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A48632	Englands appeal from the private cabal at White-hall to the great council of the nation, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. By a true lover of his country	True lover of his country.; Lisola, François Paul, baron de, 1613-1674, attributed name.; Trevor, John, Sir, 1626-1672, attributed name.; Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686, attributed name.	1673 (1673)	Wing L2372A; ESTC R216770	44,900	55

the greatest care of those that have advised the King to this League have been to keep from the view and from the knowledge of the World what Articles are agreed upon it is not to be expected we should instance in the particular Breaches of what we are all Strangers to For Example we cannot tell whether it was agreed the French Squadron should fight and so dare not assure they have broken their Treaty by not fighting But I suppose there are very few but have heard of the Wager laid by the Spanish Embassador in the beginning of the War and how far the French Conduct agreed with his Predictions I would not neither impeach any man upon general Reports and Rumors but however it is observable that the greatest number of the Dutch Commanders are of Opinion and have often publickly declared that the French Ships were thus kind-used by theirs out of particular respect De Witts Brother had to them If from the Sea we come ashore we 'l find as far at least as they came to our knowledge most of their promises deceitful all the Art imaginable used to ensnare his Majesty And lastly a perfect and reiterated Breach of tho essence of their Treaty whatever the words may be all those that have been never so little conversant at Court may remembred that one of the great Arguments used and suggested by the French to make the conquest of Holland appear both safe and easie was that his most Christian Majesty had assurances from all the great Princes in Europe they would no ways concern themselves in the Quarrel Spain would be glad to see their old Rebels Chastised The Emperour had his hands full and durst not stir if he would for fear of the Turks Brandenburg should demand his Towns and the Northern Crowns would either sit still or endeavour to have a share in the spoyl And then this was so readily embraced that even after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty betwixt Spain and the Vnited Provinces they would not own there was so much as any agreement And for a good while we flattered our selves that the Leagues with the Catholick King and other Princes were surmises of the Dutch to raise their Reputation and quiet the minds of their People But when this was past denying they came off with slighting Discourses of the Forces of the Dutch Allies and Monsieur de Turenne would cut them all to pieces if ever their Temerity did brings within his reach At the Rate the Alliance with France was discoursed of before the War broke out-standers by could not but think and I believe if Truth were enquired into it will be found his Majesty intended no more at first and was engaged no farther the French should be the Principal in this War and England joyn their Forces with them as Auxiliaries to have in case of need a safe and honourable Retreat in their Power But as soon as the French thought his Majestie could not well go back nor take new Counsels they openly declared it was none of their Quarrel and that they onely engaged in it to assist his Majesty out of respect to his person By which means his Majesty was perswaded and induced to declare War first and to expect afterwards the assistance of the French I suppose his Majesty will not thank them neither forgiving out in all Roman Catholick Princes Courts That this is a War of Religion undertaken meerly for the propegation of the Catholick Faith and as the French Minister at Vienna expressed it in a solemn Speech to the Emperors Counsel which hath been since Printed in French that the Hollanders being Heriticks who had forsaken their God all good Christians are bound to joyn and unite to extirpate them and to implore Gods blessing upon so good a work Nay to confirm this the more they have lately declared and assured many Princes that to let Europe see how far they are from any such design as have been laid to their Charge and to satisfie all the World they entred into this War out of a Religious Zeal and for the Glory of God they are ready to part with all their Conquests and return to the Hollanders all the Towns they have taken from them if they will but re-establish the true Worship they have banished from their Territories How far now this may be agreeable to his Majesties Interest or to the XXXIX Articles let any unprejudiced man judge But an undeniable proof of the uprightness of the French Court is their carriage in the Negotiations of Peace with the States In short the matter of Fact is thus The passage of the Erench Army over that Branch of the Rhyne called the Waal having caused a general consternation all over the Country and the confusion they were in being such that they could hardly resolve whether to yield or defend themselves