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A panegyrick to the memory of His Grace Frederick, late Duke of Schonberg ... by H. de Luzancy ...; Abbregé de la vie de Frédéric duc de Schomberg. English
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De Luzancy, H. C. (Hippolyte du Chastelet), d. 1713.
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Terrours It had no more the looks of that happy Island where Peace and Plenty Honour and Security seem'd to have seated themselves for ever King JAMES declaring himself for a Religion so inconsistent with the Laws Interests and Inclinations of the People banisht every thing that could be call'd Joy But his endeavouring to supplant the Ancient Religion to subvert the Laws and assume to himself a Power destructive of the very Constitution of this Government fill'd all Men with an incredible Sorrow The Consternation was much increast by that Declaration which put no bounds to any sort of Profaneness The Imprisoning the Reverend Prelates of this Church made them think it high time to look to themselves The Eyes the Hearts the Prayers of the Nation were all directed to him who has undertaken and perform'd our Deliverance His Majesty Came Saw and Conquer'd King JAMES But did not think the Enterprise easie or likely to succeed without a General of Reputation SCHONBERG the Famous'st Captain of this Age was the King's choice and this I take to be the highest Commendation can be given him and the finest part of that Picture which is now drawing That the Croud should spend themselves in loud Acclamations That Orators Poets and Gazetteers should noise it all the world over is indeed considerable But that King WILLIAM who has so great an insight in Men who is himself for Wisdom and Valour for Conduct and Courage the admiration of all People should trust him with the Undertaking speaks the whole Character of the Duke better than any thing that can be said of him Heaven seem'd to have prepar'd a concourse of Causes to work and hasten that astonishing Revolution which we have seen and Posterity will scarce believe Such were the Religion of King JAMES The rashness of his Counsels The laying aside his Fathers and Brothers Friends The contriving to Ridicule and Ruine a Church which is the best Support to the Crown and above all things the false Glory of imitating LEWIS the 14th in being confin'd by no Law and proceeding by Arbitrary Methods All these things made way for this wonderful change He had a numerous and fine Army He was made to believe that his Subjects would tamely yield to any thing He could not be perswaded that Englishmen would rouse at last and secure themselves and their Laws He shar'd already in his mind with LEWIS of France the Glory of extirpating the Northern Heresie But oh the Vanity of Men whose Designs fight against God and are not modell'd by the Rules of Justice and Equity His now Majesty Lands and God who takes away the Spirit of Princes left King JAMES no Resolution But this may be assur'd with Truth that the Duke's coming over helpt as much as any thing to distract his Councils The King's Forces were far from being numerous but the Name of SCHONBERG alone was an Army His Age his Reputation his Fortune gave a quick motion to the undertaking The old General had crost the Sea with chearfulness and a certain alacrity which is an undoubted sign of Victory But the Almighty would have the success wholy due to himself The Kingdom call'd in a Conqueror but was not Conquer'd or if it can be call'd a Conquest it was only of the Hearts of the Nation who Conspir'd to make themselves happy by declaring WILLIAM and MARY King and Queen But Ireland alter'd the Face of Affairs and prov'd the Seat of that War which we had so happily avoided There King JAMES found not only a retreat but also a numerous Army He overrun that Kingdom with an incredible celerity and found no resistance but in LONDON-DERRY a place where the Courage of of the Inhabitants and the Zeal of an honest Clergy man supply'd the want of Walls of Guns and all other things necessary for the maintenance of a long Siege The Duke was sent thither with Forces highly magnify'd to us or to Foreign Nations but inconsiderable in themselves Yet he undertook the charge and let the Irish know of his Arrival by the taking of Carrick-fergus Belfast and securing to his Royal Master the North of Ireland He met there with Enemies unknown to him before and which would have daunted any but an Invincible Courage and tho' the rest of that Campaign be not famous by the taking of Towns giving of Battels and