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A55316	The politician discovered, or, Considerations of the late pretensions that France claims to England and Ireland, and her designs and plots in order thereunto in two serious discourses / by a true Protestant and well-wisher of his countrey.	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2767; ESTC R23435	23,653	54

very great Oversight to suffer themselves to be charmed by your Flatteries and Cozenages When as Queen Elizabeth redemanded Calais for just Reasons she then alleged the French resolved rather to endure a War wherewith she menac'd them than to surrender it Because saith the same Laboureur there was a double danger one to suffer our ancient Enemies to get footing in the Continent of France and then too because they are Hereticks who would always have a Faction in the State to revive their old Quarrels at pleasure and that it more concern'd us now than heretofore to shut them up with their new Religion on the other side the Sea This was done in the Sale of Dunkirk and if any other place offer it self to purchase France will be no Higler but purchase it at any rate supposing she be discharged of her Wars with Spain Again Queen Elizabeth insisting still upon the Restitution of Calais and speaking of it unto Sancy he after several shifts and excuses By God Madam quoth he can Tour Majesty be so simple as to imagine the King my Master would give you Calais again Which Answer touching her to the quick she demands Bouloigne in lieu of it The King who foresaw the Consequence of the English setting footing once more on French Ground commanded her to be told That he had rather the King of Spain should give him a Box on the ear than the Queen of England should give him a Filip And in troth she had not Calais when the term of Eight Years was expired although according to Treaty it was then to have been surrendred or Hostages and sufficient Security for payment of Five hundred thousand Crowns promised her in case of Non-performance But as usual they fail of their Words and the good Queen onely recovered Six score thousand Crowns at the Treaty of Troys Thus Calais is once again become French France loves her own Repose and Glory too much ever to part with it and the Subjects as well as their Prince are too much in love with it to suffer it slip out of their hands I speak but the very words of the Cardinal of Lorrain There is no Frenchman saith he but would rather hazard his Life than advise the King to surrender Calais and would not more willingly sacrifice his whole Estate than once give his consent thereunto This was spoken like a true Frenchman and their Neighbours should resent such daring Expressions as tenderly as they themselves do if there be any thing of credit in what S'aavedre reports That the Prince's Acquists enhaunce his Dread and Reverence but what he forgoes redounds to his contempt and scorn Francis I. would never engage himself with Charles V. against England fearing left in the Conquest of this Kingdom it should happen to him as it did in the Conquest of Naples between Ferdinand of Arragon and Lewis XII The Emperour being unable to brook an Equal and himself a Superiour Besides Francis should have drawn upon himself a more potent Enemy than him of whom he was rid the Leopards of England being no less terrible than the Eagles of the Empire or the Lions of Castile Yea the Spaniards stifly seconded the English in their demands of Calais confessing That they ought not to abandon them and that if they were not protected they very well knew Spain would be next ruin'd so that their own Losses would be greatest This is written by the Cardinal of Lorrain Spain then reason'd solidly and judiciously In prospect of this Henry VIII coined Medals of Gold on whose Reverse a Hand appeared out of a Cloud holding a Pair of Balances in equilibrio the two Scales whereof signified France and Spain with this Motto He wins on whose side I turn Queen Elizabeth governed her self by the same Maxim and assisted Henry IV. so long as he was weakest but seasonably forbore when once she saw him start up beyond his just and proper bounds and at that time told Sully That neither France nor England nor any others had any thing to do with the Low Countries and that she would never endure the French King should gain so much as one inch of ground there And when as Pope Clement VIII told Cardinal Ossat that England hated France implacably he replied At this time England hates Spain more and that they ought now to regard the present state of Affairs which had united both French and English against a common Enemy by one common Interest which was evermore the strongest and securest band among all States and Princes This Reason which once serv'd the turn of France shall at another opportunity do Spain a kindness Because Kingdoms are not to be reputed strong or weak as they be in themselves but as they hold comparison with their Neighbours and from proportion wherewith they are adjusted one unto another Du Plessis sent this Message to Walsingham in England not to abandon Henry IV. nor the German Protestants Let 's see whether we may not use those self-same words to evince the true Interest of England Charles I. was convinc'd of it and Charles II. hath been also and will be possibly yet more when like a great and deep Statesman he shall be pleased to penetrate into the future And it is not to be doubted by the way he begins to take and by what he had done formerly in Person at the Head of his Army that he will not suffer himself to be over-reach'd by false Reasonings nor give his Slanderers occasion to say of him as of his Grandfather King Iames That he knew not how nor ever cared to manage businesses nor would once put his hands to dispatch them till such time as both means and opportunities had quite forsook him I don't doubt but that Charles our gracious King who now reigneth will recollect what happen'd how and by whom unto his Father and what manner of Treatment he met withall in France even with no less than