Moment
the
Ottoman
Forces
had
made
their
descent
into
Hungary
,
the
King
of
Poland
who
is
a
sharp
Prince
,
and
who
needs
no
prompters
to
teach
him
his
Lesson
,
thought
it
improper
to
his
own
Honour
,
as
to
that
of
his
Crown
,
to
make
use
of
the
advice
,
on
the
contrary
,
he
accepts
of
an
Alliance
with
the
Emperor
then
propos'd
him
by
which
they
mutually
engaged
by
League
Offensive
and
Defensive
to
assist
each
other
against
the
Turk
:
France
had
no
sooner
learnt
what
the
King
of
Poland
had
done
but
her
former
Kindness
was
immediately
chang'd
into
an
irreconcilable
hate
,
sends
to
the
Marquis
of
Vitry
her
Ambassadour
in
that
Court
a
Man
of
Parts
,
and
good
at
an
Intregue
,
to
employ
his
skill
to
set
all
at
work
in
creating
misunderstandings
betwixt
him
and
his
people
,
and
Morstein
high
Treasurer
of
Poland
,
who
was
a
Pentioner
of
France
,
and
where
he
had
thoughts
to
settle
himself
,
and
where
he
already
had
purchas'd
great
possessions
,
assists
Vitry
in
his
design
;
already
had
they
tamper'd
with
some
of
the
discontented
Senators
,
who
talk't
at
no
lower
rates
then
the
obliging
the
King
of
Poland
to
relinquish
the
Government
.
For
the
purpose
already
cast
their
Eyes
upon
a
Person
they
had
design'd
the
Throne
to
in
his
stead
;
When
as
good
fortune
would
have
it
,
the
King
of
Poland
intercepted
a
Letter
of
Morstein's
writ
in
Cyphers
,
he
sends
for
him
forthwith
,
and
having
enquir'd
of
him
the
meaning
of
the
Letter
,
and
finding
he
endeavour'd
to
shift
the
Truth
,
bid
him
give
the
Key
,
Morstein
reply'd
't
was
with
his
Wite
,
which
forc't
the
King
to
send
for
her
,
when
she
came
,
and
found
for
what
the
King
had
sent
for
her
,
told
,
she
had
burnt
the
Key
,
and
not
being
able
to
get
out
any
better
account
,
commanded
the
Commitment
of
them
both
under
a
strong
Guard
till
he
sifted
the
affair
a
little
more
narrowly
:
I
shall
say
no
more
upon
this
Chapter
;
every
one
knows
the
French
Embassador
convinc'd
of
Tampering
in
the
Business
,
a
certain
Senator
out
of
pure
love
to
his
King
and
Country
was
bold
enough
to
say
in
full
assembly
,
speaking
of
Morstan
,
that
for
attempts
of
a
less
nature
the
Turks
had
given
Two
hundred
Bastinadoes
to
an
Embassadour
of
France
,
and
't
was
his
Opinion
,
Mr.
De
Vitry
deserv'd
four
hundred
:
The
King
of
Poland
,
a
sagacious
Prince
,
and
great
Politician
,
would
suffer
him
to
say
no
more
,
for
fear
the
heat
he
was
in
might
transport
him
too
far
,
hinder'd
also
the
Entry
of
his
Opinion
upon
their
publick
Records
,
contenting
himself
to
let
Mr.
De
Vitry
know
he
had
strain'd
his
Character
of
Embassadour
;
Mr.
De
Vitry
remain'd
not
long
after
this
in
Poland
,
and
if
ever
he
have
Embassy
elsewhere
,
I
make
no
doubt
the
Princes
they
fend
him
to
,
will
take
due
care
to
watch
his
Water
.
I
have
formerly
toucht
upon
some
circumstances
of
Luxemburg
,
but
as
insensibly
I
fell
to
other
subjects
,
't
is
yet
not
unseasonable
to
relate
what
was
the
success
,
though
to
have
done
things
,
exactly
methodical
it
should
have
been
before
handled
.
