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A60229	The second part of The minister of state Written by Monsieur de Silhon, secretary to the late Cardinal Richelieu. Englished by H. H.; Ministre d'estat. Part 2. English.	Silhon, sieur de (Jean), 1596?-1667.; Herbert, Henry, Sir, 1595-1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S3782A; ESTC R217588	210,755	207

Letters in the year 1623. which the Duke of Baviere also Confirmed by his Letters and signified the King He understood that it was only for his Life that his House should Enjoy th' Electoral Dignity and that h' had Accepted it upon Condition of Return to th' House from whence it was taken and should be the Privilege of his Person and not th' Inheritance of his Heirs It was th' Allay that was alwaies Presented to the King of England and wherewith he Suffered himself alwaies to be Surprized And his Inclination naturally disposed to the Sweetness of Rest and to the Delicacies of Peace was Easily diverted by that shew which was made of giving him Content from the Thoughts of Warr which were not Natural to him In th' Expectation of th' Effects of those hopes he finished his Life which from time to time were renewed unto him And th' Earl of Gondemar who had seized upon the Kings Understanding and taken Soveraign Possession of it to Govern him absolutely knew how to represent th' Execution of that Affair so infallible as not only t' Hinder the King from Arming against the Usurpators of his Son-in-Laws Lands but Enclined him also to Lend Ships to his Master to secure against th' Hollanders the Spanish Fleets which Sailed from th' Indies That business hath ever since been in the same Condition on th' Emperours part and stood alwaies floting in Irresolution and Incertitude till the Accident of Northlinghen which was fatal to the Swedes The grearest part of the Princes and free Towns of th' Empire fell from their Confederation and Conspired at Prague with th' House of Austria against the German Liberty Th' Emperour High and Proud with his prodigious Success and believing himself Master of Affairs and Fortune forgetting the Promises he had so Solemnly made to the Late King of England and the Faith h' had so often given him in Favour of his Son-in-Law though nothing had passed against him on that Princes occasion nor by the Means of his Children but a Sad and Lamentable Progress of Calamity and of Disgraces declared by his own Authority though he could not Lawfully do it but by th' Authority of a Lawfull Dyet and all Parties heard declared I say Th' Electorate duely Translated to the Duke of Bavaria and to his Heirs and that it could not Devolve t' any other Family till his was Extinguished Moreover He declared th' Opposition made by the Duke of Newbourge as Prince of the Palatine Family to be Void and that he was not to b' admitted upon his Claim And that this was done upon great and important Considerations known t' his Imperial Majesty That he Maintained and Confirmed in the Partition and Possession of the Palatinate them Wh ' had taken it in his Name and by his Authority with Respect to b' had to the Count Palatines and to the Requests of Princes who should Intercede for them and under such base and shamefull Conditions That he knew well they would never b' Accepted But remembring the Bloody affront done to the present King of England and the Counterpoise that he might bring to the Ballance where the Victory hung betwixt two Parties if he should declare for his Enemy Remembring also the Damages the Low-Country-men would receive in the Cessation of the Recruits th' English might bring them And other Consequences that might arise from th' Hatred of a Prince provoked to Revenge by frequent disdains offered unto him and by th' Extreme injuries done t' his Nephews He re-assumed the Foxes skinn which h' had put off at the Treaty of Prague and Exercised the first Art wherewith h' had so often play'd his Game with the Father t' abuse the Son and to suspend the Resolution he might take to seek by Force what had been denied t' his Intercession and Endeavours He made shew then of Entertaining the profers of Accommodation which were made to Him He received the King of Englands Message for that purpose and seemed to desire a Solemn Embassage t' yield with the greater Honour and to give the more Glory to the Treaty he would Conclude But th' Journey of th' Earl of Arundel The several Distast●rs which he there received and the Dissatisfaction which at last he brought back made Clearly manifest to the World the Truth of th' Emperours Intentions and that it was a studied Artifice to gain Time and to try the Fortune of Warr with the more Advantage having to do with the fewer Enemies I speak not of what hapned to the last Ambassadour that was sent from England nor of the success of his Embassy which hath not given the Lye to the former 'T is a matter too new and present to b' unknown by any Person And this may be said in favour of th' House of Austria That it being necessary the Treaty to be Concluded should be debated by the King and Parliament of the Kingdome The time was not proper for it whilst the King and his Parliament were divided That truly is not without Reason and plausible Pretence but the secret of th' Affairs is That so long as the Schism shall last and the Fire which th' English have kindled in the midst of their Country be maintained in Heat and Force The King of Hungary and they of his Party have no Cause to fear their Arms nor t' hasten a Treaty And if it b' Expedient that they treat in Earnest it may be time enough when th' English have reassumed their former Union and the design of restoring the Palatines House and re-establishing of the Princes th' Emperour and his Adherents had stripped to their Shirts That whilst they run th' Hazard of the Warr either they may gain so Considerable Successes and their Power may Encrease so Plentifully That when England shall enter into the League which all sorts of Reasons d'invite it to do and to Joyn his Forces with the Forces of the Confederates They would have nevertheless Cause t' hope for Victory and should not b' obliged to part with that Willingly which they could not take from them by Force These Prejudications which are Offered accompanied with many others shall be set down in the Third Part may suffice to make it appear to our Confederates what Foundation they can raise upon the Duration of particular Treaties to which th' House of Austria doth press and sollicit them And the Swedes above all Persons whom they would debosh from the Confederation of France and against whose Faith they raise their strongest Batteries and Arm their subtilest Artifices are too Dextrous to b' ignorant of the constant Resolution and immoveable Will of those Princes of that House not to Suffer them having advanced their Power so far into Germany to take deep Root there or that so Powerfull a Member and of so Warlike a Nation should b' adjoyned to th' Empire I believe also that they doubt not as to what respects the Duration and Subsistence of the particular Treaty they should have made with

