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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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same Subject sent in 1680. by the Duke of Ormond to the Court. All these particulars appeared so evident to the Parliaments of Westminster and Oxford that they judged it impossible to reserve for the Duke of York any hopes of his Succession to the Crown and that the Court Party and Favourers of the Duke would have thought themselves to have gain'd much if the Duke who was lookt upon as the Author of all these Intriegues might only have retain'd the Title of King with leaving the whole Administration of the Government to the Prince of Orange We Englishmen having since that been so good natur'd as to admit the Duke to the Crown after the Death of King Charles II. whom the Papists had conspir'd to Murther on purpose to make place for the Duke Let any one judge whether there be any likelihood he should have renounced his League with France which he had always lookt upon as absolutely necessary for the making his designs to bear notwitstanding a publick Neutrality that was to be heldwith France as he was Guarantee of the Treaty of Nimeguen After all this a Man must have lost both Sense and Memory to suppose that he broke this Treaty since his coming to the Crown Moreover we have seen James II. an unconcern'd spectator of Lewis XIV seizing of Orange and of the Desolation of his Son-in-Law's Subjects who were forced to embrace the Romish Religion by the Violence of Dragoons All Europe have seen the accomodation of the Business of Bantam suspended without any other Reason but the design of having a Pretence in reserve to break with the Hollanders as also there were equal pains taken in 1670 to find out a plausible one to unite with France and to ruine a State which endeavour'd to preserve the Liberty of Europe and the Protestant Religion We have seen JAMES II. affording the Algerines a free retreat into his Havens and the Convoy of his Frigats that they might safely carry away with them the Dutch and French Protestants they had taken between England and Holland We have seen JAMES II. take the Government of Ireland from the Earl of Clarendon to put it into the hands of the Earl of Tyrconnel to the end he might new model the Army by putting out Protestants and supplying their Places with Papists as being more suited to carry on his Designs against England and Ireland We have seen him send Prince George into Denmark to hinder that Crown from joining with the Protestant Princes and from quitting his Engagements with France whose Assistance and Power were of absolute necessity to him And within his own Kingdom what is it he hath not attempted to advance his Designs and overthrow the Government in conformity to his Treaty with France and the Directions of Barillon his Ambassador He has put all places of Strength into the Hands of Papists he has kept on foot a numerous Army to suppress all those who might oppose his Designs he has against Law established an High Commission-Court for Ecclesiastical Affairs to violate the Rights of the Clergy and the Universities He has introduced Popish Bishops into England He has allowed a free exercise of that Religion in all Places All which things he durst never have undertaken so openly and with so high a Hand had he not been supported with Hopes derived from the Treaty he had with Lewis XIV whose Arms he lookt upon as able to bring about the Designs he had projected so long since It seems to me that these Proceedings are an abundant proof that he was engaged in a League with France But beyond all this behold here another Argument which cannot be gain-said The French Ambassadour the Count d' Avaux was a publick Person at the Hague he spoke with order from the King his Master and that in the Assembly of the States General he there peremptorily declares the Ninth of September last That there was an Alliance between the King his Master and James the Second he makes use of this League to interpose himself by his Master's Command upon an occasion when Lewis XIV believ'd that the States were forming some Enterprise against James the Second He delivers his Memorial to the States and communicates it to the rest of the Ambassadors at the Hague Sept. the 9th The Memorial was conceiv'd in these Terms THe sincere Desire the King my Master hath to maintain the Peace of Europe will not permit his Majesty to be a Spectator of the Great Preparations your H. M. Lordships are making by Land and by Sea without taking those Measures wherewith his Prudence the inseparable Companion of all his Actions doth inspire him to prevent the Mischiefs which without doubt will be the Consequence of them And tho' the King be well assured of the Wisdom of your Counsels and that it is not to be imagined that a Commonwealth should lightly betake themselves to Arms and kindle a War which at this Juncture cannot but prove fatal to all Christendom yet his Majesty cannot believe that your H. and M. Lordships would ever engage your selves in so great Expences as well within as without your State or suffer so many Foreign Troops to enter your Country and in a Season so far spent put so numerous a Fleet to Sea or prepare so vast a Warlike Train in case they had not formed a Design corresponding to the Greatness of those Preparations All these Circumstances My Lords and so many more which I must not here relate persuade the King my Master that these Preparations have an eye to England And therefore the King my Master has charged me in his Name to declare That the Engagements of Friendship and Alliance which he has with the King of Great Britain will not only oblige him to succour him but also to consider the first Act of Hostility your Ships or Land-Forces shall exert against his Britannick Majesty as a manifest Breach of Peace and open Rupture with his Crown I leave it My Lords to the Prudence of Your H. and M. Lordships to consider the Consequences of such like Vndertakings And his Majesty has ordered me to make this Declaration to you in his Name no otherwise than in the sincere Intention he has as I have often had the Honour to declare to you to prevent whatsoever might trouble the Peace of Europe Subscribed Done at the Hague the 9th Septemb. 1688. The Coun d' Avaux Than which as it seems to me nothing can be said more plain and express What does the English Embassador hereupon Some days after he presents a Memorial to the Estates and this plainly of concert with the French Embassador because this his second Memorial did refer to that which the French Embassador Presented and contents himself to assure them that James the Second had no Treaty with France but what was made Publick See here the Memorial of the Marquiss de Albyville THe underwritten Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain has received Order to