THE
French
Kings
SPEECH
TO
THE
Queen
of
England
,
At
her
Arrival
in
Paris
:
And
the
Queens
Answer
.
Faithfully
Translated
out
of
French
by
a
Person
of
Quality
.
MADAM
,
THe
Honour
that
Our Self
,
and
Our
Kingdom
receives
from
the
presence
of
so
Illustrious
a
Personage
within
the
Court
of
France
,
would
raise
in
Us
the
most
Extraordinary
Transports
,
were
not
the
Blessing
in
a
great
Measure
lessened
by
Our
afflicting
sense
of
the
unhappy
Providence
that
gives
it
Us.
However
,
though
those
peculiar
Smiles
of
Heaven
that
are
not
alwaies
pleased
to
shine
Brightest
and
kindlyest
on
the
most
exalted
Merit
,
are
in
so
high
a
degree
with-drawn
at
present
from
the
more
strenuous
Protection
,
and
nearer
Care
of
those
Soveraign
Graces
and
Heavenly
Perfections
,
that
Perfections
,
that
so
signally
adorne
Your
Majesty
;
and
the
popular
Reflections
on
Your
Majesties
Misfortune
,
may
with
the
prejudiced
and
unthinking
(
who
only
weigh
Vertue
by
its
Felicity
,
and
Desert
by
its
Success
)
possibly
encourage
some
poor
and
ignoble
Suggestions
,
and
thereby
lessen
their
just
and
due
Veneration
and
Adoration
of
such
transcendent
Qualifications
.
Let
it
suffice
,
Illustrious
Madam
,
That
the
Deity
shines
through
the
Cloud
,
and
in
the
Eyes
of
the
Good
and
Great
,
Your
Majesty
rather
borrows
Luster
from
that
Foyle
Your
unjust
Fortune
has
lent
You
.
However
,
Our
Reflections
on
the
Barbarous
,
Rebellious
,
and
Infidel
England
cannot
terminate
in
any
less
Sentiments
than
those
of
Astonishment
and
Horrour
.
We
look
upon
Your
Divine
Self
,
and
that
Young
Prince
,
like
a
second
Creusa
,
and
her
Young
Darling
Julus
,
escaped
from
the
Conflagration
of
Troy
;
and
from
flaming
Rebellion
,
Heresie
,
Treason
,
Ingratitude
,
that
native
English
nest
of
Scorpions
,
I
dare
boldly
give
Your
Majesty
Well-come
,
into
a
Hospitable
Coast
of
Safety
and
Honour
;
whilst
Our
Glory
of
serving
You
with
all
the
highest
Zeal
and
Fidelity
,
shall
be
ever
recorded
the
Noblest
and
most
Indefatigable
Ambition
of
our
Life
.
His
Sacred
Majesty
of
great
Britain
,
whose
interest
has
ever
been
Inseperable
with
Our
Own
,
could
not
repose
all
that
is
dearest
and
nearest
to
Him
under
a
more
Tutelary
Roof
then
Our
Own
.
The
Hands
,
Hearts
,
and
Lives
of
all
France
are
your
Wall
of
Brass
;
and
We
only
pride
Our Self
in
avowing
our
Sword
and
all
the
Arms
of
France
the
select
Instruments
of
God
to
scourge
the
Infidelity
and
Arrogance
of
that
Audatious
Heretick
Nation
.
It
is
enough
,
that
their
too
Bold
and
Impudent
Inquiries
into
the
Actions
,
Policies
,
and
Conduct
of
Crown'd
Heads
;
and
their
more
Impudent
Sawcy
prying
into
the
Veins
of
this
Royal
Infant
,
Speculations
so
far
elevated
above
the
insolent
Scrutiny
of
Homagers
,
Subjects
,
and
Vassals
,
call
down
all
that
just
Vengeance
that
the
most
dreadful
Vials
of
the
Almighty
Wrath
,
either
by
the
more
immediate
Bolts
of
Heaven
,
or
the
Arm
of
Man
can
pour
upon
them
.
