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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25543	An Answer to a paper written by Count d'Avaux, the French king's ambassador in Sweden concerning the proposals of peace made by France to the confederates.		1694 (1694)	Wing A3335; ESTC R38499	24,636	32

began to put it in practice in the Reigns of the Two Charles's the First and the Second and thinking she was just upon the point of obtaining her Ends when James the Second with whom she had had a long and strict Alliance and whose Bigottry and Ambition she but too well knew mounted on the Throne she did not fail to improve that opportunity and the Passions of that Prince to push him on to a Despotick and Arbitrary Government and the bringing in of Popery against the Fundamental Laws of the Realm of which the English are more jealous than any Nation in the World besides is of theirs This is a Truth the Late King James could not be ignorant of and consequently he might easily judge that without a powerful Assistance from abroad it would be impossible for him to compass so vast and so monstrous a Design and who was likelier to lend it him but the French King puissant and dreadful to all the World In short the thing was as readily granted as desired but at the same time it was whispered in the Late King's ear that all would be in vain except the States General were overturn'd as being the only in the World that might oppose his Designs and that would infallibly do it by reason of the great Interest which together with the Prince of Orange their Stadtholder they had in this Affair Wherefore a Secret League was concluded between the two Kings in order to a total destruction of the Vnited Provinces which was to be put in execution on the first opportunity and France who had a mind to strike the Iron whilst it was hot was not willing to put it off till after she had finisht her Conquest of the Rhine and forc'd the Emperor and the Empire to confirm her in the possession of it by a shameful Peace whilst the Late King James by the means of his Army was to render himself Master of all at home to the Subversion of the Government and Religion establish'd by Law in the Three Kingdoms This is the true cause of all King James's Undertakings in England Scotland and Ireland against his true Interest which was to govern his People according to Law and to oppose the pernicious Designs of France But his having been drawn in by her has cost him very dear for the English being resolv'd not to outlive the loss of their Laws their Religion their Liberties and Properties call'd secretly to their assistance the then Prince of Orange who was oblig'd to it by a thousand Reasons But the Prince being wise and cautious and knowing perfectly the consequence of so great an Enterprize suffer'd himself long to be solicited and did not hearken at last but to the Threatnings that were made him from England to abandon entirely his and that Incomparable Princess his Wife's Interest and to give way to some desperate Action would have cost them Rivers of Blood Nevertheless it was not till August 1688. that the States-General were acquainted with this great Affair and they did not grant the Prince their Assistance till the very time the French King's Armies were on their march to invade the Empire and to attack Philipsbourg and then they were not like to refuse it since otherwise they would only have had the advantage of being swallowed up last Now this being well consider'd must not one have a strong Forehead to affirm that the States-General are the cause of this War But besides in granting the Prince of Orange ' s Request did they do the least thing against France or did they infringe the least Article of the Treaty that was then in being with her There is no man of sense can aver it and Monsieur d' Avaux himself in his thundring and threatning Speeches he made then at the Hague could alledge nothing but that his Master found himself oblig'd to assist his Allie Was it then requisite that the States-General should have tamely waited for the mortal Stroke that was prepared for them and being perfectly acquainted with the League of both Kings that had sworn their ruin should they have let slip the only means to save them and which indeed secured them effectually from the Attempts of France who was going to build on their Ruin her vast Designs of an Vniversal Soveraignty over all the States in Europe IX And now to come to the point 't is evident by what has been said that the great Interest the States-General have to observe by a re-establishment of Peace is the securing themselves effectually for the future by Sea and by Land without which all they have to expect will be a suspension only of their total Ruin so much the more inevitable the less hopes they can have ever to meet with so fair an opportunity as they have now at this present to secure their State their Commerce and their Tranquility for the future The fatal Consequences of the precipitated Peace of Nimmeguen are yet too fresh to be forgotten and the boasted of Barriere France offers to restore will no more establish their quiet for the future than it has done for the time past Besides France does not offer to restore the entire Barriere since she pretends to keep Luxenburgh of which more hereafter X. Monsieur d' Avaux passes but slightly over the Terms which the King of Great Britain is to have and it seems he fancies forsooth His Majesty wants nothing but to remain in possession of his Three Kingdoms and that on that score he 'll not scruple to restore what England has taken from France in the West-Indies But in this Monsieur d' Avaux is so much out of the road that we have reason to doubt whether Their Majesties will ever permit that it be inserted as a Condition into a Treaty of Peace that France is to acknowledge Their Dignity and Title which is sufficiently establish'd by the right of Blood and by the Offer the Representatives of both Nations have made Their Majesties of the Three Crowns after the Late King Jame's Abdication and his Retreat into France Besides all Potentates of Europe having acknowledged the Title of and congratulated Their Majesties there is no doubt but France will be forced to make use of the same Language in case she has a mind the King should ever enter with her on Articles of Peace But do they think us tame enough to rest satisfied with that or rather do they not imagine we shall ask for somewhat more some small Terms for our Safety being acquainted as we are with the dangerous Maxims and Designs of France that tend to our destruction Is it probable the King will abandon his Principality of Orange and his other Lands by Inheritance taken from him and confiscated against all manner of Justice a long time before the beginning of this War and in the midst of Peace XI And what are the Terms propos'd to Spain Monsieur d' Avaux talks very high and makes a mighty noise about them Five fine Places