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B08850	A remonstrance of His Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden, unfolding the grounds and causes whereby His said Majesty was constrained to continue the war brought on by the king and Kingdom of Denmark, after the peace was ratified at Roskild, but neither pursu'd nor duly observ'd by the Danes· Anno 1658.	Coyet, Peter Julius, 1618-1667.; Karl X, Gustaf, king of Sweden, 1622-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing C6734A; ESTC R36698	82,692	99

by them necessitated to it since being assail'd on all hands by so many powerful enemies he could not possibly want occasion to exercise his Military prowess Nay he was rather constrain'd by inevitable necessity to work himself out of those tempests the Danish plots had rais'd against him Truly he had not forgotten what great mischief the Muscovite had done in Leifland and how little credit was to be given to them though they talk'd so much of Peace The hazardous estate of the Protestants in Poland too with the cries of his own Subjects in Prussia imploring his aid almost every moment did deeply affect his otherwise most calm and gentle spirit The horrible injuries done him by the Austrians did irritate his generous resolution which injuries as he never provok'd or drew on himself so undoubtedly he had then resolved to take vengeance of them he pondered in his minde the Brandeburghs treacherous plots and breaches of League which would easily have mov'd any to just indignation especially since it was of so high concern to the Protestant Cause in general suddenly to withdraw him from the pernicious Society of the House of Austria But the consideration of these and other things was overpowred by the truly royal affection he bare to his Kingdom and people which would by no means permit that by chastising the injuries of others he should again expose his Countrey to the robberies and outrages of the Danes chiefly since by those unlucky delayes many fair opportunities were already elapsed that his enemies by degrees had gotten strength and those who formerly were hardly able to make any defence were now so bold as to invade and make a new War upon him and lastly that those who had purposed to be at Peace were now grown furious and threatned his utter destruction To which may be added that however his Majesty might be able to sustain the Wars brought on him by others yet he foresaw great difficulty in avoiding the Armies of the Danes and the performance of what they had contriv'd at Gluckstad especially being environed by so great a multitude of enemies Therefore he held it most necessary since he could not hinder yet to avoid and frustrate these Danish designs against Sweden and forasmuch as there was no safety but in Arms he deem'd it not unfit to exchange a War for a faithless Peace having resolv'd if God should prosper his undertakings of which the justice of his cause forbids him to doubt never to desist till he should see a faithful sincere and durable Peace restored and settled betwixt these Northern Kingdoms And though his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden had entertain'd quite another opinion of the King of Denmark he could not possibly be induced to think that a Prince formerly commended for his affection to Peace and who had sought to express the same in severall debates and overtures should now assume a contrary temper yet could he not though it was his earnest desire refrain from War which was the onely imaginable remedy to preserve himself against the treacheries of the Danes Nor is the King himself to be excus'd for he must justly be presum'd to have liked and approved what his Ministers did since through his unseasonable facility he restrain'd it not as by his authority he might and ought But as for the effusion of Christian bloud without which this business cannot be effected And therefore is guiltless of the effusion of Christian Blood as his Majesty of Sweden doth most heartily detest and lament the same so he makes no doubt but that the eternal Justice which is onely incorrupt will in its own time avenge the same on the contrivers of the Danish devices Lastly touching the desolation of the Provinces And of the desolation of Provinces and the great calamity brought on the Subjects let the Danes impute those things to themselves who having first provok'd us to Arms sued for Peace when they saw no remedy but they must be beaten to no other end then that in the mean time they might desire aid from others and disable the Swedes forces by dividing and drawing them into diverse parts at once The success of which Counsels their posterity those that shall be left of them may deplore when it is too late not without horrid execrations on their Ancestors in that they preferred a doubtful War and such as would draw nothing after it but ruine before a sincere and a secure Peace FINIS Note The Publick Acts and Records before mentioned and often cited in the Margin according to the Letters of the Alphabet being not ready for the Press shall follow with the first opportunity

and are partly manifest by conferring the Swedish and Danish projects we shall pass them over Letter R onely reciting what was the main cause of breaking off that Treaty In the Third Article of the transactions at Roskild The cause of the breaking off of that private Treaty amongst other things it was provided that the Kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark should joyntly endeavour to impead the passage of any Fleet of War through the Sound itno the Baltick Sea to the end that the King and Kingdom of Sweden together with the Kingdom of Denmark might preserve their power and command which they have alwayes joyntly held to this day in the Baltick Sea and from all prescription have reteined inviolate against all Opposers of what kinde or under what pretence soever The occasion of this caution was not onely a negotiation some years since carried on by a Resident of Poland at the Hague touching a League then to be made between the King of Poland The Danes having violared the former Treaties and the States of the united Provinces of which this was one main drift that a Dutch Fleet