As
these
Considerations
were
of
themselves
alone
sufficient
to
awaken
all
the
Imperial
Swords
,
Axes
,
and
Fasces
of
Christendom
;
nay
,
even
Poysons
and
Poynjards
too
to
Your
Revenge
.
Besides
,
the
Duty
of
a
true
Son
of
the
Church
,
that
common
and
more
Universal
Tye
,
Our Self
lye
under
a
more
particular
Obligation
;
the
uninfringible
Bonds
of
that
most
Holy
League
solemnly
Signed
,
Sealed
,
and
mutually
Sworn
to
,
between
Our
Brother
of
Great
Britain
,
and
our
Royal
Self
.
I
can
only
add
,
Dear
Sister
,
That
your Self
,
and
equally
dear
Cause
are
lodged
in
the
hand
of
your
Avenger
,
and
that
Royal
Infant
is
our
Adoption
:
And
as
the
Extirpation
of
the
Northern
Heresie
has
been
Our
Own
,
and
Our
Royal
Brothers
most
sacred
Engagement
,
and
his
present
Wrongs
and
Indignities
have
opened
a
fairer
Gate
for
the
blessed
Work
,
under
the
Covert
and
Umbrage
of
righting
his
Injuries
.
Doubt
,
Royal
Madam
,
neither
the
Alacrity
nor
Swiftness
of
our
Revenge
;
to
the
Execution
of
which
we
shall
fly
so
winged
and
so
pleased
,
as
if
Commission'd
by
the
peculiar
Mandate
of
a
God
,
and
with
the
Arm
of
a
destroying
Angel
.
The
QUEENS
Answer
.
SIR
,
THe
Sanctuary
that
Your
Majesties
inviolable
Friendship
(
I
was
so
well
assured
)
had
set
open
to
the
Protection
and
shelter
of
Greatness
in
Distress
,
was
enough
to
invite
the
stragling
Shipwracks
of
a
Royal
Family
,
to
put
in
to
this
Favourable
Harbour
with
that
absolute
Resignation
and
Trust
,
that
all
Your
Majesties
too
generous
Expressions
of
Succour
and
Defence
,
are
meerly
a
work
of
Supererrogation
.
Our
Confidence
in
Your
unparallel'd
Goodness
,
especially
,
to
any
thing
tho
meanlier
related
to
the
Crown'd
Head
of
England
,
was
both
Pasport
and
Hostage
sufficient
for
our
Security
under
the
protection
of
the
Great
Lewis
of
France
;
and
since
this
fatal
Storm
has
so
cruelly
and
deplorably
shaken
the
Throne
of
three
Kingdoms
,
with
the
same
Assurance
is
my
unhappy
Lord
and
King
following
for
a
shelter
under
the
same
Guardian
Goodness
.
Wonder
not
,
Great
Sir
,
that
He
Dares
so
intirely
confide
not
only
Ours
,
but
his
own
more
sacred
Royal
Person
in
those
Hands
where
before
He
had
long
so
absolutely
resolved
and
engaged
to
trust
his
CROWN
.
But
,
Oh!
What
a
sullen
and
dark
Mist
is
now
arising
to
sully
the
brightness
of
the
once
shineing
Diadem
of
England
?
My
Dearest
Lord
,
a
Prince
so
Excellent
,
so
God-like
good
,
that
I
may
truly
say
,
his
greatest
,
if
not
only
Sin
,
was
his
keeping
a
little
too
much
Faith
with
Hereticks
;
forgetting
,
alas
,
His
Apostolical
Duty
,
His
Sacramental
Bonds
,
and
more
particularly
,
His
Vows
and
Oaths
to
Your
most
Christian
Majesty
.
However
,
to
what
Resolves
,
to
what
sublime
Atcheivements
did
Your
Majesties
Pious
Councils
,
his
Holy
Confessors
Tears
,
and
my
own
endearing
Prayers
and
Caresses
at
last
transport
Him
.
But
whether
,
Oh!
whether
,
are
we
faln
;
what
Blocks
,
what
Bars
,
what
Ruins
,
and
what
Precipices
have
stopt
our
Heavenly
Progress
?
