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Tyrconnel's letter to the French King from Ireland
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Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, 1630-1691.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
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1690
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Wing T3579A; ESTC R20922
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your Majestiâ—… Friendship that he prefers it above the Contemâ—ible Throne of Mahomet and there being so greâ—… a Resemblance in your Designs there is no feâ—… of his falling off unless some unhappy Different should arise betwixt the Musti and the Arch shop of Paris about Precedence Others which your Immense Wisdom admitted tâ— the Honour of your Friendship were the two laâ—… Kings of Great Britain who likewise postponing aâ—… Considerations to that of serving your exalted Iâ—terests gave up themselves and their Councils to bâ— wholly at your Majesties Disposal The first of theâ—… was so entirely devoted to the pursuit of his sensâ—… Appetites as if the Safety Honour and Wealth of 〈◊〉 Kingdoms had not appertained to his Care but thâ— all the Trust Power and Interest he was exalted 〈◊〉 had been only entrusted with him to aggrandiâ—… your sacred Sultanship and to capacitate your Mâ—jesty for the attaining your vast unbounded Designâ— 'T was this gave the rise to that mighty Flota whicâ— from your Majesty justly claims the Name of Inviâ—cible This was it That made him hold the Neighbouring Princes in suspence with Treaties Leagueâ— and pretended Alliances till your Majesty had by aâ— unpractised Method taken their Provinces and Teâ—ritories into your powerful Protection and Poss-ssâ—… And it was this made the Faith and Conduct of thâ— unwâ—…y Prince of very little Reputation amongst the â—…r Potentates of Europe as was well and notaâ—… expressed to your victorious Majesty upon deliâ—…ing up the Keys of the City of Ghent and layâ—… them at your Illustrious Feet â—…he last of these by an Act of superlative inimitaâ—… and unpresidented Friendship so absolutely renounâ—… all his own Interest to his Crown and Kingdoms 〈◊〉 he relinquished and abdicated them All rather â—…n not follow that incomparable Pattern your abâ—… 〈◊〉 Majesty had set him to compel all his People 〈◊〉 submit to what Law and what Religion the unâ—…ing Wisdom of a Prince who alone aspired to the â—…our of being like your Majesty should think fit 〈◊〉 â—…et up Oh! had his Troops been so good Apostles 〈◊〉 your Dragoons and the Doctrin of Passive Obedience â—…n as heartily obeyed and practised as it was preach'd 〈◊〉 inculcated what a happy Reformation had been on the Face of the Earth How boundless had â—…n the Extent of your Glorious Empire Who â—…ld not have been of a Religion recommended 〈◊〉 the most Christian Monarch And why since â—…r Potent Predecessors of Assyria Persia Ethiopia 〈◊〉 Rome and your present Ally at the Port have â—…med to themselves a Power some of them not to determine the Modalities of Worship but â—…r very Gods too should the more potent Lewis 〈◊〉 denyed setting up Temples and Altars to whom 〈◊〉 thinks fit Yea even to your most sacred self if so Royally enclined Hath not a late Bishop ††â—…arker Ecâ—…s Polity Empowered the Magistrate to set up any Religion he thinks most agreeable to the Nature and Ends of â—…vernment and ought such a Glorious Prerogaâ—…e to be parted with No farewel Crown fareâ—…l Dominion It were much better with my great â—…ster to be content to keep a Nursing Room and â—…k the Cradle of a growing Prince at St. Germans â—…n to be head of such a Refractory People What Prince in the Universe could ever be hapâ—…r in his Allies 't is in the Choice of these the â—ustre of your great Wisdom shines to the Admiâ—…ion of all the Courts in Christendom Was ever â—…ith was ever Constancy and Sincerity like theirs â—…ok into all the other Actions of their Lives and â—…u will find them bear no proportion with their Fiâ—…ity to your Majesties most Attractive Charming â—…d All-Chaining Interest 3. A Third head to be spoken to is your Invinciâ—… Armes the Terrour of which hath put the whole â—orld under Contribution to your matchless Prowess Are not the Gates of more Cities opened to your â—oles than ever were broken open by your Bombs â—ave not your Lewiâ—'s D' or contributed more to your â—ighty Conquests within than ever your Batteries and â—…cks could arrive to without What General ever â—ounted so succesful an Artillery These never sailâ—… Petards have turned so vastly to your Majesties Interest That out of an unexampled Piece of Polâ—ty your most Christian Majesty hath ordered the Coyning-up of your Houshold-Plate and the Church-Plate into Battering Pieces of that