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B23787	China and France, or, Two treatises the one, of the present state of China as to the government, customs, and manners of the inhabitants thereof ... from the observation of two Jesuites lately returned from that country, written and published by the French Kings cosmographer and now Englished : the other, containing the most remarkable passages of the reign and life of the present French King, Lewis the Fourteenth, and of the valour of our English in his armies.	Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712. Viaggio del P. Giovanni Grueber tornando per terea da China in Europa. English.; Grueber, Johann, 1623-1680.; Orville, Albert, comte d', 1621-1662.; Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech), 1620?-1692.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2163	63,324	224

their breaches restored their Fortifications and put them all into a good posture of defence But that which was remarkable in this progress the King had no extraordinary Militia he trusted so much these new Subjects that he entered into all their populous Towns attended only by his houshold Servants and usual Guards This got him the love and respect of the Walloons and secured him the hearts of his people as well as the Walls of their Towns About this time a King of Guinny who lives at a City called Arda sent an Ambassador to Paris to treat about an establishment of a Trade between that place and the Islands of America under the French Scepter The King entertained him and his motion very kindly and sent him back with Tokens of his liberality There had been an Order of the Kings Council published by which certain Wares of the Hollanders were prohibited in France They labored by their Ambassador to perswade the King to revoke this Order but in vain for the King was now resolved to revenge himself upon them for their insolent carriage towards him and his people in the West and East Indies and in many Foreign Countreys where they had ingrossed all the Trade to themselves It is certain that both the English and the French had great cause to complain of the Hollanders who had on several occasions discovered an unsufferable Pride and a haughty carriage not to be endured by Crowned Heads They had exercised their cruelty upon the Subjects of both Kingdoms beyond the Seas and had seised upon their Goods affronting thereby their Princes who are ingaged to protect them These and other unjust practises as was pretended obliged the French to prepare for War Therefore in his Progress in Flanders he visited himself the Fortifications of all his Frontier Towns and caused the weakest places to be fortified with new Works from Dunkirke he went to Amantiers from thence to Lille to Courtray to Aeth He found that Monsieur de Montal had strongly repaired the Walls of Charle le Roy for which he highly commended him Before the War was proclaimed Madam de Orleans the only Sister a live of our Gracious Monarch came over here unto England to visit the King and the Duke of York She was received with all the expressions of kindness that Nature did require and her Vertues deserve But as all our satisfactions are momentary she had no sooner seen these dear Relations but was forced to leave them again and return over to France where she died so suddenly that most men entertained the bad reports that were raised about her death However the Court of France honored her Birth and Vertues with an outward Mourning and the Duke of Orleans's countenance seemed to be very sad and pensive until the King had cheared him up with the thoughts of another Wife The Daughter of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine was pitched upon the Mareschal du Plessis was sent to espouse her in the Dukes name in the City of Mets the sixteenth day of November The Duke himself wen● as far as Chalons to receive and welcome her The King the Queen and all the Court expressed their joy and satisfaction for her safe arrival and about a year after she was brought to Bed of a Son All this while the War was preparing against Holland England and France were to unite their Forces by Sea and Land On the seventh day of April 1672. the King published his Declaration to forbid all Commerce and Trade with the States of the Vnited Provinces and immediately after appeared at the Head of an Army of One hundred and fifty thousand Men with whom he carried all before him in the Low Countreys as a violent torrent Nothing was of a sufficient resistance for so great a power every one did judge that he would win all the other Towns the following Spring if there were not a stop put to his undertakings But the motion of the French is always violent at the first and then at the least discouragement it begins to abate The Dutchy of Cleves the Electorate of Cullen the Dutchy of Limburgh the County of Zutphen Vtrecht and its Territories Holland Brabant Overissell the Oriental Frieze Groningen and the Dutchy of Geldres were full of French Troops on a sudden Orsoy Vesel Burick and Rhineburgh that had been so strongly Garrisoned that the Dutch thought them to be the Bulwarks of their Land were surrendered at the first appearance of the Kings Standard Reez Emmerick and Groll were delivered to the Bishop of