But
tho
the
prevailing
evil
Genius
of
England
,
has
at
least
at
present
,
broken
and
def●ated
those
Divine
Measures
and
sacred
Designs
,
so
gloriously
formed
by
my
Dear
James
,
and
your
truly
most
Christian
Maesty
,
for
the
Reduction
of
the
long
revolted
Heretical
Britain
,
to
her
primitive
Christianity
and
true
Apostolical
Obedience
;
nevertheless
whatever
ill
success
our
failing
endeavours
may
have
hitherto
met
in
that
pious
Enterprize
.
We
shall
however
carry
this
comfort
through
Exile
,
nay
,
to
Death
it self
,
that
our
Conduct
like
true
Defenders
of
the
Faith
,
in
but
poor
4
years
Reign
has
retrived
the
lost
Ireland
,
and
of
3
Apostate
Kingdoms
,
once
so
near
their
Conversion
,
restored
one
at
least
to
Holy
Mother
Church
,
by
wresting
the
Soveraign
Administration
,
Dominion
,
and
all
the
Regalia
of
that
Kingdom
from
the
hands
of
Thieves
and
Robbers
;
and
re-investing
our
Trusty
and
well
beloved
Tyrconnel
,
and
the
rest
of
those
true
Sons
of
the
Church
once
more
in
their
old
Hereditary
Naboth
Vinyard
;
those
dutiful
and
unshaken
Champions
of
Truth
,
whose
ever
faithful
Swords
under
the
Bannors
of
the
most
Blessed
Queen
of
Heavn
and
her
Son
Jesus
,
and
in
due
Allegeance
to
our
Holy
Lord
God
the
Pope
,
shall
repair
those
yawning
and
gaping
Breaches
,
Wastes
and
Ruins
made
by
that
Usurper
and
Tyrant
Bess
,
8th
.
Harrys
accursed
Heretical
Bastard
of
ever
infamous
Memory
.
What
is
t
they
shall
not
dare
or
act
,
't
is
their
hands
that
shall
replant
the
long
faded
Flowers
of
the
Church
;
and
in
persuance
of
our
Soveraign
Commission
,
water
them
once
more
with
the
flowing
Blood
of
all
our
Anti-christian
Heretick
Enemies
;
that
second
Irish
Glory
,
an
Action
that
shall
so
signally
eternize
the
Renoune
of
the
great
James
the
JUST
,
that
his
Memory
shall
smell
fragant
to
latest
Posterity
and
blossom
even
on
his
Tomb
.
And
now
,
Great
Sir
,
in
tenderness
for
this
Royal
Infant
,
a
Blessing
which
the
United
Prayers
of
the
Church
and
our
Offerings
to
our
heavenly
Lady
have
so
long
wrestled
for
,
as
a
sanctified
Vessel
for
the
finishing
that
work
the
great
James
should
want
Years
to
compleat
,
The
imploreing
Injuries
of
this
little
Suppliant
,
beg
Your
Majesties
most
tender
and
indeed
immediate
Patronage
,
as
being
like
Your self
a
peculiar
Deodate
of
Heavn
;
the
true
and
Legitimate
Birth
of
this
sweet
Prince
,
whatever
black
False-hood
and
Impostures
the
ever
lying
Scandals
and
Calumnies
of
the
harden'd
Lutheran
Infidelity
and
Heretick
English
Villany
may
raise
to
eclipse
him
(
I
assure
Your
Majesty
,
and
the
all-knowing
Providence
can
witness
for
me
)
is
as
unquestionable
,
and
the
sweet
Infant
,
as
assuredly
the
true
begotten
Son
of
my
Dear
Lord
King
James
the
Second
;
As
Your
Majesty
is
of
the
Great
Lewis
the
13th
.
of
France
.
Take
then
this
Babe
as
an
Alliance
to
Your
Great
Self
,
and
express
to
the
World
the
nearness
of
Your
Affinity
to
him
,
by
Your
Industry
and
Zeal
in
righting
and
preserving
Him
.
FINIS
.