MEMOIRES
Concerning
the
CAMPAGNE
OF
Three
Kings
,
William
,
Lewis
,
and
James
,
in
the
Year
,
1692.
WE
may
say
,
without
aggravating
the
matter
,
that
for
a
hundred
years
last
past
there
have
not
been
seen
so
Puissant
and
so
Numerous
Armies
in
a
Campagne
,
as
in
this
present
Year
;
which
seemed
to
give
good
hopes
to
the
Allies
,
and
promised
them
most
happy
success
.
But
the
equality
of
the
Enemies
Forces
,
and
the
Conduct
of
the
French
having
balanced
their
courage
,
there
has
been
a
necessity
of
remitting
part
of
the
success
to
the
Year
ensuing
.
However
,
the
Spanish
Netherlands
may
boast
of
their
fertility
,
in
having
been
able
to
feed
within
their
own
bowels
three
hundred
thousand
Men
,
and
a
hundred
thousand
Horses
,
besides
their
own
Inhabitants
,
and
that
during
this
whole
Campagne
,
tell
such
time
as
they
are
become
in
a
condition
of
doing
the
like
again
,
and
of
doing
the
Confederates
the
same
service
another
Year
.
Whilest
the
Field
was
thus
covered
with
Forces
of
all
sorts
,
we
have
seen
the
Channel
adorn'd
and
covered
too
with
a
hundred
and
fifty
great
men
of
War
,
the
most
beautiful
and
most
magnificent
that
ever
appear'd
upon
the
water
:
Particularly
with
the
French
Royal
Sun
,
one
of
the
wonders
of
the
age
,
admired
by
all
the
World
,
both
for
the
exquisiteness
of
her
Carving
,
and
the
beauty
of
her
Shape
,
having
employ'd
for
almost
twenty
years
the
most
skilful
Ship-wrights
of
Europe
,
not
to
mention
the
number
and
the
size
of
her
Guns
,
the
splendor
of
her
Decorations
,
nor
the
delicacy
of
her
Painting
,
which
made
her
of
immense
value
,
and
gained
her
the
glorious
Title
of
l'Unique
sur
l'Onde
;
i.e.
the
Non-such
of
the
Sea
;
besides
that
her
Master
Lewis
the
Great
seemed
to
have
put
her
out
to
Sea
to
no
other
end
,
then
to
take
possession
of
that
vast
Empire
.
But
that
which
seems
yet
more
considerable
in
this
Campagne
,
is
that
it
has
been
Honoured
with
the
presence
of
three
Kings
of
France
.
One
of
which
ended
,
before
he
had
well
begun
it
;
the
second
rush't
through
it
like
a
rapid
Torrent
,
carrying
along
with
it
whatever
it
finds
in
it
's
way
;
the
third
taking
sure
marches
,
disappointed
the
design
of
the
first
,
put
a
stop
to
the
impetuosity
of
the
second
;
and
made
good
his
own
career
,
not
fearing
to
look
the
Enemy
in
the
face
,
when
need
requir'd
.
But
let
us
unfold
this
Riddle
.
We
have
seen
this
year
three
Kings
in
the
Field
,
all
styling
themselves
Kings
of
France
;
William
King
of
Great
Britain
in
Flanders
at
the
head
of
the
Confederate
Army
:
Lewis
the
French
King
in
the
Province
of
Namur
,
at
the
head
of
a
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
French
and
Swisse
:
and
the
fugitive
King
James
,
at
the
head
of
fifteen
or
sixteen
thousand
men
upon
the
Coasts
of
Normandy
,
having
as
a
malignant
Star
,
the
Marshal
of
Belfonds
for
Director-General
.
But
tho
the
last
of
the
three
made
no
farther
Progress
,
then
to
the
Sea-coast
,
he
has
notwithstanding
let
all
Europe
see
what
it
is
he
would
be
at
;
but
the
Bridge
,
over
which
he
would
have
passed
,
being
unfortunately
broken
,
and
the
Providence
of
God
blasting
his
great
undertakings
,
we
have
seen
them
,
after
a
great
deal
of
pains
taken
in
them
,
prove
abortive
,
and
his
Army
dispersed
before
it
was
well
gathered
together
,
without
having
done
any
thing
but
Exercising
,
in
order
to
be
the
more
fit
for
the
same
expedition
the
year
ensuing
.
In
the
mean
time
the
party
,
which
the
French
had
formed
in
England
,
known
by
the
name
of
the
Jacobites
,
have
seen
all
their
blessed
Expectations
dash't
to
peices
in
a
moment
,
and
have
got
nothing
by
the
bargain
but
the
having
more
and
more
discovered
themselves
.
As
King
James
opened
the
Campagne
,
we
think
it
proper
to
give
him
the
Precedence
in
these
Memoires
,
and
to
begin
with
him
first
.
The
Irish
War
having
been
ended
last
year
by
the
Courage
and
Conduct
of
the
Earl
of
Athlone
,
the
French
saw
themselves
frustrated
of
the
great
hopes
they
had
conceived
of
keeping
up
the
Ball
on
that
side
,
to
keep
King
William
busy
within
his
own
Dominions
,
and
prevent
his
coming
in
Person
into
the
Low-Countries
,
and
thereby
of
giving
the
French
an
opportunity
to
possess
themselves
of
those
places
,
which
it
was
necessary
for
them
to
take
in
order
to
induce
the
Allies
to
consent
to
a
Peace
,
which
all
men
know
Lewis
the
fourteenth
thirsts
impatiently
after
,
and
imploys
his
utmost
endeavours
to
effect
it
both
at
Rome
and
in
the
North
,
by
the
mediation
of
the
Kings
of
Sweden
and
Denmark
.
Since
King
James
abandon'd
Ireland
,
nay
and
before
the
business
of
the
Boyn
,
his
neglecting
the
opportunity
of
reascending
his
Throne
,
or
of
putting
an
end
to
his
Misfortune
by
a
glorious
Death
,
has
made
the
Court
of
France
look
upon
him
with
a
heavy
and
disdainful
Eye
,
because
they
found
he
could
be
of
no
farther
use
to
them
.
Upon
his
return
to
St.
Germains
we
may
well
imagin
that
Lewis
the
fourteenth
would
very
gladly
have
got
rid
of
him
,
if
some
punctilio
of
Honour
had
not
been
in
the
way
,
rather
then
as
the
Critical
History
Observes
,
a
grewing
Amour
betwixt
him
and
King
James's
Queen
:
but
I
can
easily
be
so
charitable
as
to
ascribe
his
entertaining
him
,
to
the
prospect
and
hopes
he
had
of
fomenting
from
time
to
time
through
his
means
some
division
in
England
.
And
it
is
notorious
that
King
James
,
to
fulfil
his
Expectation
that
Protects
him
,
has
endeavoured
and
does
incessantly
endeavour
to
keep
up
his
party
in
England
,
deeply
wounded
as
it
is
,
to
render
himself
serviceable
to
the
Court
of
France
,
and
that
he
may
not
be
forced
to
repair
to
Rome
,
to
fill
up
the
place
that
's
become
vacant
there
by
the
Death
of
Queen
Christina
.
This
unfortunate
Prince
design'd
a
Voyage
for
England
,
with
som●
poor
wretches
that
remain'd
of
the
Irish
Rapparees
,
and
designed
to
be
furnished
over
and
above
with
some
disciplin'd
Troops
,
a
General
,
Ships
and
Mony
;
to
keep
imploy'd
those
poor
Irish
,
whom
the
distemper
of
the
Country
had
already
seized
on
,
and
who
longed
as
earnestly
after
their
Irish
Potatoes
as
the
Children
of
Israel
did
after
the
Onyons
and
Garlick
of
Egypt
.
Their
murmurings
were
indeed
frequently
appeased
,
by
the
punishments
inflicted
upon
some
or
other
of
their
fellows
.
But
that
would
not
do
the
work
;
there
was
a
necessity
of
employing
them
.
And
by
joyning
them
and
the
Jacobite
Party
in
England
into
a
body
,
there
was
ground
to
hope
for
some
considerable
success
,
or
at
least
that
a
Civil-war
would
have
ensued
in
England
,
which
would
have
enforced
the
King
of
great
Brittain
to
stay
on
that
side
the
water
,
and
,
which
was
the
chief
thing
the
French
aim'd
at
,
to
recal
his
best
Troops
from
Flanders
for
the
preservation
of
his
three
Kingdomes
at
home
.
To
this
end
the
Jacobites
labour'd
all
last
Winter
with
the
utmost
application
,
to
increase
the
number
of
their
party
;
and
the
better
to
guild
over
the
Pill
,
which
they
made
them
swallow
;
they
promised
to
the
Protestants
in
general
without
Exception
,
saving
of
two
or
three
Persons
,
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
As
ample
and
large
as
the
Sleeve
of
an
Augustin-Fryer
;
and
that
they
who
had
given
the
King
ill
Counsel
,
whilest
he
was
upon
the
Throne
,
should
not
be
permitted
to
return
into
England
,
but
that
in
their
stead
others
should
be
imploy'd
who
were
acceptable
to
the
People
.
They
promised
to
the
Presbyterians
in
particular
,
that
Honours
and
Employments
should
be
open
to
all
,
without
regard
had
to
mens
persons
or
Religions
.
They
whisper'd
the
Episcoparians
that
they
should
have
the
sole
power
in
their
hands
,
and
that
the
King
would
re-establish
Episcopacy
in
Scotland
with
beat
of
Drum
.
To
the
Fanatiques
all
was
yielded
that
their
own
shallow
brains
,
or
their
imagination
could
suggest
:
but
for
the
zealous
Roman
Catholicks
,
the
Queen's
best
beloved
Friends
,
an
earthly
Paradise
was
to
be
open
to
them
,
an
absolute
Empire
stood
waiting
for
them
.
These
fair
and
glittering
promises
,
how
vain
and
illusory
soever
they
were
,
yet
made
some
impression
;
especially
upon
such
as
having
nothing
of
their
own
to
loose
,
hoped
to
make
their
Fortune
under
a
change
of
Government
,
or
by
plunder
:
Others
in
better
circumstances
,
not
having
obtain'd
all
under
the
present
Goverment
that
their
Ambition
prompted
them
to
expect
,
and
that
they
conceiv'd
to
be
their
due
,
for
having
been
amongst
the
first
that
submitted
to
it
,
fed
themselves
with
these
gaudy
Expectations
.
In
the
mean
time
whilest
several
Jesuites
in
disguise
,
and
the
Jacobitish
party
in
England
went
on
with
some
success
;
King
James
and
the
Councel
of
France
took
so
sure
measures
,
as
they
thought
,
that
not
only
the
two
Kings
were
of
opinion
that
they
could
not
possibly
miscarry
;
but
even
the
Ministers
of
France
in
the
Courts
of
Denmark
and
Sweden
,
upon
the
assurances
they
received
from
their
Master
,
represented
the
matter
as
already
done
;
insomuch
that
they
laid
considerable
wagers
that
King
James
would
be
restored
to
his
Government
in
less
then
three
Months
time
.
But
those
honest
Gentlemen
had
the
regret
of
loosing
both
their
money
and
their
pains
,
and
saw
all
their
flattering
hopes
vanish
into
Air
.
I
mention
this
circumstance
only
to
show
that
the
Emissaries
of
France
made
no
secret
of
it
,
nor
spoke
it
softly
,
but
mentioned
it
as
a
Triumph
al-ready
obtain'd
by
Lewis
they
Great
;
and
it
is
certain
they
had
a
design
in
publishing
it
in
the
Northern
Courts
.
Whilest
matters
were
preparing
on
this
side
,
the
Reverend
Fathers
of
the
Society
belabour'd
the
same
matter
at
Rome
,
and
we
may
say
it
to
their
Honour
,
that
they
are
never
Lazy
,
when
their
Interest
is
at
stake
.
To
this
end
they
made
use
of
all
their
Rhetorick
to
get
some
mony
from
Innocent
the
twelfth
;
who
,
as
appears
by
his
carriage
,
is
a
good
honest
man
at
bottom
,
but
a
very
mean
Politicion
;
and
altogether
unaquainted
with
the
Affaires
of
the
World
,
and
who
has
nothing
less
in
him
then
a
dexterity
in
Temporal
business
;
quite
different
ftom
his
Predecessors
,
who
understanding
the
Interest
of
the
Holy
See
better
then
he
,
and
having
a
truer
notion
of
the
means
of
obtaining
a
solid
and
durable
peace
in
Christendom
,
made
no
great
account
of
King
James
his
Embassies
,
and
would
give
no
Ear
to
any
propositions
made
by
the
French
Emissaries
;
but
the
good
old
Gentleman
that
now
is
,
being
not
well
informed
of
his
own
Interest
,
makes
it
appear
,
tho
he
be
a
Neapolitan
,
that
he
has
but
little
regard
to
the
Interest
and
prosperity
of
the
House
of
Austria
,
insomuch
that
it
is
commonly
said
;
if
he
understand
his
Pastoral
Office
no
better
then
he
does
his
Temporal
Interest
,
woe
be
to
the
Sheep
of
his
Flock
.
The
Holy
Father
was
so
easie
at
the
beginning
of
the
Campagne
,
as
to
be
caught
into
the
snare
,
and
espouse
the
Interest
of
King
James
his
Restauration
:
he
opened
in
favour
of
him
the
Treasure
and
the
Prayers
of
the
Church
,
so
that
to
appearance
things
began
to
go
on
the
Jacobites
side
,
according
to
their
own
hearts
desire
.
The
Pope
had
engaged
his
Pontifical
word
,
that
if
the
design
proceeded
well
,
he
for
his
part
would
do
all
that
could
be
expected
from
a
good
Father
:
that
is
to
say
,
that
he
would
disburse
out
of
the
Revenue
of
St.
Peter
towards
the
compleating
it
.
The
French
King
supplyed
Ships
,
Troops
and
Lovis
d'ores
;
so
that
nothing
was
wanting
but
to
cross
the
Sea
and
make
a
step
over
the
Channel
;
but
to
bring
this
great
undertaking
to
perfection
,
it
was
necessary
above
all
things
to
dispose
the
People
of
England
to
receive
King
James
.
This
the
Jacobites
laboured
(
as
who
doubts
it
?
)
with
great
application
:
and
a
little
fire
began
to
kindle
,
the
sparks
whereof
flew
about
in
divers
parts
of
the
Kingdome
.
The
Roman
Catholicks
were
not
the
only
persons
that
engaged
in
the
design
:
they
had
some
of
the
Clergy
themselves
in
their
Interest
and
Party
(
Children
of
Darkness
)
who
out
of
a
pretended
nicety
of
Conscience
could
not
forsooth
!
take
the
same
Oath
to
two
Kings
,
both
alive
at
the
same
time
;
men
who
veil'd
under
the
deceitful
Masque
of
Hypocrisie
a
treacherous
mind
,
and
treasonable
practises
;
and
made
no
scruple
of
Conscience
to
countenance
and
side
under
hand
with
a
party
of
Rapperees
,
accompanied
with
French
Incendiaries
,
who
were
endeavouring
to
force
their
entrance
into
England
with
a
Torch
in
one
hand
and
a
Sword
in
the
other
,
to
put
all
the
Kingdom
into
Fire
and
Blood
.
These
Men
are
like
those
fickle
uncertain
People
,
who
for
the
most
part
know
not
what
they
would
have
,
or
be
at
:
I
would
advise
them
to
follow
the
Example
of
a
wise
Pagan
Philosopher
,
who
made
it
his
daily
Prayer
to
the
Gods
,
to
do
him
good
thô
he
desired
it
not
of
them
,
and
not
to
do
him
harm
,
thô
he
desired
it
:
But
these
are
Men
that
walk
upon
a
moveable
Sand
,
that
's
never
at
rest
,
wandring
Stars
,
driven
with
every
Wind
,
or
like
impetuous
waves
of
the
Sea
,
which
are
in
a
continual
motion
,
and
break
themselves
upon
the
Rocks
;
thô
I
could
wish
for
their
own
sakes
that
there
were
nothing
worse
in
them
,
then
fickleness
and
ignorance
.
There
must
be
something
more
in
it
,
since
Reason
cannot
reclaim
them
,
and
many
of
them
would
not
care
thô
they
saw
their
Countrymens
Blood
run
down
the
Streets
,
provided
their
own
head
strong
passions
were
but
gratified
.
Whilest
King
James
his
Emissaries
were
going
to
and
fro
in
England
,
the
French
King
was
equipping
a
Squadron
of
sixteen
great
Ships
of
War
,
a
great
many
Fire-Ships
,
and
two
Frigats
for
Bombing
,
at
Thoulon
,
to
keep
the
Design
the
more
secret
by
reason
of
the
distance
of
the
Place
,
which
the
Count
d'Estrees
was
commanded
to
Sail
with
into
the
Channel
,
and
not
to
cruise
in
the
Mediterranean
upon
the
Spaniards
,
as
the
French
caused
it
to
be
bruited
:
quite
contrary
,
they
were
designed
to
be
a
Convoy
to
the
Transport
Ships
,
which
were
to
waft
King
James
his
Troops
into
England
about
the
end
of
March
or
the
beginning
of
April
,
and
to
Convoy
them
thither
,
under
the
protection
of
the
French
Fleet
,
which
Vice-Admiral
Tourville
commanded
in
the
Channel
,
to
prevent
the
joyning
of
the
Dutch
and
the
English
,
and
to
Fight
what
ever
should
offer
to
obstruct
the
Passage
of
the
Count
d'Estrees
:
But
the
Providence
of
God
interposed
for
the
safety
of
England
in
sundry
respects
;
in
putting
a
stop
to
the
Count
d'Estrees
in
the
very
prosecuting
of
his
Voiage
;
the
same
Providence
order'd
the
Winds
and
the
Rocks
to
fight
him
;
in
which
rencounter
two
of
the
largest
of
his
Ships
perished
on
the
Coast
of
Africa
,
about
Ceuta
;
the
rest
,
though
miserably
shatter'd
,
eseaped
and
went
to
Portugal
to
refit
:
So
that
instead
of
being
at
Brest
by
the
beginning
of
April
,
the
Count
arrived
not
there
till
the
begining
of
July
,
to
be
a
Witness
of
the
Defeat
of
the
Fleet
that
the
Marquess
of
Tourville
commanded
:
The
Count
d'Estrees
at
his
arrival
,
found
contrary
to
his
expectation
,
that
all
was
gone
to
wrack
in
the
Channel
,
and
durst
not
come
up
himself
,
but
was
a
bare
Spectator
as
shall
be
said
hereafter
.
The
two
Royal
.
Allies
,
who
could
not
foresee
what
would
come
to
pass
,
had
time
whilest
the
coming
up
of
the
Count
d'Estrees
was
retarded
,
to
finish
all
necessary
preparations
,
and
the
Hollanders
likewise
had
.
time
to
joyn
the
English
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Embarking
so
many
Men
could
be
no
longer
kept
secret
,
when
it
was
upon
the
point
of
being
put
in
execution
;
and
therefore
the
Jacobites
could
no
longer
contain
the
excess
of
their
joy
;
and
scrupled
not
to
make
the
Design
publick
:
and
addressed
themselves
chiefly
to
such
as
expressed
some
discontents
under
the
present
Goverment
;
exhorting
them
in
the
name
of
God
,
and
of
their
Lawful
King
(
so
they
called
King
James
)
to
encourage
his
return
to
the
Goverment
;
and
to
be
ready
in
every
County
to
meet
in
Arms
,
as
soon
as
they
should
hear
of
his
Landing
,
to
oppose
the
Train-bands
of
the
Counties
,
and
such
Forces
as
the
King
or
the
Queen
of
Great
Britain
would
undoubtedly
send
to
put
a
stop
to
King
James
his
march
to
London
.
For
the
furthering
of
this
Design
the
zealous
Jacobites
,
and
other
persons
unknown
,
had
for
some
time
before
bought
the
greatest
part
of
the
best
Horses
that
could
be
found
at
all
the
Fairs
in
the
Kingdom
:
and
they
had
the
cuning
to
set
them
up
in
Inn-keepers
and
Horse-coursers
Stables
,
charging
the
Masters
when
they
paid
for
their
Provender
,
to
keep
them
till
they
were
called
for
,
which
was
to
have
been
when
King
James
had
Landed
:
Whose
arrival
was
to
have
been
about
Portsmouth
or
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
because
of
the
nearness
of
those
parts
to
France
:
and
as
the
Jacobites
believed
their
Design
could
not
fail
of
success
,
and
knowing
that
the
arrival
of
the
Count
d'Estrees
was
expected
every
moment
,
they
were
so
hardy
,
or
so
imprudent
,
as
to
boast
before
hand
;
to
gain
the
more
over
to
their
party
.
The
Lords
Lieutenants
of
the
Counties
,
the
Lieutenancy
of
the
City
of
London
not
excepted
,
some
Officers
of
the
Army
and
of
the
Fleet
,
part
of
the
Nobility
and
Clergy
of
both
Kingdoms
,
were
gain'd
;
and
not
to
flatter
our selves
,
it
must
be
acknowledged
that
they
had
a
fair
game
of
it
,
and
they
had
reason
to
think
their
party
so
well
knit
and
link't
together
,
that
they
needed
not
apprehend
any
danger
of
making
their
Design
publick
.
This
Mistery
of
Iniquity
,
which
they
laid
open
as
has
been
said
,
was
so
far
advanced
that
many
Persons
of
Quality
,
either
out
of
hope
or
fear
,
had
begun
to
make
their
Peace
with
King
James
,
who
as
a
mark
of
his
Clemency
,
had
sent
some
their
Pardons
.
King
James
signed
these
Patents
with
pleasure
,
and
without
the
least
importunity
;
for
he
look'd
upon
his
signing
them
,
as
the
dawn
of
his
restauration
.
Persons
of
that
rank
enforced
his
Party
extremely
,
and
were
obliged
in
point
of
gratitude
,
as
soon
as
ever
they
should
hear
of
his
landing
to
declare
openly
that
according
to
the
statute
of
King
Henry
the
Seventh
,
they
had
served
King
William
,
who
was
actually
possessed
of
the
Goverment
,
being
constrained
so
to
do
;
but
that
the
Crown
belonged
to
King
James
of
Right
.