The States on the 11th of June named several Deputies to be sent some to his Majesty and the rest to the French King to know of them both upon what terms they would be willing to agree and come to a Peace Those that came to his Majesty were met upon the way as far as Graves End to forbid them the Court and were conveyed to Hampton Court there to continue in an honourable confinement till we could hear from the most Christian King and know of him whether the said Deputies might be admitted his Majesty being unwilling to give the lest offence to the French And not thinking it either lawful or convenient without their participation so much as to hear what the Dutch Deputies Errand was But the other Deputies came no sooner to the French Court but two Secretaries of State were sent to them and without further delay desired to know first if they had full Power to Treat and in the next place what the States could propose in order to a speedy Peace The Deputies answered they were only sent to know his most Christian Majesties Pleasure and that their Masters had thought it a greater respect to him to receive his Proposals then to offer any Conditions themselves with this answer the French Ministers went to their Masters and came back immediately to the Deputies to let them know it was expected the States should make the Proposals and that the most Christian King could not enter upon any Treaty unless they had full Power Telling them withal to quicken them and to hasten the conclusion of the work that they were to consider That whatever his most Christian Majesty had Conquered was already his own and therefore he could no ways part with it unless they gave him an Equivalent as well for what he might Conquer farther before the Conclusion of the Treaty as for what he possessed at that time Wherupon Monsieur de Groot one of the Deputies being gone to the Hague he was sent back with all speed and Authorised in a very ample manner together with his Collegues to treat and conclude a Peace with

under the Cavil of Municipal Laws and Local Customs endeavouring to perswade the World that their Master was not bound to stand to what he had so solemnly promised and confirmed by sacred Oaths And the French King after the death of the late King of Spain claimed notwithstanding the said Renunciation a great part of the Spanish Low-Countries as being devolved to him in right of his Wife by the Municipal Lawes of those Countries And to back his unexpected Claime with more effectual meanes he Invaded the Country with a powerful Army This Invasion so contrary to his Engagements and so destructive to the very essence of the P●renean Treaty was attended with some circumstances no less surprising than the breach it self The one was what passed at Paris between the French King himself and the Marquiss De la Fuente Extrordinary Embassador from Spain And the other what the French Embassador the Arch Bishop of Ambrun declared at Madria in his Masters name As to the First The said Marquess De la Fuente being upon his Return into Spain after the Death of the late King his Master and being not without apprehension and jealousie the great preparation made in France were intended against the Queen his Mistress and the King her Son was very earnest with His Most Christian Majesty to give some new and greater Assurances to the Queen of Spain of the reality and sincerity of his intentions to quiet and settle her mind against all the contrary advices she received from all parts whereupon the most Christian King did with all possible Asseveration engage his Faith and his Royal Word to the said Queen that he would Religiously keep the Peace and continue a faithful friendship both to her and to her Son And the Arch Bishop of Anbrun after the French Army was already in the Field and had possessed Charleroy some four or five days before the News of it came to Madrid did in Verbi Sacerdotis and upon all that is most sacred amongst the Roman Catholicks protest and vow to the Q een that his Master intended nothing less than what was reported of him And would never break with the King of Spain or invade his Dominions as long as he was under Age. But the March of the French Army and the Hostilities they committed agreeing so little with their promises and the same being complained of They answered it was no Breach and that they only went to take possession of what belonged to them This War or as the French term it this friendly possessing themselves of the Spanish Dominions ended by the Treaty of Aix After which contrary to the Treaty it self they first dismantled all the strong Places and Holds of the County of Bargundy carried away all the Munitions out of the Country and would have destroyed the rich Salt Pits of that Province had not the powerful interposition both of England and Holland prevented that spoil Notwithstanding the same Treaty of Aix they exacted great Contributions from the Dutchyes of Lymbourg and Luxembourg They lay a new claim to some Towns as important as any of those that have been granted to them by the Peace They have confiscated the Estates of the Subjects of the King of Spain that