other Events of noise in the world yet Envy it self must confess that to consider the thing in it self none but SCHONBERG could have done what was done the last Winter Mortality rag'd then to that degree that the greatest Defeat could not have consum'd more of his Men. The Army was reduc'd to one half and that half afflicted with infinite distempers There was scarce two thousand in the whole that did not share the common Calamity Add to this an incredible scarcity of all things and the rage of Hunger more cruel than that of the Sword Attackt from above by continual Rains weakn'd below by Mortal Diseases consum'd within with want and fac'd without with a numerous Army yet he secur'd the North of Ireland grew upon his Enemies and made way for that absolute Conquest reserv'd to our Great Deliverer He liv'd to see it and helpt to reap those Laurels which Crown'd the Sacred Head of WILLIAM the Third The River Boyn saw the Conqueror lead a Victorious Army and decide at one stroke the Fortune of that Kingdom Unhappy only in this that there the Great SCHONBERG was lost An Unknown and Inglorious hand gave him the fatal blow and depriv'd the World of one of its greatest Ornaments And this sets off the Vanity of Humane Things beyond the improvements of Eloquence No Greatness secures from the Grave and He who had run through so many dangers and left nothing to Fortune in any of the Actions of his Life is involv'd in the common Fate and dies the Death of a Private Souldier Thus Falls Frederick Duke of Schonberg Marquess of Harwich Count of the Holy Empire State-Holder of Prussia Grandee of Spain Mareschal de France General of the Forces of England France Portugal c. Who for Valour Honour and all the Accomplishments of a Great Captain if we except King WILLIAM to whose Blood all these things are Hereditary has not left his Equal behind him But all that has been said here is but one part of his Character He is as admirable in his Private as in his Publick Capacities and there is as ample a Catalogue of his Vertues as of his Exploits To be Great and Good is extraordinary and difficult To live in the Noise and Violence of Wars and yet preserve a Religious Temper and a Conscience tender of the least Evil is infinitely rare To be as intent to overcome our Selves as our Enemies is the highest improvement of Vertue all this was in the Duke to an eminent degree He was of an Affable Candid and Obliging Nature It was harder to him to deny a Favour than to another to be deny'd
MONTECVCVLIS the TVRENNES the CONDES that is the CAESARS of our Age. He had a Robust and Strong Body capable of the greatest Hardships He was Naturally Active a great lover of Exercise Healthful and Temperate to Admiration He neither Courted nor Fear'd Danger ever Himself ever Fortunate ever preventing the worst and Surmounting the greatest Difficulties He would not presume to Command before he knew perfectly how to Obey He began by the smallest charge of the Army and ow'd his Advancement neither to the advantage of his Quality being then Count of the Holy Empire or to the Credit of his Friends but to his own Personal Merit He did not Court but Command his Advancement and so distinguish'd himself as to fix the eyes of Europe upon him and perswade the World that he had no Obstacle but his Religion to the greatest Honour that France could give him But omitting the particular account of what he did in an Inferiour Station as that that would change a Panegyrick into History and swell a Discourse into a Volume we shall only praise what seems most considerable Thus laying aside Bourbourg then a most important place to the French defended by the DUKE against two powerful Armies which he forc'd by his Conduct to Raise the Siege and the tedious Wars of Rousillon What more Glorious or Successful What more Wise and Fortunate than the business of Portugal That Kingdom had fallen into the hands and remain'd some years under the Command of Spain A happy Conspiracy if that Name can be given to the Asserting the Liberties and securing the Throne of a Nation broke at last the fatal Yoke But the grief of losing the Fruit of an Usurpation to which time had given the face of a good Title rais'd the Fury and stirr'd up the whole Power of the Spaniards Besides the Natural Strength of that People who are generally Brave and Great they had Peace with France They were easily perswaded that their united Forces would quickly oblige their Enemy to return to their Obedience Thus they pour'd their vast Armies into the very Bowels of Portugal and had almost put a period to the War and to that