As
the
Conquest
of
Strasburgh
,
and
the
acquisition
of
Casal
had
strangely
alarm'd
both
Emperor
and
Spaniard
,
had
been
instant
with
all
their
Neigbouring
Princes
to
use
their
Endeavours
for
their
regaining
of
them
again
,
but
as
some
were
feeble
in
all
respects
,
others
gain'd
by
the
French
,
they
remitted
all
to
the
Diet
of
Franckfort
,
where
whole
Months
were
spent
in
canvasing
a
Pass-port
,
four
or
five
Months
more
took
up
in
a
debate
whether
they
should
speak
Latin
,
high
Dutch
or
French
,
that
so
far
from
hopes
of
some
Redress
that
way
our
Disease
became
the
more
incurable
.
These
delatories
then
making
the
Imperialists
and
Spain
despair
of
gaining
their
point
by
means
of
the
Diet
,
they
by
concerted
Measures
march
their
Forces
towards
Strasburgh
and
Casal
,
which
the
French
was
then
beginning
to
fortifie
,
&
which
lay
almost
every
where
open
for
that
the
old
works
had
been
thrown
down
to
put
new
in
the
room
:
The
Emperor
&
Spaniard
were
but
in
an
ill
condition
to
go
through
with
any
thing
they
undertook
.
But
the
King
of
France
newly
settled
in
his
Conquest
of
those
two
places
,
imagining
they
marcht
not
their
Forces
but
with
some
design
,
and
might
not
be
without
holding
some
private
Intelligence
in
both
the
Towns
,
raises
the
Blocus
of
Luxemburgh
to
have
Forces
in
readiness
to
oppose
.
Now
as
he
was
willing
to
have
the
thanks
of
that
action
,
sends
for
the
Marquis
of
Fuentes
Embassadour
of
Spain
,
to
tell
him
,
that
upon
the
advice
he
had
receiv'd
the
Turk
was
falling
upon
Hungary
,
he
thought
good
to
withdraw
his
Forces
from
Luxemburg
,
that
so
the
King
of
Spain
might
have
the
greater
liberty
to
assist
the
Emperor
:
The
Marquis
of
Fuentes
who
knew
well
enough
what
to
think
of
the
Business
,
made
his
Compliment
of
thanks
to
his
Majesty
notwithstanding
,
as
an
act
of
great
grace
and
favor
,
but
amongst
Friends
where
he
could
be
free
,
would
be
telling
them
what
was
the
real
cause
of
so
great
a
change
,
which
was
in
every
Bodies
mouth
already
who
had
but
the
least
smackering
in
publick
Affairs
:
And
indeed
if
I
may
be
allow'd
a
little
to
argue
the
point
,
who
is
it
does
not
see
the
art
of
this
management
was
too
too
gross
to
pass
upon
good
Eyes
?
For
if
true
,
France
had
such
good
natur'd
,
and
such
pious
considerations
,
why
has
she
since
contradicted
them
by
so
many
of
her
actions
to
the
contrary
?
why
a
correspondence
with
Teckely
?
why
Intregues
carried
on
in
Poland
?
why
those
Alliances
with
Denmark
and
Brandenburgh
?
why
Princes
so
warmly
ply'd
to
draw
them
to
her
side
?
And
in
short
,
why
those
Huffs
at
the
Imperial
Diet
,
if
they
consent
not
to
her
pretensions
?
I
know
before
hand
what
answer
I
shall
have
,
I
know
nothing
less
will
be
allow'd
neither
in
regard
to
Teckely
nor
to
the
King
of
Poland
,
that
to
what
concerns
the
rest
will
be
answer'd
,
it
was
the
Master-piece
of
a
Politick
King
vers'd
in
King-craft
,
and
the
Arts
of
Government
to
be
making
sometimes
such
sort
of
Alliances
which
have
their
use
,
not
so
much
in
order
to
the
support
of
War
abroad
amongst
his
Neighbours
,
as
to
hinder
his
Neighbours
from
carrying
the
War
home
to
his
own
door
.