With
this
Cloak
they
pretended
to
cover
their
persidiousness
;
and
we
may
safely
say
,
it
was
no
fault
of
these
Gentlemen
that
the
Kingdom
had
not
relapsed
under
the
Yoke
of
Popery
and
the
Slavery
of
Monks
and
Jesuites
,
to
be
once
more
put
into
a
Combustion
;
for
so
the
Eunemies
of
the
Goverment
design'd
to
begin
their
pretended
Restablishment
.
They
did
not
hide
themselves
in
foreign
Countries
;
and
they
said
openly
that
England's
Disease
could
not
be
healed
,
but
taking
away
a
great
deal
of
Blood
:
That
the
bad
Blood
must
be
let
out
,
least
the
Disease
too
inveterate
already
,
should
become
incurable
:
That
they
ought
to
begin
with
the
Queen
,
if
she
could
be
seized
,
and
carry
her
into
France
to
be
led
in
Triumph
;
But
God
,
who
smiles
at
the
follies
●f
Men
,
and
blasts
their
wicked
Enterprises
,
delivered
in
an
instant
this
Incomparable
Princesse
,
and
together
with
Her
the
whole
Kingdom
,
by
a
Victory
obtain'd
at
Sea
,
which
may
be
said
without
flattery
to
have
been
the
greatest
and
most
signal
that
ever
●as
;
if
we
consider
all
the
circumstances
that
attended
it
.
Concerning
the
Prelu●um
to
this
happy
deliverance
,
I
have
●●served
already
that
the
storm
and
the
African
Rocks
fought
against
the
Count
●
Estrees
;
he
having
lost
two
of
his
best
●hips
,
and
stay'd
above
three
months
later
●●en
the
time
appointed
for
putting
the
●●sign
in
Execution
,
to
exercise
to
King
●●mes
his
Patience
,
who
in
the
mean
time
●as
Exercising
his
Teagues
at
Cherbourg
;
●o
notwithstanding
all
the
discipline
that
●he
Poor
King
endeavoured
to
bring
them
●●der
,
they
could
learn
nothing
but
to
●●age
the
Country-people
.
In
fine
,
the
Count
d'Estrees
,
as
he
said
●●mself
,
came
a
minute
too
late
to
joyn
●ourville
,
and
was
willing
to
let
him
have
●ther
the
Honour
of
the
Victory
,
or
the
●isgrace
of
running
away
.
Tourville
had
●●eat
confidence
in
the
courage
of
his
●●ench
Mariners
,
upon
the
assurance
that
●ing
James
had
given
him
that
the
Eng●●●h
would
not
fight
,
but
be
spectators
on●y
;
Tourville
relying
partly
upon
this
as●●rance
and
partly
upon
the
Prayers
of
the
Fathers
de
la
Trappe
,
did
not
in
the
least
distrust
the
obtaining
a
Victory
,
and
went
on
Board
upon
King
Ja●es's
word
,
and
with
his
blessing
,
as
fierce
〈◇〉
a
Lyon
or
an
Emperour
.
He
made
no
scruple
,
as
soon
as
he
saw
the
Fleet
of
the
Allies
,
to
weigh
Anchor
,
and
make
up
to
them
;
but
unfortunately
he
found
there
no
Torrington
,
but
Admiral
Russell
,
to
whose
trust
the
English
and
Dutch
Fleets
had
been
committed
now
a
second
time
;
and
the
Powder
of
the
Allies
was
found
to
be
more
Effectual
then
the
Prayers
de
la
Trappe
.
The
Fleets
of
the
Allies
being
happily
joyned
,
without
any
Obstruction
given
by
the
Enemy
,
Admiral
Russell
set
Sail
from
the
Coast
of
England
,
or
from
St.
Helen's
Bay
,
upon
the
23th
.
of
May
,
but
their
happening
a
calme
he
could
but
reach
the
Isle
of
Wight
that
day
;
the
day
after
he
made
for
the
Coost
of
France
.
Upon
the
twenty
ninth
at
break
of
day
one
of
the
Scouts
got
sight
of
the
French
Fleet
to
the
Windward
;
the
Confederate
Fleet
being
then
at
Anchor
six
Leagues
from
Cape
Barfleur
.
Admiral
Tourville
having
the
Windward
,
as
soon
as
he
had
notice
of
the
Enemy
,
made
what
hast
he
could
to
get
up
with
them
.
But
the
Wind
slackning
,
the
avantgard
of
the
French
,
consisting
of
fifteen
great
Men
of
War
,
could
not
come
up
to
the
English
till
about
eleven
a
Clock
in
the
Morning
;
five
of
●he
fifteen
did
their
duty
,
but
the
other
●en
kept
out
of
Canon-shot
,
either
because
the
calme
was
such
as
they
could
not
come
up
,
or
for
fear
of
falling
in
with
●he
main
of
the
Enemies
Fleet
.
And
because
the
Dutch
,
who
were
in
the
avantgard
of
the
Confederates
could
not
all
●ome
up
,
that
little
Wind
that
was
,
being
●●
their
Teeth
,
the
fight
lasted
between
●hem
that
could
Engage
,
about
three
●ours
;
and
then
the
French
made
all
the
●ail
they
could
to
get
away
,
and
the
Dutch
●ad
much
adoe
to
turn
their
Ships
to
fol●ow
them
;
whilest
the
calme
lasted
,
the
●wo
main
bodies
of
the
Fleet
labour'd
to
●he
utmost
to
come
up
with
the
Enemy
,
●nd
being
happily
got
up
with
them
,
Engaged
resolutely
for
the
space
of
four
●ours
;
and
then
Vice-Admiral
Tourville
●lay's
the
same
game
that
his
avantgard
had
done
before
,
and
having
the
good
fortune
to
meet
with
a
mist
to
cover
his
retreat
,
got
easily
out
of
sight
.
In
the
afternoon
the
Confederate
Squadron
of
the
Blew
,
who
could
not
Engage
till
then
by
reason
of
the
calme
,
came
up
with
the
blew
Squadron
of
the
French
,
and
betwixt
these
two
Squadrons
the
sharpest
and
most
obstinate
fight
of
all
was
maintain'd
;
and
by
the
help
partly
of
the
night
and
partly
of
the
mists
the
French
Fleet
made
towards
their
own
Coast
as
fast
as
they
could
.
The
next
day
about
eight
a
Clock
in
the
morning
;
the
weather
began
to
clear
up
,
and
the
Admiral
discovered
the
Enemies
Fleet
about
two
Leagues
distance
from
him
;
for
they
durst
not
go
further
by
reason
of
the
mists
,
for
fear
of
falling
in
the
night
time
upon
some
Rock
or
Sand
;
But
Admiral
Russel
perceiv'd
their
number
was
considerably
lessen'd
,
which
made
him
apprehend
that
a
great
many
of
their
Ships
might
have
sunk
in
the
Night
.
But
the
French
took
care
to
conceal
the
cause
of
it
as
much
as
was
possible
,
Admiral
Tourville
having
forbidden
the
Officers
and
Mariners
to
speak
of
it
,
upo●
pain
of
Death
.
The
Confederates
told
but-forty
six
Sail
of
them
in
all
,
and
of
them
but
five
or
six
and
thirty
Ships
in
th●
Line
;
but
the
calme
,
and
the
Tide
,
an●
a
little
Mist
hindred
Admiral
Russel's
coming
within
Canon
Shot
of
them
.
Things
continued
in
this
posture
till
eleven
a
Clock
at
Night
,
and
then
the
French
made
what
Sail
they
could
to
get
away
they
weigh'd
Anchor
by
Moon-light
,
and
the
Confederate
Fleet
foolowed
all
Night
as
fast
as
possibly
they
could
:
On
the
morrow
the
French
resolving
to
outbrave
the
Rocks
,
ventur'd
confusedly
amongst
those
that
lie
betwixt
the
two
Isles
of
Jersey
and
Guernsey
,
where
no
men
of
War
ever
durst
pass
before
;
and
the
pursuit
was
too
hazardous
:
Of
two
evils
they
chose
the
least
.
There
was
some
hopes
in
that
,
and
at
least
a
possibility
of
escaping
:
whereas
in
staying
till
the
Enemy
could
come
up
to
them
,
there
was
none
at
all
;
for
they
must
of
necessity
either
have
been
taken
,
or
must
have
surrendred
;
there
was
no
mean
.
They
chose
therefore
rather
to
shelter
themselves
among
the
Rocks
;
but
all
their
precaution
could
not
wholly
protect
them
from
the
Guns
and
the
Fire-Ships
of
the
Confederate
Fleet
;
which
went
in
search
of
them
upon
the
Coasts
of
Normandy
,
whither
they
had
betaken
themselves
for
their
last
refuge
.
The
same
day
being
the
31th
.
Admiral
Russel
discovering
several
Men
of
War
upon
a
Bank
near
Cape
Barfleur
,
detach't
immediately
Vice-Admiral
De
la
Val
with
eight
or
nine
Vessels
and
three
Fire-Ships
,
who
did
their
business
for
them
the
next
day
being
the
first
of
June
:
and
the
Vice-Admiral
and
his
Squadron
had
the
pleasure
and
satisfaction
to
warm
themselves
at
the
Flames
of
that
gaudy
and
magnificent
Ship
the
Royal
Sun
,
which
carried
a
hundred
and
ten
Guns
,
and
was
commanded
by
Vice-Admiral
Tourville
;
they
saw
destroy'd
in
one
day
what
the
best
Artisans
had
been
twenty
Years
a
working
at
,
to
make
it
for
beauty
and
magnificence
the
Non-such
of
the
Sea
;
two
second
Rates
underwent
the
same
fate
at
the
same
time
.
The
one
called
the
Admirable
,
mounted
with
a
hundred
and
two
pieces
of
Canon
:
the
other
called
the
Strong
,
which
carried
Eighty
.
Two
Frigates
of
less
bulk
and
three
Transport
Ships
,
which
were
part
of
the
Fleet
▪
perished
in
like
manner
,
and
were
sacrificed
in
this
Action
,
to
the
bravery
of
the
Conquerors
;
but
they
did
not
stop
there
.
Admiral
Russel
having
notice
,
that
twelve
of
the
Enemies
great
Vessels
were
got
into
a
Bay
behind
the
Rocks
of
Aldernay
,
as
into
a
place
of
safety
,
on
the
second
or
third
day
of
the
Month
in
the
night
,
he
burnt
six
of
the
twelve
with
all
their
Canon
Ammunition
and
Provisions
on
Board
:
and
the
day
after
he
destroy'd
the
remaining
six
.
But
the
French
had
taken
out
of
the
latter
six
a
great
deal
of
their
Canon
,
to
lighten
them
,
and
hale
them
nearer
the
Shore
:
and
the
Prisoners
that
were
taken
by
the
English
on
Board
the
Royal
Sun
,
acquainted
them
that
during
the
first
night
of
the
Fight
the
French
had
lost
four
of
their
Men
of
War
.
So
that
the
French
King
lost
at
one
stroke
nineteen
of
his
biggest
and
best
Ships
:
to
wit
,
ten
three
deck'r
Ships
,
and
the
rest
from
sixty
to
eighty
Guns
,
besides
Frigats
and
other
Tenders
and
Transport
Ships
,
to
the
number
of
seventy
.
But
that
which
affects
the
French
most
,
as
it
ought
to
do
,
is
that
they
should
have
lost
so
many
Vessells
,
Guns
,
and
Men
and
so
much
Ammunition
,
and
the
Confederates
not
mett
with
the
loss
so
much
as
of
one
single
Ship
;
which
we
cannot
sufficiently
admire
,
as
a
wonder
of
the
age
;
without
all
question
it
was
the
hand
of
God
,
that
gave
this
Victory
and
struck
them
with
astonishment
,
who
relyed
upon
an
Arm
of
flesh
,
and
depended
for
Victory
upon
their
own
courage
and
the
number
of
their
Ships
.
The
greatest
loss
which
the
Allies
sustained
in
this
Action
was
that
of
Vice-Admiral
Carter
;
who
was
the
only
person
of
note
that
was
kill'd
in
the
first
days
Fight
.
The
rest
of
the
French
Fleet
like
a
Covey
of
Partridges
pursued
by
Huntsmen
,
made
away
as
fast
as
they
could
,
some
to
Brest
,
the
greatest
part
to
St.
Maloes
,
and
the
rest
whither
they
could
.
But
they
quitted
the
Soveraignty
of
the
Sea
,
which
they
arrogated
to
themselves
,
though
they
were
never
in
possession
of
it
otherwise
than
in
imagination
.
The
French
had
three
advantages
whilest
the
Fight
lasted
,
which
saved
part
of
their
Fleet
and
protected
the
rest
;
without
which
there
could
hardly
have
been
a
Ship
left
to
have
carryed
home
the
news
of
their
disaster
.
One
was
the
first
days
calme
,
which
hindred
one
half
of
the
Confederate
Fleet
ftom
engaging
:
as
all
that
were
present
agree
;
and
as
may
easily
be
judged
by
the
Ships
themselves
which
were
batter'd
,
and
those
that
were
absent
,
who
have
not
received
so
much
as
a
shot
in
their
Hulk
:
and
it
was
a
great
advantage
to
the
French
,
who
in
the
beginning
of
the
Fight
had
a
little
breeze
of
wind
,
to
have
more
Ships
engaged
than
the
Allies
had
.
A
second
advantage
they
had
by
the
mists
,
by
which
the
Enemy
lost
sight
of
them
;
and
gave
them
an
opportunity
to
get
away
,
there
being
no
following
of
them
in
the
dark
.
I
will
add
a
third
,
viz.
that
after
the
mists
were
dispersed
,
they
had
time
to
sortifie
at
St.
Maloes
.
You
see
what
good
King
James
has
got
by
the
Prayers
of
the
Fathers
de
la
Trappe
;
who
had
so
possessed
his
imagination
,
that
he
verily
believed
,
as
some
told
him
who
were
with
him
upon
a
Hill
,
where
he
might
see
the
Fight
through
a
Prospective
Glass
,
that
the
first
Guns
which
the
English
discharged
,
were
but
the
giving
of
the
Signal
;
but
the
poor
Prince
presently
found
himself
deceived
;
and
that
it
was
Admiral
Russel
he
had
to
do
withal
,
and
that
the
Intrigues
of
his
Jacobites
had
not
succeeded
:
insomuch
that
when
he
went
away
,
he
sighed
and
said
he
was
Cheated
.
Thus
ended
King
James
his
Campagne
upon
the
coast
of
Normandy
;
for
the
disaster
befallen
the
French
Fleet
put
a
stop
to
his
Voyage
for
England
,
which
was
designed
.
If
this
blow
was
very
sensible
to
the
Jacobites
,
it
was
no
less
so
to
the
French
Court
;
because
,
besides
the
loss
of
the
best
of
their
Ships
,
they
were
obliged
to
abandon
their
Coasts
to
the
mercy
of
the
Enemy
,
and
by
consequence
to
see
their
Subjects
depriv'd
of
the
little
Trade
they
had
left
.
No
wonder
if
Lewis
the
14th
.
who
naturally
is
very
much
addicted
to
his
Interest
,
was
in
a
maze
at
the
hearing
of
such
tidings
as
these
,
which
could
not
but
stop
the
mouths
of
his
flatterers
.
Indeed
upon
the
arrival
of
this
news
the
French
bravadoes
were
at
a
nonplus
;
never
were
so
many
Mutes
seen
in
the
Court
of
France
,
when
it
was
known
that
King
James
was
return'd
to
St.
Germain
,
after
having
spent
some
Months
at
Cherbourg
in
doing
just
nothing
at
all
.
If
we
consider
this
Enterprize
of
King
James
a
little
more
narrowly
,
we
shall
find
to
have
been
founded
upon
three
things
;
if
any
one
of
which
had
taken
effect
,
he
might
have
hoped
for
some
good
success
;
and
so
might
the
French
King
,
who
in
promoting
King
James
his
Interest
,
carnes
on
his
own
;
for
it
is
for
his
Inrerest
indeed
that
the
whole
War
is
maintain'd
One
was
to
cross
over
into
England
before
the
Confederate
Fleets
were
joyned
,
and
to
set
fifteen
or
twenty
thousand
Men
ashore
there
.
The
second
was
to
seize
the
Queen
of
England
,
if
it
were
possible
,
by
the
party
that
was
formed
for
him
there
;
or
at
least
,
to
raise
a
Civil
War
within
the
Kingdom
,
to
oblige
King
William
to
withdraw
the
best
of
his
Troops
out
of
Flanders
,
and
to
quit
his
Foreign
Affairs
,
to
make
all
sure
at
home
.
The
third
and
last
was
to
Assassinate
King
William
.
Let
us
make
some
Reflections
upon
these
three
Enterprises
.
The
first
was
not
only
feisible
,
but
had
certainly
taken
effect
,
if
the
arrival
of
the
Count
d'Estrees
had
been
retarded
as
it
was
;
and
it
is
thought
the
Forces
might
easily
have
been
Landed
before
the
Confederate
Fleets
could
joyn
,
fince
Vice-Admiral
Tourville
might
prevent
their
joyning
,
whilest
in
the
mean
time
the
Count
d'Estrees
conducted
the
Transport
Ships
to
Torbay
,
The
Army
being
once
Landed
,
the
good
will
of
the
Roman-Catholicks
and
of
other
Male-contents
,
was
not
to
be
questioned
(
as
in
all
States
there
are
some
discontented
Spirits
,
be
the
Government
never
so
mild
and
just
)
but
that
they
would
immediately
have
declar'd
for
King
James
,
or
for
his
Forces
;
for
it
may
be
a
Question
whether
he
would
have
had
the
Courage
to
have
gone
in
Person
,
his
Nose
having
bled
when
he
was
in
possession
of
the
Government
,
and
at
the
Head
of
an
Army
of
forty
thousand
Men
.
There
is
no
Doubt
to
be
made
,
but
if
King
James
his
Forces
had
once
Landed
,
there
would
have
ensu'd
a
disturbance
in
the
Nation
;
but
we
may
well
Question
,
whether
they
that
had
Landed
,
would
have
gotten
back
again
so
easily
as
they
came
thither
;
for
there
were
then
in
England
about
twenty
thousand
men
in
Arms
,
in
disciplin'd
Troops
,
besides
the
Train-Bands
.
On
the
other
hand
it
is
certain
that
it
's
the
Interest
of
the
People
in
general
to
maintain
the
present
Government
,
because
of
the
ease
they
enjoy
under
it
;
and
they
cannot
but
know
that
a
Rerevolution
would
bring
along
with
it
the
total
ruin
of
their
Families
,
their
Estates
and
their
Trade
.
Besides
,
that
a
people
,
who
live
at
ease
,
and
cannot
but
dread
a
Civil-War
,
would
willingly
have
exposed
themselves
to
prevent
it
,
even
some
Roman
Catholicks
no●
excepted
,
who
live
at
ease
and
have
good
settlements
in
the
Kingdom
,
and
enjoy
the
Liberty
of
their
Consciences
,
which
the
present
Government
Tolerates
;
though
I
must
except
out
of
this
form
some
troublesome
Spirits
and
some
poor
wretches
,
who
having
nothing
of
their
own
to
lose
,
might
perhaps
hope
to
mend
their
Condition
by
a
change
of
Goverment
,
or
to
make
their
Fortunes
by
Plunder
.
But
if
King
James
relie
upon
such
as
these
for
his
Restauration
,
his
hopes
have
but
a
very
slender
Foundation
.
That
Divine
Providence
,
that
has
placed
the
present
King
and
Queen
upon
the
Throne
,
is
sufficiently
able
to
continue
them
there
,
as
it
has
done
hitherto
,
in
spite
of
a
Faction
which
their
Enemies
endeavour
to
foment
within
the
Nation
;
This
Providence
has
but
of
late
confounded
the
Enterprises
of
the
Male-Contents
,
and
brought
their
most
secret
Plottings
,
and
their
Treachery
to
Light
.
And
as
God
,
the
Soveraign
Lord
of
the
Universe
,
does
not
use
to
do
his
Work
by
halves
,
he
will
continue
their
Majesties
upon
the
Throne
,
whereon
his
own
right
hand
has
placed
them
.
It
is
certain
that
King
James
would
not
have
had
the
same
regard
to
his
Daughter
upon
such
an
occasion
,
as
the
King
her
Husband
has
had
to
him
.
All
the
World
knows
how
that
Virtuous
Princess
earnestly
recommended
to
the
King
then
Prince
of
Orange
,
when
he
was
about
to
set
Sail
for
England
,
to
take
care
of
the
life
and
person
of
the
King
her
Father
:
and
indeed
what
care
was
not
taken
that
no
personal
harm
should
come
to
King
James
?
When
the
Prince
was
come
to
London
,
though
that
unfortunate
King
was
twice
in
his
power
,
yet
we
know
with
what
caution
he
changed
the
Gards
at
White-Hall
,
by
King
James
his
own
consent
,
who
was
there
in
Person
;
and
how
he
caused
him
to
be
asked
,
whether
he
would
stay
in
England
,
or
go
into
France
;
and
he
chusing
the
latter
,
the
Prince
sent
his
own
Guards
to
accompany
him
,
and
conduct
him
safely
to
the
Vessel
that
was
prepar'd
to
carry
him
over
:
and
both
King
James
and
Dada
the
Pope's
Nuncio
,
when
they
arriv'd
in
France
,
could
not
forbear
acknowledging
that
they
were
beholden
to
the
Prince
of
Orange
for
their
lives
.
Yet
we
are
assuredly
informed
,
that
King
James
,
his
design
was
,
if
he
had
got
over
,
to
have
made
away
with
the
Queen
,
if
he
could
not
have
taken
her
Prisoner
;
and
the
bigotted
Jacobites
would
have
thought
it
an
acceptable
Sacrifice
to
Almighty
God
,
and
a
great
piece
of
service
done
their
King
,
to
have
wash'd
their
Trayterous
hands
in
her
innocent
Blood
,
or
at
least
in
that
of
the
King
her
Husband
;
upon
whose
Assassination
the
French
and
the
Jacobites
grounded
their
greatest
hopes
of
success
,
and
which
indeed
was
their
last
refuge
.
