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A89169
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A view of the court of St Germain since the year 1690. With an account of the entertainment Protestants meet with there. : Directed to the malecontents Protestants of England.
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Macky, John, d. 1726.
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1696
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Wing M221B; ESTC R180252
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King James's hatred to every thing that bears the name of Protestant but if what has already been said is not sufficient sure I am that the rest should be to no purposes What Protestant has he ever so much as seemed to Trust since he lives in France I know that my Lord Middleton must be excepted for indeed King James has a seeming Trust in him There is no Man that has been at St. Germain 〈◊〉 must needs perceive that he is not chief Minister as Melford was nor manages Affairs betwixt Versailes and St. Germain that being done by Innes and Pâ—rter He is but seldom called to the Couneil and the French Court has never depended upon his Corespondance since the disappointment they received by our Fleets going into the Streights I hope these Instances will â—â—nviâ—â—e all good Men that have any sense of Liberty Religion and Honour how unreasonable it is to be a Jacobite and to think that the Present Misfotune of King James will frighten him from invading our Laws and Liberties in time to come seeing that neither the abandoning of Wives Children and Estates nor the hazarding nay Loss of Life in his Service can render him Just and Favourable to such Protestanâ—s who have made a Sacrifice of all those Things to follow him And if it be so as certainly it is what must those Protestant Nations expect if ever he re-obtains the Government who have renounced him and set another Prince upon his Throne If these who have followed him into France are denied the Exercise of their Religion when his Circumstance make it his Interest to grant it what must we expect if ever he be again in possession of the Crown My Lord Chief Justice Herbert and the other Gentlemen before named who firmly adhered to his Interests even in his greatest Misfortunes were contemned despised and suffered to Starve because they were Protestants how can we or any Protestant Jacobites who have none of those Merits pretend to be better used If the loss of Honours and Estates has not been sufficient to obtain from him Christian Burial upon what Ground can our Jacobites who have dene nothing for him flatter Themselves with the hopes of great preferments If he is reinthroned In short if the Examples he had of his Father's Misfortunes and his Brothers Exil wherein he himself was a shater together with the Sense of his own Misfortunes have not been able to work a Reformation upon him as appears by the above written Accounts can we expect that ever he will be made more plyable The Education of his Prince of Wales whom no body deubts he designs his Successor is another Instance of his irreconcilable Antipathy to the Protestant Religion and English Liberties One would have thought that Interest as well as Policy would have made him educat his Child a Protestant or at least oblige him to put protestants ' about him of enquestioned Reputanon to instruct him in the ways of pleasing the people but instead of that Dr. Beejon a famous and violent Papist was made his Preceptor and none but Popish Servants were allowed to be about him so that he can imbibe nothing but what is for the Interest of Rome and Destruction of England Can people be so mad as to expect good terms from a prince who not only thus Treats his Protestant Subjects who have followed him in his Misfortunes but also whose Religion lays him under a Necessity of deing it Could greater Obligaâ—ions be laid upon any Prince then were upon hin by the Church of England when a Subject Her interest Saved him from being prosecuted for the Popist plot excluded from the Succession to the English Throne and afterwards Dethroned by the Doke of Monmouth yeâ— all those Obligations were no more than his Coronation Oath could not hinder him from invading he Protestant Religion in general but more particularly the Liberties of the Church of England But perhaps some will Object against what I have said that from the Entertainment Protestants met with at St. Germain 't is not reasonable to conclude that King James pears still such an aversion to our Religion and Liberties For being himself but a Refuge in France and having nothing to live upon but the pension the French King Ilows him it is not in his power to reward those Protestants who have followed him even not to caress them and herefore we ought rather to peruse the Declarations he as put out since his being in France for therein we shall â—nd undenieble proofs that his Misfortunes have much tered his Mind Read vvill our Jacobites say the â—eclaration he published upon his intended Descent from 〈◊〉 Hague and observe vvhat promises he makes both in lation to our Religion and our Liberties the Sincerity thereof you have no manner of pretence to Question for â—â—en thinking himself sure of his Game nothing could lige him to disguise the true gentiments of his Heart This is some vvhat indeed Gentlemen and vvere the 〈◊〉 as you say I vvould aggree vvith you but give me 〈◊〉 to tell you that 't is a great Question 〈◊〉 Declaration you speak of which was Printed here did really contain King James's Sentiments but whether it was his own Declaration or Sir James Montgomtrie's it does not matter a pin for his late Majesty did publiekly disown it in a Memorial to the Pope upon his return to Paris and it has been acknowledged in a Jacobite Pamphlet called An Answer to Dr. welwood's Answer to King Jame's Declaration That the same was formed without his Knowledge and against his Inclination I have told you in the beginning of this Discourse that I believe that there are among you some Conscientious Men and to those I shall say nothing at this time but to such that are angry with the Government as I know many amongst you are meerly because they cannot have any Imployment under it and who think without any further Examination to better their Condition by a second Revolution I 'l say that they ought to consider that King James's Popish Friends must be all provided for first of all and pray what will remain then for you For as to Pensions I think you are not so mad as to flatter your selves with such imaginary hopes for the French Army that brings King James over must be paid and their vast-Charges for the Irish war and the Maintenance of King James Re-imbursed before your beloved Prince be in a Condition to Express his Favour to you perhaps you will say that the French King is too much a Gentleman to demand any such thing but I don't know what has given you that Noble Idea of his Generosity But supposing his Temper to be such this War will so much drain his Exchequer that Necessity will force him to demand what is justly owing to him and who shall be able to dispute his Bill of Charges Nay will King James be able to satisfie him I don't know but this I am sure of that as long as you profess the protestant Religion you cannot expect to be more Favourably Treated then his present Followers Some others amongst you are disaffected because as they say without the Restotation of King James a protestanâ— war will be Entailed of the Nation and because our Treasure is Exhausted by Taxes and Our Blood Expended beyonâ—â— Sea which the Nation cannot long bear To these Gentlemen I must answer That they are much mistaken for the bringing in of King James which they think will put an End to these Troubles would Infallibly bring the Seat of War from Flanders into England For in is Unreasonable to Suppose that so many Noblemen and Gentlemen as are Engaged in King William's Cause would tamely Submit or that his Majesty whose Interest in Europe is so very great would either Ingloriously abandone his Throne or want Foreign Assistance to support him in it 2. King James and the French King are both Old and upon a Change of a Governour in France we may reasonably expect Change of Measures for as to the prince of Wales his Interest stands or falls with that of his Supposed Father but after all is it Reasonable to believe that the French or any other Nation will live in perpetual War with us meerly for the sake of a prince who pretends to be deprived of his Rights There are very few Knight-Errants in this Age or at least sure I am that no Nation in general is acted by their principles and we see the French offer already to forsake him 3. I grant that our taxes are greater then ever our Nation paid but yet they are not so heavy but that we can hold it out many Years at this Rate In short whatever they be I believe there is no good Man but will rather hazard his person to keep the Enemy abroad then see a French and Irish Army in the Bowels of our own Countrey destroying our Substance Burning our Habitations and Committing the Barbarities which they Committed in the palatinate For Certainly by one Months Ravage of this Nature we should lose more Blood and treasure then can probably be-spent to bring the War to an Honourable and Happy Conclusion â—hat happy Moment is not perhaps so far as some people imagine for whosoever will cast his Eyes on the present posture of Affairs in Europe must needs Conclude that the French cannot hold it out much longer FINIS