I
do
know
,
as
I
said
,
the
unthinking
part
of
Mankind
may
be
put
upon
in
disowning
of
the
one
,
and
in
giving
some
kind
of
gloss
to
palliate
the
other
,
but
I
would
a
little
fain
know
if
they
can
answer
this
too
which
I
am
now
about
saying
,
France
was
willing
to
raise
the
Blocus
of
Luxemburg
a
whole
year
before
the
Turks
came
down
upon
Hungary
,
and
when
effectually
they
came
with
a
Vengeance
he
frames
a
Camp
in
Alsatia
,
to
hold
the
Emperor
in
play
,
makes
another
in
Flanders
,
to
oblige
Spain
to
be
upon
her
Guard
,
a
Camp
upon
the
River
Soare
he
orders
,
to
frighten
the
Electors
,
and
in
fine
,
has
another
Camp
drawn
upon
the
Saonne
to
keep
the
rest
of
Europe
in
a
Jealousie
:
France
would
shew
to
the
World
she
becomes
less
rapacious
upon
the
considerations
of
the
great
misfortunes
that
hung
now
over
the
Head
of
Christendom
,
and
when
those
misfortunes
are
actually
befallen
her
,
it
then
Thunders
,
Threats
and
Rants
,
and
lets
the
Diet
be
roundly
told
he
onely
will
give
but
such
certain
short
day
to
grant
her
injust
pretentions
in
and
if
not
then
granted
would
do
her self
that
right
by
force
of
Arms
:
And
to
be
doing
as
well
as
saying
,
presents
with
a
great
Army
upon
the
Frontier
,
ready
at
a
mouthfull
to
swallow
several
of
the
Spainish
Provinces
;
War
indeed
they
can't
be
said
to
make
,
but
make
altogether
as
much
mischief
,
by
their
hindring
those
Princes
which
she
just
dreaded
as
she
did
the
Turk
,
from
employing
their
Forces
in
favour
of
the
Emperor
:
The
Emperor
indeed
himself
obliged
to
leave
his
to
guard
the
Rhine
,
whilst
a
Company
of
Infidels
invades
his
Dominions
,
ravages
to
the
very
Heart
of
his
Country
,
and
carries
off
for
Slaves
a
hundred
Thousand
Souls
,
burns
his
Palaces
,
lays
waste
the
Country
round
,
and
in
conclusion
claps
Siege
to
Vienna
,
his
Capital
City
,
and
place
of
Residence
.
But
I
perceive
not
all
this
while
,
that
having
but
now
documented
others
,
I
insensibly
fall
into
the
same
Error
my self
I
would
have
them
avoid
:
I
fall
off
arguing
the
point
,
as
if
every
one
could
not
do
it
as
well
without
me
,
let
us
have
done
then
with
these
kind
of
entertainments
,
and
go
on
to
our
Examine
of
other
places
whether
France
aspiring
to
the
Universal
Monarchy
be
Truth
,
or
Fiction
,
or
rather
let
us
see
if
she
already
usurps
not
upon
the
right
of
Sovereigns
as
if
she
actually
were
the
Mistress
of
the
World
:
Let
us
see
what
she
is
about
,
with
her
Mines
in
all
the
Courts
of
Europe
;
not
that
I
pretend
to
say
Policy
is
a
thing
forbidden
amongst
Princes
,
but
that
her
meaning
may
no
more
be
doubted
of
,
every
one
can
tell
what
an
Errand
she
sent
the
Republic
of
Genoua
,
whose
Coat
she
fain
would
pick
a
hole
in
,
sends
word
she
will
not
have
her
put
her
Gally's
out
,
lest
they
should
come
to
joyn
with
those
of
Spain
,
if
otherwise
should
take
it
for
an
act
of
Hostility
,
and
should
use
her
accordingly
as
an
Enemy
declared
:
The
Hollanders
just
so
dealt
with
about
a
Month
or
two
since
,
upon
the
intent
they
had
of
sending
some
new
Ships
to
the
King
of
Swede
:
So
that
over
those
two
Common-wealths
,
where
she
hath
nothing
to
do
,
she
already
Lords
it
as
absolute
Sovereign
,
she
will
not
suffer
Free
States
,
who
have
bought
their
Liberty
with
the
Price
of
their
Blood
shall
think
to
make
Alliances
,
and
succour
their
Allies
,
and
they
that
call
themselves
the
eldest
Sons
of
the
Church
can
yet
suffer
an
Alliance
with
her
most
mortal
Enemy
:
But
then
let
us
see
how
she
deals
with
those
that
leave
her
Interest
,
and
those
it self
,
who
are
mean
spirited
enough
to
adhere
to
her
,
let
us
look
a
little
upon
the
different
Springs
she
sets
at
work
to
bring
her
matters
about
;
what
says
she
not
of
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
,
for
deserting
the
side
,
and
his
so
very
generously
embracing
that
of
the
Emperor
;
what
does
she
not
at
Leige
,
where
she
makes
it
her
Business
to
foment
the
Rebellion
of
that
People
against
their
lawful
Prince
,
that
so
the
Prince
not
able
to
master
them
,
may
not
with
the
assistance
of
other
Princes
be
in
a
post
to
make
a
Barrier
of
that
City
,
and
stop
her
passage
that
way
into
the
Territories
of
other
States
?