Munster who had taken up Arms to vindicate the French quarrel The next attempt was the Passage over the Rhine which was first undertaken by the Count de Guiche at the Head of Two thousand Horse he swom over it although three Squadrons of Horse and some few Foot were ready to receive him on the other side When the French had recovered the Bank they charged so desperately that the Enemy was disordered and fled to their Foot for succor They had Barricadoed themselves in but when the Prince and the Dukes of Orleans and Longueville were got on the other side with their Infantry they resolved to assault them in their Trenches The Prince desired to march in order against them but some of his Men were so furious that nothing could keep them in The Duke of Longueville in a rage went so near them with the Prince that the Duke was killed and the Prince wounded in the left arm with many more laid upon the ground When they saw the whole Army surround them they desired quarter which was granted by the Prince by that means they yielded and were all taken prisoners It is not good to render an Enemy desperate a small company in a danger have won the victory therefore the Prince freely offered them their lives This Action amazed the Hollander and astonished the Prince of Orange who expected the Kings Army another way Harnen was taken by Monsieur de Turenne Nimeguen and Schenk also Doesbourgh and Zutphen were surrende●ed into his Majesties hands and the City of Vtrecht sent Deputies to yield it up Monsieur de Luxemburgh was sent thither to take in all the places about Vtrecht After this Turenne recovered Crevecoeur Coërden Grave and Bomel so that almost all the Inland Countrey thereabouts submitted to the French The Hollanders were then so much troubled that they offered Conditions of Peace to the King but he hoped to gain all the rest of their Countrey Therefore they were rejected as unreasonable The King after all these Successes left the Army the Six and twentieth of July and arrived at Paris the first of August where he was congratulated and welcomed by all the Societies of his Kingdom The Queen was so much overjoyed that she commanded a Chappel to be built at Roan and dedicated it to Our Lady of Victories for as amongst the Heathens they did give to Pallas the Goddess of War several attributes and names betokening the many good

our Religion had been heretofore professed in this place From hence they travelled to the first City 〈◊〉 the Mogols Kingdom named H●donda and from thence to Battani a City upon the River Gange● and then to Benares the Academy of the Brachmans afterwards the● went to Agra the Royal Palla● of the Mogol Father Albertus d'O●ville sick and weary of his trave●ling died within a few days after 〈◊〉 arrival in this middle way betwee● China and Europe FINIS THE Most Remarkable PASSAGES OF The Life and Reign OF LEWIS XIV The Present KING IN FRANCE LONDON Printed for Samuel Lownds over against Exeter-House in the Strand 1675. The most noted Passages of the Raign of the French King THe French and Spanish Monarchies seldom live long in Peace Either the Interest of the Kingdoms or the jealousies of State or the humors of the People or the natural aversions and animosities which they have received by inheritance from their Forefathers do frequently kindle the flames of War Their Neighborhood and continual Conversation furnishes them with many occasions of distastes and disputes for both the Spaniard and the French have no compliance nor respect for one another They are naturally proud and high-minded they pretend both to the Universal Monarchy and think all the World must bow and creep to their greatness I intend not to examine in this short Tract the causes of their frequent Ruptures and Wars I shall confine my discourse within the Borders of the French Dominions where we must visit the King and Court and see what hath hapned worthy of our observation upon that famous Theater of Europe I design not so much to satisfie the Readers curiosity as to furnish him with that knowledge which he may improve to his advantage for in every capacity true and impartial History tends to our right information and direction God by his providence teacheth men as well as by his Word It concerns us not to neglect the means that he affords for our instruction And there is nothing more required in men that pretend to learning and perfection then to be acquainted with the late and present Affairs as well as with those that we have received from our Forefathers Relations It is very observable that the French and Spaniards seldom conclude Peace without a Marriage The old Fable of Mars's Adultery or Conjunction with Venus is a practice so ordinary amongst them that it needs no proof In the year One thousand six hundred and fifteen the Polititians of both Kingdoms were resolved to conclude their disputes and reunite their interests in a Marriage between Lewis the Thirteenth sirnamed The Just and Anne of Austria Infanta of Spain Both Kingdoms expected from these two hopeful Princes a numerous posterity but to the great disappointment of their Subjects and of all Europe they lived together three and twenty years without Children Success follows not always our best endeavors At last in the Moneth of September One