The
Proceedings
against
Dumont
and
Grandval
are
too
well
known
to
leave
the
least
doubt
of
what
I
have
asserted
;
and
the
confession
of
the
latter
at
the
hour
of
death
(
without
the
least
torture
or
force
upon
him
)
has
taught
us
that
they
were
animated
and
put
on
by
the
Marquess
de
Barbesieux
in
the
name
of
the
French
King
,
and
by
the
Earl
of
Melford
on
the
behalf
of
King
James
,
to
Assassinate
the
King
of
England
,
William
the
third
,
whom
God
preserve
:
and
that
the
Marquess
de
Barbesieux
found
the
project
in
the
desk
of
his
Father
the
Marquess
de
Louvois
deceased
;
who
dying
suddenly
,
had
not
time
to
commit
the
memory
of
so
detestable
and
Divellish
a
design
to
the
Flames
,
(
perhaps
it
pleased
God
to
hurry
that
wretch
out
of
the
World
all
on
a
sudden
,
that
all
men
might
know
what
spirit
the
Court
of
France
is
of
,
and
by
what
methods
they
carry
on
their
designs
,
)
and
that
this
new
Minister
,
like
the
offspring
of
a
Viper
,
encouraged
Grandval
to
the
undertaking
,
by
giving
him
assurance
under
his
hand
of
a
reward
,
which
the
miscreant
declar'd
that
he
had
left
at
Paris
in
the
custody
of
one
of
his
Friends
,
with
an
express
charge
not
to
part
with
it
to
any
but
himself
.
It
's
in
vain
for
the
French
to
alledge
for
their
Justification
,
that
Grandval
was
made
to
say
any
thing
,
in
hopes
of
saving
his
Life
;
It
's
the
shame
of
so
black
an
Action
,
and
so
ungenerous
an
undertaking
,
that
has
put
them
upon
inventing
this
subterfuge
;
which
will
by
no
means
conceal
their
infamy
in
after
Ages
.
Nor
can
any
man
that
is
disinteressed
,
deny
that
the
last
confession
of
that
Criminal
,
is
the
real
Truth
:
for
as
profligate
and
desperate
as
any
man
may
be
supposed
to
be
,
at
his
death
he
cannot
but
acknowledge
that
there
is
a
God
,
before
whom
he
is
going
to
appear
and
give
an
account
of
his
Actions
,
for
upon
that
mo●ent
depends
Eternity
:
and
therefore
the
depositions
of
men
upon
their
Deathbeds
have
always
been
received
as
evidence
before
the
most
severe
Tribunals
,
and
the
Greatest
Justiciers
;
and
their
confessions
taken
as
undoubted
proof
.
And
his
Judges
having
been
persons
indifferent
,
and
Generals
of
different
Countries
,
there
can
be
nothing
alledged
for
his
Innocence
;
besides
that
none
of
those
whom
Grandval
and
Dumont
accused
in
their
Depositions
,
have
so
much
as
gone
about
to
Justifie
themselves
to
this
very
day
,
and
to
clear
themselves
from
the
guilt
of
so
vile
and
detestable
an
enterprize
;
qui
tacet
consentit
,
silence
gives
consent
.
Let
men
take
an
estimate
by
this
single
instance
,
of
the
Religion
and
the
Temper
of
Lewis
the
14th
.
and
of
his
Ministers
;
who
finding
themselves
not
able
to
compass
their
Designes
by
the
Honourable
course
of
War
,
make
use
of
Incendiaries
,
Poisoners
and
Assassinates
to
take
away
the
lives
of
Princes
,
who
are
the
Anointed
of
God
.
It
's
most
certain
,
that
if
Dumont
or
Grandval
could
have
struck
this
horrid
blow
(
which
God
forbid
)
the
French
King
or
the
Marquess
de
Barbesieux
by
his
order
,
would
have
caused
them
to
be
made
away
privately
,
to
conceal
their
own
part
in
so
base
an
Action
.
We
may
therefore
safely
conclude
that
Lewis
the
14th
.
has
a
very
bad
cause
,
since
he
makes
use
of
fraud
and
treachery
to
support
it
.
This
Prince
has
made
War
degenerate
into
cruelty
,
to
force
his
Neighbours
to
apply
themselves
to
him
for
Peace
,
that
he
might
have
the
Vanity
,
once
more
of
boasting
that
he
has
given
Peace
to
Christe●dome
,
and
thereby
have
a
colour
to
retain
what
he
has
unjustly
got
possession
of
since
the
Peace
of
the
Pyrenees
,
and
that
of
Nimeguen
,
and
the
breach
of
the
twenty
years
Truce
,
which
he
himself
earnestly
sought
for
,
that
he
might
continue
in
possession
of
those
places
which
he
had
got
by
force
since
those
two
Treaties
.
I
can
have
so
much
charity
for
him
as
to
believe
that
he
would
have
maintain'd
the
Truce
some
Years
longer
,
if
the
Emperour's
successes
had
not
given
him
some
Umbrage
to
the
contrary
;
insomuch
that
we
see
he
has
chose
rather
to
break
his
Faith
than
to
see
the
power
of
the
Turk
abated
.
The
Victory
of
the
Christians
did
no
doubt
give
him
a
very
great
uneasyness
,
because
he
was
always
under
an
apprehension
,
that
if
the
House
of
Austria
should
once
regain
the
power
she
lost
,
and
recover
her
former
Estate
,
she
would
require
the
restitution
of
what
France
withholds
from
her
,
which
would
very
much
blemish
the
glory
of
Lewis
the
14th
.
who
pretends
to
no
other
Law
but
that
of
his
own
will
,
which
with
him
supplies
all
defects
of
Right
,
and
makes
it
his
business
to
obtain
the
Government
of
Nations
upon
what
Terms
soever
,
whether
justly
or
by
me●●
force
,
't
was
all
one
to
him
,
provided
he
gain'd
the
Power
into
his
hands
.
Not
that
the
Kings
of
France
have
had
this
Inclination
only
from
this
present
time
;
for
we
have
known
very
well
,
that
this
has
been
an
inveterate
Evil
,
for
what
was
it
that
Maria
de
Medicis
,
the
second
Wife
of
Henry
the
fourth
,
did
not
attempt
to
get
the
Government
into
her
power
?
If
we
may
give
any
credit
to
an
Arch-Bishop
of
France
upon
this
matter
,
she
Sacrificed
the
life
of
the
King
her
Husband
,
as
soon
as
ever
the
Regency
was
thought
fit
to
be
conferred
upon
her
.
She
had
concerted
his
death
with
the
instigators
of
Ravilliac
,
and
at
last
accomplished
it
.
Others
attribute
it
to
her
Jealousie
,
but
we
will
speak
a
plain
Truth
,
and
say
,
it
proceeded
rather
from
her
Ambition
to
Reign
.
What
have
we
not
discovered
of
Catharine
de
Medicis
in
other
days
;
(
and
which
has
been
concealed
till
of
late
)
she
was
the
Mother
of
three
Kings
,
Francis
the
2d
.
Charles
the
9th
.
and
Henry
the
3d
.
and
would
have
been
of
a
4
.
th
.
if
the
Duke
of
Alencon
her
4th
.
Son
had
not
dyed
young
;
after
the
death
of
Francis
,
this
Princess
was
declared
,
after
many
strong
Sollicitations
,
Regent
during
the
Minority
of
King
Charles
her
2d
.
Son
;
but
she
quickly
felt
the
weight
of
a
Burthen
she
had
so
passionately
longed
for
,
by
the
Civil
Wars
she
had
to
maintain
,
being
upon
the
very
point
of
finding
her self
constrained
to
give
up
the
Kingdom
to
the
Prince
of
Condé
,
seeing
her self
pressed
and
overwhelmed
with
affairs
beyond
the
strength
of
her
sex
to
bear
.
History
tells
us
,
that
she
shut
her self
up
in
her
Closet
for
some
days
,
without
suffering
so
much
as
any
of
her
Domestick
Confidents
to
come
to
her
;
but
afterwards
she
permitted
Monsieur
de
Même
,
her
Groom
of
the
Stole
to
be
brought
to
her
,
whom
she
looked
upon
as
one
of
her
most
faithful
Subjects
,
and
the
most
affectionate
and
devoted
to
her
Service
,
and
one
in
whom
she
had
always
placed
an
Extraordinary
Confidence
,
which
was
indeed
grounded
on
the
steadiness
he
had
always
shewn
for
her
Service
upon
several
emergent
Occasions
,
The
Queen
put
into
his
hands
a
Steel
strong
Box
soddred
up
all
round
,
and
locked
,
with
which
she
strictly
charged
him
,
saying
,
that
being
uncertain
what
would
become
of
her
,
and
what
the
success
of
the
Civil
War
would
be
,
she
thought
it
convenient
to
put
somewhat
in
it
which
was
of
very
great
Consideration
,
and
which
she
intrusted
to
his
Care
,
and
comitted
to
his
Custody
the
Pretious
Depositum
she
had
in
this
World
,
and
at
the
same
time
caused
him
to
take
an
Oath
not
to
open
it
,
nor
ever
to
give
it
to
any
one
unless
by
an
Express
order
under
her
own
hand
,
which
he
promised
and
engaged
to
upon
Oath
,
and
he
did
observe
it
likewise
very
Religiously
:
but
the
Queen
dying
,
before
she
redemanded
the
Box
,
and
after
her
the
Sieur
de
Même
,
that
Box
remained
a
long
time
in
the
House
of
his
Heirs
,
but
at
last
his
Son
had
a
great
Curiosity
to
open
it
,
in
hopes
of
finding
there
an
Extraordinary
Treasure
,
or
at
least
some
Jewels
of
very
great
value
.
The
Box
was
thereupon
opened
,
and
the
inquisitor
extreamly
surprised
,
to
find
,
in
flead
of
a
rich
booty
,
a
piece
of
Copper
,
in
the
form
of
one
of
those
Bucklers
which
the
antient
Romans
consecrated
to
their
false
Divinity
,
upon
which
a
Queen
was
engraven
,
representing
Catharine
de
Medicis
on
her
knees
,
in
the
posture
of
a
person
at
her
Devotion
,
making
an
offering
to
the
Devil
,
who
was
there
represented
on
a
Throne
Exalted
,
in
the
most
frightful
and
hideous
,
posture
that
can
be
imagined
;
the
Queen
having
on
her
side
these
three
Sons
,
Charles
,
Henry
,
and
the
Duke
of
Alenzon
,
with
this
Motto
in
French
,
Soit
pourveu
que
je
Règne
,
viz.
Provided
I
may
Reign
:
And
this
Buckler
is
still
to
be
seen
at
this
day
in
the
Family
of
the
Messieur●
de
Même
,
whereof
the
Count
d'Avaux
,
who
is
sufficiently
known
in
Holland
,
makes
a
considerable
Branch
:
I
will
leave
to
my
Reader
the
liberty
of
making
upon
this
truth
what
Reflections
he
shall
think
fit
.
A
Mother
offers
up
her
three
Sons
(
whereof
two
have
been
Kings
of
France
)
to
the
Divel
,
provided
She
might
Reign
.
I
shall
pass
over
this
Diabolical
Sacrifice
,
to
the
Treachery
of
Namur
,
which
hath
been
the
subject
of
the
best
part
of
the
Campaign
of
Lewis
the
XIV
.
A
Man
need
not
fear
being-thought
a
Witch
to
guess
at
the
Reason
why
the
French
King
rather
attacked
Namur
than
any
other
Place
.
Those
who
have
been
informed
of
the
Baron
de
Bersey
,
who
was
born
a
Subject
of
the
King
of
Spain
,
who
had
honoured
him
with
the
Office
of
General
of
War
,
of
first
Ingeneer
in
the
Low
Countries
,
and
of
that
of
his
Lieutenant
in
the
Town
,
may
say
,
that
by
the
means
of
all
these
honours
with
which
(
if
I
may
be
allowed
to
say
so
)
the
Catholick
King
had
loaden
him
,
though
he
was
very
unworthy
of
them
,
as
experience
has
sufficiently
since
shewn
us
,
he
had
acquired
a
perfect
knowledge
of
what
we
call
now
le
Fort
&
le
Foible
,
that
is
,
the
stronger
and
weaker
side
of
the
Place
.
Besides
that
,
he
was
an
intimate
friend
to
the
Prince
of
Barbancon
,
who
was
the
Governour
of
it
,
and
who
consequently
had
concealed
nothing
from
him
;
whereby
he
knew
the
number
,
the
quantity
and
quality
of
Ammunition
,
and
the
Provisions
of
the
Citadel
.
France
,
which
never
neglects
any
thing
,
but
is
always
upon
the
Scout
,
by
the
means
of
her
Spyes
and
Emissaries
,
covering
her self
very
artfully
under
the
Fox's
skin
,
when
ever
she
designs
to
effect
any
notable
enterprise
,
having
learnt
that
this
Baron
was
disatisfied
at
the
Court
of
Madrid
,
caused
his
pulse
to
be
felt
privately
,
by
some
French
Men
of
his
Relations
,
and
finding
him
wavering
,
they
offered
him
in
France
,
the
Office
of
Marechal
de
Camp
,
a
Regiment
,
a
good
Pension
,
the
possession
of
all
the
Estate
he
hath
in
the
Dutchy
of
Burgundy
,
of
which
he
had
been
dispossessed
since
the
War
,
and
at
last
the
Government
of
Namur
,
if
he
facilitated
the
taking
of
it
,
and
to
make
him
the
more
easily
be
caught
in
the
Toyle
laid
for
him
,
they
promised
him
a
great
deal
more
than
ever
they
designed
to
perform
;
as
is
commonly
done
to
Traitors
,
who
,
as
I
may
say
,
are
like
Scaffolds
which
are
erected
for
the
building
of
a
House
,
but
as
soon
as
ever
that
is
built
,
they
pull
them
down
again
,
and
oftentimes
burn
them
.
I
am
apt
to
think
that
not
much
unlike
to
this
were
the
offers
made
to
the
Baron
de
Bersey
:
He
had
a
mind
corrupted
long
before
,
and
a
little
more
shock
was
enough
to
throw
him
down
,
and
make
him
their
own
;
wherefore
he
never
scrupled
giving
his
parole
;
there
was
no
more
to
do
now
,
but
to
execute
it
,
and
for
that
it
was
requisite
for
him
to
go
into
the
service
of
his
new
Master
,
to
inform
him
of
all
things
with
his
own
mouth
,
which
was
a
very
easy
thing
for
him
to
do
,
by
reason
of
the
proximity
and
neighbourhood
of
Dinant
.
The
first
service
therefore
that
he
resolved
to
do
to
the
French
King
,
and
which
was
not
in
his
bargain
,
was
,
a
particular
Treachery
that
he
designed
to
add
to
that
which
he
was
going
to
commit
against
his
Soveraign
,
in
delivering
up
to
the
French
Collonel
Coehorne
,
so
well
known
to
the
World
by
the
glorious
Resistance
he
made
afterwards
at
William's
Fort
,
which
has
made
him
justly
to
deserve
the
Office
of
Major
General
in
the
State's
Armies
.
Collonel
Coehorne
having
therefore
undertaken
the
Fortifications
of
that
Fort
,
caused
the
works
to
be
made
there
with
all
imaginable
diligence
;
but
the
Baron
de
Bersey
very
well
foreseeing
,
that
if
once
those
works
were
finished
,
it
would
be
an
invincible
obstacle
to
the
Execution
of
his
promise
,
thought
either
to
put
a
stop
to
those
works
,
or
at
least
to
the
main
design
of
them
,
by
putting
the
General
Ingeneer
into
the
hands
of
the
Enemy
;
and
it
must
be
confessed
that
the
Plot
was
very
well
laid
,
and
that
Monsieur
de
Coehorne
could
not
deny
it
,
had
not
his
good
Fortune
preserved
him
,
by
taking
a
particular
Care
of
his
person
,
which
since
time
and
experience
have
shewn
:
for
having
caused
some
hedges
to
be
thrown
down
round
about
the
Town
,
which
hindred
them
from
seeing
the
Enemy
,
and
it
the
time
when
the
Baron
de
Bersey
had
appointed
ten
or
twelve
French
Horse
to
carry
him
away
,
and
thereby
to
cover
th●
shame
of
his
Desertion
;
One
afternoo●
Bersey
desired
Monsieur
de
Coehorne
to
wall
abroad
,
and
see
if
the
Works
were
wel●
done
,
according
to
Orders
;
he
pressed
hi●
hereupon
very
earnestly
;
and
in
truth
●●
seems
that
Monsieur
de
Coehorne
,
who
ha●
commanded
or
advised
those
Hedges
to
be
cut
down
,
was
to
have
gone
there
;
yet
(
as
I
have
said
already
)
his
good
Fortune
kept
him
within
,
and
he
was
not
in
a
humour
or
disposition
that
day
to
go
and
walk
;
this
Refusal
of
his
,
tho
●ngainst
his
Natural
Inclination
(
being
a
Man
very
complaisant
)
was
yet
very
much
a
propos
.
As
to
the
Baron
de
Bersey
,
who
had
spent
al
that
day
to
bring
about
his
Treachery
,
he
could
not
get
out
of
the
Town
that
evening
,
but
the
next
day
very
early
he
caused
the
Gates
of
Namur
to
be
opened
sooner
than
ordinary
;
and
as
if
he
had
been
impatient
to
change
sides
,
he
thought
he
had
heard
a
Voice
from
Heaven
(
or
rather
from
Hell
)
which
sounded
in
his
Eares
to
him
,
do
quickly
what
thou
hast
to
do
:
The
passion
he
was
in
caused
him
to
exercise
his
Cane
upon
the
poor
Porter
,
because
he
did
not
open
the
Gates
so
soon
as
he
would
have
had
him
.
But
being
fallied
out
of
the
Town
with
his
Valet
,
he
found
at
the
Place
assigned
an
Officer
with
some
French
Horse
to
conduct
him
to
Dinant
.
A
Spanish
Captain
,
who
had
lain
that
night
out
of
the
Town
,
and
would
have
got
in
again
at
the
opening
of
the
Gate
,
being
got
towards
the
Town
,
perceived
some
French
Horse
,
and
indeavoured
to
hide
himself
in
the
Bushes
and
Briers
that
were
not
far
off
,
but
yet
●ear
enough
to
see
the
Baron
de
Bersey
come
up
.
As
soon
as
ever
the
Commander
of
that
party
●erceived
his
new
Conquest
,
he
came
strait
up
to
●im
,
saying
,
Good
Morrow
,
Monsieur
de
Bersey
,
we
●ave
expected
you
ever
since
yesterday
:
After
some
Compliments
past
on
both
sides
,
he
was
conducted
to
Dinant
,
and
the
better
to
cover
his
perfidiousness
,
●he
desired
to
be
carried
to
the
Fort
of
the
Scarpe
.
The
Spaniards
thinking
that
he
was
attempting
some
considerable
service
for
them
sollicited
for
his
Release
,
by
a
Letter
,
offering
Ransom
to
him
;
but
the
French
refusing
it
,
alledged
that
he
was
born
a
Burgundian
,
and
so
by
consequence
at
present
he
was
a
Subject
to
the
King
of
France
,
and
that
the
Letter
did
not
concern
him
.
The
Baron
de
Bersey
finding
that
his
Treachery
was
but
too
well
known
,
and
that
it
flood
him
in
no
further
stead
to
conceal
it
,
threw
off
the
mask
,
and
openly
declared
himself
as
soon
as
ever
the
French
King
had
formed
the
Design
of
Besieging
Namur
,
during
which
time
the
Baron
was
resolved
to
be
a
constant
attender
on
his
new
Master
,
to
inform
him
of
the
best
places
for
the
Attack
,
wh●re
it
was
strong
,
and
where
weak
;
and
he
knew
how
to
do
it
so
well
,
that
the
Prince
de
Barb●ncon
surrendered
the
Town
with
in
five
days
after
the
Siege
was
begun
,
without
any
Assault
attempted
by
the
Enemy
,
and
even
before
the
Ditch
was
filled
up
.
Those
who
defended
the
Place
were
extreamly
surprized
to
hear
on
a
sudden
the
Chamade
beaten
,
and
to
see
the
French
at
the
Gates
before
ever
that
Prince
,
who
was
the
Governour
of
it
,
had
taken
the
least
care
to
co●vey
the
Ammunition
and
Provisions
into
the
Citadel
,
tho
the
Town
was
abundantly
furnished
with
both
.
It
may
be
said
,
that
he
abandoned
them
to
the
French
,
after
which
was
seen
what
those
brave
Men
could
do
in
the
defence
of
a
House
which
is
at
the
bottom
of
the
Mountain
,
and
which
in
Derision
is
called
the
Divel's
House
,
because
it
is
built
in
a
place
,
to
which
the
Spaniards
gave
the
Name
of
the
Divel's
Mountain
,
from
the
great
winds
which
are
commonly
there
in
a
very
violent
manner
.
This
House
had
for
all
its
defence
but
one
Pallisade
,
and
about
two
hundred
and
thirty
Men
commanded
by
the
valiant
Colonel
de
Roquefouille
.
In
the
heighth
of
the
Attacque
it
was
at
last
taken
,
they
having
their
Swords
in
their
Hands
,
but
not
till
after
eight
days
Defence
,
and
many
Assaults
,
and
till
after
the
Death
of
that
brave
Commander
:
those
who
survived
him
,
to
the
number
of
about
twenty
Men
both
Officers
and
Souldiers
,
resolving
not
to
accept
of
any
Terms
,
retreated
still
,
defending
themselves
even
to
the
Valley
between
the
Castle
and
William's
Fort
.
The
Enemy
met
with
no
better
Success
from
this
Fort
where
Colonel
Coehorne
commanded
,
who
defended
his
Work
for
some
days
.
