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A41748	The Marquiss De Grana, the King of Spain's vice-roy in the Spanish-Netherlands, his mandatory letter to all commanders, officers, and soldiers, to resist the French, and repel force with force. Done out of the original from Brussels.	Grana, Ottone Enrico dal Carretto, Marquis of.	1683 (1683)	Wing G1483; ESTC R216563	3,205	2

The Marquiss De Grana the King of Spain's Vice-Roy in the Spanish-Netherlands His Mandatory Letter to all Commanders Officers and Soldiers to Resist the French and Repel Force with Force Done out of the Original from Brussels THE Peace of Nimeguen having been concluded upon such Conditions as France it self desir'd We had all the reason in the World to hope That this Peace would have been put in Execution and Observed on their Part. But instead of contenting themselves with the Advantages which they have got by their Demands and which we were willing to Sacrifice for the Repose of Christendom They have retarded for several Months the quitting of the Garrisons which should have been surrendred back to his Catholick Majesty wasted by excessive Quartering of Soldiers those Places which should have been restored as well as those which really and truly belong'd to him and Ruin'd all his Majesties Subjects as well by Extortion of Contributions beyond the Time limited by the Eighteenth Article of the Peace as by several undue Exactions and Sums already pay'd and oppressive Quota's with which His Majesty has been charg'd And altho' after all this and the opening the Conference of Courtra for an amicable reconciliation of all Differences between the Two Crowns we did not expect any other Acts of Violence the Commissioners named on both Sides were hardly arrived at the Place appointed but the French enter'd Hainault and Flanders with a great Army with an intention as they have done to make themselves Masters of the City of Chievres and several other Towns and Villages They have got the Possession of Charlemont through their Threats of a general Invasion into these Countries two Months before the Time prefixed by the Treaty of Peace to restore that Fortress or else to procure the Surrender of Dinant and after that kept both those Places to themselves And farther having a design to encroach always upon their Neighbours and make themselves sole Arbitrators of their Priviledges they have Erected a Pretended Chamber of Re-union at Metz they have caused to be adjudged to themselves under unsufferable pretences the County of Chiny and other Lands and Territories belonging to His Catholick Majesty And to make good those Proceedings never before practis'd in Times of Peace the said French have caused several Bodies of Armed Forces to invade and pillage the Countries belonging to his Most Catholick Majesty carry'd away and receiv'd Ransoms of several Prisoners possessed themselves of almost all the Dutchey of Luxemburg with several Lands in the Provinces of Hainault Namur and others blocked up the City of Luxemburg it self and made all his Majesties Subjects deeply sensible of all the Effects of a fierce and cruel War And tho' his most Catholick Majesty out of his desire to preserve the Peace of Christendom had made use of none but Friendly means to stop these proceedings they have all prov'd ineffectual notwithstanding all the Remonstrances made on his Part at the Conference at Courtray where the most Christian King's Advocate could not be brought to give any Answer to the Complaint about renewing of open Hostility for which Reparation ought to have been made in the first place and not to do as they did set on foot at the same time and press with a great deal of heat New Pretensions to Alost and other Places the unjustness of which Pretensions when it came to be laid open and that the King's Advocate declared his willingness to refer himself to the Decision of the Commissioners of the Two Crowns or in Case their Judgements were equally divided to that of Arbitrators to be equally chosen on both sides according to the Contents of the Treaty of Peace yet the Conference was broken off by the French Commissioners who declared to those of His Catholick Majesty that his most Christian Majesty having intelligence that the Great Turk was designing a War against his Imperial Majesty was resolved to leave no cause of Jealousie or Suspicion which might hinder the Christian Princes from Opposing the Common Enemy for which reason he resolved to raise the Siege of Luxemberg and refer his Differences with Spain to the King of Great Brittain However tho' the French Commissioners were not ignorant that the Spanish Deputies were not qualified to accept of the said Arbitration and had also told the other that they had receiv'd no Order about it yet the French departed refusing to receive so much as one Paper more under