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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42675	The Ghost of the Emperor Charles the Fifth appearing to Volcart the porter, or, A dialogue of the times		1690 (1690)	Wing G638; ESTC R30404	32,343	42

servants not knowing however he belong'd to him but who came to him to change Lewis d'Or's that there was hardly any other Money to be seen now that the Marquess de Grana receiv'd so many of 'em for his Treasons France morever made him a present of a Sword garnisht with Diamonds when the Imperial Army lay encampt at Mouzon in the Year 1676. and tho' it was brought him as from the present Prince of Condé as an acknowledgment according to what he said that he had sent Horses to this Prince it being known he had been well paid for them so there were none but Fools that believ'd it and in effect the Liberality of this Family never extended it self to the making of a Present of this nature seeing she has enough to do to pay her Debts In the mean time the Emperor having been the only Person who did not perceive his infidelity sent him a second time into Spain in Quality of Embassador extraordinary Here it was that continuing admirably well to play his Game he decried in such a manner the Prince of Parma who was sent Governour-General of the Low Countries that he put into all the Ministers Heads that these Provinces were lost without redemption if he were not recall'd There were several Councils held hereupon and this Hypocrite having had the time whilst all this past to have Letters of Recommendation sent out of Germany for him he had orders to go and drive away this Prince and to take his place Scarce was this order dispatcht when fearing it would be revoked he took leave incognito of his Catholick Majesty and parted the same Night If we may believe the common report he did wisely in being in such haste seeing the Council of Spain had no sooner done the thing but repented of it But he being now in the Road the business stuck at home his Ministry being to be judg'd of by its Success France was soon advertis'd of his Catholick Majesties choice and being on the point of attacking Luxembourg she was very willing to make tryal whether his Preferment had not chang'd his Heart She sent to meet him on the way but he would not stay to explain himself there but told the Currier who presented him a Packet that he should make some stay in England under pretence of refreshing himself for he was taking the Sea to finish his Voyage and that there some Person should be appointed in whom he might put confidence There was no failer of Money that being already again sent him So that France being sure of him persisted in her Enterprize Ghost Thou knowest a great deal for a Man of thy Quality Volcart Hear the rest The first thing he did when he was arriv'd was to draw out Troops from Luxembourg under pretence of Garrisoning better Mons and Namur although these two Places were in no danger by reason these were the Bar the King had granted to the Hollanders by the Peace of Nimiguen and he knew as well as any other that the King of France could not Attack them without making them take up their Arms. But pretending to be ignorant Luxembourg was immediately invested whilst the most Christian King set himself at the head of an Army to hinder its being succour'd but no Body stirr'd The Emperor was not in a condition to do it having the Turks on his Shoulders the Hollanders on their side were divided amongst themselves by the French Embassadors Intrigues and the great Man I now mention'd And now you have an account how the Place was lost Ghost What a Traitor was this And did neither the Emperor or King of Spain shew any resentment at this Volcart I know nothing of that all that I know is that the Governour took Post some days after for Spain being furnisht with good Certificates against him wherein all the Officers of his Garrison testified that if the Marquiss de Grana had pleas'd the Place would not have been lost But there were Robbers Posted in the Road who took away both his Papers and Money This Robbery was committed near Orleans through which he past having obtain'd a Passport from the Most Christian King on which it is good to make Reflection that nothing can better convince us of the Intelligence above mention'd than this pretended Theft which was committed in a Kingdom wherein that care is taken that for this Twenty five or Thirty years the like has never been known But for a farther Mark that these were not Robbers the Money was restor'd to him at Lyons his Papers being the only things retain'd Ghost These are very strange things thou tellest me of However I must needs say to thee that Europe must be buried in a more than Cimmerian darkness not to awake at the noise of so many horrid Enterprizes But go on I pray thee Volcart Had you been here in the time when this hapned you would have quickly got you back again to the other World for you would have thought you had been in a Hell such a general devastation and burning was here in all these Provinces Ghost And who was the Cause of all this Volcart The Most Christian King Ghost Why what was the matter Volcart Because such was his good Will and Pleasure and he had a mind to confound all Flanders Ghost If this be so why dost call him the Most Christian King how can this Name agree with him after such Outrages which are only for Barbarians and the common Enemy of Christendom But perhaps thou concealest from me that 't was through default of Payment of Contributions in which Case it s a common use introduced in War to proceed to this extremity Volcart No I conceal nothing from you but shall tell you on the contrary that the Contributions were not only paid but that the Country having been threatned with burnings after this it taxed it self in a vast Sum to redeem it self from this violence But the Payment was no sooner made but that with the Sword in one hand and the Faggot in another the French shew'd us such a French Trick as consumed all before them Ghost But what kind of People are these French then now a days It seems to me they were heretofore human Creatures Volcart They would be so still had they less success but this renders these People intollerably insolent to all Nations for they pretend now to be Masters every where yet the King of France has reduced them to such misery that it is a great thing if the Commonalty have Bread to eat The Man of Quality is his Slave through the necessity he is in of making his Court to him he must spend all he is worth in attending him sometimes to the Wars other whiles in Journys where he must be always at some new expence Versailles moreover is a Place which is no less chargeable to him he must keep House there and also at Paris which so wastes him that he has not for the most part a Sous in