What
does
she
not
act
at
Cullen
,
where
the
Inhabitants
are
all
banding
one
against
t'other
,
and
cutting
one
anothers
Throats
,
whilst
the
Enemy
is
at
their
Gates
,
ready
to
devour
?
What
not
at
Hamburgh
and
Lubec
,
where
Intregues
apparent
as
the
Sun
are
carrying
on
to
the
ruine
both
of
their
Liberty
and
Country
?
What
leave
they
undone
in
the
Courts
of
the
Lunebourg
Princes
,
where
People
banisht
France
are
most
in
Credit
,
but
banisht
after
such
a
fashion
as
to
return
again
into
that
Kingdom
,
when
they
will
,
and
privately
to
see
,
and
discourse
the
Ministers
?
Indeed
what
is
she
not
brewing
in
the
Emperors
Court
it self
,
where
she
foments
Jealousies
among
the
chief
,
where
she
opens
the
very
Cabinet
Counsels
with
her
Silver
Key
,
where
not
one
resolution
can
be
taken
,
but
she
gets
notice
of
,
at
the
same
time
?
Some
may
say
,
I
discourse
but
of
these
affairs
conjecturally
:
I
shall
most
willingly
leave
them
to
their
own
thoughts
after
,
saying
,
what
I
have
in
answer
.
After
the
routing
the
Marshal
of
Crequi
at
the
Seige
of
Treves
,
France
lay
open
to
the
prevailing
side
,
there
then
stood
no
more
Forces
in
their
way
,
and
had
they
been
so
minded
might
well
have
carried
the
Terror
of
their
Arms
into
the
Heart
of
the
Country
:
The
French
were
much
afraid
they
would
,
and
begun
to
pack
their
most
valuable
goods
within
the
wall'd
Towns
,
when
Mr.
De
Louvois
told
a
certain
Person
with
whom
I
had
particular
acquaintance
during
the
time
I
was
in
France
,
and
whom
I
have
it
from
,
that
the
Enemy
would
act
no
farther
that
Campagne
,
and
were
then
upon
their
drawing
off
;
I
willingly
would
ask
now
if
this
was
news
one
could
reasonably
well
credit
in
the
then
present
posture
of
Affairs
,
if
one
ought
not
to
be
supernaturally
gifted
,
if
one
needed
not
a
spirit
of
Revelation
to
be
believing
the
contrary
to
what
every
one
else
had
reason
to
believe
:
But
what
will
not
a
Man
do
,
as
a
certain
old
Author
has
remark't
,
who
devotes
his
whole
thought
to
become
rich
?