of War should be equipped and sent into the Baltick Sea but also the Fleet that was sent in the year 1656. contrary to the Priviledge of these Northern Kingdoms though by consent of the King of Denmark as Joynt Commander and that not onely sent through the Sound to relieve and supply the enemies of the King of Sweden by bringing in a forreign Navy into the Baltick Sea but also enforc'd by some of the Danes Men of War contrary to the Faith both of his word and writing to a great and generall mischief Which to prevent for the future and to stop the claim of any other Nations who might seek to send any Fleet into the Baltick Sea pretending a consent of one of the Joynt-Commanders of that Sea the Swedes found it necessary most effectually to oblige the King of Denmark not onely from any such consent in the future but also that whensoever any Fleet should endeavour to pass in the dislike of either of those Kings the other should joyntly oppose their passage Which the Swede would prevent in time to come For it was the intent of his S. R. M. of Sweden in case he should at any time make War upon his Enemies to secure all things behinde him and especially Sea-ward nor to permit that any State by the like Attempts in future should challenge a passage by prescription in the wrong and prejudice of those Northern Kingdoms But it is not materiall to discover at large that the Command of the Baltick Sea and consequently the power and right of prohibiting any Fleet of War doth joyntly belong to these two Kingdoms since there was never yet any dispute thereof between the said Kingdoms neither have either of the Kings at any time interposed when the other hath used or claimed his power against Intruders We have an example of this in that Renowned King of Swedes the great Gustavus Adolphus who was never controul'd or resisted whilest he destroyed that Fleet which the Duke of Fridland had provided in the Baltick Sea under the Commission of the German Emperour Ferdinand the Second In the like manner when Christian the Fourth King of Denmark gave chase to a ship which under Commission from the King of Poland would have exacted Customs near the City of Dantzick the King of Swedes never expressed any dislike The same thing is likewise testified at large by the severall writings of those Kings then published Sure it is that the Swedes might yield to the Danes desires that the third Article of the transaction of Roskild as also at Tostrup was set down in this form That no Enemy should be permitted to send a Fleet of War into the Baltick Sea But in this sense as the Danish Commissioners themselves expounded it that no forreign Fleet under what pretence soever should pass into the said Sea though not esteem'd enemy to one of the Nations and that in this case Forreign and Enemy were words Synonimous and equivalent Hence it was that to make it the more apparent in the said third Article those two appellations went together chiefly because the Danes pretended the word Enemy must therefore be added lest other States might thence apprehend matter of dislike or suspition But indeed the Danes who in their own Right and also by vertue of the Agreement at Roskild were oblig'd to jovn with his Majesty of Sweden in prohibiting all forreign Fleets from the Baltick Sea to preserve themselves from a publique guilt of violating the Peace steer'd a quite contrary course and that they might put a stop upon the procedes of the Swedes successes in War But the Danes seek to elude used all artifice to extricate and acquit themselves from that obligation Which to accomplish they thought a fit opportunity presented it self in the debates of the League wherein they might slyly elude and change that absolute Covenant of excluding forreign Fleets from the Baltick Sea into a Conditionall one or to speak plainly to defer it to a day and time not at all prefix'd For although that often cited third Article of the transaction at Roskild doth clearly affirm that either of these confederate Kings was bound not onely by all means possible to hinder the passage of any Forreign Fleet of War by the Sound into the Baltick Sea but also that no other Prince besides the said Kings should presume to furnish or use any Fleet of War in that Sea By limitting the third Article at their pleasure to have this sense yet the Danish Commissioners had the confidence to limit that Obligation in their Projects that it was to be understood when those Wars the Swede was now engag'd in should be ended and that not till then they were oblig'd to the performance as it evidently appears by the fourth and fifth Article of the Danish Projects last by them produced But this possibly might be pass'd by had they not abus'd the true and evident meaning with forc'd interpretations For whereas the Swedish Ambassadours did plainly demonstrate that that added condition or to speak truly the delaying of mutual aid was needless for that there was no intent to involve the Kingdom of Denmark in the Wars the Swedes then had in hand but rather the promis'd Assistance was onely Naval consisting in a certain definite number of ships sufficiently appointed which the Kingdom of Sweden could not stand in need of neither against the Muscovite Pole nor Emperour of Germany then King of Hungary and Bohemia forasmuch as none of these were powerful at Sea and that the League had reference onely to those who being no neighbours to the Baltick Sea should attempt to infringe the just Dominion of those Kings To which the Danes gave this answer That no Forreigner during the Swedes Wars with the Muscovite Pole or the House of Austria of the Imperial Line would dare

