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A25618 An account of the private league betwixt the late King James the Second, and the French king in a letter from a gentleman in London, to a gentleman in the countrey. Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.; Gentleman in London. 1689 (1689) Wing A344; ESTC R1701 13,039 19

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represent to your Lordships that although His Majesty had believed that what he had already declared to your Embassador in England and the Orders he had given to his said Envoy Extraordinary upon the same Subject might have satisfied your Lordships that there is no other Treaty between His Majesty and the Most Christian King than those that are Publick and in Print Yet since a great deal of Artifice and Industry has been made use of to make the world believe that the King his Master is entred into other Treaties and Alliances with the Most Christian King His Majesty to shew the great regard he has to the Friendship and Alliances which are between him and your Lordships and his desire to continue the same has commanded the said Envoy Extraordinary in his Name to assure your Lordships that there is no other Treaty between His Majesty and the Most Christian King than those that are Publick and in Print And farther that as His Majesty extreamly desires the preservation of the Peace and Repose of Christendom so he shall also be glad to take such measures with your Lordships as may be most convenient for maintaining the Peace of Nimeguen and the Truce of Twenty years concluded in 1684. Given at the Hague the Fifth of October 1688. This Memorial pleasured the World with a fit of Laughter to see it so contrary to the Memorial of the French Embassador notwithstanding he was very well acquainted with the Contents of the Memorial presented before by the Count de Avaux But for all that both the Marquiss de Albyville and those who had dictated the French Memorials spake nothing but the Truth The Marquiss maintains in the Name of the King that there was no Treaty between England and France but those that are in Point the Count de Avaux Asserts that Lewis the Fourteenth is engaged in an Alliance with James the Second and both of them speak true The Count de Avaux speaks with respect to the Treaty of 1670. betwixt Charles the Second and Lewis the Fourteenth and supposes as indeed it cannot be doubted that the said Treaty has continued ever since with design to destroy England and the Protesant Religion which at first gave birth to the said League He builds upon this Principle That the D. of York who was the great Promoter of it and who whilst he was in that Station acted in Conformity with the said secret Treaty had sufficiently ratified the same since his coming to the Crown which Promotion of his was therefore so Passionately desired to the end he might more vigorously execute the said Treaty which Charles II. did not for fear of troubling his own Repose The Marquiss de Albyville knowing that this Treaty had been Printed at Paris 1682. in the History of the War of Holland by the Abbot Primi but soon after supprest at the Instances of my Lord Preston supposed he might say with a good Conscience with respect to the self-same Treaty That his Master had no Treaty with France but what was in Print So that the seeming Contradiction vanisheth as soon as we consider the Persons that speak The one is the Minister of Lewis XIV who is not at all careful to husband the Interests of his Allies and who thinks he may speak whatsoever pleases him as he thinks he can compass whatsoever he wills and accordingly declares the Truth with a great deal of Frankness and Liberty The other is the Minister of James II. whom the Society of the Jesuits and their Maxims have model'd for disguising the Truth and therefore dares not expose it but under covert of an Equivocation by which means if he owns that which is true he reserves himself always the means and the right of denying it when the owning of it might prove a prejudice to him But not to make any further Enlargement here upon the Jesuitical Character of which the Marquess d' Albyville had a competent share without which Qualification he would scarcely have been made choice of for an Extraordinary Envoy For my part I cannot see how any thing could more evidently confirm the Truth than the foresaid Memorial of the Count d' Avaux wherein he positively declares that there was an Alliance between Lewis XIV and James II. And I cannot see how the most resolved Prejudice can object ought against this Proof besides these Three Things which are equally ridiculous The First is That King James II. is not bound to make good the Words of a French Ambassador spoke at random Secondly That the Reason why the English Ambassador did not more punctually contradict the French Memorial proves only at the most That he was willing enough to see the Hollanders affrighted with the Apprehension of this Secret Alliance between both those Kings though he did not think fitting to confirm the Belief of that League by the Memorial he presented to the States General the 5th of October whence it follows That it may be there was no such League at all notwithstanding the French Ambassador thought necessary to advance such a thing contrary to Truth The Third is That if the Marquiss d' Albyville were Guilty of some Fault on this occasion that it is not just to lay the blame of it upon his Master and the rather because he was never look'd upon as a very able and refin'd Minister But in answer to these First The World knows That the Memorial of the French Ambassador was contrived at Paris with the Concurrence of Mr. Skelton the Ambassador of James II. So that we cannot pretend that this Declaration was made by the French King without knowledge of the K. of England And tho Mr. Skelton upon his return from France was committed to the Tower for having had a hand in that Memorial yet we know this was only a Pretext being set at Liberty a few days after and made Colonel of a Regiment and not long after returning thither not as a Prisoner but to be the Governour of it All which makes it as clear as the Sun that this was only a feigned Imprisonment and not the Punishment of an unfaithful discharge of a Trust 2dly I can no way conceive how any can imagine that the French K. should take the Liberty peremptorily to assert an Alliance when there was nothing at all of it only because he thought it was his Interest so to do and that at the same time it was not permitted to James II. to dissemble in a Case where such a Dissimulation was of use to him But I go further and say That for to discover the Mystery of the affected Dissimulation of the English Ambassador about the League with France we need only to examine the Behaviour of James II. after that Declaration of the French Ambassador to the States General If the French Ambassador or the King his Master had advanced an Untruth in declaring that there was an Alliance between Lewis XIV and James II. which could not be without an Infraction of