To
that
very
effect
have
the
Suisses
took
the
Bridle
in
their
Mouths
by
the
Fort
of
Huninghen
,
and
made
sale
both
of
Liberty
and
Country
;
a
Counsellor
of
their
State
might
remonstrate
his
Heart
out
in
full
assembly
,
the
Interest
those
People
had
to
be
early
in
their
opposition
to
a
power
,
who
in
her
ambitious
thoughts
devour'd
Europe
,
the
Pensioners
of
France
soon
stops
his
Mouth
,
and
as
they
struck
the
greatest
stroke
with
that
Common-wealth
,
must
submit
to
what
they
pleas'd
to
do
:
That
way
't
was
that
Nation
suffer'd
without
opposing
the
Franch
County
to
be
seized
by
France
,
from
whence
it
might
have
hoped
the
speedy
assistance
of
a
Neighbour
:
I
speak
not
of
a
great
many
more
things
happen'd
of
the
same
batch
in
the
time
of
the
late
Wars
,
will
seem
too
superannuated
,
and
too
trifling
:
For
in
fine
,
who
is
't
,
but
right
well
knows
that
to
be
the
opening
Key
the
French
have
with
unlockt
the
Gates
of
so
many
Towns
;
every
one
can
tell
't
is
with
that
Instrument
she
renders
all
undertakings
to
her
prejudice
Abortive
,
and
did
retard
the
Seige
of
Phillipsburgh
;
but
't
were
too
much
work
to
say
here
how
very
useful
their
Coin
has
been
in
their
regard
,
and
how
very
prejudicial
to
the
World
besides
.
And
yet
can't
hold
from
speaking
of
a
late
passage
happen'd
in
Denmark
,
to
shew
she
is
no
such
squanderer
neither
of
her
Mony
,
as
one
would
well
imagine
,
Denmark
becoming
Pensioner
to
France
,
or
say
rather
took
Her
Money
to
act
as
France
would
have
her
,
Mr.
Colbert
,
through
whose
hands
the
Mony
went
design'd
for
that
Court
,
having
fancy
to
try
,
how
the
Dane
would
take
it
to
have
his
Pension
retrench't
,
caus'd
write
to
that
effect
to
the
French
Embassadour
in
Denmark
by
the
Hand
of
Mr.
Colbert
De
Croissy
his
Brother
,
whose
Province
't
is
to
take
care
of
Forreign
Affairs
;
the
Embassadour
having
receiv'd
his
Instructions
went
immediately
to
wait
upon
the
King
of
Denmark
surprized
in
the
highest
Nature
,
at
the
proceeding
told
him
,
he
had
no
answer
to
return
,
but
should
give
the
King
of
France
,
one
by
the
hands
of
his
own
Envoy
then
in
Court
,
and
at
the
same
time
send
Directions
to
his
Envoy
to
speak
to
the
King
in
the
Business
,
and
to
let
him
know
how
ill
he
took
it
at
his
hands
:
The
King
told
the
Envoy
of
Denmark
,
that
he
understood
not
what
't
was
he
spoke
to
him
about
,
that
his
Embassad
our
had
acted
without
order
,
that
't
was
never
his
thought
neither
to
add
nor
diminish
any
thing
in
the
Treaty
he
had
made
with
the
King
his
Master
,
and
should
call
home
his
Embassadour
to
teach
him
undertaking
thus
things
of
his
own
Head
,
so
the
poor
Embassadour
was
Sacrificed
just
like
the
Governor
of
Luxemburg
,
disown'd
by
the
Spaniards
,
as
before
related
:
France
too
disowns
her
Embassadour
to
preserve
Amity
with
the
Crown
of
Denmark
.
It
now
remains
to
inspect
the
cause
why
France
so
potent
in
her
Arms
,
and
knowing
how
disunited
and
divided
were
all
her
Neighbours
,
has
for
all
that
been
so
long
without
engaging
.
To
this
a
reason
is
given
with
much
facility
,
nor
is
there
in
it
much
of
puzzle
.