Banishment And for all possible Allurements from the French he may be fully confident of receiving the same measure from them again if the same occasion were which God forbid or if he quit Spain with his own true Interest and that of his Kingdom which subsists by Commerce to imbrace the Humours and Private Interest of half-sighted and corrupt Ministers France debitting none other Commodities than her Brandies and Apish Gewgaws in lieu of those substantial Merchandizes England hath of her own and importeth for all Quarters of the habitable World And when Realities are forsaken and Deceits and Cheats taken immoderate and restless Spirits do ordinarily take hold of such sensible Arguments to alienate and imbitter the Hearts of the People which though frequently too too querimonious yet gracious Princes without humouring them in all their childish Cravings will nevertheless comply with all that shall be manifestly for their solid Good It were a pleasant story to relate the Civilities of France to Edward IV. who being at a pinch and driven out of

his Kingdom by a Competitor and applying himself to one of their Kings for Assistance could get none other Answer than this That the League was made with the King of England and his State but he being no longer King of England France could not without violating the Articles of that League imploy their Arms against him who was then actually possessed of the Crown They discharged themselves of him very handsomly and 't was a fine piece of Raillery God forbid we should be misinterpreted to give these as sawcy Omens that which we give as plain and sincere Items not to rely upon the French Amity which will prove a broken reed in case of need as former and later Examples convince us Yet this Fear is groundless in our days thanks be to God for Charles is a Prince so August of so much Justice and withall so well acquainted with the World as to that point that he will not neglect the Glory redounding to him from those Victories he may atchieve with a wet Finger by treading in the Footsteps of his renowned Ancestours Above all it 's then most needful to use such means when as a Sovereign Prince is grown so puissant by his Arms that the progress of his Victories do make him terrible to his Neighbours The Duke of Roan gives the same Advice in his Interest of Princes Thus I have endeavoured to lay open Monsiuer and his Policies if our Eyes will be but open to see ' em And though we have proposed such ways and measures of attacquing the French in part of their own Dominions which may not be deemed to be at this Juncture so practicable as if we should rather go about to weaken 'em by helping their Enemies and our Allies yet that is an Executive part and fitter for other persons to direct and prescribe Our Design here being onely to make such an Answer as we thought the fittest to brow-beat that domineering Nation we judged that the aptest and shortest way to refute their Contumelies and shallow Pretensions on England was plainly to raise a Counter-battery of other Pretensions on France which are more grounded to speak to them like Britains or old Englishmen to borrow some strong Arguments ad hominem from both the Edwards Quiver to manifest that we are not so weak as to stand a scanning it with 'em Scholar-like with a weak Pen but rather Man-like to shew that we are more ready to make an Answer with our Swords and with the point of it to prick this Bladder of Ambition which so vainly puffs 'em up in conceit above their Neighbours whom they so presumptuously despise slander and would trample under as if they forgot that the English are the same when e're put to it that they felt 'em to be at Poictiers at Guyenne and many other places in France in the days of old But if they or any of them in England will take offence at any thing that 's said here we say 't is but a Retaliation to their Writers If they say that their Writers spoke but their private sense then let this pass for such another piece For I protest no publick or private person ever moved me to it but the meer disinterested Affection I bear to my Countrey and I am so far from having any particular grudge against the French on any account such as the Common People usually have they know not why that I declare they have been far more just and grateful to me than England it self But let that pass and if the French will or must own that the French Politician and these other Defamatory Memoirs came from the Closet of publick persons and were spirited and are followed by such in their present courses we Englishmen do likewise for our parts whatever has been here said by way of Argument and to shew Frenchmen that we want neither Eyes Feeling nor Courage submissively and wholly leave it to our Sovereign and his Counsellors to return a more fit and publick Answer to France in this point in their own due time For we are not unsensible that those that sit in eminent places have a larger and clearer prospect of things than others so that the word of Command and Motion is to be always expected from them as from the head but sometimes persons that stand on a far lower ground may have a more particular knowledge of some Gaps and Precipices which are just within their own reach and precinct And even a Courrier or Scout may without reflexion to his Generals make a report touching the matters of fact he has observed in his course on the borders of the Enemy and also what he thinks of their next Motions by what he hath heard or seen among themselves FINIS ☞ The Jesuit's Catechism according to St. Ignatius Loyola for the instructing and strengthening of all those which are weak in that Faith wherein the impiety of their Principles perniciousness of their Doctrines and iniquity of their Practices are declared Printed for Robert Harford at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange in Quarto Price 1 s. ☞ Humane Prudence Or the Art by which a Man may raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur By A. B. sold by Robert Harford at the Angel in Cornhil price 1 s.