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A48632	Englands appeal from the private cabal at White-hall to the great council of the nation, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. By a true lover of his country	True lover of his country.; Lisola, François Paul, baron de, 1613-1674, attributed name.; Trevor, John, Sir, 1626-1672, attributed name.; Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686, attributed name.	1673 (1673)	Wing L2372A; ESTC R216770	44,900	55

this Discourse of the new Agreement entred into with the French King by our Plenipotentiaries and demonstrated the fatal consequences of the same what followeth will clear it farther The wonderful Progress of the French having surprized and frighted all Europe Our Court who knew what slender provision was made for England in that Conquest was little less Alarm'd than the rest And our Grand Ministers were dispatched in Post haste both to the Dutch and to the French their greatest fear when they went being left they should come too late and find the whole Country under the French Subjection After their Arrival in the Hague they begun their first Complements to the States Commissioners that were sent to wait upon them with all the Expressions imaginable both of kindness to Holland and of concernmant and trouble to see the French so far advanced There they received an account of Monsieur de Groots Negociation and of the great care the French took of his Majesty which raised such an Indignation in them that nothing would serve their turn but destroying out of hand or at least Mastering the French Fleet. And from thence removing to the Prince of Orange his Camp they renewed their kind Protestations Assured his Highness That his Majesties intention had never been to give way to the Conquest of the Vnited Provinces The most Christian King himself having often times declared he onely intended to humble their Commonwealth neither was it fit to suffer the French should go on at that rate In the end they took upon them and engaged to do their utmost to bring the French Court to be Satisfied with Maestricht and the right of keeping Garrisons in the Towns upon the Rhyne that belong to the Electors of Brandenburg and Collen And that in Case the French refused to accept of those terms they would then take new measures with the States and consider joyntly of the best ways to prevent the destruction of their Common wealth as well as the dangerous encrease of the French With these fair promises and friendly assurances they proceeded on their Journey to his most Christian Majesty who was some few hours riding from thence having behind them an infinite satisfaction in the minds of all Persons with great expectation of a happy Change through their zealous interposition But what may not the Royal Eloquence of a most Christian King do What will not his Golden Word perswade after our Grand Ministers had been some few dayes in the French Army they found they were not mistaken before and began to have a clearer apprehension of things The Negotiation of De Groote with the particulars imparted to them at the Hague was a meer slander for so the French Court told them The encrease of the French Power was not to be suspected or feared they were too generous to abuse it And therefore after they had left the Prince of Orange three or four days without News from them they at last sent him word The States were to give satisfaction to both Kings joyntly And that neither Crown could or would treat seperately This unexpected Message did infinitely surprise as well the Prince of Orange as the States And his Highness who had full power given him by the States to Treat and conclude with England not to be held longer in suspence answered the Pl nipotentiaries he desired to know what would satisfie both Crowns and what their respective demands were Whereupon they sent him the joynt Proposals before mentioned together with a Copy of the new agreement they were entred into concerning which we 'l add onely to what hath already been said these following Queries 1. Whether they were sent onely to promote the French Conquest and if not how they could think it advisable by making the Peace impossible to force the Dutch as far as in them lay to cast themselves into the Armes of the French King and submit themselves to his Domination 2. Whether they can deny they knew the joynt Proposalls tendred to the Dutch should not be granted since the French demands alone had been unanimously rejected and in that case how agreeable it was to the Interest of England to make it impossible for the Dutch to give his Majesty any satisfaction 3. Whether they had not received as well from the Prince of Orange as from the States Commissi ners all possible Assurances of the infinite desire they had to see his Majesty return to his former Amity with them and of their readiness to purchase it at any rate that the Condition they were in would bear If so how faithfully the Plenipotentiaries discharged their trust in neglecting those proffers and entring into a New Engagement which was so Prejudicial to England as we have made it appear 4. How far those that were joyned in Commission with them