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A47431 Animadversions on a pretended Account of Danmark King, William, 1663-1712. 1694 (1694) Wing K522; Wing K543A; ESTC R2390 79,308 234

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Sumptuousness and Magnificence as that wherewith her Burial was accompanied Fifthly Whatever he ominates concerning the Swedes avoiding a further Matrimonial Tye with Danmark p. 193. Yet it is true that the general report of the World is concerning a double Marriage between the Prince Royal of Danmark and the Princess of Sweden as also between the Prince Royal of Sweden and the Princess of Danmark If so where is this Gentlemans assurance of the impossibility of a further Matrimonial Tye or the certainty of the Prince of Holstein's being contracted to the Princess of Sweden whom he falsly cal's p. 193. the only Daughter of the King of Sweden this King having two Princesses living by the lately deceased Queen Sixthly As the Author is pretty near in guessing that the King of Danmark would not sit down with the Duke of Zell's thrusting himself into the Dutchy of Saxe Lawenburg so he is out of the way when he says that the King of Sweden would uphold the Lunenburg Family though secretly For the Swede was one of the chief Mediators that made the Duke of Zell demolish Ra●eburg last year and give the King of Danmark the satisfaction which he desired Seventhly When he says that the Duke of Holstein has by the Sister of the King of Danmark issue a very hopeful Prince one should think he has no more issue than this only Son whereas the Duke of Holstein has several Children of both Sexes CHAP. XIII The Manner of Dispossessing and Restoring the Duke of Holstein Gottorp ANY one who reads this and the foregoing Chapter will see the Authors partiality for the Duke of Holstein He seems to have undertaken his Cause and to display it in all its best Colours and Brightness It were an easy thing in answer to all this to transcribe the King of Danmark's Manifesto upon this occasion which those who are curious may consult if they please it having been spread about all Germany But I shall avoid meddling with any Justification of the King of Danmark upon this Account The reason is because there is at present an intire Reconciliation between the King and his Brother-in law the Duke and last year they met together with great Friendship in Holstein Now Reconciliation clears up a thousand things which Distru●● Jealousy or Misunderstanding may have cast before one What here●ofore may have seem'd unkind or unjust then will appear to have been necessary but especially upon th● renewing of Friendship there should be no Justification of former Proceedings made by either Party for such Justification shows as if the breach were not thoroughly repair'd and will give a handle for future disputes and difficulties Since no reconcilement will be perfect but such as carries along with it an entire oblivion of past differences and all their circumstances CHAP. XIV The Interests of Danmark in Relation to other Princes I Shall be very short in relation to this Chapter because it is of the same nature with the former What he says of Danmark that it resembles a Monster that is all Head and no Body all Soldiers and no Subjects p. 224. has been sufficiently confuted However if I were to have a Monster I would rather have one that is all Head and no Body than such a one as he would make which is all Body and no Head Neither am I of opinion that Danmark bears no greater proportion to France than the little Republick of St. Marino does to Venice and that Danmark is the least and poorest Kingdom in Europe p. 225. for as to its poverty I have given him an account and as to the Littleness of this Kingdom I must a second time make bold with the first words of his Book against him That if we consider the Extent of the King of Danmark's Dominions he may with Justice be reckon'd among the greatest Princes in Europe CHAP. XIV Of the Laws Courts of Justice c. THE Danes are sprung from the Goths who have always been a most warlike Nation they have left no Northern People free from their Incursions at least if not their Conquests and extended them from Island to the warmer Climates of Spain and Italy and the burning Shores of Africa Krantzius in Dani● Lib. 1. c. Meursius Hist. Dan. Lib. 2 3. Isaac Pontanus Rer. Dan. And have the honour never to have submitted to the Roman Empire nor to have any just pretences made from thence of Superiority or Dominion over them Their Historians affirm that they have had a continued Succession of Princes from a thousand and forty Years before Christ who have continually governed them They have always been ruled by their own Laws without foreign impositions These Laws and Customs were so agreeable to the Northern People that Roger Hoveden in his Annals of Hen. 2d of England says that when William the Conqueror was to give Laws to the English he made the greatest use of the Danish Laws to that purpose from the Love he bore to the Danes from whom the Normans took their Original Under the forementioned Laws and Customs the Danes lived which they might possibly explain or improve by the Civil or Roman Law that Pontanus Lib 6. says they made use of and which the Governors of their Monasteries understood and studied having learnt them in the Universities of France and Italy Georg. Lorich in addit ad cons. poster n. 92. Helmold Lib. 3. Chron. Slavorum c. 5. King Waldemar in the Year of Christ one thousand two hundred thirty two collected the Statutes of his Predecessors wh●ch with the ancient Customs of the Danes and Cimbers he reduc'd into writing and adding several others together with the Consent of the States he made an entire Body of the Danish Law Pontanus Lib 6. Duck de Authoritate juris civilis Yet this was but for one Province for formerly each Province Jutland Sealand c. had their own particular Laws differing from one another And indeed since his present Majesties Collection and Reformation of the Laws the Danish and Norsh Law is still distinguished so that there is just such another Volume comprehending the Norsh Law as that of the Danish but there is no difference except in such things where the nature and situation of Norway require another Regulation than Danmark In Norway likewise is another high Court of Justice where the Viceroy is resident to which all Causes may come by Appeal But if the Parties be not contented with the Decision of that Court they have a further Appeal to the highest Court in Copenhagen Holstein is ruled by the Imperial Law as a Fier of the Empire and there is at Copenhagen two Chanceries the Danish for Danmark and Norway the German for Holstein and the other German Provinces belonging to the King of Danmark He has said nothing of the Ecclesiastical Courts in Danmark which are in every Diocess where the Bishop is Resident and several of the chief of the Clergy are his Assistants and the Governor of the Province always
