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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52836	The letter sent by the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to His Majesty, by their Trumpeter together with His Majesties answer to the said letter / translated out of French into English.; Lettre des Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas envoyee a sa majeste le Roy de La Grande Bretagne par un trompette. English	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). His Majesties answer to the letter sent from the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys by their trumpeter.	1673 (1673)	Wing N485; ESTC R3548	9,351	26

of Christendom and giving us a Peace which we had so often and so ardently desired But albeit vve had all reason to hope that the instances of a Prince who hath the honour to be so nearly related to Your Majesty and whose personal merit is so well known would at last prevail over those who are ill-affected to us and that besides we could hardly believe that after His Highnesses interests and ours were become common and were no longer separate in any thing Your Majesty would retain Your former sentiments and go about to involve in our ruine one of the most Illustrious Princes of Your bloud we have nevertheless with great sorrow seen that all these reasons have been alike weak and that Your Majesty hath not been induced by any motive to abate any thing of Your first rigour So that when we expected a favourable Answer to our Overtures it hath been declared to us at Cologne that no Peace was to be hoped unless there were accorded not onely to Your Majesty and the Most Christian King but also to the Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Munster such Conditions as never were demanded of a Free People and which can so little be proposed as Articles of Peace that they can onely be the consequences of an Absolute Conquest the subversion of the Reformed Religion of which Your Majesty and the Kings Your most Illustrious Predecessors have been the strongest Support and Defenders and which carried with them at once the utter ruine not onely of us but also of the Low-Countries belonging to the King of Spain This hath obliged us on our side after we had resolved upon a necessary defence to press our Friends to enter into a stricker Alliance with us And it hath pleased God so to bless our endeavours and the means we have used in order thereunto that the most August House of Austria hath declared in our favour and the most Serene King of Spain in particular hath concluded with us a League Offensive and Defensive in pursuance whereof he hath already declared War against the King of France Things being thus SIRE Your Majesty will easily believe that the consequences must be greater but before the evil be past remedy we thought fit to make one final essay and to assure Your Majesty that whatsoever change hath hapned in Europe our deference and respect for Your Majesty is still the same and that how considerable and how potent soever our Allies are we are not the less disposed to give Your Majesty all the satisfaction which You can reasonably pretend And we have this happiness that our Allies are of the same mind with us herein we presume therefore to hope that Your Majesty will not refuse at our request and their intercession what we have not been hitherto able to obtain And that You will not augment the desolation which is already but too universal But that we may omit nothing that may dispose Your Majesty thereunto we beseech You to reflect upon all that hath passed since the beginning of the War and at the same time to consider that it is from a particular one become general When Your Majesty engaged in it we were the onely Enemies At present a great part of Europe is no less interessed therein then we And Your Majesty cannot continue a War which hath already been so ruinous without declaring it against those who are united with us and without hazarding the Safety of all Christendom if the Arms of the King of France should be victorious through the succours given by Your Majesty to him And Your Majesty can no longer take it ill that we yield not what Your Majesty might demand of us for France since by an indispensable necessity we can no longer do it but with the agreement of our Allies So that as the General Treaty appears accompanied with many difficulties and that we foresee that it will be a means to continue this unhappy War which we desire to put an end to speedily especially with Your Majesty we shall think our selves very happy if any of these considerations may make impression upon Your Majesties mind and dispose You to resume those sentiments which we have heretofore with joy observed in Your Majesty and in which upon the reconciliation we promise to our selves we doubt not but Your Majesty will continue for ever In the mean time we pray God SIRE To crown Your Majesties Reign with felicity and to bless Your Royal Person with health and long life At the Hague the 25 th of October 1673. Your MAJESTIES Most humble Servants The States-General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countreys GASP. FAGEL By Command of the abovesaid H. FAGFL His Majesties ANSWER To the Letter sent from the STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES Of the Low Countreys by their Trumpeter HIgh and Mighty Lords Although your Letter of the ●●● 25 of October considering the present conjuncture of affairs the matter it contains and the manner of sending it by a Trumpeter when your Deputies at Cologne were in frequent Conferences with Our Plenipotentiaries there have more of the nature of a Manifest then a Letter and that consequently you may not perhaps desire to have any Answer made to it yet for the Vindication of Our Honour as well as for the undeceiving that part of the World which may be abused by it We would not suffer it to remain without a distinct Reply from point to point as they lie in your Paper which We send you by the same hand that brought Us yours and the rather because it may so have fallen out that by the great revolutions which have lately hapned in your affairs and the change of your Ministers even your selves may have taken for truth what evil-minded persons have so maliciously suggested to you thereby to seduce your own people as well as Ours There will need no great proofs to convince the World that many offensive Medalls Inscriptions and Libels were these last years past dispersed every where in your Provinces to the derogation of Our Honour and that of the whole English Nation since the notoriety of them was so universal but to this day neither We nor any body else knew you had disowned any part of them until your aforesaid Letter told Us you had at the time they were complained of to your Ambassador here caused the Stamps to be broken for fear new Impressions should be secretly made by them neither do you yet tell Us that ever you inflicted the least Punishment upon the makers or dispersers of them As to the affair of Surinam Could you make the World or Our People believe what in this Paper you affirm your selves would have out-done your Medalls and would be more injurious then they fastning a Reproach upon Us which We have been as far from deserving as you We hope will be from being believed in the accusation You say you agreed to whatsoever We demanded in favour of Our Subjects remaining at Surinam