There
had
been
two
Breaches
made
,
and
several
Assaults
given
:
but
one
day
Colonel
Coehorne
defending
in
Person
one
of
those
Breaches
,
and
the
Spaniards
the
other
,
their
Commander
having
been
killed
on
the
spot
,
with
a
great
many
others
,
all
of
a
sudden
they
were
astonished
to
hear
these
latter
beat
the
Chamade
,
and
to
see
the
French
upon
the
Breach
;
but
there
was
then
no
remedy
for
it
,
they
were
forced
to
give
way
to
the
Precipitation
of
those
,
who
(
without
ever
consulting
their
Allies
that
were
in
the
Fort
)
were
very
glad
to
be
delivered
from
the
Fatigue
.
But
my
design
is
not
to
enter
into
the
Particularities
of
this
Business
,
I
shall
leave
to
those
who
were
present
to
give
that
exact
Relation
,
as
no
doubt
some
have
done
already
to
his
Majesty
of
Great
Britain
,
and
his
Electoral
Highness
of
Bavaria
.
As
soon
as
ever
the
French
King
had
made
himself
Master
of
this
Fort
,
which
gave
him
a
great
deal
of
Trouble
by
the
Bravery
of
those
who
defended
it
,
and
the
Time
it
cost
him
to
get
it
,
made
the
Baron
de
Bersey
receive
several
Rebukes
and
Mortifications
from
the
Impatience
of
his
new
Master
,
who
in
all
probability
would
have
sent
him
to
the
Bastile
,
if
the
Siege
had
held
but
a
few
days
longer
:
As
soon
,
I
say
,
as
they
became
Masters
of
William's
Fort
,
the
French
had
then
nothing
else
to
take
but
the
Castle
,
which
mightily
raised
their
almost
dwindled
hopes
by
the
bad
Weather
they
met
there
,
the
want
of
Forage
and
Corn
,
and
the
long
Resistance
of
Colonel
Coehorne
.
But
the
Fort
being
taken
by
a
Capitulation
ill
enough
observed
,
it
was
with
the
Prince
de
Barbançon
they
had
to
deal
with
,
who
stirred
not
out
of
the
Castle
,
but
was
forced
to
hide
himself
under
Ground
,
by
reason
of
the
continual
Bombs
and
firing
of
the
Enemy
.
But
he
had
read
in
History
that
it
was
part
of
the
Duty
of
a
General
,
or
Commander
,
to
preserve
himself
in
a
Post
,
such
as
that
was
,
more
than
in
a
Battel
;
the
Preservation
of
a
Commander
being
of
greatest
Importance
:
and
to
shew
that
it
was
not
,
as
is
commonly
reported
,
the
Fire
of
the
Enemy
that
he
apprehended
,
when
they
came
to
tell
him
that
Succour
was
seen
to
come
a
far
off
,
he
made
no
difficulty
at
all
to
come
out
in
his
Morning
Gown
,
as
if
he
had
been
resolved
to
brave
the
French
;
but
our
Governour
perceiving
no
such
thing
,
he
presently
retired
to
his
former
Post
.
At
the
end
of
eight
days
the
Breach
being
made
,
the
Garison
being
no
longer
provided
with
Victuals
,
and
withal
having
had
for
several
days
together
nothing
to
subsist
on
but
mouldy
Bread
and
stinking
Water
,
the
Spaniards
very
readily
went
over
the
Golden
Bridg
,
expecting
the
good
Terms
which
the
French
offered
them
.
The
Prince
de
Barbancon
caused
the
Chamade
to
be
beat
,
and
that
important
Place
was
at
last
surrendred
to
the
French
King
.
The
Governour
committed
three
great
Faults
during
that
Siege
,
which
he
could
not
deny
.
The
first
was
,
when
the
Town
was
yielded
up
,
not
to
have
ordered
all
the
Provisions
to
be
carried
into
the
Castle
,
that
were
left
in
the
Town
to
be
a
Booty
to
the
Enemy
,
and
wherewith
he
might
have
better
sed
his
poor
Souldiers
during
the
rest
of
the
Siege
of
the
Castle
,
and
thereby
to
incourage
them
the
more
.
The
second
Fault
was
,
That
he
very
ill
imployed
the
small
Remains
of
Provision
he
had
with
him
,
for
he
did
but
wretchedly
feed
the
Officers
and
Souldiers
that
were
to
defend
it
,
so
that
most
of
them
fell
sick
with
Hunger
and
Misery
:
and
tho
they
were
very
instant
in
their
Remonstrances
to
him
,
because
they
were
assured
there
was
little
or
nothing
left
for
them
in
the
Castle
;
yet
they
could
get
no
other
Satisfaction
from
him
than
this
Answer
,
You
ought
to
have
brought
Provisions
along
with
you
,
since
you
know
very
well
that
the
Spaniards
have
only
enough
for
themselves
.
But
yet
if
we
might
believe
the
French
who
entred
into
it
,
they
found
there
abundance
of
Meal
,
Butter
,
Bacon
,
Cheese
,
and
other
Provisions
.
But
perhaps
some
may
say
,
this
is
the
Discourse
of
Enemies
,
to
which
we
ought
not
always
to
give
Credit
;
and
I
grant
it
:
but
yet
this
way
of
discoursing
is
a
proof
of
Fact
,
authorized
too
by
the
Relation
of
the
Officers
themselves
,
and
of
the
Garison
that
came
out
of
it
.
The
third
Fault
that
the
Prince
de
Barbancon
was
guilty
of
,
was
,
In
that
he
did
not
come
out
from
those
Vaults
where
he
hid
himself
,
to
encourage
the
Souldiers
that
defended
the
Place
;
and
it
may
be
said
of
him
,
without
Injury
,
that
his
Prudence
at
that
time
prevailed
over
his
Courage
,
and
that
he
entirely
committed
the
Care
of
the
Defence
and
Preservation
of
that
important
Place
to
the
Officers
within
,
and
especially
to
Major
General
Wynbergue
,
who
commanded
the
Holland
and
Auxiliary
Troops
,
and
who
did
,
without
Contradiction
,
all
that
a
great
General
and
a
brave
Souldier
could
do
,
not
having
spared
his
own
Person
in
divers
Rencounters
;
but
not
being
Master
of
the
Magazines
,
he
could
not
cause
Manna
to
come
down
from
Heaven
,
nor
bring
Water
out
of
the
Rock
to
maintain
the
Garison
:
and
he
himself
had
no
better
Table
than
the
Officers
,
who
all
unanimously
testified
that
they
were
very
well
satisfied
with
the
Generosity
and
Liberality
of
Monsieur
the
Count
de
Thian
.
The
French
have
said
,
that
if
in
the
other
World
there
was
a
Tribunal
erected
for
the
God
Mars
to
judg
of
what
passed
in
this
War
,
the
Basha
who
commanded
at
Great
Waradin
would
rise
up
in
Judgment
against
the
Prince
de
Barbançon
,
in
that
whilst
the
former
was
presenting
himself
on
the
Breach
all
covered
over
with
the
Blood
trickling
from
his
Wounds
,
the
Prince
de
Barbançon
was
perhaps
either
playing
at
Chess
or
Cards
under
Ground
;
but
every
one
must
give
an
account
of
his
Actions
either
in
this
World
,
or
in
the
other
.
There
is
no
doubt
,
but
that
if
all
things
had
gone
on
as
they
should
have
done
,
and
that
the
Place
had
been
defended
by
an
experienced
Governour
,
who
would
have
taken
care
of
the
Provisions
,
in
ordering
all
things
necessary
to
be
brought
into
the
Castle
;
I
say
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
Namur
would
have
been
the
Spaniards
to
this
day
,
since
it
might
,
without
ever
being
succoured
,
have
held
still
out
for
three
Weeks
and
more
at
three
several
Actions
.
In
a
Siege
,
it
is
a
Maxim
,
That
he
who
gains
Time
,
most
commonly
gains
the
Point
,
by
reason
of
the
many
Accidents
which
may
happen
,
as
we
have
experienced
in
the
Seige
of
Namur
,
by
the
great
Rains
which
fell
immediately
after
the
Surrender
,
which
reduced
the
French
Cavalry
to
a
most
wretched
condition
;
for
the
Horse
for
the
most
part
were
broken-winded
,
because
they
were
forced
to
go
and
setch
Forage
above
forty
Miles
from
the
Camp
,
which
oftentimes
put
the
French
King
into
a
great
Disquiet
,
and
made
him
very
impatient
.
The
Baron
de
Bersey
had
his
turn
too
of
passing
his
time
but
very
uneasily
,
as
we
have
already
said
.
But
at
last
his
Tutelar
Demon
was
favourable
to
him
,
and
Namur
,
the
Subject
of
his
Treachery
,
became
a
Prey
to
the
French
,
without
a
possibility
of
being
relieved
,
notwithstanding
all
the
Care
and
Application
that
the
King
of
England
and
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
took
to
prevent
it
.
After
the
taking
of
it
,
it
was
still
a
hard
matter
to
break
all
the
Measures
of
the
French
King
,
who
had
an
Army
of
above
an
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
Men
ready
to
ravage
the
rest
of
the
Low-Countries
,
if
they
had
not
made
head
against
him
,
as
I
shall
shew
you
in
the
following
Discourse
.
The
Slaves
of
the
Grandeur
of
Lewis
the
XIVth
have
this
saying
often
in
their
Mouths
,
That
their
Monarch
never
comes
before
a
Place
but
he
takes
it
;
and
they
have
reason
for
it
,
because
he
never
comes
to
it
before
he
is
sure
that
it
will
be
surrendred
by
Treachery
,
and
by
virtue
of
his
Intelligences
within
;
and
therefore
it
may
more
properly
be
said
,
that
he
comes
there
to
take
Possestion
,
and
to
see
if
the
Place
be
worth
his
Money
.
Machiavel
says
,
Le
cose
che
si
acquiestanno
con
l'oro
,
non
si
sanno
defendere
col
'
ferro
.
But
the
reasoning
of
that
great
Politician
is
not
always
true
;
for
it
fails
now
,
because
we
may
say
,
that
the
French
do
buy
Places
,
(
which
he
calls
acquiring
by
Gold
)
but
defend
them
afterwards
with
Iron
.
The
Spaniards
ought
rather
to
take
care
that
they
be
not
left
to
be
taken
by
the
French
,
either
by
Louis
d'or's
,
or
Surprise
;
for
they
can
very
hardly
ever
get
them
out
of
their
hands
when
once
they
are
become
Masters
of
them
.
We
live
not
now
in
the
times
of
Charles
the
Fifth
,
and
Francis
the
First
.
Since
whom
the
Kings
of
Spain
very
much
rely
upon
the
Governours
of
their
Towns
and
Garisons
;
and
unfortunately
for
the
Allies
,
since
Philip
the
Second's
time
,
we
only
see
the
Kings
of
Spain
his
Successors
like
Relicks
through
a
Glass
:
So
that
we
may
affirm
without
any
hesitation
,
that
two
Accidents
do
at
this
day
save
the
Spanish
Netherlands
;
the
first
is
,
the
Advancement
of
King
William
to
the
Throne
of
Great
Britain
;
and
the
other
,
the
Accession
of
his
Electoral
Highness
to
the
Government
of
the
Netherlands
;
and
yet
notwithstanding
they
have
not
been
able
to
save
Namur
.
't
is
true
,
we
cannot
deny
it
;
but
let
us
consider
the
Consequences
that
might
happen
,
and
which
would
have
happened
indisputably
,
if
the
Elevation
of
these
two
great
Princes
had
not
come
timely
to
their
Succour
;
and
you
will
agree
with
me
in
what
I
have
already
alledged
.
As
to
Namur
,
I
do
affirm
it
was
impossible
to
relieve
it
;
if
you
will
argue
with
Persons
who
know
the
Situation
of
the
Place
,
and
who
have
been
in
the
Confederate
Army
,
they
will
all
unanimously
tell
you
,
that
the
King
and
the
Elector
did
all
that
was
possible
for
them
to
do
to
attack
the
Duke
of
Luxemburg
,
if
the
Ground
would
have
permitted
them
,
notwithstanding
the
Inequality
of
their
Forces
:
For
tho
the
Confederate
Army
was
much
inferiour
to
the
Enemy
in
number
,
that
was
not
it
that
made
the
Difficulty
,
but
the
Ground
.
The
Duke
of
Luxemburg
was
incamped
in
a
place
where
there
was
between
the
two
Armies
a
River
over-flowed
,
and
Morasses
;
we
were
to
pass
this
River
,
and
afterwards
to
fall
into
Battalia
,
with
our
Feet
in
Water
in
sight
of
the
French
,
the
Cannon
and
Cavalry
being
in
no
condition
to
relieve
them
.
Those
who
went
through
Curiosity
,
after
the
Retreat
of
the
Armies
,
to
observe
the
Place
and
the
River
Mehaine
,
which
was
over-flown
at
that
time
by
the
great
Rains
that
were
there
for
a
good
part
of
the
Summer
,
and
which
consequently
rendred
the
Morass
impassable
;
those
,
I
say
,
relate
that
it
was
impossible
to
go
over
to
the
French
,
without
exposing
themselves
to
a
most
evident
Danger
of
being
routed
;
and
therefore
it
was
to
be
considered
,
whether
a
Battel
so
lost
would
not
only
have
put
Namur
some
days
sooner
into
the
French
Hands
,
but
have
shewn
too
that
all
the
Spanish
Netherlands
were
within
Ame's
Ace
of
being
lost
.
Wherefore
it
were
better
,
upon
such
an
occasion
,
to
comfort
one's
self
with
the
D.
of
Barbançon's
Men
,
who
when
their
Arms
were
broke
,
thanked
God
that
their
Heads
were
not
so
too
,
and
therefore
hazarded
the
Town
,
which
it
was
hoped
might
have
held
out
longer
,
as
indeed
it
might
have
done
;
and
that
was
more
Prudence
than
to
hazard
all
the
Country
.
Before
it
was
besieged
,
we
know
what
Pains
the
King
of
England
took
to
get
together
the
several
Bodies
of
each
Nation
that
were
to
compose
the
Army
,
which
was
a
great
Machine
,
having
many
Wheels
,
not
very
easy
to
be
set
a
going
;
whereas
the
French
Army
consisted
almost
entirely
of
one
and
the
same
Nation
;
or
if
there
are
any
Strangers
,
the
Commanders
at
least
are
all
French
,
which
gives
them
great
Advantages
,
both
of
being
first
in
the
Field
,
when
once
Resolutions
are
taken
,
and
of
possessing
▪
themselves
of
the
most
advantagious
Posts
to
effect
their
Designs
.
They
had
also
this
to
boast
of
,
that
the
moistness
▪
of
the
Ground
was
favourable
to
them
this
▪
last
Campagne
:
and
all
those
who
are
perfectly
acquainted
with
the
Situation
of
the
Country
,
will
avow
,
that
it
is
impossible
to
come
to
a
Battel
in
the
Netherlands
,
unless
both
the
Generals
have
a
mind
to
it
.
We
have
seen
by
Experience
what
Pains
and
Care
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
has
taken
to
avoid
it
,
and
that
not
without
reason
;
for
upon
the
loss
of
a
Battel
,
depended
not
only
the
raising
of
the
Siege
of
Namur
,
but
the
Entrance
into
some
Province
of
France
▪
That
Court
knew
it
well
enough
,
and
that
was
the
reason
they
took
so
much
care
to
recommend
to
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
to
●ncamp
in
Places
where
he
could
not
be
attacqued
,
because
they
were
sufficiently
acquainted
with
what
the
King
of
England
could
do
,
and
what
Mettle
he
was
of
,
it
being
natural
to
that
Prince
to
despise
Danger
,
and
to
push
on
;
for
as
soon
as
ever
he
was
come
to
Mehaint
,
he
caused
,
with
all
the
Diligence
and
Application
imaginable
,
Bridges
to
be
built
in
the
Night
,
to
cross
the
River
next
Morning
,
and
to
attack
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
in
the
Morasses
,
if
a
very
extraordinary
Rain
had
not
fell
,
and
if
all
the
Generals
had
not
unanimously
disswaded
him
from
it
;
besides
the
Impossibility
that
there
was
of
forming
themselves
into
a
Line
of
Battel
in
a
place
that
was
so
full
of
Water
:
But
the
French
could
not
deny
,
but
that
during
the
Campagne
the
King
of
England
had
not
only
spared
them
,
but
oftentimes
had
made
them
gallop
ten
or
a
dozen
Miles
a
day
,
and
had
made
their
Foot
take
Marches
accordingly
,
and
that
he
had
several
times
offered
them
Battel
,
facing
them
with
the
Flank
of
his
Army
,
and
giving
them
many
Advantages
to
enduce
them
to
bite
at
the
Bait
;
but
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
still
excused
himself
upon
his
Orders
.
France
pretends
to
do
her
business
by
gaining
time
,
and
avoiding
a
Battel
,
for
so
she
runs
no
hazard
,
but
hopes
to
weary
out
the
Allies
;
and
still
flatters
her self
,
that
the
Winter
,
which
most
commonly
is
favourable
to
her
Designs
,
will
produce
some
new
thing
or
other
for
her
Advantage
.
Thus
she
endeavours
to
make
her
Advantage
of
a
time
,
when
Mens
Minds
are
a
little
more
calm
and
sedate
,
and
conseqently
more
in
a
temper
to
hearken
to
Propositions
;
whereas
during
the
heat
of
the
Campagne
,
and
at
the
head
of
Armies
which
inspire
thoughts
of
War
and
hopes
of
Victory
,
rather
than
any
inclinations
to
Peace
,
she
sees
very
well
there
is
nothing
to
be
done
,
more
active
Thoughts
being
then
in
their
Heads
,
than
to
suffer
them
to
listen
to
the
low
Means
she
would
propose
for
an
Accommodation
.
That
was
the
reason
why
the
Court
of
France
so
dexterously
,
as
we
say
,
spun
out
the
time
,
and
endeavoured
by
all
ways
imaginable
to
pass
away
the
Summerwithout
fighting
;
to
which
end
the
Rains
served
them
most
wonderfully
,
the
Autumn
having
this
Year
begun
in
Summer
:
and
since
France
hath
the
advantage
to
have
in
her
keeping
the
Relicks
of
many
Saints
,
to
make
it
rain
when
she
pleases
,
who
knows
how
far
she
may
have
made
use
of
those
Trinkets
this
Year
to
keep
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
from
being
attacqued
?
The
Allies
ought
by
way
of
Reprisals
to
have
their
Reliques
too
,
to
cause
a
Drought
,
provided
no
Dissention
amongst
the
Saints
ensued
upon
it
.
But
notwithstanding
the
Wetness
of
the
Season
,
the
French
have
had
a
taste
,
at
the
Battel
of
Steenkerk
,
of
the
Courage
of
the
Confederate's
Infantry
.
The
King
of
England
,
after
several
attempts
to
come
to
a
close
Battel
,
not
finding
an
opportunity
to
grapple
with
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
in
an
open
Campagne-Ground
,
resolved
nevertheless
,
before
he
retired
,
to
make
him
sensible
of
the
Confederates
Powder
;
and
the
King
having
found
by
frequent
experience
,
that
the
Fox
would
not
come
out
of
his
Hole
,
endeavoured
to
attack
him
in
his
Retrenchments
of
Hedges
and
Woods
wherewith
he
was
covered
,
tho
he
could
not
secure
himself
thereby
from
being
assaulted
unawares
,
and
finding
his
Tranquillity
molested
,
which
he
thought
himself
assured
of
by
the
Advantages
of
the
Ground
.
But
this
may
be
said
to
his
Praise
,
that
never
was
any
General
more
astonished
than
he
was
,
when
some
came
to
tell
him
in
great
haste
,
that
they
saw
advancing
a
very
great
Party
of
the
Enemy
,
and
which
indeed
was
a
Detatchment
out
of
every
Regiment
of
Foot
,
accompanied
with
some
thousands
of
Pioneers
,
who
appeared
at
break
of
Day
;
but
the
Ground
was
so
filled
with
Hedges
and
Briery
Bushes
,
that
the
Pioneers
were
forced
to
make
a
way
for
them
to
pass
,
which
rendred
the
Action
more
brave
and
glorious
.
Wherefore
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
,
knowing
his
Post
so
well
,
could
not
believe
it
,
either
upon
the
first
or
second
Advertisement
that
he
received
from
the
Sieur
de
Trassi
,
who
commanded
the
Advance-Guard
.
A
third
Messenger
was
necessary
,
as
may
be
observed
by
the
Letter
he
writ
to
the
King
his
Master
,
which
has
since
been
published
.
When
I
was
reading
the
third
Billet
written
by
the
Sieur
de
Trassi
,
who
commanded
a
Post
advanced
on
the
top
of
Tubise
,
and
expected
a
fourth
,
I
saw
from
a
little
rising
Ground
the
Enemies-Troops
;
upon
which
I
sent
to
advertise
the
Marquess
de
Boufflers
with
a
most
pressing
Order
to
come
and
join
me
with
all
speed
,
&c.
The
Marquess
de
Boufflers
lost
no
time
,
but
came
in
to
the
hottest
part
of
the
Action
:
But
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
forgets
this
Circumstance
,
that
besides
the
Expresses
of
the
Sieur
de
Trass●
,
he
likewise
received
.
Infornation
of
the
marching
of
the
Conlederates
by
the
famous
Millevois
,
who
was
both
a
Masician
and
a
Traitor
in
the
Court
of
Bavaria
,
having
before
been
stroling
in
Holland
under
the
French
King's
Pay
,
and
who
at
last
(
one
of
his
Letters
having
been
intercepted
)
received
the
Punishment
he
deserved
;
for
he
was
hang'd
on
a
Tree
at
the
head
of
the
Camp
.
This
Rogue
had
cunningly
conveyed
to
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
the
Plan
of
the
Attacks
which
were
to
be
made
,
exactly
drawn
at
the
bottom
of
his
Letter
,
having
found
out
a
way
to
copy
it
from
the
Project
that
his
Electoral
Highness
had
lest
of
it
on
his
Table
;
and
it
was
upon
this
Advice
that
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
sent
Orders
to
the
Marquess
de
Boufflers
to
advance
in
all
haste
.
