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cause_n	england_n	france_n	king_n	3,694	5	4.2233	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53018	A New-years gift to impostors: or, The manifest of William the Third King of England, Scotland, and Ireland delivered and dispersed at the French Court, &c. as an overture to the General Peace, proposed about the later end of the year 1693. and concluded in 1697. Faithfully done out of the original into English, and now published by a true friend to truth and justice, and consequently to his King and country.		1697 (1697)	Wing N818; ESTC R221381	7,733	4

A New-Years Gift to IMPOSTORS OR The Manifest of William the Third King of England Scotland and Ireland delivered and dispersed at the French Court c. as an Overture to the General Peace proposed about the later end of the Year 1693. and concluded in 1697. Faithfully done out of the Original into English and now published by a true Friend to Truth and Justice and consequently to his King and Country THey who in expectation of a Peace seriously consider the Situation of the Affairs of Europe and who without Passion enquire into the chief Cause of the Revolutions which disturb it have not hitherto thrown it upon me nor imputed the Misfortunes of it to my Elevation to the Throne of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland None but the King of France and his Partizans labour at this time to do it none but they call me Tyrant and Usurper and troubled at the Fidelity of my Subjects obstinately persist in continuing a War which they undertook ●…t out of Despair and which is of my Honour and Glory to make an end of They lay to my Ambition all the Disorders of Europe and make me the Author of the Rebellion of the English they reproach me with having excited the famous League of Ausbourg and to ●ave driven from his Throne in order to mount ●t my self an Illustrious and Magnanimous Prince whom the Ties of Blood obliged me to respect in fine they overload and blacken me with such a number of Impostures that I can't in my own Justification but give the Universe an account of my Conduct Which that I may do with Ease I need but represent in a few Words what happened in Europe before the War and hence infer in my Favour what right Reason will naturally admit by which alone it will appear ●hat far from having had the least share in ●aising the Troubles Europe is involved in I have on the contrary sought all Occasions to calm ●hem Every one will be convinced of the Sincerity of my Intentions and the Justice of my actions will gain over the Perfidies of my Ene●ies The Condition all the Kingdoms of Europe were in in the Year 1688. is well known They ●…r the most part enjoy'd profound Peace The ●mperor the King of Poland and the Venetians ●…ntinued with Success their Conquest over the ●…rks Hungary was retaken from the Infidels ●…d Belgrade which the Imperialists took with ●ord in Hand opened to their Conquest a ●…e Passage to the Head-City of the Turkish ●mpire The Misfortunes of the One and Prosperity of ●…e Other touched the King of France in a very ●…ferent manner He became sensible of the Dis●…nce of the Ottomans and jealous of the Emperor's Victories The Power and Policy of that Monarch forbidding their further encrease put him upon the design of lessening 'em by hidden and indirect ways His Honour wou'd not permit him to appear bare-fac'd in favour of the Infidels the Division he meditated was equally against his Reputation and Character of Most Christian But the Hereditary Hatred of the House of France to that of Austria carry'd it over the general Good of Christendom and over a Twenty years Truce newly concluded which promised to Germany a full Repose In view of an ensuing War and with design to prosecute it the Agents of France at the Court of Maximilian-Henry of Bavaria Elector of Cologn disposed that Prince to demand before his Death a Successor of his Chapter The Canons-Suffragans who composed it being for the most part gained by the Mony and fair Promises of France gave him Cardinal Fustemberg for Coadjutor The Forces of that Crown had at the same time in their Possession one of the best Places of the Electorate and after having furnished it with all sorts of Ammunition laid still till Heaven shoul'd dispose of the Elector After the death of this Prince which happen'd the 3d of June 1688. the King of France undertook to have Cardinal Fustemberg Recognized for his Lawful Successor but as the Postulation to the Coadjutorship was not accepted at the Court of Rome the Threatnings of the Pope and of the Emperor obliged the Canons to proceed a second time to the Election of a new Prince where the Count of Conis in the Emperor's Name proposed Prince Clement of Bavaria with the exclusion of Cardinal Fustemberg The Canons to the number of 25 meeting in their Assembly the 19th of July 1688. divided in their Choice 14 postulated the Cardinal 9 the Prince of Bavaria by virtue of his Brief of Eligibility by which the Pope supply'd the defect of his Age he being then but 17 years old In all appearance the Cardinal ought to have carry'd it but the Contest being sent to Rome the Pope decided in favour of the Prince of Bavaria tho' to take the thing right the Postulation of the Cardinal was Legal and Canonical This partial Stroke provoked the King of France beyond measure and unseasonably confounding his Politicks obliged him to declare himself openly and support with Honour his first Design and his first Intentions To this end he levied a powerful Army which he sent under the Command of the Dauphin his Son into Germany This Prince meeting no opposition took Philipsbourg Mayence Manheim Spire and Frankendal put all the Palatinate to Fire and Sword and destroyed that fine Country in so dreadful and terrible a manner that one may seek at this time for the four last mentioned Towns in the very Place wherein they stood 5 years ago The Reasons which that Monarch made use of to justify such barbarous Hostilities were not grounded upon the Quarrel about the Electorate of Cologn but on the late Elector Palatine's refusing to give the Dutchess of Orleance an accompt of the Estate fallen to her by the death of her Father This Elector seeing himself innocently the unfortunate Sacrifice of a powerful Monarch engaged the Council of Vienna and the Princes of Germany to revenge the ill Usages he met with all from the Crown of France They unanimously espoused the Quarrel at Ausbourg and the State of my Affairs required I should enter into the League with them the better to resist the first Efforts which I foresaw would be Levelled against me I was then in England whither the Troubles raised against King James by his Subjects called me to be a Mediator and Arbiter betwixt them and perhaps wou'd have accomplish'd it had that Prince and his Subjects reciprocally had more Deference for each other King James quietly succeeded King Charles the Second his Brother in his Dominions and the beginning of his Reign seemed to promise him a continued Tranquility The Death of the Duke of Monmouth and the most part of his Accomplices struck Terror into the most Desperate and were it not for the Design he formed to reunite to his own Religion that of the Subjects one may say he might have been still upon the Throne and that no Revolution could have interrupted the