would not forswear their Allegiance and have not spared the very Royal House of Mary Mont Nay as if these infractions were not sufficient and still to encroach as far as they were able they forced their way with great quantities of Merchandise through the Spanish Territories without paying the Customs and not long after endeavoured to surprise the Town of Hainault Thus they have dealt with Spain ever since the Pyrenean Treaty Let us see now how other Princes have fared with them we 'l begin with the Duke of Lorrain By the Pyrenean Treaty the said Duke was to be restored to his Dutchy of Lorrain with all the Places and Towns which he had possessed in the Bishopricks of Mentz Toul and Verdun But France after the execution of the other Articles of the said Treaty deferred as long as they could the performance of that part which related to the Duke and refused still to return him his Country till they had brought him to make another Treaty with them whereby he was forced to part with several considerable places over and above what had been granted to them by the general Peace Then after a year and an half of an unsettled possession during which under several unjust pretences new quarrels were picked every day They forced him with a considerable Army to give them his Town of Marsal And not long after they again compelled him to sign a new Treaty more disadvantagious yet then the two former since which he could as little as before have a quiet enjoyment of that little they had left him They every day encroached upon his Jurisdiction the Limits of his Territories and his Soveraignty it self They laid enormious Taxes upon his Subjects They caused him to disband his Forces and to raise new men again as they thought fit they kept him from revenging his own quarrels to take part in that of others they let loose all his Enemies against him and stopped the Progress of his Armies as soon as he had the least advantage And in few words he was all that while more a Vassal to France then a Soveraign But yet all this while would not satisfie the French Court And taking it ill that his Obedience was not altogether so blind as they would have it they ordered one of their Generals to seize his Person and to bring him either dead or alive as it was very near being effected A new way of dealing with a Soveraign Prince not known yet in these parts of the World and which may give some hopes to Europe of seeing ere long the West Governed by Basshaws as well as the East The Kingdom of Poland comes next which hath lain a bleeding ever since they have had a French Queen which is at this instant in an eminent danger of being conquered by the Turks through the means of the French Cabal who having called into the Kingdom the Enemy of the Christian name meerly because they could not have a King either of French bloud or of French interest The Duke of Newburg was not much better used and whilst they caused him to engage the greatest part of his Estate almost beyond redemption in hopes of the Polish Crown which they had promised to raise him to by the help of a strong party they had made in that Kingdom They underhand contrary both to their Treaties as well with the Elector of Brandenburg as with himself and to their reiterated promises and vows both by word of mouth and in writing did by their Creatures and Agents Oppose the said Dukes pretentions and endeavoured with all industry to have the Prince of Conde preferred before all his Competitors A particular deduction whereof will if ever published without any other instance be a sufficient

Majesty would be engaged in all his Quarrels and bound to make his Forces March as the before mentioned Author of the Letter to Sir Thomas Osborne expresses himself into the farthest part of Germany as often as it should happen to be Invaded by the Great Turk The late Secretary Trevor opposed this as much as he was able and endeavoured to satisfie his Majesty that the Garanty of the Tripple League as well as of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle related only to the Agression and other Hostilities from either France or Spain Propteria saith the Treaty by reason of the said Allyance But the wary cautious men as well as of the greater number carried it And the Emperors proffer was rejected Nay as soon as some of our Semi Gods had cut the fatal Tripple Knot with the Diamond Sword of their Alexander the poor now but formerly vaunted Tripple League was trampled under foot turned into Ridicule and less vallued than a Ballade His Majesty and they themselves since the Treaty of Aix had thought it very rational and very necessary withal to invite other Princes into the said League or in other words into the Garanty of the Treaty of Aix pursuant to the VII Article of the said Treaty whereby all Kings States and Princes are invited into it But as if they remembred neither his Majesties sending of Envoyes to the Princes of Germany nor the words of the Treaty it self They tell us now in the same Printed Letter That the necessity of inviting all Princes into the Tripple League is a Maxime much in vogue with some who looking very grave do therefore