It
is
not
to
be
wondred
that
the
French
General
was
so
surpriz'd
,
since
he
knew
very
well
how
advantagiously
he
was
posted
,
and
had
often
visited
all
the
Avenues
to
his
Camp
;
and
one
day
said
,
There
is
none
but
an
Alexander
or
a
Cesar
dares
attack
me
in
this
plac●
.
If
we
do
but
well
observe
his
Letter
,
we
shall
find
that
he
thinks
he
can
hardly
enough
commend
the
Advantage
of
his
Post
at
Steenkerk
.
He
assures
his
Master
(
without
doubt
to
excuse
his
having
been
attacked
)
that
he
had
cut
down
the
Hedges
on
the
Right-hand
and
on
the
left
,
and
was
forced
to
make
Ways
to
enable
him
to
keep
a
Communication
with
the
Flanks
,
but
that
he
could
not
do
so
in
the
Front
:
Besides
,
that
there
was
a
great
Morass
on
the
Left-hand
,
which
every
day
grew
deeper
and
deeper
by
the
continual
Rains
;
and
on
the
Right
a
Wood
,
which
he
had
lined
with
the
best
of
his
Foot
and
Dragoons
;
and
behind
him
he
had
a
River
which
inclosed
him
,
so
that
it
was
impossible
to
surprize
him
.
And
upon
this
true
and
lively
Picture
of
the
French
Camp
,
one
might
very
well
say
,
that
scarce
any
Fortress
was
more
secured
and
better
guarded
than
this
Post
;
and
that
really
there
ought
to
be
another
Alexander
the
Great
,
or
another
Cesar
to
attack
it
;
and
it
was
a
William
the
Great
who
performed
an
Alexander's
part
,
and
marched
all
Night
up
to
the
French
without
either
beat
of
Drum
,
or
sounding
to
Horse
.
He
caused
the
Right
Wing
of
the
French
to
be
attacked
by
the
Prince
of
Wirtemberg
,
who
acquitted
himself
with
that
Bravery
and
Courage
which
is
usual
to
him
upon
all
occasions
;
and
we
may
likewise
say
,
that
the
Danes
in
this
Action
,
as
indeed
everywhere
else
where
they
have
been
employed
,
did
all
that
could
be
expected
from
good
Souldiers
,
as
well
as
the
Dragoons
,
who
fell
desperately
into
the
Woods
to
un-nest
the
French
who
had
got
up
into
the
Trees
;
but
his
Highness
the
Prince
de
Nassau
no
sooner
appeared
at
the
Head
of
the
left
Wing
of
the
main
Body
,
(
leading
himself
his
Foot
just
up
to
the
Enemy
,
and
exposing
himself
more
than
any
common
Souldier
)
but
the
French
forsook
the
Wood
,
which
served
them
as
a
Retreat
,
leaving
behind
them
some
Pieces
of
Cannon
;
but
Night
coming
on
,
and
Lieutenant
General
Mackay
,
who
commanded
the
English
,
being
laid
in
the
Bed
of
Honour
,
at
the
very
moment
that
Boufflers's
Troops
arrived
,
the
King
most
wisely
judging
that
it
was
not
Prudence
to
let
part
of
his
Army
lie
all
Night
in
the
Woods
and
Briars
confusedly
with
the
Enemy
,
caused
a
Retreat
to
be
sounded
,
which
was
made
with
so
much
Order
,
and
so
slow
a
March
,
that
some
Battalions
spent
two
hours
time
in
going
a
quarter
of
a
League
,
and
the
French
had
not
the
Courage
to
follow
them
.
So
that
we
may
well
say
,
the
Attack
and
the
Retreat
were
equally
glorious
;
but
the
Horse
that
drew
the
Artillery
being
almost
all
cut
off
,
and
the
Train
broken
,
we
were
forced
to
leave
the
French
some
Pieces
of
Cannon
,
not
being
able
to
carry
them
off
.
The
greatest
Honour
that
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
had
in
the
Battel
of
Steenkerk
,
was
,
that
he
had
fought
with
part
of
an
Army
commanded
by
one
of
the
greatest
Kings
in
the
World
,
who
shewed
himself
every
where
,
and
took
less
care
of
himself
than
the
meanest
of
his
Souldiers
,
altho
the
Safety
of
Europe
,
as
well
as
the
Honour
of
his
Party
,
depended
on
his
sacred
Person
.
Moreover
,
it
may
be
said
that
on
this
occasion
the
English
,
in
imitation
of
their
King
,
have
shewen
,
by
the
Blood
they
have
so
chearfully
spilt
,
what
Affection
and
Fidelity
they
have
to
his
Service
,
and
by
this
glorious
Action
(
for
one
good
while
at
least
)
have
both
by
Sea
and
Land
undeceived
the
French
,
who
thought
they
should
have
found
in
them
some
Remains
of
the
old
Leaven
of
the
Jacobites
:
and
it
may
be
said
,
that
if
the
Confederates
Right-Wing
had
been
able
to
have
done
as
much
as
the
Left
did
,
the
French
would
have
stood
in
need
of
all
their
Bridges
which
they
had
thrown
over
the
River
beforehand
;
but
the
darkness
of
the
Night
coming
on
,
very
seasonably
to
their
Succour
,
gave
them
the
opportunity
of
drawing
out
of
the
Field
of
Battel
eight
or
nine
thousand
Men
dead
or
wounded
,
among
whom
were
some
Princes
,
&
some
Lords
distinguished
by
their
Birth
and
Merit
;
a
great
number
of
Colonels
,
and
other
Officers
,
who
all
together
paid
the
same
Debt
to
Nature
,
and
were
piled
one
upon
another
like
Stacks
of
Corn
.
To
be
convinced
of
the
truth
of
this
,
I
hope
the
Reader
will
pardon
me
,
if
I
send
him
back
once
more
to
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh's
letter
;
the
Evidence
of
the
contrary
Party
is
always
an
undeniable
Proof
;
and
he
confesses
that
he
fled
from
his
Enemy
,
and
did
all
that
was
possible
for
him
to
do
to
avoid
coming
to
Blows
:
but
let
us
hear
what
he
says
himself
in
the
beginning
of
his
Letter
to
the
King
.
Sir
,
I
was
extream
unwilling
at
this
time
to
have
engaged
in
a
Foot-Battel
;
for
I
should
have
been
glad
if
the
Horse
could
have
been
brought
to
Action
;
yet
it
was
impossible
for
me
yesterday
to
avoid
one
with
them
;
in
which
altho
a
great
many
Officers
have
been
killed
or
wounded
,
yet
I
hope
your
Majesty
will
be
in
some
measure
comforted
by
the
great
Loss
which
the
Enemy
have
sustained
likewise
,
&c.
I
am
confident
there
is
not
one
Period
in
this
Fragment
I
have
shewn
you
,
which
gives
not
the
French
a
very
sensible
Blow
,
and
which
does
not
at
the
same
time
raise
the
Glory
of
the
King
of
England
,
and
the
Gallantry
of
his
Foot
,
which
is
certainly
the
Scourge
of
his
Enemies
,
and
which
hath
made
the
French
to
sing
De
profundis
in
all
the
Actions
and
Combats
wherein
we
have
engaged
them
.
No
doubt
but
the
Woollen-Drapers
of
Paris
,
who
are
always
very
ingenious
for
their
own
Profit
,
would
tax
themselves
with
all
their
Hearts
to
make
a
handsome
Present
to
the
Duke
of
Luxemburgh
,
provided
that
that
Great
Mareschal
would
promise
to
give
them
every
Year
the
Advantage
of
such
a
Battel
as
that
of
Steenkerk
.
I
will
not
here
touch
upon
what
passed
on
the
side
of
the
Upper-Rhine
,
but
shall
leave
the
Care
of
that
to
the
Germans
,
and
advise
them
to
take
the
Pains
themselves
to
assist
the
Pen
which
is
to
write
that
History
;
for
without
all
peradventure
it
will
inform
us
of
a
great
many
fine
things
.
But
I
know
the
French
have
had
time
to
walk
at
their
ease
all
over
the
Country
,
and
their
Parties
have
carried
away
what
ever
they
had
a
mind
to
,
putting
all
under
Contribution
,
and
leaving
behind
them
,
according
to
their
usual
Custom
,
the
Marks
of
their
Cruelty
and
Desolation
by
their
Burnings
wheresoever
they
come
.
We
know
also
that
the
Prince
,
Administrator
of
Wirtemberg
was
surprised
,
or
else
abandoned
,
so
that
he
was
obliged
to
surrender
himself
;
that
the
small
Effort
which
the
Germans
made
on
their
side
,
opened
a
very
fair
way
for
France
to
bring
the
Power
of
her
Army
where-ever
pleased
,
as
we
have
manifestly
experienced
by
the
taking
of
Namur
.
The
Low-Countries
are
like
to
be
from
henceforward
her
common
Road
,
and
the
Campagnes
will
be
without
question
honoured
with
the
Presence
of
Lewis
the
XIVth
,
who
desires
no
better
Sport
than
to
see
the
Germans
trifle
away
their
time
upon
the
Rhine
,
whilst
he
hath
need
of
all
his
Forces
in
Flanders
,
where
the
Presence
of
King
William
engages
him
to
make
use
of
his
utmost
Efforts
.
In
the
mean
while
there
are
some
in
the
World
,
that
instead
of
imitating
this
great
Prince
,
suffer
themselves
to
be
lull'd
asleep
by
the
charming
Songs
of
French
Sirens
;
't
is
a
Philistine
Dalilah
,
that
dandles
in
her
Lap
all
those
who
put
any
Confidence
in
her
,
and
at
last
puts
out
their
Eyes
with
the
Powder
of
Gold
;
but
it
is
only
in
order
to
make
them
(
Sampson-like
)
to
grind
in
the
Mill
.
There
is
cause
enough
and
too
much
to
affirm
this
;
there
is
not
an
Enemy
to
France
who
does
not
sufficiently
know
it
,
and
who
does
not
say
the
same
thing
;
yet
notwithstanding
all
this
,
How
much
Coldness
and
Indifferency
do
we
not
see
among
some
of
the
Confederates
,
(
to
say
no
worse
)
who
choose
rather
to
have
their
Neighbours
ruined
,
and
even
their
own
People
,
than
to
make
the
least
Effort
,
or
do
any
thing
but
what
falls
just
to
their
share
,
to
oppose
the
great
Efforts
of
France
?
However
one
of
these
two
things
these
lukewarm
and
fearful
Princes
must
choose
,
either
to
help
to
ruine
France
,
or
else
expect
that
France
should
ruine
them
;
for
there
is
no
midst
to
take
;
of
necessity
one
of
these
two
must
come
to
pass
:
If
Europe
has
a
mind
to
put
her self
into
any
settled
state
of
Ease
and
Tranquillity
,
we
must
,
I
say
,
of
necessity
come
to
this
,
to
make
one
last
Effort
.
Ha!
would
to
God
these
Princes
would
but
act
outwardly
,
as
they
are
perswaded
inwardly
in
their
Consciences
!
But
,
cried
out
one
of
these
Gentlemen
in
the
late
Wars
,
seeing
so
great
a
number
of
Hungarian
Ducats
upon
the
Table
,
which
a
French
Minister
offered
him
to
betray
his
Party
,
How
can
Flesh
and
Blood
resist
so
many
armed
Men
at
a
time
?
Tho
Slavery
under
a
Golden
Chain
may
be
more
pleasing
than
that
under
a
Chain
of
Iron
;
yet
the
Galley-Slaves
of
a
Ship
Royal
are
no
less
Slaves
for
having
Coats
of
Damask
on
,
than
the
Slaves
of
other
Gallies
:
it
is
the
same
thing
at
long-run
,
whether
the
Enemy
gets
into
our
Houses
by
Gold
,
or
by
the
Sword
;
by
the
Door
,
or
in
at
the
Window
;
he
is
always
our
Master
when
once
he
is
in
.
But
let
us
once
for
good
and
all
undeceive
these
French
Ministers
,
who
are
very
subtile
and
crafty
,
and
scarce
ever
lose
any
thing
:
they
often
sow
,
but
it
is
to
reap
the
more
,
and
to
make
a
much
better
Harvest
.
Ah!
How
expert
are
they
in
making
their
Accompts
?
and
how
do
they
inrich
themselves
for
all
the
Pains
they
take
,
by
making
the
Inhabitants
of
every
Town
they
buy
,
to
pay
the
Price
four
times
over
?
And
we
may
safely
say
,
that
Men
never
understood
their
Liberty
better
,
than
when
they
have
lost
it
;
and
especially
when
a
Prince
finds
himself
reduced
to
become
a
Dependant
upon
the
Court
of
France
,
and
is
forced
(
of
which
I
have
been
an
Eye-witness
)
to
go
often
in
vain
to
Monsieur
Colbert's
,
to
receive
his
Pension
,
or
to
Monsieur
Louvois
,
to
obtain
some
Employment
.
One
of
these
Ministers
was
the
Son
of
a
poor
wretched
Merchant
of
Reyns
,
and
the
other
of
a
Proctor
;
yet
blind
Fortune
having
raised
,
and
loaded
them
with
her
Favours
,
we
have
seen
them
in
this
Reign
the
Arbiters
of
the
Fate
of
several
great
Lords
,
who
have
been
forced
to
come
and
wait
every
Morning
at
their
Gates
,
and
petitioning
them
.
These
two
great
Men
have
spent
a
good
part
of
their
Lives
in
contriving
how
and
which
way
to
bring
down
the
Dukes
of
Savoy
,
and
to
level
them
with
the
Princes
of
Monaco
,
or
however
with
the
Dukes
of
Lorrain
.
Would
you
desire
a
more
convincing
and
certain
Proof
of
this
than
the
late
Marriage
which
France
made
between
his
Royal
Highness
and
the
Infanta
of
Portugal
?
I
meddle
not
with
the
Quality
of
either
of
the
Parties
;
because
,
besides
that
there
is
no
great
Inequality
as
to
that
,
it
's
nothing
to
the
purpose
:
but
it
is
very
probable
that
by
this
Marriage
France
had
an
Eye
to
get
the
Duke
of
Savoy
out
of
his
own
Territories
,
the
more
easily
to
get
Possession
of
them
himself
,
as
soon
as
ever
his
Royal
Highness
should
have
been
established
in
Portugal
,
and
to
prevent
his
coming
back
again
by
the
Garisons
that
the
French
King
would
have
put
in
all
Places
of
Piedmont
and
Savoy
;
and
tho
perhaps
the
Duke
might
return
,
he
should
have
been
there
no
other
than
as
the
Prince
of
Monaco
,
in
Morgué
guarded
by
the
French
.
But
God
,
who
hath
preserved
his
Royal
Highness
for
some
better
purpose
,
hath
so
throughly
enlightned
the
Minds
of
his
faithful
Counsellors
,
that
they
presently
seeing
to
the
bottom
of
the
Designs
of
France
,
discovered
to
him
the
Plots
she
had
laid
,
and
the
Mischiefs
into
which
his
Highness
was
like
to
fall
,
if
he
had
not
been
disswaded
forthwith
from
the
Resolution
he
had
taken
,
and
which
would
have
been
so
fatal
a
Blow
,
that
it
would
have
gone
near
to
have
cost
him
the
loss
or
ruine
of
all
his
Country
.
In
short
,
his
Royal
Highness
being
prevailed
upon
by
his
good
Counsellors
,
concluded
it
was
his
best
way
to
stay
at
home
,
preferring
the
Glory
of
being
absolute
Master
over
his
own
People
,
to
that
of
going
among
Strangers
to
take
upon
him
a
Post
of
Submission
and
Dependance
;
and
his
Stay
at
Turin
being
more
agreeable
to
his
true
Interest
,
than
his
sojourning
at
Lisbon
.
His
Highness
upon
this
occasion
acquired
more
Glory
by
despising
all
the
Advantages
which
France
would
have
put
him
in
hopes
of
,
than
if
he
had
complied
.
The
great
Design
that
the
Court
of
France
had
upon
Piedmont
and
the
Millaneses
,
having
been
now
disappointed
by
the
Refusal
of
his
Marriage
;
and
the
Estates
of
Italy
,
having
been
formerly
the
(
la
Morotte
)
chiefest
Aim
of
the
Kings
of
France
,
unto
Henry
IVth's
time
;
and
since
which
King's
time
France
having
quitted
it
because
of
the
small
Progress
she
made
there
,
she
thought
it
better
to
turn
her
Arms
towards
the
Low-Countries
,
which
she
did
;
and
Lewis
the
XIIIth
as
well
as
his
Son
,
the
XIVth
of
that
Name
,
have
since
made
it
the
Seat
of
War
,
and
the
Theatre
of
all
their
Enterprizes
.
The
Duke
of
Savoy
having
wisely
observed
the
Design
of
Lewis
the
XIVth
upon
his
Country
,
no
sooner
got
himself
into
a
condition
of
acting
,
but
he
gave
him
some
Marks
of
his
Resentment
,
and
of
his
Courage
in
the
desire
he
had
to
see
himself
once
delivered
from
the
heavy
Yoke
wherewith
the
French
Ministry
had
oppressed
him
during
his
Minority
;
and
this
was
the
occasion
of
his
first
coming
into
the
Confederacy
,
and
joining
his
Interests
to
those
of
the
House
of
Austria
,
as
being
the
most
advantagious
side
for
that
Prince
,
who
by
his
Declaration
against
France
has
lately
so
signalized
his
Zeal
for
the
common
Interest
,
and
declared
his
Resolution
to
labour
indefatigably
with
the
Allies
to
abate
the
Power
of
the
sworn
Enemy
of
the
Liberty
of
Europe
;
and
we
may
say
,
that
this
Prince
is
at
this
day
the
only
one
who
as
yet
hath
had
the
Glory
of
eating
the
Bread
of
France
,
by
the
Irruption
he
made
into
Dauphiné
,
and
making
himself
Master
of
Guillestre
,
Gap
and
Ambrun
;
and
as
young
a
Warrier
as
he
is
,
he
hath
had
the
Honour
to
give
Checkmate
to
that
old
Fox
Catinat
,
who
it
seems
in
this
proved
but
a
Goose
.
For
being
posted
upon
the
rising
Ground
of
St.
Brigide
to
cover
Pignerol
,
he
thought
the
Duke
of
Savoy
would
not
have
marched
towards
the
Frontiers
of
France
,
but
to
draw
him
off
from
his
Post
,
and
afterwards
to
invest
Pignerol
,
by
the
Troops
he
had
left
behind
to
observe
Catinat's
Motion
;
nor
could
he
forbear
saying
,
that
the
Duke
of
Savoy
was
too
young
to
put
upon
him
by
his
false
March
:
but
he
was
mightily
surprized
when
he
found
his
March
in
good
earnest
,
and
had
the
News
brought
him
of
the
Duke's
being
got
into
Dauphiné
,
and
taken
Guillestre
,
and
several
other
Frontier
Places
.
The
Design
was
to
have
gone
as
far
as
Grenoble
,
had
it
not
been
for
the
Sickness
of
his
Royal
Highness
,
and
the
Repugnance
of
the
Spaniards
,
who
still
look'd
behind
them
,
as
Lot's
Wife
did
heretofore
,
or
as
it
is
said
of
Eurydice
the
Wife
of
Orpheus
,
fearing
lest
the
French
should
be
Masters
of
the
Milaneses
,
or
that
coming
to
an
Engagement
up
too
high
in
the
Mountains
,
they
should
not
be
able
to
get
from
thence
that
Winter
,
by
reason
of
the
great
Snows
which
very
often
stop
up
the
Ways
;
so
that
we
may
say
,
France
was
extreamly
obliged
to
the
General
of
the
Spaniards
.
Two
things
there
were
which
hindred
the
coming
in
of
the
discontented
People
to
join
the
Duke
of
Savoy
in
his
Marches
.
The
first
was
,
the
ill
Carriage
and
Disorder
of
the
Germans
;
as
soon
as
ever
they
sat
foot
in
Dauphine
,
that
by
way
of
Reprisal
they
might
revenge
themselves
for
the
Burnings
and
Cruelties
which
the
French
made
and
committed
over
Germany
;
and
they
seemed
so
incensed
at
it
,
that
no
Consideration
whatsoever
could
restrain
them
;
which
carried
the
Alarm
even
to
the
Gates
of
Lions
,
so
that
the
Inhabitants
,
instead
of
tarrying
for
them
,
all
fled
,
and
chose
rather
to
leave
their
Houses
and
Goods
,
than
see
themselves
exposed
to
the
Mercy
of
the
Germans
.
This
way
of
Procedure
passed
with
them
(
as
all
the
World
knows
)
as
one
of
the
Effects
of
War
;
for
they
little
troubled
their
Heads
with
examining
whether
it
agreed
with
the
Policy
of
the
Confederates
,
(
which
was
to
procure
an
Insurrection
)
provided
they
might
reek
their
Revenge
,
and
be
well
entertained
,
as
they
are
every
where
else
where
they
are
Masters
,
but
especially
in
an
Enemy's
Country
.
The
second
thing
that
kept
the
People
from
coming
in
to
him
,
was
,
the
small
Force
that
was
left
the
Duke
of
Schonberg
to
sustain
those
that
would
have
taken
up
Arms
,
and
joined
with
him
;
for
being
known
to
all
the
Inhabitants
of
that
Province
,
they
entirely
relied
on
him
,
and
on
his
word
.
But
of
the
two
thousand
five
hundred
Men
which
that
Prince
brought
with
him
into
Dauphiné
,
he
in
a
short
time
saw
himself
reduced
to
five
hundred
,
the
rest
being
dispersed
into
divers
Posts
,
or
else
into
Garisons
.
It
was
therefore
impossible
for
him
with
but
a
handful
of
Men
(
notwithstanding
all
his
earnest
pressing
for
more
)
not
only
to
go
forward
,
but
even
to
sustain
with
his
Forces
those
who
had
a
desire
of
coming
in
to
him
,
and
who
would
have
easily
found
out
ways
to
his
Royal
Highness
,
to
have
enabled
him
to
maintain
himself
in
the
Province
where
he
then
was
.