The
private
Alliance
she
had
made
with
the
Turks
,
was
the
String
to
her
Bow
she
most
trusted
to
,
but
that
Alliance
could
not
be
expected
should
produce
the
wish't
effect
of
a
sudden
,
for
the
Truce
then
a
foot
between
the
Emperor
and
the
Port
expired
but
in
the
Year
1682.
and
had
a
mind
it
should
expire
first
before
any
thing
was
to
be
undertaken
,
was
not
over
sure
whether
the
Turks
,
whose
Faith
in
that
affair
could
not
be
well
relied
on
,
would
effectually
declare
against
the
Emperor
,
or
whether
would
accept
those
very
advantagious
Terms
propos'd
by
the
Imperialists
,
ont'other
hand
she
was
upon
the
fortifying
of
a
world
of
places
,
where
much
time
was
requisite
to
finish
the
works
,
and
was
against
the
Rules
of
common
Policy
,
not
to
enter
upon
a
War
,
till
she
had
seen
those
places
in
some
probable
Perfection
,
and
thitherto
truly
one
might
do
her
that
right
she
had
let
slip
no
favourable
occasion
,
but
on
the
contrary
had
been
imprudently
done
to
act
otherwise
:
And
indeed
to
shew
clearly
her
Design
was
to
draw
her
men
into
the
Field
from
the
very
critical
Minut
:
The
Turks
began
the
dance
with
theirs
,
that
no
sooner
had
advice
they
had
fall'n
upon
Hungary
,
but
the
King
parts
froms
Versailles
to
head
their
Army
,
at
the
same
time
a
Detachment
had
already
been
drawn
of
those
encamp't
upon
the
Saone
,
with
orders
for
their
March
towards
the
Frontier
,
and
nothing
now
in
Mouths
of
the
French
,
but
the
beseiging
of
Cullen
or
Philipsburgh
,
when
all
of
a
sudden
a
very
extraordinary
piece
of
news
alter'd
the
resolutions
of
that
Prince
:
he
had
heard
the
Hungarians
had
abandon'd
the
pass
at
Raab
,
and
that
the
Turks
without
the
least
of
stopping
at
Raab
,
or
Comorra
,
as
was
pretended
they
would
have
stopt
at
,
advance
on
with
an
innumerable
,
vast
Army
towards
Vienna
,
which
they
had
determin'd
to
beseige
:
Now
France
was
well
enough
satisfi'd
the
Turks
should
make
Diversion
,
but
sorry
they
should
make
themselves
Master
of
the
Empire
which
he
now
look't
on
as
his
proper
Patrimony
:
France
trusted
to
their
beseiging
Raab
and
Comorra
places
of
great
strength
both
by
Art
and
Nature
,
and
that
they
would
spend
both
their
time
and
pains
before
they
gain'd
their
point
,
in
the
interim
made
sure
of
doing
his
own
Business
,
and
to
oblige
the
Electors
seeing
themselves
on
all
hands
so
surrounded
with
Enemies
to
condescend
to
what
she
pleas'd
her self
:
Hoped
after
the
reinforcing
his
own
,
with
the
Forces
of
the
Empire
,
to
march
them
straight
up
to
the
Turk
,
&
force
him
to
a
Battel
or
to
retire
home
again
:
Noble
designs
of
a
great
Prince
,
and
brim
full
of
Ambition
;
But
learning
as
I
said
,
the
Turks
had
laid
Seige
to
Vienna
was
oblig'd
to
take
new
measures
:
To
that
effect
he
found
it
was
no
more
to
his
purpose
to
set
upon
the
Empire
which
another
was
about
taking
the
possession
of
by
the
taking
of
a
single
Town
:
For
as
that
was
the
only
place
of
Defence
it
was
possible
for
him
indeed
to
have
caus'd
a
great
deal
of
desolation
,
and
terror
of
his
side
,
but
was
the
wrong
way
to
settle
in
the
Throne
.