take it very ill if for that reason you will not allow them to be infallible And afterwards because the Tripple League is often mentioned without mentioning the Garanty of Aix which is in truth the thing meant by it to say saith the Author we should invite them into the Tripple League That if you mark is such a kind of Figure in discourse as commonly is called a Bull. Fidem vestram Dij imortales 4. We have gone yet farther than all this And the civil applications of the French and their kind entreaties did so prevail with us that loathing the very thoughts of the Tripple League and hating almost any thing that related unto it we sufferd an Agent of ours one Marsilly whom we had sent to the Switzers to invite them into the Garanty of Aix and who was intercepted and taken Prisoner by the French whilst he was very busie in the execution of what commands he had received not many Months before from our Great-men to be broken upon the Wheel at Paris although one single word from us would have saved his life Neither did we take it ill such is our good nature that upon the very Scaffold twenty Questions were put to him relating to his Majesties Person And in that publick and infamous Place a strict enquiry made into the particulars of what had passed between him and the King of England for thus was his Majesty often mentioned and named 5. But to take off somewhat of the wonder and strangness of our neglecting and forsaking our Leagued Friends for the most Christian Kings sake we soon shewed as much self-denyal in our own concerns and grew civilised to admiration by our inward converse with the Monsieurs whereof we 'll give only three Instances The first is that whilst we stormed against the Dutch for not promoting as for as they were bound the coming away of some Families that would leave Suranam we found no fault with the French their keeping us above four years out of St. Christophers No more than with their destroying in the mean while that part of the Island which belonged to his Majesties Subjects And we would have thought it a rudeness in us to have pressed too hard on his most Christian Majesty for a speedy or punctual performance of his Articles Nay if the French Commanders in those parts are to be believed there was very good understanding in relation to the said Island between some of our Grandees and the Erench Court as doth appear by the Narrative my Lord Willoughby delivered to the Council of Plantations and which is Entered in their Books The next is That by any Ordinance of the French Privy Council which is now the Statute Law of that Kingdom all their Sea and Land Officers and Commanders in the Islands of America being strictly enjoyned and required to secure their Master the Soveraignty of those Seas the said Ordinances having been brought in by a Person of Quality to the Cabinet Council it was at first to be declaimed against but soon buried in oblivion and put up amongst the useless Papers though the French Pursuant to it hath since much interrupted our Trade and have proved infinitely vexatious in so much as I am credibly informed that the present Governour of Jamaica hath sent word since his being there that notwithstanding their old Quarrel with the Spaniards it would be much easier to keep a good Correspondence with them than with the French our dear Allies And for a last Instance of our more than ordinary civility to the French several Traders in London have prepared a Petition to his Majesty in Council to complain of the oppression their Factors and Agents lay under in France with a true state of their Case and a short account of their grievances this came to the knowledge of some of our Great Ministers and they having had the perusal of them before the delivery of it stopt by their Authority all further prosecution of the matter and put off the said Merchants with a promise they would acquaint the French Embassador with their Complaints and see it should be redressed through his means How far they have been incouraged in their Trade since that promise they are best able to judge but however it was not fit the Nakedness of our dear Friends should be thus exposed to the whole view of the whole Council-Board And the foregoing particulars are more than sufficient to satisfie any impartial and understanding Reader how far the French have influenced our Counsels and withal they give us a great light and help us much to discern whether in truth we have broken the Tripple League or at least let it fall and dissolve of it self for no other reason but because we are constrained to fall out with the Dutch and to defend our selves against their oppression as the so often cited noble Author would perswade us or else if it may not be said rather and upon much better grounds that because it was not the French Kings Interest the Tripple League should subsist we have therefore resolved to break with the Dutch Thus to be subservient to the ends of his most Christian Majesty But by reason this might seem somwhat harsh at first and be looked upon as too severe a construction of our Great mens intentions it is necessary to evidence further how industrious the