Kind And having heard of a War maintained by Bodkins and Thimbles your Majesty hath resolved to try how a Storm of Cawdle Cups Candlesticks Basons and Church-Plate will succeed This unaccountable Stratagem can never fail of attaining wonders especially if the Titular Prince of Wales and the Duke of Burgundy lead the Van. Of your other Artillery I shall take leave to speak when there is Occasion 4. That singular and auspicious Conduct which hath managed and given Reputation to all your Majesties Actions shall be the last thing I will now presume to mention and trouble your Royal Patience withal And herein it must be acknowledged your Majesty hath out-done all former Precedents Hath not the ever victorious James reduced Ireland Is not Monsieur Catinat in the Bowels of Savoy were not the Dutch Troops all cut to pieces in the Plain of Flerus and the English Fleet sunk to the Bottom of the Sea all but about Eighty Sail now in quest of the Victorious French Fleet Are not not all the Maritime Towns in England burnt their Country Ravaged and have given their late King Queen and the Prince of Wales for Hostages that they will be Loyal and Obedient Vassals to your Majesty for the future If this Horour be denied to your Majesty after so many glorious Efforts of your inimitable Courage and Conduct what can be hoped from a blind sordid and ungrateful World I am not ignorant the Censorious part of Mankind think that the equipping the most Glorious Fleet that ever put to Sea out of the Ports of France and that to a Charge so stupendiously great that it hath sunk the mighty Heaps your Majesty hath been for many Years past Ravaging from the rest of Europe They think the proligious Charge of that Fleet and the Army in Ireland have not been answered by Successes of either They little consider the Glory that is acquired by burning the Fisherboats and Cottages at Tingmouth and the vast Reputation Monsieur Lauzun and my self have purchased to our selves by fortifying Limrick and Galloway from whence we have Convenience of Retiring when we can stay no longer And what will their Great Captain and Leaden King William have Conquered after all the exposing his Person and fatigue of his Army but a bare Skelleton of a Kingdom a Country despoiled and depopulated And such your great Wisdom hath taken Care the French Kingdom shall be if ever the Consederate Arms should possess themselves of their Dividents there We have not omitted Mighty Sir to smoak the Altar of St. Patrick every Day and to call upon all our Tutelar Guardians Male and Female but whether they are so busied in preparing Equipages to grace your solemn Triumphs or whether they are resolved your Majesty shall have the Glory of your Acquests entirely to your self certain it is we have not been able to prevail with them to set one Finger to the work which makes our Enemies vociferate as if the Day were their own Nothing can give checque to their Insolence but the Pomps of your Majesties Triumphal Medals Statues and Arches and rather than let the Notion of your Victories yet out of your Peoples heads had I the Honour to be of your supream Divan my humble Motion should be that Lustrations Ovations and a General Jubile should be proclaimed That if the Enemies Troops come into your Country they may find such Marks of Joy and Satisfaction that may prevail with them to lay down their Arms and put themselves under the happy Government of so clement a Monarch Or if that shall not prevail with them to omit the Prosecution of their Revengeful Purposes How glorious and unpresidented will it be for your Invincible Monarchship to expire Phoenix-like in your own Nest of Spices at Versailes To conclude this swelling Paper How very â—…temptible must the great Alexander and Caesar 〈◊〉 upon themselves to be when they shall consider much greater Lewis in all his Glories amidst Altars Triumphs Acclamations and Statues sitting down 〈◊〉 an undisturbed Calmness like a Roman Deity eiâ—… playing a Game at Cards with Madam Maintiniâ—… his Pompous Trianon for the next To-be-conquâ—… Kingdom or else diverting himself amongst his â—…ter-works And that shall see the Mighty James loaâ—… with Lawrels and Triumphs forsake his growing â—…tories to come and shake a Rattle to his Miracâ—… Prince at St. Germains Who I say can behold 〈◊〉 unexampled Heroes thus innocently entertaining thâ—…selves amidst the unintelligible Crouds of their hâ—…ble Adorers This Mighty Conquerour is the hâ—…piness I most Ambition and shall take the first oâ—portunity to number my self amongst these 〈◊〉 Throngs I am Most Dread Most Invincible Most Tremendous Monarch Your Most Christian Majesties Most Bigotted Most Stupid and Most Constant Vassal Adorer and Admirer TYRCONNEL London Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily 1690