thousand six hundred thirty and eight the Queen was brought to Bed of a brave lusty Boy who was saluted and welcomed into the World by the Parliament of Paris with the name of Dieu-donnè Given of God For they were verily perswaded that his Birth and Conception had been miraculous in regard of the indisposition of his Father To strengthen this perswasion the more by Cardinal Mazarines contrivance then the Factotum of France the King the Queen and the whole Court had been in Procession with much devotion bare-footed to the Chappel of the Virgin Mary near Paris to desire from her a Son and Heir to the Crown o● France Therefore the French look upon this Prince as the effect and return of their Prayers then solemnly offered up to the Blessed Virgin for within a year after the King and Queen were blessed with this hopeful Child to the greater joy of France then of some of the Blood Royal who had promised to themselves the Kingdom in case Lewis the Thirteenth did die without issue Their discontents remained long concealed in private and were not suffered to break out into a Publick War by the good order that the Cardinal gave to the Affairs of the Kingdom and by their respect for the King then alive But afterwards when they saw Lewis in his Grave the People dissatisfied and the Grandees discontented with the Italian Government they proclaimed their displeasures at the Head of an Army with the loud noise of Drums Trumpets and Cannon as we shall see by and by As soon as the Dolphin was inaugurated into his Principality and initiated into Christian Religion they gave him his Attendants and Officers according to his quality and Birth the two cheif were his Governess a Lady of a noble spirit and Hardouin de Perefixe afterwards Bishop of Rhodes and since removed to the Archbishoprick of Paris was his Governor and Tutor He is a great Polititian Wise and Learned very affable and courteous Whiles he lay in his Cradle we can find nothing worthy of our notice but as soon as he stept out of it to walk alone Providence waited upon him to put into his hands a Scepter before he could manage it For at four years of age and a few Moneths his Father Lewis sirnamed The Just departed this life having published before his Declaration dated April 21. 1643. By which the Queen was appointed Regent and Governess of the whole Kingdom the Duke of Orleans was her Lieutenant and cheif of the Council The Prince of Condé deceased the Cardinal Mazarine Monsieur Seguier Chancellor of France Monsieur Bouthillier and Monsieur Chavigny were to be of this Privy Council but the conduct of the Army then on foot was left to the Duke of Enguien who is now Prince of Condé This Declaration settled the Affairs of the Kingdom and prevented the mischeif which might have hapned in case the election of these great Officers of State had been left to the choice of such as might have designed to imbroil the Kingdom for their own private ends About a Moneth after on the fourteenth day of May 1643. the King died At that time the Spaniard was attempting to inlarge his Dominions in the Low Countreys by a War with France Don Francisco de Melo was Viceroy there at the Head of an Army before Rocroy a French Garrison which he besieged in vain For the Duke of Enguien a young General of twenty two years of age came seasonably to its relief forced the Spaniards to a retreat and obtained of them a notable victory on the nineteenth of May. All their Artillery was taken with about threescore Colours all their Bag and Baggage and six thousand prisoners The Colours were sent to Paris to be presented to the new King six days after his promotion to the Throne The Viceroy behaved himself like a great Commander he incouraged his men by his words promises and example where he perceived the greatest danger there did he hazard his person and his life but when he saw the day

his entry into it the second day of December There had been a Treaty between the old Duke of Lorraine and this young King by which the Duke made over to him all his Right Title and Interest in the Dutchy of Lorraine for some Lands in lieu of it and for the priviledge of being declared Heir to the Crown of France in case the Family of Bourbon did fail This Agreement had been made the sixth of February 1662. and confirmed in the Parliament of Paris in the Moneth of March So that the French seised upon all the Cities and Countrey of Lorraine only the strong Town of Marsal remained in the Dukes hands who seemed unwilling to deliver it Besides the young Prince Charles of Lorraine was supposed to have won the Soldiers there in Garrison therefore they would not surrender it upon Summons This affair caused the King to travel into that Countrey with a sufficient Army to reduce it to his obedience commanding that Marsal should be besieged without delay His sudden motion surprised the Duke and found him unprovided therefore he went to meet his Majesty at Metz in Lorraine to submit himself unto him The King received him very generously and made him welcome Marsal according to Agreement was put into the French hands on the third of September 1663. A little before the French Ambassador Monsieur de Crequi had been affronted and in danger of his person in the City of Rome Some of the Popes Guards shot into his