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A52961	The new politicks of the court of France Under the reign of Levvis XIV. Wherein are to be seen all his intreagues, and his present manner of acting, in respect of all the potentates of Europe, to satisfie his ambition and grandeur. Made English from the original printed at Cologne, 1694.		1695 (1695)	Wing N715A; ESTC R224183	77,082	145

1682. and there openly declar'd themselves Enemies of the Apostolick See and for that the Canon Law and the Agreement made with France that the Pope should be judge of the Capacity of the Persons nominated prove moreover That the said Ecclesiasticks nomianted by the King were not Persons proper to be entrusted with the Instruction of the People but absolutely addicted to their pleasures and their worldly Interests seeing that they never scrupl'd to revolt against their Spiritual Chief and to betray the Liberty and Privileges of the Church to the end they might gain the King's Favour and augment their Temporal Means Upon this the Court of France being desirous to vex the Pope made choice of the Marquis of Lovardin for his Embassadour to Rome because he was a Known Enemy of the Apostolick See and was both able and willing to affront and molest his Holiness No wonder then if he never had Audience of the Pope seeing that according to the General Rule no Minister should be sent to a Soveraign Prince but such a one as is acceptable to the Prince with whom he is to negotiate besides that it is not sufficient for a person to be sent by a Prince to entitle him to the Prerogatives of an Embassadour but according to the Laws of Nations he must be acknowledg'd for such a one by the Soveraign to whom that Minister is sent Therefore the Court of France had no reason to complain that the Pope refus'd to give Audience to the Marquis Nor indeed would any Soveraign have suffer'd the Marquis as he did to enter Rome with Armed Force as it were to deprive him of one Part of his Sovereignty and on purpose to affront him after such a manner unheard of even among Barbarians themselves 'T is observable that when France has any occasion to court the Favour of the Holy See she sends Prelates Cardinals and Bishops for her Embassadours in regard it is a Thing both decent and becoming Ecclesiasticks to be submissive to the Pope besides that they are allow'd Admittance when Seculars are excluded But when France has a mind to affront the See she sends a Lawyer or a Sword-man who neither depends upon the Pope nor expects any Kindness from him and who dares ruffle him stoutly when it is to promote the Interests of France But France seeing the Pontiff inflexible and that he was not to be gain'd either by his Nephew nor by the Cardinals that were most Intimate with him resolv'd either to rid him out of the world or to wait for his Death But Old Age sparing France the Labour of her first design he was no sooner dead but France began her old Custom of making Parties and scattering her Louidores up and down Rome to purchase a Pope of her own Faction and the Lot fell upon a Venetian Ottoboni who took upon him the Name of Alexander VIII France thought him her Friend and attributed the whole Glory of his Election to her self But she found him to be a Venetian that is to say one that conceal'd his real Sentiments as long as he liv'd and never declar'd himself till he came to lie upon his Death-Bed but then he did it in such a Manner as was no way for the Advantage of France Now in regard he was very Old and desirous to make the best of those few Years he had to live to raise the Fortune of his Family the French Ministers fail'd not to be liberal of their inchanting Golden Philters to allure his Kindred into the Interests of the French Court But how willing soever or how Importunate to Oblige their Uncle to do something in favour of the King could never procure from him any thing more but only that while he held the Pontificate he did France neither good nor harm However the Italians say this of him That he did like the Swan that is he Sung a little before his Death Nevertheless France suffer'd patiently that petty Mortification and the loss of all her Presents to the Family of the Ottoboni in hopes to have at length a Pontiff more favourable to her Purposes At last after much canvassing most Voices were for a Neopolitan of the Family of Pignatelli whom the Cardinals of the French Faction would not exclude upon his promise to the French Cardinals that the French Court should have no reason to be dissatisfy'd with his Pontificate But being elected he forgot the Promises he had made the rather because the Imperial and Spanish Embassadours disswaded him as much as lay in their Power from the observance of ' em The Court of France therefore finding that they had to do with one that was not less weak in Mind then infirm in Body press'd it upon him that he would occasion the damnation of a great number of People that were without Pastours if he persisted in the Refusal of his Bulls to the Bishops of France who were present at the Assembly of the Clergy in the Year 1682. And at the same time the French Cardinals according to their Instructions gave the Pontiff to understand that a War was very near breaking out in Italy and that he would be answerable for the Blood that should be spilt seeing the Most Christian King's Patience was at an end and that most certainly he would withdraw himself from his Obedience to the See of Rome and set up a Patriarch in his own Kingdom and thereby retain several Millions that went every year to Rome Thereupon those Fears that usually seize People superannuated and the Delicacy of Conscience without any necessity of a Pontiff made him determine to satisfie the Court of France upon frivolous Promises that the Bishops should submit tho' to the prejudice of the Holy See since the King retracted nothing of what he had done publickly against the Authority of the Pontiffs and the Religion of the See and for that the Registers of the Parliament of Paris containing the Injurious Appeal of the King's Advocate-General still remain upon Record and for that France will one day revive it again when she finds a favourable Opportunity to humble the Court of Rome Neither the Pope nor the Holy See are to judge of the Catholicity of Lewis XIV or his Court by the Passion which he has shown in persecuting the Huguenots within his Kingdom So far from that seeing that while the French Monarch persecuted the Huguenots in his own Realm and destroy'd their Churches and their Exercises he succour'd Count Teckeli the Head of the same Sect that were revolted from their Soveraign in Hungary and the Court of France was not only more closely Ally'd for his sake with the Ottoman Port to which he also gave considerable Assistance but made Vows for the Prosperity of the Mahometans and repair'd their Mosques even as far as Vienna it self Moreover I have frequently heard the Director of my Conscience say and have heard several of the queint Doctors of the Sorbonne preach that the Fruits of the Christian Religion