did concur with them in their Judgment and whether all those considerations with man other were not represented to them And urged by some who had no other end but to serve their Master faithfully 5. Whether or no it was for that Reason they opposed so fiercely My Lord Vicount Hallifax who came a day or two after them his appearing and acting joyntly with them though Commissionated in as full and as ample manner as themselves 6. Who were those after my Lord Hallifax could be kept out no longer who went privately to the French Camp under several pretences and had still Negotiations of their own on foot 7. Whether they had Order to call the French King the King of France and to name him still before his Master as well as to set in the first place the French demands before those of their Majesty As all this was done in the Copies of the Agreement they had made and of both Kings pretensions which they sent together to the Prince of Orange by Sir Gabriel Sylvius And to which we may appeal if the truth of this be doubted 8. And Lastly how far their Instructions will justifie their standing in the behalf of the French upon a Publick Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion in the Vnited Provinces the Churches to be divided and the Romish Priests maintained out of the Publick Revenue As is set down more at large in the second Head of the French Demands Having thus in all uprightness of heart stated as clearly as I am able the present Grand case of the Nation wherein I may truly say before God and his Angells I have Averred no one thing without Good Vouchers and such respectively as the nature of the thing doth bear I 'le end with a few Summary Hints of what we have discoursed at Large and laying in all Humility both my self and these reflections as well at his Majesties as at his Great Councills Feet I beg of them to take into their Serious considerations 1. The Natural solid Greatness of the French Monarchy 2. Their Ambitious and aspiring thoughts in all ages with the consequences of the same 3. The great Encrease of their power under their Present King both by Sea and Land 4. How far it was not long since thought fit to stop their Progress And what steps were made in Order to it as well as the zeal with which it was carried on 5. The carriage of the present French Court and how they have dealt with most Princes of Europe 6. How kindly they have used both his Majesty in particular and the whole Nation 7. How true they have been to their word and to their reiterated promises and other Engagements 8. How faithfully they have performed Articles hitherto And what security we have they shall be still ready to do worse 9. The necessity of keeping a true Ballance between the European Princes 10. How dangerous it is to alter that Ballance when once settled on a solid Basis 11. The dreadful consequences of the Conquest of the Vnited Provinces by the French 12. The unpossiblity of our Conquering them 13. The Impracticableness or Disproportion of the supposed sharing and Division of their Country with the little advantage and benefit which at the best would accrew to us 14. How prejudicial and hurtful would to the contrary any possibility and practicable sharing prove the same being in truth no other than an absolute French Conquest in a disguise 15. How destructive the present War must needs be in the end in Case the Dutch shall be enabled by the assistance of their Allies to recover what they have lost and to come out with as considerable a Fleet as ours 16. How considerable these Allies are and how much Christian Blood will be shed by our wilful adhering to the French 17. How unavoydable a breach with Spain will be in case we persist in our Alliance with France 18. And how fatal the consequence of a Spanish War 19. How much greater the danger will prove if the French be able to conqu●r as well Germany and Spain as the United Provinces and that no Confederacy of Princes how great and how powerful soever be a sufficient Balance to their Forces 20. And lastly How faithful our Ministers have dischrged their Trust in these great Emergences How free they have been from dependences upon Forein Courts How far they have been Jealous of their reputation in that particular What great care they have had of keeping up the Credit and the Reputation of the Triple League and of their own Masters with it Their Backwardness not to say worse in redressing or at lest declaring against all the wrongs done by the French as well to his Majesty himself as to his Subjects Their industrious indeavours and various Stratagems to engage his Majesty and the Nation in this War their Engrossing all business of concernment and concealing the most Important debates and resolutions from his Majesties Privy Council Nay their keeping it unseasonably from his great Council and putting off their Sessions lest they might cross their designs Lastly the carriage of some of them in Holland and of the care they took of the Interest both of England and of the Protestant Religion Now I call Heaven and Earth to record this day that I have set before you Life and Death Blessing and Curssing Therefore choose Life that both you and your Seed may Live FINIS