Coach and wounded his servants When the Court of France heard of it the King commanded the Popes Nuncio then at Paris to depart out of the Kingdom and sent for his Generals ordering them to prepare for a War Alexander the Seventh did then sit in S. Peters supposed Chair He sent immediately upon the news of the coming of the French Army an Express to assure his Majesty that he was much dissatisfied with the deed and that he would give him all the satisfaction that he should desire The City of Pisa was pitched upon to examine and discourse of this affair where the Popes and the French Deputies concluded it the Twelfth of March 1664. to the great joy of the Roman Catholicks The Pope yielded to his own dishonor that his Nephew Flavio Chigi should wait upon the King and beg his pardon that a Monument should be erected in the very place for posterity to gaze upon with an Inscription declaring the cause of its standing there This was performed accordingly but the zeal of the French for their King and their concernment for his honor is very remarkable in this occasion The Parliament of Aix hearing of the affront given to the French Ambassador and the Kings resolution to revenge it made some levies of Men of their own accord and marched to Avignon where they drive out the Garrison they surprised Carpentras and all the Popes Territories near them This action gave the King and Court great satisfaction and facilitated an Agreement between him and the Pope for the French are not so wedded to their Superstitions as to be so much afraid of the Popes thunderbolts as in former ages It would become the wisdom of the Politicians of this Nation to shake off the Popes burdensome Fetters and establish a Patriarch of their own There wants nothing else to make their King an absolute Monarch Some of the Jansenists have attempted to perswade their Clergy to it I hope God will one day open their eyes to perceive their slavery to S. Peters counterfeit Keys and to oblige them to use that liberty unto which Providence invites them At the same time that the Cardinal was in France the Emperor desired the Kings Succors to help him against the Turks who had invaded his Dominions This motion pleased the French humor for they would be thought to be the Champions of Christianity against the Infidels The King ordered as some say about Ten thousand Men to march under the command of Monsieur de Coligny and Monsieur de la Fueillade who is now Duke of Roannez This Army joyned with the Imperialists about the Moneth of June 1665. they found out the Turks Army and encountered with them twice It is certain the French behaved themselves very gallantly in this expedition so that the Enemies were worsted and in their retreat over the River of Raab they lost about Five thousand Men that were slain Sixteen pieces of Cannon and about One hundred and fifty Colours were taken with much of their Baggage The rest of their Army fled not being able to withstand the Christians valor The Queen-Mother of France fell dangerously sick and died the Twentieth of January in that omnious year One thousand six hundred sixty six She was much lamented in France and Spain for she was an excellent Princess At this time there was War between the Crown of England and the States of Holland Their Fleets had had a brush at Sea where the brave Duke of York adventured in person against their Squadrons more in number then ours Opdam their Admiral was blown up and after a sharp fight they fled to their own Coast to carry thither the sad news of their defeat and of the loss of many Ships taken by the English When the French saw that the Hollander was likely to be worsted he pretended an obligation to defend them therefore he declared War against us not so much with an intention to assist the Hollander by Sea as to stand by with his Fleet and judge of the blows However the countenance of such a Prince dreadful to all the World because it was not known yet what mischeif he could do helped them very much The French made no attempts upon us at home unless it be upon our industrious Merchants who lost some Goods and Ships at Sea But in the West Indies their treachery and cruelty were remarkable in the Iland of S. Christophers where the English and French Plantations had lived in Peace and Amity several years they supposed our English would endeavor to drive them away after this breach between the two Nations To prevent therefore that which the others had no design to execute they fell upon them unawares and massacred their Neighbors to their eternal shame plundering all their Goods and rifling their habitations They seised next the Islands of Antego Tabago and S. Eustache Our Men resolved to revenge these outrages upon those of Guadeloupe but the Fleet that set forth for that intent was dispersed by a terrible Hurricane and some of our Ships were broken and shipwracked amongst the American Islands to the great disappointment of the English This War between England and France continued till the year 1668. the Peace was concluded at Breda for the French had no quarrel with the English but only as was pretended in defence of Holland The truth is the King did not care to have two Enemies upon his back at once he was resolved to take into his possession some Towns in Flanders