and Alliance of the Emperour and the Imperial Protection for the Prince his Son when the Throne should become vacant But if the King of France prov'd unsuccessful in the main he has had his satisfaction in Part. For it is visible that his Intrigues in the Court of Poland have a long time hinder'd his Polish Majesty from being Master of Caminieck for what could else have hinder'd him but the French Louidores more especially seeing the Polanders ever since this War have had only to deal with a beaten baffl'd Enemy whom their Prince had defeated and forc'd to rise from before the Walls of Vienna with Ignominy and a Prodigious Slaughter Nevertheless these Great Advantages produc'd no great Effect tho' the Pope still continu'd his Supplies of Money to carry on the War But the reason is plain for the Pernicious Policy of the Court of France who was resolv'd to march to the Succour of the Turk her dear Confederate wrought so powerfully at the Court of Poland by means of the Queen and Great Presents that the Louidores which tarnish'd the Honour of Poland surmounted the Pope's Piety and his charitable Assistance both together Moreover the King of Poland being naturally Thrifty and rightly judging that the Prince his Son may one day have need of ready Money to hoist him into the Throne had so much power over himself and so much presence of Mind as to keep both the Assistance of Rome and the French Pension His Majesty of Poland who is a wise and an understanding Prince knows also that Money is a good Moveable at a time of Need and by a Knack of Prudence the Criticks may call it Pitiful Mechanick and below himself if they please he provides an Apple against he comes to be adry But if this be the King's Weakness 't is the Strength of the Prince his Son The Policy of France has this particular Gift that it carefully studies the Inclination of Princes the weak sides and where lies the strength of those Courts into which she strives to introduce her self and get to be Mistress of Misrule Thither she sends such Persons as are proper for the Genius of the People either as Publick Ministers or private Spies For Example to send to the Courts of Italy where Gallantry and Courtship abounds such Persons whose Principal Vertue consists in hard Drinking would be an Idle Thing and spoil all No the Court of France is more refin'dly cunning then so she reserves her Lovers of Bacchus's Liquor for the Courts of Germany where the Temper of the Climate induces the People to drink on purpose to steel their Bodies against Cold Weather and there it is that frequently between the Pear and the Cheese they strike the Home-strokes and do their Business when the Wine has warm'd their Courage As for the Court of Poland 't is a Place where neither Courtship nor the Pleasures of the Table are predominant but the Powder of Gold prevails with a witness and indeed not only there but in most part of the Courts of Europe There are few Courtiers and fewer Women so void of Ambition as to be proof against the Attacks of Money I mean that can refuse to embrace his Interests who courts 'em in Showers of Louidores They are such Irresistible Temptations to those that are short of Money as it usually happens in the Court of Poland where Money does not tumble about proportionable to the Expence and where the Courtiers are not so thrifty as the King The French Men and French Women who generally affect a Port answerable to the Grandeur of their Prince many times sacrifice their Fortunes and their Honour to render themselves useful to their Country and such are easily gain'd A Director of Conscience works Miracles upon the Minds of such People and therefore the Policy of France is very Careful to maintain French both Men and Women in the Court of Poland and the Ministers of France are so dextrous as to recommend French Men to serve him with the Character of Publick Ministers in Foreign Courts without any Expence to his Polish Majesty while France takes care to provide 'em a Maintenance and by that means the Court of France is inform'd of all that passes not only in respect of the Affairs of Poland but also of all that comes to the knowledge of the Ministers in those Courts where they reside those Ministers having sold themselves to France and only acting and actuated by the Spirit and Counsel of France their Benefactress As we have seen by Experience at the Hague during the Residence of the Sieur Moreau and of which the Proceedings against Grandval and Demont are authentick Proofs We ought to be convinc'd that France would never have pay'd those Ministers but that she receiv'd some Benefit by 'em more particularly in a time of War when she cannot send Embassadours to Princes in Confederacy against Her For tho' that France has not any publick Minister in the Courts of her Enemies nevertheless we find she is inform'd of every thing that passes there she neglects nothing but makes a dextrous Use of the Weak side of Princes that are willing to listen to her and takes her Advantage of all Opportunities 'T is the chiefest and indeed the Main Policy of France to surprize her Friends as well as her Enemies and therefore they had need be always upon their Guard and always distrustful of whatever France proposes to ' em The Kingdom of Portugal since the loss of the Battel in 1578. was possess'd by the Moors and after that by the Spaniards till the Year 1641. at what time John of Bragansa assisted by France and being the next Heir to the Crown was declar'd King of Portugal after a general Revolt of the Kingdom which not being able any longer to endure the Oppression of the Spaniards shook off their Yoke under the Reign of Philip IV. The Kings of Spain always thought they had an Ample Right to Portugal by vertue of a Donation from the Cardinal of Portugal the lawful Heir of the Crown after the Death of King Sebastian his Brother who dy'd without Issue That Cardinal being unwilling to quit the Priesthood was push'd forward by the Sollicitations of the Jesuits who besieg'd him in such a manner that they never let him rest till he had made a Donation of the Kingdom of Portugal to Philip II. King of Spain which could not be done to the Prejudice of the Lawful Heirs whom the Spaniards contrary to their Politicks suffer'd to live and grow up in Portugal Nor did they lie asleep but lay'd hold of the first Opportunity as has been already said And certain it is that France spurr'd on by her own Interest contributed toward it with all her Power for indeed the Policy of France requiring the pulling down and ruine of Spain she could not take a better Course then to dismember and rend a whole Kingdom from the Spanish Puissance in regard that Spain decreasing in Dominions