France
then
chose
rather
at
a
distance
to
take
her
prospect
of
what
might
be
the
event
of
the
Seige
of
Vienna
,
and
send
her
Creatures
about
still
representing
to
all
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
how
the
Emperor
was
but
a
weak
Prince
,
fitter
to
hold
beads
then
a
Scepter
,
and
to
fit
in
a
Cloister
by
much
then
at
Helm
:
That
the
Empire
was
Tottering
,
and
even
now
ready
to
fall
under
his
conduct
,
that
henceforth
they
would
need
rather
a
stout
,
vigorous
Prince
,
which
with
a
Thousand
good
qualities
besides
understood
perfectly
well
that
of
Leading
of
an
Army
:
That
if
the
Turks
come
once
to
get
Vienna
,
they
ought
all
to
expect
no
better
then
absolute
destruction
:
That
their
true
and
only
means
to
be
secured
from
so
imminent
a
mischief
was
to
implore
the
aid
of
the
King
of
France
,
who
would
soon
listen
to
it
,
provided
they
elected
the
Dauphin
King
of
the
Romans
,
as
't
was
a
thing
he
had
been
instant
with
them
for
of
a
long
time
,
they
should
no
sooner
have
answer'd
his
desire
in
that
particular
,
the
Face
of
their
Empire
should
soon
see
chang'd
,
that
the
Kings
Forces
lay
ready
at
their
Gates
for
their
nearer
assistance
,
and
would
in
short
retrive
the
Empire
again
into
that
flourishing
condition
it
had
ever
yet
been
in
under
its
greatest
Emperors
.
Prince
William
of
Furstenburgh
Bishop
of
Strasburgh
de
voted
wholly
to
the
Interests
of
France
,
who
for
some
Years
has
been
labouring
to
deliver
up
his
Country
,
was
one
of
those
most
powerfully
endeavor'd
to
insinuate
these
kind
of
things
:
But
the
aversion
the
Empire
had
for
the
French
in
general
,
was
so
great
,
and
so
universal
,
so
far
from
calling
of
them
into
their
help
,
would
have
much
sooner
call'd
in
the
Turk
:
And
indeed
the
Turk
troubles
no
Body
for
his
Religion
sake
,
leaving
every
one
to
his
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
keeping
strictly
to
their
word
,
where
they
once
give
it
,
and
provided
their
Tribute
be
but
paid
which
you
promise
them
,
Exact
no
more
,
no
Leeches
there
preying
upon
the
Blood
of
the
People
to
be
seen
as
in
France
swarming
under
the
Name
of
Partisan
,
or
Farmers
of
the
Kings
Revenue
,
there
no
laying
of
new
Taxes
upon
every
sort
of
thing
,
or
when
necessity
obliges
them
to
lay
any
are
taken
off
again
,
as
the
necessity
ceases
,
the
Souldier
is
not
there
ill
handled
,
nor
the
Ministers
at
every
turn
threatning
to
lay
them
by
the
heels
;
on
the
contrary
the
Sword-Man
is
in
great
esteem
amongst
them
,
and
a
brave
Fellow
there
is
not
without
his
Mark
of
Distinction
:
In
a
word
they
had
heard
so
much
of
the
French
Domination
and
way
of
Government
that
they
had
resolv'd
as
one
Man
to
stand
it
out
to
the
last
then
ever
have
submitted
.
In
vain
then
did
all
these
good
French
men
take
the
pains
in
giving
out
as
I
was
saying
they
did
:
The
King
then
seeing
he
lost
his
time
that
way
,
resolv'd
upon
the
employing
it
somewhere
else
to
better
purposes
,
whilst
the
occasion
was
opportune
;
his
Pretentions
to
the
County
of
Alost
he
still
kept
up
,
and
so
marches
to
Flanders
side
with
his
Forces
,
proceeds
to
nominating
of
his
general
Officers
,
which
he
is
never
accustom'd
to
do
but
upon
the
neck
of
a
War
,
and
in
fine
making
all
ready
to
enter
upon
the
Country
:
But
just
upon
the
point
of
putting
his
design
in
execution
,
God
was
pleas'd
to
take
out
of
this
World
the
Queen
his
Wife
,
one
of
the
best
Princesses
upon
Earth
,
after
a
sickness
of
two
or
three
Days
.
Her
Disease
appear'd
not
visibly
dangerous
,
and
was
but
a
swelling
,
which
kindly
enough
inclin'd
to
suppuration
,
but
the
Doctors
instead
of
letting
Nature
have
her
Course
which
was
e'en
ready
to
throw
off
the
malignity
as
I
was
saying
,
having
through
Ignorance
let
her
Blood
,
contrary
to
the
Opinion
of
Mr.