pretence that their Commission was out Which was all one as if his Catholick Majesty had been obliged to refer his Differences with France to one single Arbitration chosen by the most Christian King contrary to the Law of Nations and the Tenor of the Treaty of Peace procured by the Mediation of the King of Great Brittain In the Execution of which nothing could have been more Natural than to have made use of the same Mediation which was several times sought by his Majesty and his Allies and accepted by him in pursuance of the kind Offices which the King of Great Brittain had offered to that purpose But France regarding nothing so much as the enlaging her Dominion has refused this Mediation and Marshal D'Humiers upon the last Day of August past and the fiftieth of the Siege of Vienna the Brigadeer Dasfeld to give us Notice That the most Christian King not having been able to obtain any Satisfaction in order to his Pretensions to Alost and other Places mentioned in the Paper exhibited by his Advocate at Courtray had sent him Orders to Rendevouz his Army and to enter those Countries and yet all this while pretending he would Act nothing against the Peace if he were not interrupted in his Design and that the Spaniards did not oppose his Demands Which seeming to us so much the more Astonishing in regard it belong'd to France to pursue her Pretences by the regular means propounded in the Treaty of Nimegen or to enter into a Negotiation by the Mediation of the King of England and that therefore it was a manifest Contradiction to pretend at the same time not to Act against the Peace and yet employ force of Arms to obtain that by Violence which was to be at the Disposal of Formal Justice We therefore upon the whole return'd this Answer to the Brigadeer That his Commission strangely surprised us That we thought our selves in a profound Peace and that the Treaty of Nimeguen had distinctly explained and determin'd how all differences were to be adjusted in an Amicable manner that no man could well believe especially considering the present Condition of Christendom that ever any alterations would have been made so contrary to the said Peace That his most Catholick Majesty had an Ambassador at Paris and the most Christian King another at Madrid where the Demands should have been propounded on both sides That his Majesty had entrusted him to defend not to surrender up those Provinces or any part of ' em But the King of France not content with so rational an Answer and continuing to put his Claim to the decision of a War has caused several Body's of Armed Forces to fall with ruin and havock upon the Territories and Subjects of his Catholick Majesty without taking the least Notice of the kind offers of the King of England or of what the Pope has tendred by his Extraordinary Nuntio and others of the Allies He has seized upon the Cities and Towns of Lessines Beaumont Chimay Walcourt Bovignes and others where his Troops for these five Weeks and more have committed and still continue to commit all manner of Violences in all parts under Obedience to his Catholick Majesty sending their Commands for the payment of vast Contributions double and treble what was pay'd in the War They have fallen upon his Majesties Subjects they have taken away their Cattel and Corn and other Provisions carry'd away Prisoners beat down Houses and committed an abundance of other Enormities which visibly tends to an Absolute Breach Seeing therefore we have used all Amicable Means since all Interposition and Mediation proves in-effectual nor can prevail to bend and molifie the Rigor with which the French Troops continue to overwhelm His Majesties Subjects to their Total destruction and while the Injuries they endure do but serve to bring a greater continually upon 'em acd fot that they have most feelingly besought us not to permit them to be reduced under the Servitude of France by such a ruinous Desolation We find our selves obliged by the Duty of our Charge to give Order to all Generals Governours of Provinces Serjeant Majors of Battalia Particular Governours Commanders Chiefs Masters of Camp Collonels Captains and all other Officers and Soldiers as well Horse as Foot of what Nation or Quality soever and to all his Majesties Subjects to Oppose all such Attempts and Proceedings of the Enemy in the Territories of his Majesty to repell Force by Force and to make use of such means as God and Nature has afforded them to defend and guard themselves from the unheard of Violences and Cruelties which they commit Commanding you hereby to be Conform to these Commands and to do and cause to be executed all things according to the Tenor of these Presents by all that are under your Commands Brussels Octob. 12. 1683. Signed O. H. M. D'ALCARETTO LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin in the Old-Bailey 1683.