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A32279	His Majesties gracious speech, together with the lord keepers, to both Houses of Parliament, January 7. 1673/4	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1674 (1674)	Wing C3076; ESTC R35935	8,174	13

himself and that King and His own care to preserve them Who knows the usefulness of His Allience to that King and the many good Offices he hath alwaies been ready to do for him and withal considers the great Wisdom and Prudence of that Councel and how carefully they use to Deliberate before they come to Great and important Resolutions will not Easily believe it possible for that King to proceed to such Extremities The rather because the Dutch themselves have since Departed from those very Proposals which they procur'd the Spanish Ambassadour so earnestly to recommend For they afterward sent the Ambassadour a Reply to His Majesties Answer to their Letter wherein they abate much of what the Ambassadour had offer'd and seek to reduce things to the State they were in at Breda So that 't is hard to know by what kind of Proposals they intend to be bound But 't is most Reasonable to believe they intend those made by themselves rather then those made for them And yet this Reply besides the disrespect it Carry'd to Spain whose Proposals it shrunk from was so offensive to His Majesty that the Ambassadour like a wise and great Minister that is like himself thought it became him to send it back again without offering to present it Nevertheless this Paper hath since stollen into the Press and is Printed at the Hague as a Letter delivered and hath been sent hither under Covers to several members of the House of Commons of that House of Commons whom they Libell'd in the former War for their Zeal and now Pretend to Reverence for their Deliberation And all this in hopes you will not think them obstinate who refuse to Treat at the Place of their Own Appointment or to be well understood any were else How is it possible to understand these Proceedings to be Real and with a true desire of Peace And if they should yet send during this Session any New Proposal for who Knows the Designs of an Enemy what form soever those Overtures may be drest in we may justly suspect that their End is if they cannot Divide us at least to Amuse us and lessen our Care is Providing for the War Perhaps 't is more then an Honourable War doth allow to go about to raise Sedition though in the Country of an Enemy But surely the Artifice of Appealing in a Manner to the people and making them the Judges of Peace and War is a little too plain and open to take any Effect here I have done with these few Instances of His Majesties care those of His kindness are infinite That which you have heard this morning is of a Transcendent and indeed a very surprizing Nature 'T is an Act of so Entire a Confidence on His Majesties part that it can never be repayed by any other Tribute on your part but that of a True and Humble Assiance in Him I must now proceed to put you in mind That There are some other things which His Majesty with Great Justice and Great assurance doth Expect from you again The first is a speedy and a Proportionable Supply and this is of absolute necessity both for War and Peace Hs Majesty is well assur'd His Fleet is in such a forwardness that if the Supply come in any reasonable Time you will find no Time hath been lost in preparation And it was no small matter to bring it to pass that we may be as forward as our Enemies that if we please or very neer it If the Supply be at all Delay'd it will have as ill effect almost as if it were denied For We may chance to be found like Archimedes drawing Lines in the Dust while the Enemy is entring into our Ports And if the further Progess of this Fleet be stopt for want your Concurrence make Account all hopes of Peace are stopt too For though the Fruit of War be Peace Yet it s such a Fruit as we must not Hope to gather without our Arms in our Hands T is not the way to have a brave Peace to shew our selves weary of the War who ever Trusted to the good Nature of their Enemies T is a vigorous assistance of the Crown that must make not only your Arms considerable but your Treaties too One the other side if the putting your selves in a good Posture of War should produce a Peace as possibly it may do Yet you will have the best Account of your Supply your Hearts can Will For His Majesty is content it be appropriated to the building of more Ships Therefore if the Discourse upon this Subject be a little more Pressing then Ordinary you may be sure the Occasion is so too There cannot be a Higher Gratification of your Enemies then to be backward in this Point The very Opinion they have that you would be so hath already done us so much harm that perhaps it is one great Cause of the Continuance of the War Had the Enemy despair'd of any Division here 't is likely his Proceedings had been more Sincere and our Peace had not been so far off as now it seems to be There is one thing more the King hath mention'd and only mention'd to you that is the Consideration of the Goldsmiths which involves so many Persons and Families that the Concern is little les then National 'T is an affair the King lays very much to Heart and hopes