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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51780	The present state of Europe briefly examined and found languishing occasioned by the greatness of the French monarchy for cure whereof a remedy, from former examples, is humbly proposed to His Royal Highness William Henry Prince of Orange and to the great convention of the Lords and Commons now assembled at Westminster : wrote upon occasion of the House of Common's vote to raise 8000001 to equip a fleet for the year 1671 mov'd thereunto by the pretended march of the French army toward the marine parts of Flanders / by Thomas Manley, Esq.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing M445; ESTC R18269	11,718	20

lasting Peace so long as the Ballance remains so unequal between the two great Pretenders and France through her Military Grandure continues so Arm'd Able and daring to give perpetual Frights and Alarums to the whole Neighbourhood whereby Peace through a just and necessary Jealousie becomes as costly as War itself consuming those that are suspicious of her and the daily motions and buzzings of her Armies oblige the Neighbours with Sword in Hand to an Eternal Watchfulness least unawares the blow be given which continual bendings inevitably must draw so many dreadful weaknesses on the parties concern'd as must at length without a Miracle improve both the Designes and Glories of that Prince which is so obvious to all considering Men that some of his own Subjects have had the vanity of late to boast even in this Kingdom what Charge their King would put us unto by marching his Army mighty and in perpetual Pay yearly near our Coasts before really he would attack us and certainly great must the advantage be which France hath now over us whereby in Estimate may be taken of our decay even in the midst of Peace if when the humour possesseth that daring Monarch whose Armies like Birds of Prey are always on the Wing to move towards us either in pretence or reallity which by the event is only determinable we must equip at least our Fleet at six or seven hundred thousand Pounds Charge to prevent the meer fear of an Invasion and when we are wearied and consum'd by so many fruitless yet necessary Armings and laid to slumber after so many false Alarums who can but easily foresee what dreadful Effects may ensue wherefore I conclude with that great States man Cicero Pace suspecta tutius Bellum But suppose that whilst the United Provinces and Spain maintain their Posts we were able both to resist his Attempts and bear the Expence yet 't is fearce deniable but if he devour those Countries by Peice-meals and pluck up that glorious Common-wealth by the Roots which without effectually Assistance infallibly he will we must also receive a Law from him for what can then keep us with the rest of Christendom from Subjection to that Crown since we already see the very clapings of his Wings beget Amazement Joyn the Power and Riches of Holland to him and all the known World must bow to his Scepter Again should France attempt and reduce us to severe Terms whilst our Neighbours stand with their Arms across it would only expedite their Confusion and draw on them a more certain Conquest I will not therefore doubt but as the Safeties of us and our Allies are floating in one common bottom and fortified by Mutual Interests the only true Cement of Leagues so our joynt Designes when once put into Action will be vigorously push'd on till the Ballance of Christendom be reduc'd to its proper Standard And whereas it must be granted that no Conquests can Saciate Bonds tye nor Leagues charm this great Pretender whereby the Milky ways of Peace may felicitate Europe without the costly and terrible Guards of Armies so long as the Odds remains so unequal and this Mighty Hero Arm'd and Victorious is able thus to affright the World Hector his Neighbours impose upon the Weak and on every feeble Pretence ransack their Countries without revenge nothing remains justifiable by the just Rules of Policy but with the joynt Arms of all Parties concern'd which indeed is all Europe attack this Illustrious Man upon the very first just Provocation and by dint of Sword carry the War into his own Bosom and from the Example of wise Princes make his Country at once both the Seat of War and Desolation whereof the Romans in the War of Carthage are a puissant Instance whereas on the contrary the States and Princes of Europe Italy especially neglecting of late to Assault the Turk powerfully before Candia are now justly expecting him with horror and amazement at their own doors He that fights in his Enemies Country does in effect fight at his Enemies Cost and when Peace is clap'd up leaves his Enemy for that Age Poor and Miserable as we have not long since beheld in poor Germany The French K. therefore commonly makes himself the Assailant maintaining half his Wars at his Adversaries Charge by fighting in their Countries where if he receive a Blow has his own unharrassed Kingdom either to receive or recruit him and our Heroick Elizabeth who knowing that Vertue and Justice were the only Ligaments of her Peoples Love govern'd her Affairs with miraculous Wisdom and Huswifery made her Payments sure to a Proverb and was accordingly adored studied by all Arts imaginable to fight her Enemies on their own Soyl whereby at once she imprinted thereon the terrible marks of Desolation and preserv'd her Country as proper Fuel wherewith on all occasions to consume her Adversaries Nor was her Sister Mary intentionally her inferiour in this particular when the loss of Callice which in her hand was so ready an Inlet to assail either of the great Pretenders as common Interest directed was suppos'd either to have occasioned or hastened her Death For this reason all our Kings from the glorious Edward the Third to Queen Mary being 210 Years with infinite care and cost preserved Callice against all Comers as a Sacred Jewel of the Crown however a sort of new Policy seems of late to have been introduc'd He that fights out of his Country seldom ventures any thing besides an Army but he that is assaulted and beat upon his own Dunghil commonly loseth that with the Victory or at least suffereth ten thousand Calamities besides the usual terrours of Invasion Whereof the Sweeds Discent into Germany by vertue of her King's Courage and Alliances such as I drive at is a wonderful Example wherein a puissant Emperour arm'd and victorious as France is now was couragiously set upon and after a fierce War of sixteen Years and the death as is suppos'd of three hundred thousand Germans torn to pieces by so many eager Confederates whereof France was none of the small ones who by the deep Counsels of those mighty Oracles Richelieu and Oxenstern guided peradventure by a Divine hint pursued this Method as the likeliest way to chastise and humble that haughty Family who otherwise possibly would by piece-meals or drowsie Peace have swaggered if not subdu'd Europe Let brave Princes for the common safety of Christendom repeat this Counsel on another Theatre the Scale may soon be turn'd and France most justly be chastis'd with her own terrible Scourge forty years after otherwise it must be a long and unlucky War manag'd by France on the Soil of other Princes to make her miserable so long as she enjoys Peace at home allow her that and she may tug hard with Christendom like Spain who by vertue of the Domestick Peace contended in effect with all Europe for eighty years and put them shrewdly to their Trumps Nothing more then Peace at home enables a