Fagon
her
chief
Physician
,
it
struck
in
again
to
the
Heart
,
and
kill'd
her
:
So
soon
as
the
Queen's
condition
was
perceiv'd
Dangerous
,
the
King
had
notice
,
who
came
presently
to
her
Chamber
,
and
seem'd
most
extremly
sensible
,
threw
himself
upon
her
Bed
,
with
the
Tears
in
his
Eyes
speaking
to
her
in
Spanish
,
but
the
Queens
Eyes
now
setting
in
Head
,
and
Death
approaching
died
in
his
Arms
without
being
able
to
answer
:
They
had
an
Hour
or
two
before
given
Emetick
Wine
but
had
not
strength
enough
to
bear
it
,
that
instead
of
doing
her
good
,
serv'd
only
but
to
shorten
her
time
,
they
forc't
the
King
away
from
her
,
who
lay
taking
on
like
wild
in
her
Arms
,
and
the
Queen
they
left
upon
the
Bed
of
State
,
till
the
next
Day
,
then
put
her
into
a
Coffin
of
Lead
,
placing
instead
of
the
Body
a
waxen
Image
made
in
resemblance
,
which
for
Nine
days
together
was
serv'd
up
as
if
yet
alive
,
or
rather
as
if
it
was
the
Queen
her self
:
She
was
afterwards
carried
to
St.
Dennis
the
ordinary
Burying
place
of
the
Kings
of
France
,
with
a
Magnificence
truly
Royal
:
Sixteen
thousand
Flambeauxs
,
Six
hundred
poor
People
clad
in
Black
,
besides
the
Servants
of
her
own
Family
,
and
those
of
all
the
Princes
,
and
Princesses
of
the
Blood
Royal
,
an
infinite
of
other
Persons
of
the
first
quality
,
with
an
endless
train
of
Coaches
.
Her
Heart
had
been
carried
some
days
before
to
Val-de
grace
,
and
placed
in
the
Nuns
Quire
,
right
against
the
Chappel
,
where
is
kept
that
of
the
Queen
Mother
.
Two
or
three
days
before
the
Queen
dy'd
,
there
happen'd
a
thing
of
an
odd
Nature
enough
:
That
Princess
who
was
extremely
addicted
to
her
Religion
,
having
call'd
for
an
Almanack
to
her
Bed-side
to
see
when
such
a
Holy-day
would
fall
to
which
she
had
a
particular
Devotion
,
perceiv'd
the
Composer
of
the
Almanack
in
his
Predictions
upon
the
Month
July
,
foretold
the
withdrawing
of
a
Prince
,
and
Death
of
some
great
Lady
who
would
be
much
regretted
,
and
as
the
Prince
of
Condy's
leaving
the
Court
,
shew'd
perfectly
he
had
hit
extreme
right
,
She
turns
her self
to
Madam
La
Marshalle
de
Humiers
Lady
of
her
Bed-chamber
,
who
stood
at
her
Beds-head
and
askt
if
't
was
not
she
they
meant
;
The
particular
of
this
I
had
from
Madam
La
Marshalle
d'
Humiers
her self
,
and
since
have
had
the
curiosity
to
view
the
Almanack
,
where
those
very
two
things
are
litterally
to
be
found
.
However
the
grief
of
the
King
slopt
his
Flanders
expedition
,
retir'd
immediately
to
St.
Clou
,
his
Brothers
the
Duke
of
Orleance's
Country
House
,
from
thence
to
Fountain-bleau
,
where
in
vain
they
strive
to
divert
him
,
as
the
Queen
took
great
pleasure
in
that
place
made
him
often
call
to
mind
his
Queen
,
tears
are
frequent
in
his
Eyes
,
and
nothing
but
length
of
time
can
make
him
forget
her
.
Notwithstanding
they
give
out
,
he
persists
still
in
his
great
designs
the
Truth
of
which
we
shall
soon
Know
with
a
little
patience
:
But
for
me
,
I
think
God
sent
him
that
affliction
to
move
him
,
and
that
in
a
little
time
,
he
not
only
will
leave
Europe
in
Peace
,
but
by
joining
his
Arms
with
the
Christians
will
force
the
Turk
to
leave
the
Empire
in
quiet
,
which
we
ought
all
to
wish
.