a Proper time will come when a favourable Regard may be had of it My Lords and Gentlemen The King doth not onely assure himself of your Affections to him at this time But from such Affections so Known and so Tri●d as yours he doth yet Expect far greater things then these He doth Expect that you should do your Endeavours to restore and improve the mutual confidence between him and his People and that you should do it to such a Degree that it may recover its full strength and quite Extinguish all their Fears and Jealousies For the King takes Notice that the malice of his Enemies hath been very Active in Sowing so many Tares as are almost enough to Spoyl that Harvest of Love and Duty which His Majesty may justly Expect to reap from the good seed which He Himself had Sown Among the many Venemous Insinuations which have been made use of the Fears and Jealousies of Religion and Liberty are of the worst sort and the most Dangerous Impressions Cetainly Malice was never more busie then it hath been in these Reports and it hath been assisted by a great Deal of Invention But 't is to be hoped that no Mans Judgement or affections will be either missed or Disturbed by such Reports For Calumnies and Slanders of this Nature are like Comets in the Air they may seem perhaps Especially to the fearfull to be ill Prognosticasts and the Direct forerunners of mischief But in themselves they are Vain Apparitions and have no kind of Solidity no Permanence or Duration at all For after a little while the Vapour spends it self and then the Base Exhalation quickly falls back again into that Earth from whence it came Religion and Liberty stand secur'd by the most Sacred Tyes that are Nay the King hath a greater Interest in the preservation of both then you your selves For as Religion the Protestant Religion commends your indispensable obedience so 't is a Just and Lawful Liberty which swettens that command and endears it to you Let other Princes therefore Glory in the most resign'd obedience of their Vassals His Majesty values Himself upon the Hearts and affections of His people and thinks His Throne within Seated there better Established then the most Exalted Soveraignty of those who tread upon the Necks of them that rise up against them Since the world stood never any King had so great a Cause to rest upon this Security They were your Hearts that mourned in Secret for the absence of the King They were your Hearts and affections to the King which Tyr'd out all the late Usurpations by your invincible Patitience and fortitude It was you that Taught our English World to See and Know that no Government could be setled here but upon the true foundations of Honour and Allegeance This This alone made way for all the happy Changes which have follow'd And yet Posterity will have cause to doubt which was the greater Felicity of the two That Providence which restor'd the Crown or that which sent us such a Parliament to preserve it when it was restor'd What may not the King now hope from you What may not you assure your selves from him Can any thing be difficult to Hearts so united To Interests so Twisted and interwoven together as the Kings and yours are Doubtless the King will surpass himself at this time in Endeavouring to procure the good of the Kingdom Do but you Excell your selves too in the continued Evidences of your affections and then the Glory of Reviving this State will be entirely due to this Session Then they who Wait for the Languishing and Declination of the present Government will be Amaz'd to see so happy a Crisis so blest a Revolution And Ages to come will find cause to Celebrate your Memories as the truest Physicians the wisest Counsellors the Noblest Patriots and best Session of the best Parliament that ever King or Kingdom met with FINIS

any further security If any thing have escaped His Majesties care who meditates nothing more then your Preservation you see you have free Leave to make any Reasonable Proposition and His Gracious Promise that he will receive it This is a Satisfaction Equal to all your wishes Now if ever your Joyes are full There wants no more to the improvement of this happiness but the wisdom of the Parliament to use these Advantages with a due moderation If therefore upon Enquiry you shall think it needfull to apply any other Remedies It is extreamly to be wisht that those Remedies may be few And withall that they may be Gentle and Easy too For they that are sick perish as often by too many Remedies as by none at all But none fall so fatally and so finally as they who being enter'd into some Degrees of Convalescence Resolve to recover in an Instant and had rather make some great Effort or try some bold Experiment upon themselves then observe the methods or attend those Gradual progressions which are necessary to perfect that Health and compleat that Recovery I must not omit one instance more of His Majesties Care for you and that it is the great Industry and Application of mind which His Majesty hath us'd all along in hopes to have obtain'd by this time if it had been possible an Honourable and a Just Peace A very few words will serve to give you the whole Deduction of it from the first original to this present moment Much time was spent in agreeing the Place