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B03052 An address agreed upon at the committee for the French War, and read in the House of Commons April the 19th, 1689. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee for the French War. 1689 (1689) Wing E2513B; ESTC R170061 3,783 4

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An Address agreed upon at the Committee for the French VVar and Read in the House of Commons April 19. 1689. Licensed and Entred according to Law. WE Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled have taken into our most serious Consideration the Condition and State of this Nation in respect of France and Foreign Alliances In order to which we have Examined the Mischiefs brought upon Christendom in late Years by the French Ring who without any respect to Iustice has by Fraud and Force endeavoured to subject it to an Arbitrary and universal Monarchy In Prosecution of this Design so pernicious to the Repose and safety of Europe he has neglected none of those means how indirect soever which his Ambition or Avarice could suggest to him The Faith of Treaties among all Princes especially Christian Princes ever held most Inviolable has never been able to refir in him nor the solemnest Oaths to bind him when any Occasion presented it self for Extending the Limits of his Kingdom or Oppressing those whom his Interest inclined him to Qualifie by the Name of his Enemies Witness his haughty and groundless Declaration of Warr against the States General of the Unitted Provinces in the Year 1672 in which he assigned no other Reason for disturbing that profound Peace which through Gods Mercy all Europe enjoyed at that time But his own glory and his Resolution to punish the Dutch for some imaginary flights and disrespects which he would have had the World believe they had put upon him whereas the true Occasion of that War was nothing else but a formed design laid down and agreed upon by that King and his Accomplices for the subversion of the Liberties of Europe and for Abolishing the Common-Wealth of Holland as being too dangerous an Example of Liberty to the subjects of neighbouring Monarchs The Zeal for Catholick Religion which was pretended by him in this the following wars did afterwards sufficiently appear to the World to be no other than a Cloak for his unmeasurable Ambition For at the same time when the Persecution gre●● h●t●est against the Protestants of France Letters were intercepted and Published from him to Count Teckery to give him the greatest Incouragement and promise him the ●●most Asistance in the War which in Conjunction with the E●rk he then mannaged against the first and greatest of all the Roman Catholick Princes Witness also the many open infractions of the Treaties both of Aix la Chapelle and Nimeguen whereof Your Majest is the strongest Guarranty upon the most frivolous Pretences imaginable of which the most usual was that of Dependancies an Invention set on foot on purpose to serve for a pretext of Rupture with all his Neighbors unless they chose rather to satisfie his Endless Demands by abandoning on̄e Place after another to his insatiable appetite of Empire for maintaining whereof the two Chambers of Metz and Brissach were Erected to find out and forge Titles and to invent Equivocal Constructions for eluding the plain meaning of Treaties Concluded and sworn with the greatest Solemnity and than which nothing can be more Sacred among Mankind From hence it was also that Srasburg was so infamously Surprized by the French King in a time of full Peace and though great Conditions were Agreed and promised to the Inhabitants of that City yet no sooner was he in Possession of it but all Stipulations were forgotten and that Ancient free City doth now groan under the same Yoke with the rest of that King's Subjects The building the Fort of Hunningen contrary to so many solemn Assurances given to the Switzes and the Affair of Luxemburgh are too well known to need a particular Deduction In a word the whole Series of the French Kings Actions for many Years last past has been so ordered as if it were his intention not only to render his own people extremly miserable by intollerable imposition of Tares to be employed in maintaining an incredible Number of Dragoons and other Souldiers to be the instruments of his Cruelty upon such of them as refuse in all things to comply with his unjust Commands but likewise to hold all the neighbouring Powers in perpetual Alarm and Expence for the maintaining of Armies and Fleets that they may be in a posture to defend themselves against the Invador of their common safety and Liberties Examples of this sort might be innumerable but his Invasion of Flanders and Holland since the last Truce of 1684. and the Outrages committed upon the Empire by attacking the Fort of Philipsburg without any Declaration of war at the same time that his Imperial Majesty was imploying all his Forces against the common Enemy of the Christian Faith and his wasting the Palatinate with fire and sword and murdering an infinite number of innocent Persons for no other Reasons as himself has publickly declared but because he thought the Electo● Palatine faithful to the interest of the Empire and an Obstacle to the compassing his ambitious Designs are sufficient Instances of this To these we cannot but with a particular Resentment add the injuries done to your Majesty in the most unjust and violent seizing of your Principality of Orange and the utmost Insolencies committed on the Persons of your Majesties Subjects there and how to facilitate his Conquests upon his Neighbour Princes he ingaged the Turks in a war against Christendom at the same time And as if violating of Treaties and ravaging the Countries of his Neighbours States were not sufficient means of advancing his exorbitant Power and Greatness he has constantly had recourse to the vilest and meanest Arts for the Ruine of those whom he had taken upon him to subdue to his will and power insinuating himself by his Emissaries under the sacred Name and Character of Publick Ministers into those who were intrusted in the Government of Kingdoms and States suborning them by Gifts and pensions to the selling their Masters and betraying their Trusts and descending even to Intrigues by women who were sent or married into the Countries of diverse potent Princes to lie as Snakes in their Bosoms to eat out of their Bowels or to instil that Poyson into them which might prove the Destruction of them and their Countries of which Poland Savoy and Spain to mention no more at present can give but too ample Testimonies The insolent Vse he has made of his ill-gotten Greatness has been as Extravagant as the means of procuring it for this the single Instance of Genoa may suffice which without the least notice or any Ground of a quarrel whatsoever was bombarded by the French Fleet and the Doge and four Principal Senators of that Free State constrained in person to humble themselves at that Monarchs Feet which in the Style of France was called Chastising Soveraigns for casting Umbrage upon his Greatness His Practises against England have been of the same nature and by corrupt means he has constantly and with too much Success endeavoured to