Some
thought
that
those
,
who
were
the
Guides
of
that
Prince's
Conscience
,
and
some
Ecclesiasticks
that
attended
his
Person
,
were
the
Hinderers
of
the
Succour
which
the
Duke
of
Schonberg
demanded
,
seeing
him
at
the
Head
of
a
small
Troop
of
Protestant
Souldiers
,
the
Alarm
was
strait
given
in
the
Refectory
,
because
they
were
afraid
that
their
Number
once
increasing
,
they
should
by
force
of
Arms
make
bold
to
come
into
their
Kitchins
,
and
there
seize
on
all
their
Victuals
.
If
one
were
to
confult
those
Priests
,
I
am
sure
they
would
rather
have
Europe
made
a
Slave
to
the
French
King
,
than
see
it
delivered
by
a
Protestant
Prince
;
for
they
are
cruelly
afraid
that
he
would
destroy
all
their
Boilers
and
Porridg-Pots
,
which
keep
up
their
jolly
Countenances
,
and
make
them
sing
so
merrily
,
Or
a
pro
nobis
.
Their
greatest
Politicks
reach
no
farther
than
their
Kitchin
;
provided
their
Pots
boil
,
and
their
Spits
turn
,
they
care
for
no
more
.
And
therefore
we
must
conclude
,
that
so
long
as
the
Roman
Catholick
Princes
in
general
will
have
Priests
to
guide
and
biass
their
Consciences
,
they
will
do
no
good
at
all
.
The
major
part
of
them
look
on
the
French
King
as
the
Restorer
of
Religion
,
and
the
Support
of
the
See
of
Rome
;
but
I
would
desire
them
to
look
back
to
the
Decree
of
the
Assembly
of
the
Clergy
of
France
,
held
at
Paris
in
the
Year
1682.
which
is
a
Bone
for
the
Vatican
to
pick
,
and
which
most
certainly
ought
to
arm
Rome
,
and
all
the
Roman
Catholick
Princes
with
a
holy
Indignation
against
France
,
and
not
allow
her
any
Quiet
,
till
she
had
made
a
new
Confession
of
Faith
as
to
the
Authority
of
the
Pope
,
since
now
France
hath
but
one
step
more
to
make
,
to
withdraw
her self
from
the
Pope's
Obedience
.
It
highly
concerns
Rome
to
rouze
up
her self
,
to
take
care
of
her
Rights
;
and
the
Pope
at
this
day
would
do
much
better
(
with
submission
to
him
)
in
following
the
glorious
Steps
of
his
Predecessors
,
and
no
ways
complying
with
flattering
France
,
till
she
has
given
substantial
authentick
Marks
of
her
Submission
to
the
Holy
See
.
Matters
standing
thus
in
Dauphiné
,
and
his
Royal
Highness
having
no
fortified
Place
to
winter
in
;
and
besides
,
his
own
Indisposition
not
suffering
him
to
act
there
in
Person
,
as
he
had
done
till
the
taking
of
Ambrum
;
and
add
to
all
this
,
being
in
great
danger
of
having
all
Passages
stop'd
up
by
the
Snows
,
he
thought
he
was
under
a
necessity
,
of
putting
off
his
farther
Prosecution
to
the
next
Year
,
and
to
repass
the
Mountains
,
after
he
had
shewn
France
that
she
was
not
impregnable
,
but
that
whenever
the
Allies
saw
good
,
they
could
carry
their
Arms
into
her
very
Bowels
,
and
make
the
same
Desolation
there
,
as
she
had
done
in
Germany
;
and
that
the
Duke
of
Savoy
,
whom
she
was
lest
apprehensive
of
,
yet
hath
been
the
first
that
has
opened
the
Door
,
and
beaten
the
way
,
by
putting
one
part
of
Dauphiné
under
Contribution
,
and
will
go
thither
again
as
soon
as
ever
he
shall
be
well
seconded
,
and
will
consult
only
his
own
Genius
,
knowing
his
own
Interest
best
,
and
the
necessity
he
is
under
to
humble
France
,
to
live
in
quiet
in
his
own
Country
,
and
never
again
to
run
himself
on
the
brink
of
that
Precipice
from
which
he
happily
escaped
but
a
very
little
while
ago
.
't
is
not
to
be
questioned
,
how
fair
a
Face
soever
,
and
how
good
a
Dissimulation
France
sets
on
the
matter
,
whilst
the
Duke
of
Savoy
was
ravaging
Dauphiné
and
Provence
,
but
that
all
that
time
she
extreamly
scared
the
Consequences
of
it
,
and
felt
even
at
her
Heart
secret
Disquiets
and
Alarms
,
which
yet
she
endeavoured
to
conceal
,
as
much
as
ever
was
possible
,
through
a
Fineness
of
Politicks
,
because
she
saw
a
very
strong
Army
that
would
find
her
Employment
enough
in
Brabant
,
and
at
the
Head
of
it
a
Monarch
that
stands
his
Ground
,
and
scorns
to
give
way
,
and
who
then
was
harassing
the
French
without
intermission
,
seeking
all
occasions
imaginable
to
come
to
a
Battel
,
whilst
the
French
,
as
I
have
said
already
,
was
using
all
the
pitiful
Tricks
they
could
devise
to
shun
it
.
Besides
,
at
Sea
France
beheld
an
Enemy's
Fleet
victorious
,
that
had
with
her
ten
or
twelve
thousand
fighting
Men
ready
to
disembark
on
the
first
Orders
.
I
believe
for
my
part
,
no
Prince
,
tho
never
so
fearless
and
undaunted
,
greatly
alarmed
at
it
,
not
knowing
where
the
Storm
would
break
;
we
may
say
,
that
all
the
Coasts
of
Normandy
,
Picardy
and
Britany
trembled
at
it
;
those
Provinces
could
not
believe
themselves
safe
till
they
saw
them
landed
in
Flanders
,
and
that
Furnes
and
Dixmuide
were
become
a
Prey
to
the
English
,
to
keep
Dunkirk
close
block'd
up
,
and
to
try
how
it
will
hold
out
the
next
Spring
;
tho
at
first
the
French
declared
they
had
not
lost
those
two
Places
but
by
their
own
leaving
them
,
not
looking
on
them
as
very
necessary
for
the
preserving
of
Dunkirk
;
but
now
they
are
of
another
opinion
,
and
say
,
that
the
loss
of
those
two
Places
is
very
inconvenient
to
them
;
for
they
cannot
deny
,
but
that
by
them
one
may
come
into
their
Country
,
and
at
the
same
time
may
keep
the
Governour
of
Dunkirk
from
extending
his
Contributions
so
far
as
he
did
before
.
I
must
confess
at
present
they
do
not
countervail
Mons
and
Namur
,
but
they
may
be
of
great
use
to
us
hereafter
,
by
furnishing
us
with
Means
of
raising
very
good
Contributions
from
the
conquer'd
Country
,
from
lower
Picardy
and
Artois
;
and
it
is
so
true
,
that
the
Court
of
France
extreamly
regretted
the
loss
of
those
two
Places
,
that
she
is
resolved
not
to
let
the
Winter
pass
without
some
Attempts
to
retake
them
.
Wherefore
we
may
reckon
Furnes
and
Dixmuide
two
Conquests
,
which
may
be
of
Service
to
us
hereafter
,
and
which
at
present
breaks
the
Designs
of
France
upon
Newport
and
Ostend
,
by
covering
those
two
Sea-port
Towns
from
all
the
Insults
of
their
Enemies
;
for
France
has
been
this
good
while
caressing
of
them
,
and
would
have
attacqued
them
,
had
she
been
but
Soveraign
of
the
Sea
:
but
that
failed
her
this
Summer
,
and
she
was
forced
to
resign
up
that
Empire
to
the
English
and
Dutch
by
the
Loss
she
sustained
at
Barfleur
.
Thus
we
see
at
length
how
the
King
of
England
hath
gloriously
ended
his
Campagne
,
having
several
times
braved
his
Enemies
,
harassed
them
by
his
continual
Marches
,
and
attacked
them
in
their
Retrenchments
,
seeking
only
an
opportunity
of
putting
an
end
to
the
War
by
a
general
Battel
,
and
so
procure
to
Europe
a
solid
and
durable
Peace
.
And
it
is
upon
this
that
at
present
we
shall
make
some
Reflections
before
we
put
a
close
to
these
Memoires
.
I
still
must
retain
that
old
indisputable
Maxim
,
received
among
all
Politicians
,
that
either
France
must
be
ruined
,
or
else
she
will
ruine
her
Enemies
;
that
she
must
her self
be
humbled
before
she
will
be
obliged
to
sollicite
a
Peace
,
and
restore
to
the
Princes
of
Europe
what
she
has
unjustly
ravished
from
them
since
the
Peace
of
the
Pirenees
.
This
without
all
peradventure
ought
to
be
the
main
end
of
the
Confederates
,
and
the
Result
of
all
the
Princes
now
in
Confederacy
,
and
at
War
against
her
.
But
some
will
say
,
that
France
is
not
brought
so
low
yet
,
nay
,
that
she
is
very
far
from
it
.
I
do
not
know
whether
she
is
so
far
from
it
as
some
may
imagine
or
no
;
there
is
more
Presumption
than
Likelihood
in
that
,
if
we
shall
consider
all
the
Tricks
and
Contrivances
which
the
Ministers
of
that
Crown
make
use
of
to
raise
Money
,
overwhelming
the
poor
Poeple
with
Subsidies
,
and
besides
the
great
Misery
which
generally
rages
everywhere
,
a
Dearth
must
ruine
them
.
But
tho
by
the
means
of
the
Imposers
and
Collectors
of
these
Male-tolts
,
in
squeezing
out
the
last
drop
of
the
Peoples
Blood
,
the
King
should
find
wherewithal
to
continue
the
War
for
some
Years
longer
;
Men
become
in
the
mean
time
very
scarce
,
he
being
able
only
to
recruit
in
his
own
Kingdom
;
and
oftentimes
all
the
new
Levies
,
wherewith
that
Monarch
would
dazle
the
Eyes
of
his
Enemies
,
are
far
greater
on
the
Muster-Roll
than
are
in
Reality
.
They
may
take
young
Fellows
away
by
force
to
serve
them
out
of
their
Countries
,
but
they
do
not
keep
a
Souldier
long
that
is
listed
against
his
Will
.
It
is
ill
hunting
with
Dogs
that
run
rascal
,
and
must
be
beaten
on
to
their
Game
.
And
we
see
this
plain
enough
by
their
Marches
and
Counter-marches
,
as
well
as
by
the
frequent
Detatchments
they
make
out
of
all
their
Garisons
when
ever
they
are
forced
to
form
an
Army
that
is
any
thing
considerable
.
This
appears
likewise
in
the
small
Bodies
left
in
Italy
,
Catalonia
and
Germany
;
when
they
march
into
Flanders
,
the
Flower
,
the
best
and
most
numerous
of
their
Troops
;
I
say
,
it
is
easy
to
see
by
their
whole
Managery
,
that
France
hath
not
that
great
number
of
Souldiers
she
boasts
of
,
nor
even
that
is
necessary
for
her
to
have
,
to
make
good
the
Posts
she
has
to
maintain
on
all
sides
.
And
what
still
confirms
my
belief
that
she
wants
both
Money
and
Men
,
is
,
that
she
could
not
hinder
the
Duke
of
Savoy
with
but
a
handful
of
Men
,
as
I
have
said
already
,
from
entring
his
Kingdom
,
taking
Towns
there
,
raising
from
them
good
Contributions
,
and
patting
them
all
to
their
Wits
end
almost
,
even
to
the
Gates
of
Paris
.
But
not
to
flatter
our selves
without
reason
,
let
us
suppose
that
France
should
yet
have
Men
and
Money
enough
to
keep
on
the
War
for
some
Years
,
yet
she
is
not
a
bottomless
Gulph
▪
unexhaustible
;
nor
is
she
invincible
.
We
have
seen
by
the
happy
Success
our
Fleets
have
had
at
Sea
,
by
the
taking
of
Ambrune
,
and
other
places
,
by
their
abandoning
Furnes
and
Dixmuide
,
by
the
divers
Rencounters
that
have
been
in
Flanders
,
where
we
may
say
,
without
exaggerating
the
matter
,
that
the
French
have
lost
double
the
number
of
their
bravest
Men
,
both
Officers
and
Souldiers
;
and
to
this
shall
we
reckon
for
nothing
their
continual
running
away
from
King
William
?
Since
the
Battel
of
St.
Dennis
they
have
often
had
experience
of
his
Valour
,
and
know
very
well
his
Intrepidity
upon
all
occasions
,
tho
he
were
to
run
against
the
Mouth
of
the
Cannon
,
never
sparing
his
sacred
Person
.
A
Battel
is
what
this
puissant
Prince
demands
of
them
,
and
what
he
longs
to
come
to
,
as
we
see
by
Experience
,
which
makes
us
believe
that
the
French
are
not
so
fierce
,
nor
formidable
as
they
would
fain
perswade
us
they
are
;
and
we
need
only
give
them
an
unanimous
Attack
to
bring
them
down
.
But
so
long
as
,
according
to
the
Proverb
,
one
Party
draws
one
way
,
and
the
other
another
,
and
the
King
of
England
must
singly
oppose
all
the
Forces
of
France
,
we
are
likely
to
make
no
farther
Progress
than
what
we
have
done
already
;
and
we
shall
alway
be
every
Year
beginning
again
:
and
instead
of
coming
nearer
to
a
Peace
,
we
shall
be
going
further
from
it
,
unless
we
resolve
to
let
the
French
King
once
more
make
his
Brags
,
that
he
hath
given
Peace
to
Europe
,
but
it
is
such
a
Peace
as
he
had
a
Mind
to
,
such
a
Peace
as
he
could
break
again
whenever
he
pleased
,
as
he
did
that
of
the
Pirenees
,
of
Nimeguen
,
and
last
of
all
of
Treves
.
It
would
be
such
a
Peace
that
would
always
make
for
the
Advantage
of
France
,
which
never
makes
Peace
but
only
the
better
to
surprize
her
Enemies
,
nor
which
ever
keeps
her
word
any
longer
than
it
is
for
her
Interest
.
We
must
therefore
fight
in
good
earnest
until
the
Confederates
have
brought
down
the
Enemy
,
if
ever
we
would
have
a
good
and
a
solid
Peace
.
To
this
end
we
ought
to
compel
Lewis
XIV
.
to
come
to
us
,
and
himself
to
sollicite
for
it
,
by
bringging
that
upon
the
Stage
in
one
Year
,
which
has
not
hitherto
been
done
in
three
,
especially
in
fitting
out
two
considerable
Fleets
,
that
so
one
may
be
able
to
cope
with
that
of
France
,
whilst
the
other
shall
be
assisting
the
Descent
that
must
of
necessity
be
made
,
if
we
mean
ever
to
touch
King
Lewis
in
his
most
sensible
part
:
and
that
that
Fleet
should
be
in
a
condition
afterwards
to
go
into
the
Mediterranean
,
where
she
may
give
a
notable
shock
to
France
by
interrupting
her
Commerce
to
the
Levant
,
and
especially
to
Turkey
,
which
is
to
the
only
Place
she
has
left
,
and
the
wealthiest
;
because
the
French
Merchants
send
thither
only
ready
Money
,
and
bring
from
thence
the
richest
Merchandizes
,
as
Brocard
Silks
,
and
all
sorts
of
Drugs
of
the
highest
Price
.
If
once
they
could
deprive
France
of
this
Commerce
,
by
the
taking
of
several
of
her
Ships
thus
laden
,
they
would
impoverish
all
Provence
,
and
most
of
the
great
Merchants
at
Lyons
would
feel
the
loss
for
a
good
while
.
I
have
said
we
must
have
a
Descent
:
I
find
it
so
necessary
,
that
instead
of
one
we
ought
to
make
two
,
or
at
least
shew
our selves
in
two
several
places
to
make
one
good
one
;
for
as
long
as
the
Confederates
shall
make
War
like
Grey-hounds
,
that
is
to
say
,
only
in
running
after
the
French
,
it
will
signify
nothing
,
and
they
will
find
themselves
no
further
advanced
at
the
end
of
the
Campagne
than
at
the
beginning
,
because
it
is
hard
to
set
upon
them
in
the
Low-Countries
,
if
their
General
will
not
fight
;
the
Country
being
all
over
full
of
Rivers
,
Woods
and
Mountains
,
it
is
impossible
to
force
them
to
fight
against
their
Wills
:
The
Experience
of
the
two
last
Campagnes
has
already
made
us
but
too
sensible
of
it
;
and
it
will
unquestionably
be
the
same
with
all
the
rest
that
follow
,
if
we
do
not
manage
the
War
in
a
new
Method
,
and
take
other
Measures
.
As
to
fortified
Places
,
without
flattering
our selves
,
the
French
will
be
always
in
a
better
condition
to
take
them
than
the
Allies
;
and
the
reason
is
plain
,
for
their
Frontier
Places
are
well
fortified
,
their
Magazines
well
stored
;
but
as
for
the
Spaniards
,
without
any
Reproach
to
them
,
they
wanted
every
thing
,
they
were
for
the
most
part
in
but
very
bad
Circumstances
,
or
at
least
they
have
been
so
during
the
Government
of
the
Marquess
de
Gastanaga
,
and
his
Predecessors
.
As
for
the
Magazines
furnished
after
the
Spanish
way
,
as
we
have
seen
it
at
Namur
,
and
several
other
places
not
fit
to
be
mentioned
here
,
I
pray
God
grant
they
may
be
the
last
that
are
ill
provided
.
But
after
all
,
tho
the
Allies
should
attack
one
or
two
Places
,
and
should
likewise
take
them
,
I
doubt
not
but
France
would
be
extreamly
pleased
to
see
her
Enemies
busied
in
fighting
against
Walls
for
a
whole
Campagne
together
.
Nay
,
when
she
takes
them
,
she
knows
they
are
such
Places
as
she
must
be
forced
to
restore
at
last
by
a
Peace
;
besides
that
she
offers
them
already
.
At
every
turn
she
will
say
as
she
has
already
,
when
she
lost
Mayence
,
Bon
,
Rhinberge
and
Keyserwaert
,
that
she
lost
nothing
of
her
own
.
Wherefore
it
is
to
spend
Time
and
Pains
to
no
purpose
,
to
think
of
skirmishing
the
French
at
a
distance
,
and
of
attacking
them
by
stealth
as
they
did
at
Steenkerk
,
because
that
neither
concludes
nor
decides
any
thing
;
and
it
is
still
to
shift
off
the
matter
to
a
longer
day
,
and
then
to
begin
again
.
But
if
we
would
enter
into
the
Heart
of
France
by
a
vigorous
Descent
well
sustained
by
new
Troops
,
we
should
make
not
only
great
Progress
on
that
side
,
but
we
should
also
incite
the
Envy
of
the
Duke
of
Savoy
to
fall
on
again
at
the
Expence
of
the
common
Enemy
:
that
Prince
already
knows
the
way
,
and
it
is
no
longer
now
an
impossibility
for
him
to
do
it
,
by
what
he
shew'd
us
this
last
Campagne
;
and
as
for
the
Sea
,
we
need
only
to
fight
those
who
shall
oppose
the
Descent
,
to
go
up
even
to
the
Gates
of
Paris
.
We
must
confider
(
not
to
be
surprized
)
that
we
must
stand
the
first
Fire
of
the
French
,
who
without
doubt
will
make
some
Opposition
;
but
if
they
are
once
beaten
,
we
shall
then
see
a
general
Convulsion
and
Overthrow
,
a
forsaking
the
Outskirts
and
Frontiers
of
their
Kingdom
to
run
to
the
Succour
of
the
Heart
and
Vitals
of
the
Nation
.
We
have
already
seen
that
the
French
could
not
stand
when
the
King
of
England
passed
the
Boyne
in
Ireland
,
tho
his
Foot
marched
up
to
the
middle
in
Water
to
attack
the
Enemy
that
lay
on
the
other
side
the
River
very
well
intrenched
:
But
they
left
the
Field
of
Battel
,
and
resigned
a
Kingdom
to
the
victorious
Arms
of
Willam
the
Great
,
and
became
as
Steps
to
him
to
ascend
the
Throne
of
Honour
,
as
well
as
that
of
three
Kingdoms
.
I
do
not
foresee
in
a
Descent
the
hundredth
part
of
that
Danger
or
Pains
that
some
do
fancy
;
the
Sea
is
in
a
manner
fordable
,
and
with
a
Fleet
one
may
go
over
as
it
were
dryshod
,
all
the
Coast
of
France
is
open
,
and
it
is
impostible
for
Lewis
the
XIVth
,
and
much
less
for
King
James
with
his
Jacobite-Troops
,
to
be
able
to
prevent
it
.
We
need
only
to
go
thither
to
conquer
:
those
brave
Men
that
are
come
back
from
subduing
Ireland
covered
over
with
glorious
Laurels
;
I
say
,
we
need
only
set
these
Men
ashoar
to
make
them
find
their
way
into
the
Heart
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
to
make
France
sensible
,
as
they
have
already
done
in
Ireland
,
that
they
can
bring
her
to
Submission
.
How
many
other
gallant
Men
are
there
that
only
wait
for
a
Signal
to
embark
themselves
,
and
who
say
as
Cesar
,
just
as
he
was
going
to
pass
the
Rubicon
,
Jacta
est
alea
:
let
us
then
march
,
there
is
Glory
to
be
acquired
;
seeing
we
have
to
do
with
some
People
that
think
themselves
invincible
,
but
who
yet
in
the
mean
while
are
nothing
less
so
,
when
once
they
are
vigorously
attacked
,
having
all
along
refused
fighting
when
we
have
offered
them
Battel
.
We
may
therefore
very
well
say
,
to
the
Honour
of
the
King
of
England
,
that
having
found
out
the
true
way
to
conquer
them
,
he
deserves
an
intire
Victory
over
them
.