of Treaty wherein the Dutch were gratifi'd in their desires and the City of Cologne is accepted for the Place When His Majesties Ambassadours arriv'd there the very first meeting with those from the States General made it Evident that their Plenipotentiaries came not with any Intention to Enter upon a Serious Treaty But only to draw the matter out into Length untill their affairs might meet with a better and more pleasing Conjecture For their very Credentialls or Plenipotencies were so penn'd That there were no less then four gross Equivocations in the body of them which was so manifest and without all reply that they were fain to send to their Masters at the Hague to get them Amended But that which gave greatest offence of all and was purposely done for that end was the Preamble wherein they take upon them to begg the Question to Decide the Justice of the Cause and to affirm such matters of Fact as they had reason to believe would never be admitted No Arguments of Our Ambassadours No instances of the Mediators though never so importunate could prevail then or yet can prevail to have it altered The Treaty should Naturally have stopt here But that His Majesty was resolved to Give a beginning to it and which was all that could be done suffered His Ambassadors to enter upon it with a Protestaion Our Demands are no sooner given in But presently two of the Dutch Ambassadours go away to the Hague on pretence to consult their Masters where they staid a full Moneth without any kind of Answer given or Exceptions taken to His Majesties Demands or any the Least Stepp made in this Negotiation When they came back their Answer was a Remonstrance rather then an Answer and such a Remonstrance as was fitter for a Rupture then a Treaty There was scarce one Period in it which did not rather give Occasion of new offence then any Satisfaction for what was past Their very Conversation from that time forward wanted much of its former Civility They waited for the Conclusion of a Treaty with Spain wherein one Article was that as soon as Spain had broke with France they would presently break off the Treaty at Cologne And now this Article is in effect performed For two of their Principal Ambassadours are actually gone away from Cologne as they long threatned they would do leaving only two other for Forms sake who in all probability either must not or will not Conclude without their Colleagues His Majesty notwithstanding hath not suffer'd himself to be Diverted from using all the ways and means that were possible to Facilitate a Peace To this End he directed His Ambassadors from time to time to Moderate their demands in such Particulars as were capable of it And wholly relaxes some Points which were of highest importance to the Dutch to gain and very Considerable Abatements of His Majesties just Satisfaction A Condescention well receiv'd and Esteem'd by the Mediators though it have not yet found any suitable Reception from the Duch Ministers or their Superior Lords By this time they began to hope that the Subjects of England would grow weary of the War and that they should be able to profit themselves very much by our Impatience To Encrease this as much as was possible they prepare a Letter which they send by a Trumpeter sitting the Parliament or very neer it and Cause it to be given out that nothing could be more desired then they had offer'd His Majesty quickly made that Letter and His Answer to it publick and for that time defeated the Design of this Paper Stratagem Their next Recourse was to such Proposals as they could procure the Spanish Ambassadours to deliver on their behalfs Wherein besides the Demands of Restitution of Prizes which was wholly impracticable There was a Total Omission of any Regulation of Trade in the Indies No mention made of Releasing His Majesties Subjects at Suriuam whete they remain in a State of Bondage No recompence offer'd nor so much as Leave asked for the Libety of Fishing upon Our Coasts And yet the Right of our Sole Fishing is so cleer That we find in our Ancient Rolls of Parliament in time of Richard the Second a Tax laid upon all strangers who Fish in our Seas and this not by way of Custom when they come into our Ports but by way of Tribute for Fishing in Our Seas And this Evidence of His Majesties Dominion within his own Seas hath been in all Ages downward preserved in some measure until the Time of the late Usurper who for private reasons first abandon'd it As for that Satisfaction in the matter of the Flagg which the Proposals mention it is but reasonable to understand it in that sense wherein they sometimes used to express themseleves at Cologne That is the thing shall be done whole Fleets shall strike their Sayls to Single Ships and they shall do it out of His Majesties Seas too But that of Right they ought so to do will never be acknowledg'd So they desire to change the Ancient inheritance of the Crown into a New purchase and to Turn that Purchase into a Matter of Civility which they may Equally pay to all crown'd Heads and Equally resume according to their good pleasure and Occasions Now though these Proposals have been backt with some kind of Intimation of a War with Spain in case of a Refusal Yet His Majesty who Knows the Articles of Peace between