with other discourses of this kind wherewith the Danes flattered themselves and cherished those hopes of regaining their lost Provinces with many more into the bargain And Magnus Hoge himself Senatour of the Kingdom of Denmark may easily call to minde that he cast abroad the greatest part of these speeches But this eager desire of setting on the Swedes being so deeply rooted in the Danes could not contain it selfe in words breaking out so far that before the Peace was yet come to ripeness they endeavoured by most villanous plots and attempts to bring speedy ruine on the King and Kingdom of Sweden For whereas by the second Article of the Agreement at Roskild the Danes were oblig'd not onely that all Leagues and Covenants formerly made with any to the prejudice of the Swedes should cease if any such had been made but also they should not by any means enter into any such for the future they were so far from renouncing such Leagues that the Leagues which were at the conclusion of the Peace but shapeless issues and imperfect embryo's they have hitherto been licking into due form and perfection Whereof the faithful communication of matters between the Hungarian and Polish Agents with the Danish Ministers at Coppenhagen may serve for abundant proof if there were no other For what commerce could the King of Hungary who was afterwards Emperour of Germany have with the King of Denmark or against whom could they finde occasion to contract Leagues but against the Swedes whose ruine they unanimously conspir'd though in other respects they were very much divided It was not for nothing the King of Hungary would have his Agent abide at Coppenhagen but the hopes which the Danes had given of a League to be ratified and most solemnly kept was that which detained him there The business of Morstein is like this who was sent by the King of Poland and stayes there to this day being fed with the same hopes Hereof Beuningen gives testimony in his Letters Let. Let. III. III. where he affirms that Morstein said that he stayed at Coppenhagen waiting upon the issue of the Diet of Warsau and if a Peace were there concluded with the Muscovite that he should make some farther stay in Denmark but if otherwise he should depart Which without question he spoke to this end that he might evidence by his words and asseveration how constant the King would be found to the League with the Dane against the Swedes if not hindered by War with the Muscovite But the Transaction with the Elector of Brandenburgh was carried more secretly as if the Danes themselves had been asham'd to own their own malice and it is certain that Berlin the Minister sent by the King of Denmark like one that durst not shew his head met the Elector by night and declar'd to him the things he had in charge Of which the scope was that the King sollicited the Electour to take up Arms against the Swedes that they might be forc'd to quit Fuhnen Jutland and other Provinces of Denmark and so leave room for the Danes to begin a new War As to the united Provinces Gersdorffe high Steward of the Kingdom made a solemn promise immediately after the League was concluded to their Ambassadour then Resident at the Danish Court that whatsoever they in their streights and extremities had promised his King would never endure that any thing should be perform'd that was prejudicial to the League between the Kingdom of Denmark and the said United Provinces but rather he would preserve inviolate all things that had been agreed on betwixt them This Beuningen recounted in his Letters to the States and in many other Letters of his he hath with great pains published that inclination of the Danes to adhere to their League with them and likewise how nothing at all was kept secret from him that pass'd between the Swedish and Danish Commissioners in reference to the establishing of a League and that the King himself did not dislike that they should be secretly imparted to him But what could the States alledge to be concluded to their prejudice as they perversely and without reason expound it more then that main Article of the Treaty at Roskild to wit of prohibiting any Fleets of War to enter the Baltick Sea without the consent of both the Kings And this is the very Article to the performance whereof the Danes would not be oblig'd though they had promised it Should we further relate with what bent and eagerness they they have been contriving to slander the Swedes to other Nations and especially to the most Serene His Highness the Lord Protector of great Brittain and to convict them of breach of peace in requiring the Island of Ween it would be an endless work Thus indeed do the Danes heap blessings on the Swedes promoting their good and by all means diverting from them what might tend to their disadvantage And lest Sweden should want enemies so great is their affection to their reconciled friends the King of Denmark hath recommended several Officers by himself dismissed to the German Emperour and the Elector who were then in open War against the Swedes Now who can be so utterly void of judgement as to cast any blame on his most Serene Majestie of Sweden in that he had regard to his own security when the Peace agreed proved so unstable nor would depart with his Army ere he had what in him lay clean weeded out these ancient seeds of discord in these Northerne Kingdoms Which had been in great part effected if the Executive Treaties had been concluded with a General Act of Oblivion of what ever was past But the Danish Commissioners could never be brought to put any such thing in writing it being easily discernable what they aimed at by their bankings and delayes Since therefore the Danes have in effect violated every Article of the Treaty at Roskild The conclusion recapitulatory of the cause of continuing the War as is clearly to be collected from what hath been alledged namely the first in plotting sudden destruction to the Kingdome of Sweden by most pernicious counsells expressing all good meaning to and as much as in them lay assisting the implacable enemies of Sweden studying to enrage both their friends and foes against them the second likewise in that they were so far from quitting their Leagues formerly made to the Swedes prejudice that they have made new ones to the like tendency The third In that they would not exclude a Forreign Fleet of War from the Baltick Sea The fourth In exacting Customs and other Charges from the Swedish Ships in the Sound The fifth by complaining that the Isle of Ween belonging to Schonen was wrongfully wrested from them contrary to right and justice nor to this day have they fully delivered it up as they ought to do The sixth In detaining certain Goods belonging to the Jurisdiction and Chapter of Trundheim The eighth In drawing very many of the Nobility