France
having
some
time
since
abandoned
Italy
,
and
(
as
we
have
said
already
)
turned
her
Arms
towards
the
Low-Countries
,
has
happily
thought
also
that
it
was
on
that
side
we
would
attack
her
vigorously
,
to
drive
her
from
those
Places
she
had
forcibly
got
into
her
Possession
some
time
ago
:
wherefore
wisely
fore-seeing
what
she
feels
at
this
day
,
to
wit
,
that
the
Court
of
England
would
not
always
be
so
favourable
to
her
as
she
had
been
under
the
Reigns
of
the
two
preceding
Kings
,
but
that
that
Crown
coming
once
to
join
its
Forces
to
those
of
the
seventeen
Provinces
,
might
be
able
to
withstand
and
defeat
the
Design
of
the
French
Ministry
,
who
for
the
two
last
Reigns
by
Force
became
Masters
,
first
of
the
ten
Spanish
Provinces
,
and
that
way
opened
a
Door
to
pass
either
into
the
seven
other
united
Provinces
,
or
else
into
the
hether
parts
of
Germany
;
so
likewise
we
see
the
French
have
neglected
nothing
to
strengthen
them
in
all
their
Conquests
,
and
to
make
the
Places
impregnable
so
far
forth
as
the
Situation
of
the
Ground
would
permit
,
and
by
way
of
Anticipation
to
add
the
Diocess
of
Cologne
to
it
,
by
conferring
that
Archbishoprick
upon
the
Bishop
of
Strasburgh
,
a
Person
wholly
in
the
Interest
of
France
,
but
who
miss'd
it
at
that
time
.
If
we
consider
these
conquered
Places
in
the
condition
they
now
are
,
we
shall
find
it
loss
of
time
to
imploy
so
brave
an
Army
in
attempting
to
subdue
them
one
after
another
;
and
as
I
have
already
said
,
the
King
of
France
would
desire
no
better
sport
than
to
see
the
Confederates
set
down
before
a
Town
:
but
,
as
we
ought
never
to
gratify
an
Enemy
,
let
us
leave
him
to
defend
his
Possessions
in
the
Low-Countries
,
and
make
one
vigorous
Essay
to
force
him
to
let
go
his
hold
,
and
oblige
him
to
abandon
them
as
he
did
all
those
Places
which
the
French
had
gained
from
the
United
Provinces
in
the
last
War
of
1672.
Let
us
only
with
one
good
Army
prevent
his
taking
any
more
for
the
future
,
and
with
another
let
us
enter
into
his
Kingdom
by
a
Descent
,
where
the
English
will
find
nothing
but
Towns
unprovided
,
and
who
are
in
continual
expectation
of
seeing
the
Enemy
at
their
Gates
.
They
will
never
wait
the
coming
up
of
the
Cannon
,
but
betake
themselves
to
their
Heels
,
as
we
have
already
seen
in
Dauphiné
;
all
Gap
deserted
and
left
their
Cellars
full
of
Wine
;
half
Grenoble
fled
from
their
Houses
and
Effects
,
(
the
President
of
the
Parliament
died
of
fear
)
and
the
Intendants
were
forced
to
make
use
of
all
their
Authority
to
keep
the
rest
of
the
People
from
flying
too
;
with
such
a
Pannick
Fear
at
Heart
was
France
struck
.
The
Inhabitants
have
seen
more
Collectors
of
Taxes
than
Enemies
,
and
the
evil
Treatment
they
have
met
with
from
the
former
,
makes
many
of
them
long
for
the
coming
of
the
other
,
to
be
revenged
of
those
who
ofttimes
leave
behind
them
nothing
but
the
bare
Walls
.
If
the
Confederates
were
but
once
throughly
convinced
of
this
Truth
,
certainly
they
would
leave
nothing
unattempted
to
enter
on
all
sides
into
the
Bowels
of
their
Capital
Enemy
.
But
there
is
a
certain
Fatality
,
that
Domestick
Demon
,
which
we
call
one's
own
private
Interest
,
that
does
even
at
this
day
keep
several
of
the
Soveraigns
and
Princes
in
League
with
us
,
from
belabouring
heartily
the
Weal
and
Safety
of
Europe
.
Some
run
out
at
Heels
,
expending
more
than
the
Revenues
of
their
Territories
,
and
than
their
Demesnes
and
Rents
amount
to
:
because
every
one
naturally
is
jealous
of
his
Grandure
,
and
of
that
degree
of
Honour
he
pretends
to
possess
in
the
World
,
(
the
Marquess
making
the
Figure
of
a
Count
,
the
Count
that
of
a
Duke
,
the
Duke
that
of
a
Prince
,
and
this
last
that
of
a
petty
King
;
)
they
find
they
are
engaged
,
to
continue
this
high
State
,
to
be
at
vast
Expences
,
and
therefore
frequently
put
out
their
Hands
to
take
the
forbidden
Fruit
.
The
Louis
d'Or's
of
France
are
charming
to
the
Eyes
;
their
Lustre
dazles
,
but
they
conceal
a
mortal
Venom
which
poisons
those
that
take
them
in
this
calamitous
time
of
War
,
for
they
obstruct
the
best-intentioned
Designs
in
the
World
.
I
do
not
charge
this
upon
all
that
have
entred
into
our
Confederacy
,
God
forbid
I
should
have
such
a
thought
;
I
know
very
well
that
there
are
some
Princes
who
would
gladly
do
more
than
they
do
,
but
the
Circumstance
of
their
Affairs
cannot
permit
it
,
as
for
instance
,
Spain
.
But
perhaps
some
will
say
,
Why
cannot
Spain
(
which
is
so
great
and
puissant
,
having
so
many
fair
and
vast
States
,
as
that
its
Monarch
boasts
he
can
see
the
Sun
both
rising
and
setting
within
his
own
Dominions
)
do
more
than
she
does
?
And
why
cannot
she
(
I
do
not
say
make
new
Conquests
,
but
)
at
least
take
care
of
her
own
Countries
?
She
hath
still
the
same
Indies
,
and
the
same
Revenues
as
she
had
in
the
Reign
of
Philip
II
.
and
Charles
V.
who
made
almost
all
Nations
tremble
.
I
must
confess
,
the
Spaniards
have
still
the
same
Indies
,
and
the
same
Revenues
;
but
they
have
not
the
same
Kings
,
because
they
are
too
good
,
and
the
same
Revenues
do
not
now
come
into
their
Coffers
;
or
what
does
come
there
,
serves
only
to
pay
off
their
Arrears
due
feveral
Years
ago
.
't
is
indeed
a
very
great
Unhappiness
for
Christendom
,
that
a
Young
Prince
,
so
good
and
so
well
affected
to
the
present
Interest
of
Europe
,
as
is
this
King
of
Spain
,
cannot
put
in
Execution
those
glorious
Designs
he
has
of
abating
the
Power
of
France
,
his
sworn
Enemy
.
But
is
there
no
help
for
this
Infirmity
?
Must
Spain
become
a
Prey
to
the
Kings
of
France
,
if
these
other
good
Confederates
do
not
astist
her
?
I
answer
,
there
is
a
Remedy
for
all
these
Diseases
besides
Death
,
as
the
Proverb
is
:
For
the
King
of
Spain
needs
only
resolve
upon
it
,
(
and
imitate
the
King
of
Sweden
,
who
has
been
so
fortunate
as
to
find
out
the
way
of
re-uniting
to
that
Crown
all
that
has
been
taken
from
it
)
and
especially
to
call
all
those
to
account
who
have
managed
the
Treasury
since
the
Death
of
Philip
the
Second
,
whose
Families
are
become
very
rich
and
powerful
at
the
Expence
of
his
Catholick
Majesty
.
The
Clemency
of
the
King
,
and
his
admirable
sweetness
of
Temper
should
not
be
so
extensive
as
to
ruin
himself
,
by
suffering
so
many
Blood-suckers
,
who
have
appropriated
to
themselves
the
most
effectual
and
solid
part
of
his
Demesne
and
Revenues
,
to
compleat
his
Destruction
by
throwing
him
into
that
Weakness
in
which
we
see
him
at
present
.
't
is
the
only
way
to
make
him
formidable
,
and
to
make
Examples
for
those
who
have
now
the
Management
of
Affairs
.
If
the
Council
of
his
Catholick
Majesty
does
not
take
this
course
,
which
is
the
only
one
to
put
him
into
a
condition
to
bring
down
France
with
the
help
of
his
Allies
,
it
is
to
be
feared
that
he
will
fall
under
those
Calamities
the
present
War
threatens
him
with
,
I
mean
,
the
loss
of
one
part
of
his
Country
.
I
compare
Spain
,
in
the
Estate
to
which
it
is
now
reduced
,
to
a
Man
that
is
dangerously
sick
,
and
who
refuses
to
take
the
only
Medicine
in
the
World
that
can
cure
him
,
because
it
is
a
little
bitter
to
his
Palate
.
This
being
the
case
,
if
the
Catholick
King
will
not
labour
to
procure
his
own
Preservation
,
and
to
get
out
of
this
fatal
Weakness
into
which
he
is
fallen
,
there
is
nothing
to
do
more
,
but
to
pray
to
God
,
that
he
would
charitably
continue
the
good
Intentions
of
his
Allies
towards
him
,
and
to
preserve
the
Person
of
his
Electoral
Highness
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
for
the
good
of
the
Low-Countries
.
As
for
the
Emperor
,
he
hath
two
formidable
Enemies
on
his
hands
equally
to
be
dreaded
,
equally
powerful
and
dangerous
,
in
League
together
,
eager
to
swallow
up
the
Empire
if
it
be
possible
,
proceeding
by
the
same
methods
of
Cruelty
:
We
have
seen
them
both
pretty
near
Vienna
,
with
Chains
in
one
hand
,
and
Fire
in
the
other
,
to
burn
and
destroy
where-ever
they
come
,
reducing
People
to
Slavery
without
Pity
or
Compassion
.
We
saw
in
the
Year
1683
,
the
Turks
before
Vienna
,
and
the
French
Masters
in
the
Diocess
of
Cologne
,
which
was
the
direct
way
to
Vienna
,
where
these
two
dear
Allies
were
to
meet
and
embrace
,
and
to
make
their
Bonfires
on
the
Tomb
and
Ruin
of
the
Empire
,
and
of
all
Christendom
.
But
Providence
diverted
that
fatal
Blow
(
and
that
Enterview
which
was
to
have
been
so
deplorable
to
Europe
)
by
raising
the
Siege
of
Vienna
.
The
Emperor
therefore
at
this
day
having
two
such
powerful
Enemies
upon
him
,
and
seeing
it
is
next
to
impossible
for
him
to
be
able
to
conquer
both
at
once
;
it
is
requisite
that
he
should
get
rid
of
one
of
them
by
a
Peace
or
Truce
for
some
Years
at
least
,
without
amusing
himself
with
vain
Pretensions
;
and
that
he
lose
an
Arm
,
as
we
say
,
to
save
the
Head
.
His
Imperial
Majesty
ought
to
fix
his
Choice
on
him
whom
he
shall
judg
least
formidable
,
and
from
whom
there
may
be
hopes
of
his
gaining
most
advantage
.
According
to
this
Scheme
he
can
cast
his
Eyes
on
the
Ottoman
Port
only
,
(
now
that
she
is
retired
beyond
the
Desarts
)
and
must
oblige
her
to
quit
both
the
Upper
and
Lower
Hungary
,
as
well
as
Transilvania
:
and
indeed
having
of
right
no
other
Pretensions
upon
the
Turks
than
to
recover
the
Charges
of
the
War
,
all
the
Difficulty
may
easily
be
overcome
by
an
Equivalent
,
and
so
many
fair
Conquests
may
make
a
very
just
Compensation
;
and
this
is
the
more
feasible
,
because
the
Port
it self
desires
it
.
It
's
manifest
,
that
if
the
Imperial
Council
considers
narrowly
these
two
Enemies
,
the
Condition
they
are
in
,
their
Strength
and
their
Maxims
;
I
say
,
it
is
evident
,
that
the
Imperial
Court
will
never
decline
an
Accommodation
with
the
Turks
,
that
so
she
may
be
able
effectually
to
imploy
all
her
Forces
against
France
,
which
is
more
to
be
feared
than
the
Ottoman
Port
,
who
does
very
religiously
observe
her
Treaties
,
tho
she
broke
first
this
last
Truce
:
But
France
had
a
far
greater
share
in
it
than
the
Turk
;
if
she
had
not
been
the
first
Boutefeu
and
Incendiary
,
that
Truce
would
have
been
still
kept
inviolable
as
all
former
ones
have
been
.
Besides
,
the
Ottoman
Port
is
not
to
repent
of
that
now
,
she
has
repented
sufficiently
already
,
and
has
expiated
her
fault
by
the
loss
of
a
great
Country
;
't
is
certain
she
will
do
so
no
more
:
but
for
the
future
the
Turks
will
become
wise
at
their
own
Cost
,
since
they
do
acknowledge
that
they
have
drawn
down
the
Divine
Vengeance
upon
themselves
for
having
broken
that
Truce
before
the
time
expired
,
and
thereby
violated
their
Faith
.
But
France
is
not
so
scrupulous
,
for
she
never
observes
either
Peace
or
Truce
,
never
minds
confessing
her
Sins
,
since
she
believes
the
Pleasure
of
her
Monarch
sufficient
to
efface
such
Crimes
as
these
:
he
needs
but
declare
his
Will
,
and
any
thing
becomes
just
,
wherein
he
rivals
the
Deity
;
nor
does
he
scruple
the
Blasphemy
,
as
we
have
seen
by
the
Satisfaction
he
took
in
the
Thesis
dedicated
to
him
,
and
publickly
maintained
in
the
Jesuits
Colledg
,
which
bore
in
its
Frontispiece
this
most
execrable
Blasphemy
,
To
the
Divinity
of
Lewis
the
Great
,
Numini
Ludovici
Magni
.
But
God
will
take
his
time
and
method
to
revenge
the
Contempt
of
his
Name
,
for
he
doth
not
give
his
Glory
to
Idols
;
and
if
he
be
slow
and
long-suffering
,
it
is
but
to
let
them
fill
up
the
measure
of
their
Iniquities
.
But
we
will
resume
the
Thread
of
our
Reflections
.
I
said
that
the
Turks
are
less
dangerous
to
the
Empire
than
the
French
,
whether
we
consider
their
Condition
,
their
Strength
,
or
their
Maxims
:
If
we
look
on
the
Condition
to
which
the
Turks
are
now
reduced
,
we
shall
find
their
Treasury
drained
,
their
best
Troops
in
the
Dust
,
their
Throne
tottering
,
by
the
continual
Factions
that
are
raised
on
the
behalf
of
their
old
or
their
new
Sultan
;
their
Armies
always
beaten
whenever
they
engage
with
the
Imperial
Forces
,
many
Provinces
lost
without
any
hopes
of
recovering
them
:
and
what
yet
more
damps
the
Courage
of
these
Infidels
,
is
,
that
they
are
fully
perswaded
of
the
Injustice
of
their
Cause
,
that
their
ill
Luck
proceeds
from
their
breach
of
Faith
;
and
this
is
it
which
makes
them
the
less
formidable
:
whereas
France
is
still
,
to
outward
appearance
,
in
a
flourishing
condition
,
finding
every
day
new
ways
of
filling
her
Coffers
by
the
Ruin
of
her
People
over
whom
she
hath
absolute
Command
;
not
as
yet
having
lost
any
of
her
Dominions
,
but
rather
stretched
her
Frontiers
towards
Germany
,
the
Low-Countries
and
Savoy
,
farther
into
her
Enemy's
Countries
,
and
by
excessive
Contributions
which
she
draws
from
them
,
repairing
what
Strength
she
loses
;
which
makes
her
more
active
and
diligent
in
her
Enterprizes
than
the
Allies
on
the
side
of
Germany
and
the
Low-Countries
.
We
may
also
say
,
that
France
is
still
more
entire
,
and
always
is
laying
Designs
of
aggrandizing
her self
upon
all
occasions
.
By
this
it
is
easy
to
observe
,
that
the
condition
of
France
is
quite
different
,
and
much
more
to
be
feared
than
that
of
the
Turks
,
and
therefore
consequently
ought
to
be
reduced
to
that
of
her
Allies
,
to
force
her
to
restore
what
she
has
gotten
since
the
Peate
of
the
Pirenees
.
If
we
will
make
a
Parallel
between
the
Power
or
Force
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
and
that
of
France
,
we
shall
find
there
is
no
comparison
,
but
a
far
greater
Disproportion
;
since
the
Sultan
who
has
but
one
single
War
to
maintain
,
which
is
that
in
Hungary
,
where
he
must
carry
the
strength
of
his
Arms
,
can
scarce
make
the
Campagnes
,
and
bring
into
the
Field
an
Army
of
Men
gathered
out
of
new
Troops
,
but
little
skilled
in
War
,
to
the
number
of
forty
or
fifty
thousand
fighting
Men
;
but
whose
Courage
is
so
inconsiderable
,
that
they
dare
not
face
their
Enemies
,
having
been
always
beaten
whenever
they
fought
:
whereas
France
hath
not
a
War
to
maintain
against
a
single
Power
,
but
against
several
;
and
yet
for
all
that
we
see
she
provides
Troops
enough
to
oppose
them
with
every
where
;
and
if
she
gains
no
Battels
,
she
takes
care
to
lose
none
,
and
to
keep
her
Enemies
from
doing
her
hurt
,
or
falling
on
her
.
't
is
true
,
she
makes
her
Victory
to
consist
in
gaining
Time
,
but
that
is
on
the
side
of
Flanders
;
because
the
loss
of
a
Battel
would
reduce
her
to
the
condition
of
her
Ally
Mustapha
.
She
hath
no
such
Apprehensions
on
the
Rhine
,
so
long
as
his
Imperial
Majesty
shall
have
two
Wars
to
maintain
,
and
his
best
Generals
,
and
his
old
Troops
imployed
in
Hungary
.
But
on
the
contrary
we
see
the
French
play
Rex
in
the
Palatinate
,
and
those
places
,
that
there
they
burn
and
pillage
the
poor
People
,
who
for
the
most
part
are
reduced
to
Beggary
,
and
forced
to
leave
their
Country
,
their
Goods
and
their
Houses
,
for
want
of
Ability
to
pay
the
Contributions
exacted
from
them
by
the
French
up
almost
to
the
Gates
of
Francfort
.
And
the
Germans
are
so
far
from
being
able
to
take
any
Place
from
them
,
that
they
will
go
near
to
be
taken
themselves
the
next
Campagne
,
if
the
Emperor
do
not
timely
succour
them
:
for
not
to
flatter
our selves
,
most
certainly
they
are
more
formidable
than
the
Turks
.
The
French
besides
have
other
Maxims
,
and
as
they
are
more
subtile
and
refined
,
so
they
are
by
that
means
much
more
wicked
,
justifying
that
saying
,
Corruptio
optimorum
est
pessima
,
the
Corruption
of
the
best
things
is
much
the
worse
Corruption
.
Nero
said
heretofore
,
Every
thing
is
permitted
me
,
seeing
that
I
reign
;
and
Lewis
the
XIVth
says
at
this
day
,
that
he
hath
no
other
Rule
to
steer
his
Course
by
,
but
his
own
unbounded
Will
and
Pleasure
,
his
pernicious
Maxims
,
to
grow
great
at
his
Neighbours
Cost
,
and
breach
of
his
Faith
in
Treaties
;
which
justifies
the
reasoning
of
a
great
Man
;
who
maintained
,
that
Lewis
the
XIVth
had
a
Soul
more
Selfinterested
than
Great
,
because
he
set
all
Wheels
on
going
,
and
left
nothing
unattempted
,
to
make
himself
the
Universal
Monarch
of
Europe
.
There
is
not
a
Treaty
which
he
hath
not
violated
against
his
solemn
Oath
:
Treachery
is
his
Fortress
,
Assassinations
and
Poisonings
are
Crimes
which
that
Court
have
not
prohibited
,
witness
Granval
,
Millevois
,
the
Valet
de
Chambre
who
poisoned
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
,
and
the
French
Cook
,
who
very
lately
,
at
the
Instigation
of
the
Ambassador
of
France
,
poisoned
Mr.
Harbord
at
Belgrade
,
because
he
had
pushed
on
the
Peace
between
the
two
Empires
more
vigorously
than
France
would
have
had
him
.
One
might
write
a
Volume
of
those
who
have
miserably
been
cut
off
,
for
having
acted
contrary
to
the
Interests
and
Greatness
of
France
.
There
's
not
a
Court
,
a
City
,
a
State
,
a
Council
,
a
Congress
,
or
Regiment
,
wherein
the
French
have
not
their
Spies
and
Emissaries
continually
labouring
to
corrupt
their
Officers
or
Domesticks
,
plying
even
the
very
Drummers
if
they
think
they
can
be
any
ways
serviceable
,
to
inform
them
what
their
Colonels
are
designing
.
In
short
,
we
may
say
that
the
French
Ministry
have
taken
the
Jesuits
Maxim
,
that
is
,
not
to
let
any
thing
pass
without
their
being
acquainted
with
it
,
and
drawing
Advantages
from
it
:
and
you
see
commonly
there
are
certain
People
running
up
and
down
in
the
World
,
on
pretence
they
have
been
banished
France
upon
the
account
of
Duelling
;
and
the
better
to
play
their
part
,
many
of
them
change
their
Religion
,
and
stick
to
that
Change
as
long
as
they
find
their
account
in
it
.
Others
put
no
disguise
on
the
matter
,
but
come
and
go
impudently
without
any
Pass-port
,
and
still
push
on
till
they
think
they
have
merited
some
Reward
,
and
then
return
to
the
Court
of
France
to
give
an
account
of
their
Negotiation
.
These
Maxims
the
Turks
do
not
use
,
nay
,
they
would
blush
to
hear
them
propounded
to
them
;
in
general
,
they
hate
Treachery
,
and
durst
not
repose
any
Confidence
in
those
who
come
and
surrender
themselves
,
unless
they
will
consent
to
be
circumcised
.
From
whence
I
conclude
,
that
France
is
much
more
to
be
feared
than
the
Ottoman
Port
,
for
her
Maxims
are
much
more
dangerous
,
and
consequently
it
is
more
safe
for
the
Empire
to
make
a
Peace
with
those
Infidels
than
these
Christians
,
whereby
they
may
be
better
enabled
to
recover
what
these
latter
have
forcibly
ravished
from
them
.