is better pleased with another Scituation As for several of the King of Danmark's Palaces they are old uncouth Buildings used by former Kings disused now and therefore not kept in so good order as Fredericksborg Jagersborg and others where the King passes some part of the Year The Author it seems has met with another understanding Person p. 119. who has informed him in several things as first that it is very difficult to make any rational computation of the running Cash of these Kingdoms ib. or indeed of any Kingdom besides these and so his Labour might have been superseded certainly it is but very l●ttle and not near the hundredth part of that of England ib. When he is able to give a Rational Computation of the Running Cash of England then it will be time enough to guess what proportion that of Danmark may bear to it but till I find that understanding Persons agree in the computation of that of my own Country I shall despair of finding them exact as to that of another If they have no Cash by them and are indebted over head and ears to their Creditors at Amsterdam and Hamborough ib. how comes it to pass that the Danish Merchants have so good Credit in both those Cities and how come they to have it in London But the Officers of the Army transport their Money to other Countries This may be true in some very few instances but for the most part these Officers are Danes or married and settled in Danmark as has before been intimated That few or none of the Ministers of State purchase any Lands p. 118. is as true as other of his Remarks for there is no publick Minister be he Dane or not that has not one two or more Seats with Lands appertaining to them in the Country That these Kingdoms consume more of Foreign Commodities than their own Product can countervail ib. cannot certainly be said of Norway nor of several Provinces of Danmark as Jutland Laaland c. and any person who has the least knowledge of their Traffick will easily confute this Aslertion As for the running of Brass Money amongst the common People it is as Farthings amongst us Their Silver Coin is very good in respect of several other Nations although not equal to Sterling but whether the goodness of Coin be a way to preserve Running Cash in a Kingdom may perhaps hereafter come to be considered by the English Under these circumstances I cannot think this understanding Person a competent Judge of the Running Cash of Danmark any more than I take the Author to be of the King of Danmark's Revenue though he is so very particular as to make it Two Millions two hundred twenty two thousand Rixdollars p. 122. and I am the more confirmed in this opinion because the Taxes not being every year the same the Revenue received by several Officers and no account given but to the King himself the calculation of the Revenue can hardly be made by those who are most employed in these Affairs at the Court much less by a Foreigner To conclude with Norway the Revenue of the Southern part amounts to between five and six hundred thousand Rixdollars and of the Northern to between two and three hundred thousand and so the Total may be communibus annis 800000 Rixdollars so says the Author p. 117. But when he comes to sum up the whole Revenue p. 121● there all the Revenue of Norway● comes but to 700000 Rixdollars Were their Losses in Danmark to be so great the Natives p. 120. might well think that it was impossible for the Taxes to continue and wish for an Invader since they have little or no property to lose For you were pleased Sir to drop four thousand Rixdollars in the Customs of the Sound and here you defalk a hundred thousand Rixdollars more Might I advise whatever Foreigners may be preferr'd in the Danish Court you should never come into the Treasury if you can make up your Accounts no better CHAP. X. Of the Army Fleet and Fortresses THE Author begins this Chapter with bewailing the Misery of Danmark that the Revenue is expended upon a standing Army and upon the maintaining of a Fleet and Fortresses And if Danmark had not sufficient reasons for the maintenance of all these they would have just cause to complain But it seems it is the King of France that Great Master of the Art of Reigning that has instructed the Court of Danmark p. 123. and the King is his Pupil p. 124. and in pursuance to such a character he has taught him the pernicious secret of making one part of the People both the Bridle and Scourge to the other This is not so great a secret but that it has been known and practised in all Ages and Countries that when one part of a Nation is factious and mutinous the more honest and sober part should bridle them and if part of a Nation rebel the other that is for quietness should endeavour to scourge and correct them But God be thanked Danmark has no occasion for an Army upon these accounts nor necessity of going to France for such a Ma●im In the next place France has taught him to raise more Men than his Country can maintain p. 124. Very well And then his own Prudence teaches him to disband such as he thinks unnecessary or burthensome to him as he has done several times But the great thing that he has taught him is that Souldiers are the only true Riches p. 125 126 127. The thing that the Author would here reflect upon is that the German Princes often receive Money before they will send their Troops into a Foreign Service and hence he would infer that at present Souldiers are grown as saleable Ware as Sheep and Oxen p. 125. What a strange Country this must be where the Souldiers are Sheep and Oxen and the Peasants Timber Trees p. 86. But the King of Danmark esteems his Souldiers to be his Wealth only as he can make them serviceable to his Allies or as they preserve his Subjects from any foreign attempts and so are the causes of Quiet and consequently of true Riches Yet whatever the matter is it happens p. 127. that the Pupil improves but ill upon the example which the French King has set him The Toad may emulate the Ox and swell but he shall sooner burst than equal him p. 127. Truly a very decent similitude for a couple of Crown'd Heads I find the Author mightily taken with these kind of Animals for p. 232. speaking with reference to and commendation of the Laws of Danmark p. 232. he says there is no Plant or Insect how venemous or mean soever but is good for something upon which a Friend of mine observed that there may be a creature in the world that has as much Venom and Malice as any Vermin and yet be good for nothing It were to be wisht that there could be a Remedy found for keeping up so great a number of