strange Revolution It was then and not before that the Duke was sent to Command what Forces the Distressed Portugueses could make His Name rais'd their drooping Spirits His Valour made 'em Brave and his Conduct Wise He retook their Towns and beat their Enemies in all the Rencounters he had with them He overcame them in several Battels But in the last wherein Don Juan of Austria had receiv'd vast Reinforcements from Spain and was resolved either to perish or secure that Country to his King who had been at so vast an Expence of Blood and Treasure to preserve it He Defeated him so absolutely that he never appear'd more The Spaniard was forc'd to accept of a Peace which before the Duke's coming he could not be prevail'd upon to grant to Treat with those he had call'd Rebels as with his Equals and to acknowledge Portugal a Free and an Independent Kingdom All Europe was amaz'd at this The Poets and Orators fill'd the World with his Praises France who is equitable to none but those whom they think will advance their Interests was just to him in that point Lewis the Invincible who shall be so till William the Third can meet him in the Field sent to offer him the Baston of Mareschal de France a Dignity which is to this day the greatest Reward of Merit in Christendom as Ancient as that Monarchy and never paid but to Eminent Services But indeed it was offer'd on a Condition which the Duke rather than accept would have forfeited all the Glory of his past Life It was desir'd of him that he would leave the Religion of his Ancestors and be of that of the Prince who employ'd him This was urg'd with all the earnestness imaginable and such Insinuations added to it as would have shaken the constantest Man But oh the Power of Honour and Religion oh the Resolution of a setled Mind The Duke answer'd the King That he thought himself extremely unhappy that his Majesty should have so ill an Opinion of him as to think that all that is Great in the World could make him change his Religion That if upon such low Motives he abandon'd the Service of the God of his Fathers he should deserve the scorn of all Men and in particular of his Majesty And that he who was not true to God could never be faithful to his Prince Thus he declin'd the Splendid Offer and shew'd a Soul that was proof against the most pressing Temptations of Mankind But his Merit a short time after forc't that Dignity from their hands The vast Designs of France made them dispence with their Bigottry They were sensible that those Men carry'd Success and Victory at their heels That King then sent him the BASTON without any other condition than that of serving his Prince and could but admire his Generosity equal to a Great Man of the same time in all other parts but much greater in this that the other was overcome lost first his Religion and shortly after his Fortune with his Life CATALONIA and FLANDERS saw him with this increase of Honour In the one he represt the Insolence of the Spaniard In the other he laid the foundation of those Conquests which like a rapid stream did since overrun the Spanish Netherlands He oblig'd the Heroe of this Age to raise the Siege of Maestrick when nothing but a Surrender was expected His vast Skill in Military Affairs made the Souldier bold and secure under him No attempt seem'd difficult if but done by his Command He was the Love as well as the Terror of his Enemies For no General was ever so averse from Violence even against those he had vanquisht The War was never with him what it is now with some Generals the other side of the Sea where burning of Towns laying a whole Country in Ashes and sparing neither Age nor Sex is lookt on as a great commendation to Posterity The furious Zeal of the common Disturbers of Mankind I mean the Jesuits having rais'd a violent Persecution against the French Protestants The Duke was involv'd in their Fate and forc'd to leave a Service so highly Honour'd Advanc'd and Oblig'd by him His Great Soul would not suffer him so much as to complain He was mov'd with every bodies loss but his own and pity'd those unfortunate Counsels which depriv'd a Prince of so many of his best Subjects His Imperial Majesty had some thoughts to offer him the Command of his Armies But this was soon obstructed by the Jesuits Faction a sort of Men whom it is even dangerous for Crown'd Heads to disoblige Several other Princes courted him to their Dominions His Duty carry'd him to the late Elector of BRANDENBOVRGH a Wise a Religious a Brave and a Fortunate Prince ENGLAND then began to be distracted not with Fears and Jealousies but real