And
unless
they
do
so
,
let
us
not
expect
more
from
the
next
Campagne
than
what
we
got
the
last
,
which
began
with
Marches
,
and
ended
in
Counter-marches
.
I
accuse
no
body
of
Treachery
;
but
one
may
sure
be
permitted
to
say
,
and
to
believe
too
,
that
those
serve
their
Masters
very
ill
,
who
let
the
Enemy
do
what
they
please
with
a
handful
of
Men
.
If
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
were
still
living
,
Lewis
the
XIVth
would
have
had
somewhat
to
do
upon
the
Rhine
,
and
have
been
obliged
the
last
Year
to
have
had
there
an
Army
three
times
as
big
as
what
he
then
thought
sufficient
.
But
Madam
La
Brinvilliers
Art
of
poisoning
has
pretty
well
secured
them
against
such
a
necestity
,
by
the
violent
Death
of
that
great
Prince
;
and
they
would
have
served
the
King
of
England
after
the
same
manner
,
for
both
did
equally
embarass
the
Court
of
France
.
But
I
may
advise
the
Imperial
Council
thus
much
;
That
if
the
Emperor
do
not
make
a
Truce
at
least
this
Winter
with
the
Ottoman
Port
,
the
Imperial●sts
will
find
Work
enough
on
their
hands
the
next
Campagne
upon
the
Upper
Rhine
;
Reason
and
Policy
obliges
them
to
it
,
if
the
Court
of
France
resolves
to
go
on
in
opposing
the
Re-union
of
the
two
Empires
:
as
it
highly
concerns
her
in
Interest
,
so
the
only
means
she
can
make
use
of
to
amuze
the
Ottoman
Port
,
is
by
making
a
powerful
Diversion
in
Germany
,
to
draw
the
Imperial
Forces
to
those
Parts
:
the
King
of
France
wlll
easily
be
perswaded
to
go
thither
in
Person
,
and
to
be
only
on
the
Defensive
in
Flanders
,
that
so
his
best
Troops
may
be
imployed
on
the
Rhine
,
because
he
hath
sufficiently
known
this
Campagne
what
the
Germans
are
capable
of
doing
,
and
what
he
may
expect
on
that
side
,
since
the
Mareschal
de
Lorge
,
who
is
no
very
great
General
,
yet
did
there
what
he
would
all
the
last
Summer
,
with
only
some
ten
or
twelve
thousand
Men
:
Wherefore
the
Germans
may
expect
to
see
a
very
great
Army
of
French
on
the
Rhine
this
next
Campagne
,
which
will
attack
their
Fortresses
,
before
ever
they
begin
to
stir
,
or
come
out
of
their
Winter-quarters
,
only
to
give
the
Turk
an
opportunity
of
recovering
his
Losses
.
We
may
be
assured
that
this
is
so
,
since
that
the
Grand
Visier
hath
sufficiently
acquainted
the
French
Ambassador
,
that
his
Master
hath
not
been
satisfied
with
what
the
King
his
Ally
had
done
by
drawing
his
Forces
into
Flanders
,
which
could
be
of
no
advantage
to
the
Ottoman
Port
:
and
I
cannot
foresee
how
the
Emperor
can
ward
off
this
Blow
but
by
a
Truce
,
in
bounding
his
Conquests
by
the
Bridge
of
Esseck
.
I
find
it
a
great
Misfortune
to
the
Confederates
,
that
the
Emperialists
have
done
nothing
this
last
Campagne
,
which
furnishes
the
French
Emissaries
at
the
Port
with
Arguments
to
perswade
the
Grand
Visier
to
reject
all
manner
of
Proposals
tending
to
a
Truce
:
and
there
is
no
need
of
being
a
great
Rhetorician
to
perswade
them
,
since
Men
are
easily
flattered
into
what
they
desire
;
wherefore
it
is
much
better
letting
the
Turks
have
a
remote
Town
,
than
to
suffer
the
French
to
take
a
Province
in
the
Heart
of
the
Empire
,
for
want
of
bringing
thither
necessary
Succour
;
she
will
undoubtedly
do
it
,
if
the
Imperial
Council
do
not
prevent
it
this
Winter
,
which
is
most
commonly
the
time
that
the
Court
of
France
plays
her
Game
,
and
sows
her
Louis
d'Or's
,
that
she
may
reap
the
better
Harvest
the
following
Campagne
.
She
often
makes
makes
great
advantage
of
a
barren
and
ungrateful
Soil
,
neglects
nothing
which
she
judges
capable
of
procuring
her
the
least
advantage
;
and
therefore
it
might
be
wished
that
the
House
of
Austria
would
do
its
utmost
during
the
Reign
of
the
King
of
England
,
to
abate
the
Power
of
her
mortal
Enemy
.
This
Monarch
being
inclined
(
as
we
have
seen
upon
several
occasions
)
to
support
that
House
with
all
his
Might
;
quite
contrary
to
his
Predecessors
,
whom
France
so
firmly
engaged
to
her
Interest
by
the
help
of
his
Gold
,
which
had
brought
all
Europe
under
most
imminent
danger
;
but
thanks
be
to
God
,
that
perillous
time
is
over
,
and
Divine
Providence
hath
given
to
the
Crown
of
England
a
Successor
that
cannot
be
corrupted
,
and
who
is
acquainted
with
the
true
Interest
of
Europe
,
as
we●l
as
his
own
,
not
being
of
the
number
of
lazy
Monarchs
,
but
who
is
present
in
every
place
where
Necessity
of
Affairs
requires
it
.
The
English
,
as
well
as
all
the
other
Princes
of
Europe
,
may
reckon
the
Day
of
his
Coronation
as
the
beginning
of
a
happy
Epocha
for
Christendom
.
And
upon
this
Subject
I
cannot
forbear
relating
here
one
Stanza
of
four
Verses
from
the
Centuries
of
Nostredamus
,
written
above
an
Age
ago
,
in
Honour
of
the
King
,
wherein
he
seems
to
point
as
it
were
with
his
Finger
at
his
Coronation
,
and
the
Happiness
which
his
Subjects
shall
enjoy
under
him
:
But
hear
what
he
says
of
him
that
shall
be
Born
under
Shades
of
a
Nocturnal
Day
,
He
shall
his
Glory
through
the
World
display
;
Revive
the
Ashes
of
an
ancient
Urn
,
And
once
more
make
the
Golden
Age
return
.
There
are
none
ignorant
that
the
King
of
Great
Britain
,
William
the
Third
,
was
born
some
Weeks
after
the
Death
of
the
late
Prince
William
,
his
Father
of
glorious
Memory
,
for
whom
all
the
Court
went
into
deep
Mourning
;
the
Chamber
where
the
Princess
Royal
(
his
Majesty's
Mother
)
was
brought
to
Bed
,
was
at
that
time
hung
with
black
Cloth
,
and
had
no
other
Light
than
what
some
Tapers
gave
it
,
which
Nostredamus
here
calls
the
Shades
of
Night
.
Besides
we
may
say
,
without
Flattery
,
that
we
see
revived
in
this
Monarch
the
Valour
and
the
Prudence
of
the
ancient
Romans
,
those
Heroes
of
Antiquity
,
whose
Ashes
were
preserved
in
their
Urns.
It
belongs
then
to
our
Hero
to
bring
back
the
Golden
Age
,
to
re-settle
Princes
in
their
Ancient
Rights
and
Demesnes
,
and
private
Persons
in
the
quiet
and
peaceable
enjoyment
of
their
Goods
and
Possessions
,
to
live
at
ease
with
them
,
and
to
eat
their
Bread
with
Chearfulness
,
every
one
sitting
under
the
Shadow
of
his
own
Fig-Tree
;
and
in
a
word
,
to
restore
Halcyon
Days
to
Europe
,
after
so
long
a
Tempest
of
Wars
,
and
being
not
long
since
upon
the
very
brink
of
a
Precipice
,
and
just
ready
to
fall
into
a
most
deplorable
Slavery
,
to
be
divided
between
the
Sultan
of
the
Turks
and
that
of
the
French
;
for
both
of
them
understanding
one
another
very
well
,
had
prepared
their
Chains
accordingly
.
Thus
when
we
consider
without
Prepossession
,
the
Obligation
,
which
(
I
do
not
say
that
the
House
of
Austria
only
,
but
)
all
the
People
of
Europe
,
who
are
lovers
of
Liberty
,
have
to
the
happy
Revolution
that
hath
lately
happened
in
England
,
by
the
great
and
generous
Resolution
which
his
Majesty
took
,
when
only
Prince
of
Orange
,
of
passing
the
Seas
in
a
severe
Season
,
and
in
the
depth
of
Winter
,
with
a
very
small
Force
:
I
cannot
look
upon
that
Enterprize
,
so
full
of
marvellous
Accidents
,
but
as
the
Dawn
of
our
Deliverance
;
and
methinks
we
have
the
greatest
Interest
to
follow
the
good
Auspices
of
this
Great
Prince
;
and
it
is
so
extraordinary
a
Happiness
for
all
the
Powers
of
Europe
,
that
they
ought
to
engrave
it
on
Steel
,
that
it
may
serve
as
a
Memorial
to
Posterity
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
that
we
do
often
admire
even
the
Actions
of
a
Barbarian
,
and
of
an
ancient
Heathen
,
erect
Statues
to
them
,
compose
Odes
,
and
make
the
Theatres
ring
in
their
Praises
,
whilst
we
refuse
paying
our
Veneration
to
the
Heroes
of
our
dearest
Country
.
There
is
to
be
observed
so
much
of
Prudence
and
Conduct
in
all
that
this
Prince
hath
done
,
that
we
may
boldly
,
without
being
deceived
,
consult
him
in
this
troublesome
time
,
with
as
much
Confidence
as
the
Romans
consulted
their
Sybils
in
the
most
important
Affairs
.
And
yet
we
see
at
this
day
some
Men
take
Pleasure
in
offering
up
Incense
to
the
God
Mammon
,
preferring
that
Image
of
Slavery
engraven
on
the
Louis
d'Or's
,
above
precious
Liberty
;
they
affect
indeed
to
carry
the
Badg
of
it
on
their
Foreheads
:
but
we
may
truly
say
of
those
People
,
that
they
have
the
Slavery
of
Galley-Slaves
in
their
Hearts
;
and
we
may
safely
put
into
this
Rank
all
those
who
labour
(
whether
bare-facedly
or
secretly
,
't
is
all
one
)
to
promote
the
Grandeur
of
Lewis
the
XIVth
.
We
may
,
without
doing
them
any
wrong
,
tell
them
thus
much
,
that
they
are
preparing
their
own
Chains
,
tho
they
dream
of
no
such
thing
,
in
their
Endeavours
to
set
him
upon
the
Throne
of
Universal
Monarchy
;
for
which
the
French
Emissaries
have
so
liberally
sown
their
Pistols
,
and
of
which
they
were
no
Niggards
here
in
England
,
during
the
two
last
Reigns
,
because
that
Court
was
very
powerful
:
They
have
not
been
forgetful
neither
of
some
Courts
in
Germany
,
where
France
sent
subtile
and
cunning
Ministers
,
that
knew
most
dexterously
how
to
attack
both
Princes
and
Princesses
on
their
blind
side
,
by
presenting
Louis
d'or's
to
those
who
loved
Money
,
and
young
and
celebrated
Beauties
to
those
who
were
charmed
with
that
Sex
:
witness
Portsmouth
in
England
,
whose
Study
was
only
how
to
incline
the
Mind
of
her
Spark
to
the
French
Interest
,
and
to
get
out
of
him
the
most
secret
and
important
Intelligences
,
to
communicate
them
to
the
French
Ambassador
,
who
was
then
here
resident
,
as
we
know
very
well
by
too
sad
an
Experience
,
for
the
Happiness
of
Europe
,
particularly
by
the
Sale
of
Dunkirk
,
the
taking
of
the
Town
of
Luxemburgh
,
which
was
of
fatal
Consequence
to
the
Low-Countries
,
and
to
Germany
.
Wherefore
the
Confederate
Princes
ought
to
have
an
Eye
continually
on
the
Emissaries
of
that
Crown
,
and
of
some
certain
Monks
who
thrust
themselves
into
all
Catholick
Houses
,
and
without
a
Pass-Port
run
up
and
down
into
all
their
Courts
with
an
Ecclesiastical
Assurance
.
These
are
the
dangerous
Pests
who
corrupt
all
that
hearken
to
them
;
who
have
Foreheads
of
Brass
,
accosting
every
one
with
a
smiling
Countenance
,
and
yet
have
nothing
that
is
civil
in
them
besides
their
Conversation
:
for
like
Scorpions
they
still
carry
a
most
dangerous
Poison
in
their
Tails
,
intruding
into
all
the
Secrets
of
private
Families
.
't
is
evident
,
this
is
one
of
the
greatest
ways
France
hath
to
support
her self
,
and
to
carry
on
her
Intrigues
;
I
say
this
of
being
informed
of
every
thing
that
passes
in
her
Enemies
Courts
,
sparing
no
Costs
for
it
:
it
is
almost
astonishing
to
think
how
careless
the
Allies
are
in
this
matter
,
which
might
easily
be
prevented
,
if
they
would
but
take
a
little
pains
about
it
.
They
should
first
begin
to
drive
out
of
their
Dominions
the
Jesuits
,
Monks
and
Priests
;
I
mean
,
those
of
them
that
are
French
;
and
keep
none
to
say
Mass
,
but
those
of
their
own
Nation
,
born
in
their
Countries
,
with
express
Orders
to
the
Superiours
upon
a
severe
Penalty
:
and
as
soon
as
any
Stranger
should
come
,
immediately
to
give
notice
of
it
,
and
to
acquaint
the
Magistrate
,
that
he
may
take
such
course
therein
as
the
Prince
should
direct
him
.
And
seeing
Interest
commonly
reigns
very
much
among
Church-men
,
we
need
not
doubt
but
those
who
are
already
settled
in
Cities
and
Towns
,
will
mightily
rejoice
to
see
those
Birds
of
Prey
(
who
come
to
pick
their
daily
Bread
out
of
their
Mouths
)
driven
away
.
Wherefore
they
would
never
fail
discovering
them
,
when
once
they
had
such
Orders
given
them
.
As
to
French
Officers
,
and
other
private
Persons
that
come
to
settle
in
their
Countries
,
the
matter
of
Religion
only
excepted
,
the
Magistrates
should
likewise
be
informed
of
them
upon
their
first
Arrival
;
and
the
fame
Prohibition
should
be
sent
to
all
the
Inn-keepers
,
not
to
lodg
any
Stranger
,
without
the
Permission
of
the
Magistrate
,
or
Commissaries
appointed
to
examine
them
;
and
especially
to
suspect
those
who
come
over
upon
pretence
of
a
Duel
.
Moreover
,
it
is
fit
that
the
Soveraign
be
privately
informed
how
some
People
live
,
that
have
nothing
visibly
to
live
upon
;
by
this
means
great
matters
might
come
to
light
which
now
are
kept
concealed
,
for
want
of
being
narrowly
look'd
into
.
I
add
besides
,
that
upon
one
discovery
of
any
such
Roguery
as
could
be
made
,
to
prevent
their
further
itch
or
desire
of
returning
thither
again
,
they
ought
to
be
severely
punished
:
and
a
strict
Watch
should
be
had
over
those
who
hold
the
least
Correspondence
with
France
,
unless
it
be
about
Family-Matters
,
or
Commerce
so
long
as
it
is
permitted
.
As
for
those
that
send
Contraband
Goods
thither
,
there
ought
to
be
neither
Consideration
nor
Pardon
for
such
.
But
there
are
some
still
more
dangerous
than
any
of
these
yet
mentioned
,
and
they
are
such
who
disguise
themselves
under
a
specious
Character
borrow'd
from
some
Prince
or
Common-wealth
,
and
who
under-hand
are
very
serviceable
to
the
common
Enemy
:
It
behoves
the
Allies
to
look
narrowly
after
such
;
and
the
sooner
they
do
it
,
the
better
.
There
are
many
that
despair
of
our
ever
being
able
to
humble
France
,
because
Affairs
have
not
succeeded
so
well
as
they
could
have
wished
since
this
War
began
;
their
natural
Impatience
throws
them
into
the
Abyss
of
Despair
:
commonly
the
things
they
are
ignorant
of
,
do
not
permit
them
to
make
a
solid
Judgment
of
the
future
;
there
is
a
Time
and
Fate
ordained
for
all
things
,
the
Event
whereof
we
ought
to
wait
for
from
the
Hand
of
Divine
Providence
,
and
yet
in
the
mean
while
to
act
by
Means
which
God
hath
put
into
our
own
Hands
;
and
methinks
it
should
be
a
piece
of
Impiety
to
believe
,
that
the
Divine
Providence
should
have
raised
up
K.
William
so
miraculously
on
the
English
Throne
,
and
made
him
the
peaceable
Possessor
of
three
Kingdoms
(
the
only
Prince
that
France
has
need
to
fear
)
by
the
Abdication
of
the
late
King
James
,
who
was
entirely
devoted
to
France
,
as
being
the
most
powerful
and
affectionate
Friend
that
the
most
Christian
King
had
in
Christendom
,
to
support
his
Designs
.
Moreover
,
when
I
consider
the
Union
of
so
many
Princes
as
are
in
the
Confederacy
to
make
a
vigorous
War
against
France
,
and
join
to
it
the
voluntary
Contributions
of
the
People
;
that
all
this
,
I
say
,
put
together
should
terminate
only
in
increasing
Lewis
the
XIVth
his
Honour
and
Grandeur
,
I
can
scarce
believe
it
:
and
there
is
but
little
likelihood
that
this
Providence
should
be
at
the
Expence
of
so
many
Miracles
for
so
poor
and
mean
a
Subject
.
If
we
shall
throughly
consider
the
Reign
and
Life
of
that
Monarch
,
who
(
as
I
said
long
ago
,
and
will
now
repeat
it
)
hath
more
of
Ambition
than
true
Greatness
of
Mind
,
since
he
never
extended
his
Dominion
,
but
at
the
Expence
of
his
Neighbours
,
and
of
that
Faith
which
ought
always
to
be
sacred
among
Kings
.
To
witness
this
,
I
call
the
People
of
the
Low-Countries
,
and
the
deplorable
Ruins
of
the
Towns
of
the
Palatinate
,
as
well
as
all
the
Treaties
that
that
Prince
has
made
during
his
Reign
;
there
is
not
one
of
them
but
what
he
hath
broken
,
and
violated
as
soon
as
ever
he
was
in
a
condition
,
and
found
a
favourable
opportunity
to
incroach
on
the
Territories
of
his
Neighbours
.
Add
still
hereto
the
Infraction
of
the
Privileges
and
Edicts
which
he
had
so
solemnly
sworn
and
promised
to
his
Subjects
,
whose
Goods
and
Children
he
has
cruelly
ravished
from
them
.
What
should
procure
such
Happiness
to
the
King
of
France
?
Can
it
be
the
Holiness
of
Lewis
the
XIVth's
Life
?
No
,
that
cannot
be
,
witness
the
Ashes
of
the
Marquess
de
Montespan
,
and
those
of
Madam
de
Fontange
,
as
well
as
the
Carcass
of
wretched
Granval
,
who
are
the
faithful
Vouchers
for
what
we
have
now
said
,
and
what
our
Eyes
have
seen
.
Can
it
be
the
Persecution
of
the
Hugonots
?
This
has
no
probability
in
it
;
for
by
the
violent
Maxims
which
the
King
of
France
has
made
use
of
,
he
has
dishonoured
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
made
it
to
stink
in
the
Nostrils
of
all
People
,
because
the
true
Church
never
persecutes
any
one
.
Pope
Innocent
the
XIth
,
of
pious
Memory
,
shed
Tears
of
Blood
at
it
,
and
was
pierced
at
the
very
Heart
,
because
he
wisely
foresaw
that
the
King
made
more
Hypocrites
than
Catholicks
,
as
the
Event
shews
;
the
Holy
Father
having
been
a
good
Prophet
in
this
matter
.
But
then
,
can
it
be
the
bare
Title
of
Most
Christian
,
which
the
King
of
France
bears
,
that
shall
procure
him
this
Blessing
of
Heaven
?
There
is
less
probability
in
this
than
in
all
the
other
.
The
Alliances
made
with
the
Turks
and
Barbarians
to
hinder
the
Progress
of
the
Christian
Arms
,
inspire
us
to
believe
,
that
such
a
one
falsly
bears
the
Title
of
Most
Christian
,
when
he
hath
nothing
but
the
Shadow
of
it
instead
of
the
true
Character
.
Prosperity
is
not
always
a
Sign
or
Pledg
of
Verdue
.
witness
Mahometanism
and
Paganism
.
The
ancient
Romans
made
themselves
Masters
of
the
greatest
part
of
the
World
,
and
they
were
only
Heathens
;
and
therefore
on
what
side
soever
we
turn
our
Eyes
,
we
see
nothing
in
Lewis
the
XIVth
hitherto
,
that
could
incline
the
Divine
Providence
to
assemble
so
many
Princes
,
to
enter
them
into
an
unanimous
League
together
,
only
to
place
their
Enemy
on
the
Throne
of
the
Universe
,
as
he
has
flattered
himself
for
some
time
,
but
now
begins
to
be
undeceived
,
since
the
Advancement
of
the
King
of
Great
Britain
,
William
the
Third
.
Therefore
we
have
nothing
now
to
do
but
vigorously
to
pursue
the
way
already
made
plain
,
to
obtain
the
Prize
,
and
to
humble
France
.
And
methinks
I
cannot
end
this
Discourse
better
than
with
the
Exhortation
which
Demosthenes
heretofore
made
to
the
Athemans
(
when
they
were
engaged
in
a
War
with
Philip
of
Macedon
)
Not
to
suffer
any
Presents
to
corrupt
them
,
but
to
push
on
the
War
with
more
Courage
,
Vigor
and
Resolution
than
they
had
done
formerly
:
and
there
is
no
doubt
but
God
Almighty
will
bless
the
just
Arms
of
the
Confederates
against
the
treacherous
Designs
of
the
grand
Usurper
of
Europe
.
FINIS
.