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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51952	A brief enquiry into leagues and confederacies made betwixt princes & nations, with the nature of their obligation composed in the year 1673, when England and France were confederates in a common war against Holland, and England made a separate peace with Holland, leaving France engaged in the war / by Sr. P.M.	P. M., Sr.	1682 (1682)	Wing M64; ESTC R17527	10,436	28

break his Faith with an old One and where Contracts prove repugnant one to another the first stands good the second is a nullity If it be said there has been a violation of the League on the part of that Prince by his giving Assistance to an Enemy As in the Case now before us Spain assists Holland with whom England is at War To this will be answered Spain assists not Holland against England but against France And never did any League or Treaty forbid a Prince or can forbid him to assist his Friend against his own and his Friend 's Common Enemy for this were utterly to subvert the fundamental Principels and Maxims of all Political Prudence and Reason But Secondly though this Accident of a new War arising with another Prince was supposed yet many others as weighty as that may fall out wholly unforeseen for t is not possible for humane understanding to Enumerate all future Contingencies Peradventure the disposition of a Prince's Affairs at home the temper of his People some important Considerations of a private nature and not sit to be Published may render a peace Absolutely Necessary of which the Prince is the sole Judg. And if upon serious and mature thoughts he finds his Inducements Real not Feigned Weighty not Frivolous not Levity or Inconstancy in the Case but Necessity and such a one as he suffers under not sought for by him to palliate a fraud If upon such Circumstances he Treats a Peace exclusive of his Confederate who upon notice given him refuses to be Included especially if just and honorable Conditions be offered him from his Enemy the adequate End of all just Arms and which when rejected may make a War Originally just become unjust I say in so doeing the Faith and Honour of the Prince remain unblemish'd Nor is it any more Imputation to him then to the Master of a Ship bound upon a Voiage though it requires haft not to put out to Sea when the Wind is contrary or to put back to Port when the Storm arises For no supposed Covenants Stipulations or Conditions may be admitted to interpose betwixt the safety and welfare of a Prince or People all such are directly contrary to the Intention of the Contractors and the End of the Contract And are nothing but Words depraved and distorted from their genuine meaning by the Artifice of them who would either preserve or aggrandise themselves by anothers Ruine And as no humane understanding can Enumerate all future Accidents so no finite being can engage its self against all future Invents This is a task onely for Omniscience and Omnipotence for an infinitely extended Wisdom which overtakes Futurities and for a Power Commensurate to that Wisdom The Honour of a Prince which is his moral Conscience is too Nice and Delicat a thing for the ungentle touch of a private hand And t is difficult to give a particular solution to all the Phaenomena without an exact knowledg of the Original Treaties with their Relatives Dependencies and Circumstances wherein the Honour of the Prince is supposed to be concernd But this may be confidently affirm'd if one Prince shall measure the obligation of his Leagues and Treaties with forrain Nations by the Standard of his own Interest and no longer abide by them then they abide that test And in so doing justify himself by the Common Practice and Usage of the most Civilised Nations in all ages whilst the other is tied up to all the niceties punctilios of Words heightned by an Interessed Casuist this scrupulous Prince will be subjected to mighty disadvantages and be fast bound when the other is lose Now that the Practice and usage of Nations has been such is a plentiful Topic in History and a larg Feild to expatiate in It may suffice in this place slightly to touch some few Instances See Thuan. Cambd. Ann. Henry the Fourth of France made a League offensive and defensive with Queen Elizabeth of England and the States Gen. of the United Provinces with Express Covenants that no one should make Peace with Spain without Consent of both the others The Treaty was solemnly ratified at Paris with many Vows and Protestations made by the King in the presence of the Earl of Shrewsbury the English Ambassador and repeated in sundry Letters under his own hand to the Queen to whom he also owed a great debt of gratitude for many signal kindnesses and seasonable supplies of Men and Moneys Yet afterwards finding his People tired and exhausted with continual Wars which had lasted Forty Years and having good Conditions offered him from Philip of Spain he signifies to the Queen and States his disposition to a Peace And though secretary Cecil from hence and Barnevelt from the States were sent expresly to him to confirm him in the League who spared not to press home upon him the Faith thereof and that not without some sharp expostulations Yet that King excused himself by the importunity of his Affairs protesting that his refusal of a Peace with Spain would involv him in Commotions at home That the Law of Nature prefer'd self preservation That the Kingly office will'd his Peoples good should be the supreme Law That Christian Duty required the sparing of Christian Bloud And so concluded a seperate Treaty at Vervins and left the Queen and the States to prosecute their War against Spain In the Year 1635 began the open rupture of the Peace made at Vervins and War was solemnly proclaimed betwixt the two Crowns of France and Spain From which time sundry Treaties were made betwixt France and the States General for carrying on a Common War against Spain their Common Enemy with defences of the one to make a separate Treaty without comprehension of the other Yet the States Gen. awakened at length to discern that the Lower the Spanish Scale was depressed the higher that of France would be lifted And that whiles they enlarged their Border upon the Spanish Netherlands They fought themselves the nearer to France And that as it was necessary for them on the one side to maintain Banks for securing their low Countries against Inundations of the Sea so it was as needful for them on the other side to preserve a Spanish Barriere in Flanders interpofed betwixt them and the Impetuous overflowing torrent of a French Power They at last embraced the Honorable and Advantages Conditions tendred them and Concluded a Peace with Spain Which though France resented and Monsieur Servient the French Plenipotentiary at Munster could tel them That though he had but one eye he could see that one day they would Repent it Yet the States thought themselves out of Pupillage and Capable to Judg their own Concerns in the last resort Nor did they think it reasonable that France should be the sole Arbitrator of Peace and War not onely for themselves but for their Allies also They did nod exclude France from the Peace but France would not be Included And they conceived the French King had no more reason to formalise against them for Concluding a separate Peace then the States had to be offended with Him for carrying on a separate War which continued near twelv Years longer down to the Treaty at the Pirenees in the Year 1659 Both had equal Right of Judging and of Chusing what they Judged their proper Interest And Qui jure suo utitur nemini facit Injuriam Frederic the third of Denmark being confederated with the Pole and Brandenburger against Sueden under Strict defenses of entring into a separate Treaty without the inclusion of the other Allies yet the Suedish King having made that Miraculous March over the Frozen Seas into Zeland the Dane impelled by the Necessity of his affairs Concluded that memorable Treaty at Roschild which under the Mediation of England and France saved Denmark And his Father Christiern the fourth had done the like in the Year 1629 when worsted by the Imperialists after he had Confederated with the Princes of Saxony Pomeren and Mecklenburgh In both which Cases there was a force put and a-Moral Necessity which resolved into this Quicquid Cogit excusat But what shall we say to the aforementiond Treaty at the Pirenees where France Covenanted by Article to abandon Portugal and send them no more succours of Moneys Men Munition c. contrary to former Conventions with that Crown and that upon no Cogency of their Affairs for they were then in a Flourishing Condition but in exchang for several advantagious Concessions from Spain of which when France was in Possession that Article was soon superseded But this is nothing to my purpose Neither am I Willing to inlarge further because I did not design a ful Tract but onely a Brief and Modest Enquiry FINIS