of a Remedy and t' Insist upon it till it be concluded in the project of a General Peace That it be not declined till it be Accomplished and in such a Defensive League as I 've here above described But lest that in Threatning them with the License which is said Th' House of Austria gives it self to violate all Treaties whose Observation is Damageable and the not Observation Advantagious unto it I may give them a false Alarm and raise fear from a false Imagination It may be that 't is as Carefull to perform what she Promiseth and particularly when the Name of God is Interposed as it hath been th' other specious Apparences of Piety and th' out-side of Exemplary Religion And that it Aims at nothing more than a good Peace and that its Intention is when it hath gained this Haven to put it self no more in danger for the Future unless it be forced upon so Dangerous a Sea as the Warr. I will demonstrate here the Contrary and make it Evident That in truth it gives it self that License and that it doth abuse the Name of God and plaies with the Publick Faith when their Interests require it more than any Prince of the World For this purpose I do not intend to play the Orator nor to make use of an Art which boasts of her Colours and lights to Change when it pleaseth the state of Things and to make them seem Great or Little Fair or Ugly when it shall seem good unto Her This is as much Estranged from my Humours as 't is above my Forces And I do Heartily renounce an Exercise which I should discharge Unhandsomely if I did undertake it I will not here neither produce all the Breaches of the Treaties which this House of Austria hath made nor all th' Infidelities wherewith it hath stained its Conduct Great Volumes are only capable to Contain them I will touch only upon somewhat more Modern as more Sensible and upon what hath passed in these latter times in Germany and Italy As t' Italy who knows not that the last Warrs the Spaniards have made to the Duke of Savoy Grand-father to this Duke have alwaies budded from the Breach on their part of th' Treaties which preceded And so soon as the fear of th' Evil which had Obliged them for Accomodation was over and that the hope of th' End which they had Proposed to their Arms began to Revive They lost the Memory of the Peace they had Sworn and made no Difficulty to renew the Quarrel and to re-kindle the Disorder at the Charges of their Faith and against all Justice So that what Intervened betwixt two Warrs was not so much Peace as a Suspension of Arms nor the Cure of the Feaver as the Remission of th' Access The fire was Covered under th' Ashes but Dyed not in th' Intention of the Spaniards and it hapned t' all that Affair as to Wounds ill Dressed which often break out It was renewed frequently And that Game lasted till new Accidents made the Spaniards take new Designs and that the Troubles of Germany allayed them of Italy I speak not here of the Peace of Suza which they Violated without other Colour than that they were Necessitated to do 't for th' Interest of their Reputation nor of th' Ingratitude wherewith they requited the Courtesie which the King did in their behalf and that rare Moderation which made him bound his Prosperity by the delivery of his Allies and permitted him not t' Overcome but where it found Resistance It hath been spoken of in another place and shall be Spoken of more fully in the Third Part. I remit also to speak there of the Treaty of Cuirasque which the Necessity of the German Affairs forced from them rather than the Love of the Peace of Italy And to which the Resolutions of the Dyet of Ratis●one and th' Entry of the King of Swede into Germany where th' Evidences of the Tempest did them Appear which hath since fallen upon th' House of Austria forced them to consent and to set their Hands with design not t' observe it so soon as they had sent us over the Mountains as shall be declared at large in th' Apology of th' Acquisition of Pignero● I will not also Revive here the Deceits they practised towards the Venetians and th' Alterations they gave them upon the business of th' Uscoques It were to repeat but what hath been said I pass also in silence the various ●ricks which at several times they put upon the Grisons and th' Artifices and open Force wherewith they have s ' often assaulted their Liberty against the Faith of the Treaties made with them and with their Allyes That will be seen in the Third Part in th' Apology of the Treaty of Moncon where I give a very Exact Table of th' Affairs of that Common-wealth I come to them of Germany and to what passed upon that Scean not less Famous by the Treaties than by the Warrs which were managed there Who knows not that the Peace of Ulmes Concluded by the Mediation of France gave Means to th' Emperour t' Ease himself of the Weight of the Warr under which he Groaned and t' unravel the Perplexities from which he could not be dis-intangled but by that Expedient And who knows not also That he observed it no longer than was Necessary for to prepare for a Warr which he resolved in Swearing the Peace And that the Ruine of the Count Palatine and of his Friends proceeded only from the Confidence they raised in that Treaty and from that Ruinous Foundation whereupon they trusted as upon an Holy Anchor by the Right of Nations by the Reverence of the Name of God which therein was Interposed and by th' Authority of so Great a Mediator as the King of France After the Gain of the Battel of Prague and that fatal Series of Prosperities which follows great Victories After that th' Imperial Arms had Triumphed over all that favoured the Palatines party and that the Count of Tilly and Marquiss of Spinola had stripped Naked that unhappy Prince Th' Emperour transferred his Electorate to the Duke of Baviere and divided his Country between him and the King of Spain But it being pretended that the Formalities Ordained by the Golden Charter and by th' other Pragmatique Sanctions had not been observed in that Translation and Partition and for fear that proceeding which they supposed to be Violent should Offend th' other Electors by a common Interest and Provoke the King of England to a Revenge and to Prosecute the Reparation of th' Out-rage done to his Son-in-Law Th' Emperour protested in the Dyet of Ratisbone in the year 1662. That h' had transferred th' Electorate to th' House of Bavi●re for the Dukes Life only that was Invested with it And for what Concerned the Palatinate he would make Reparation to the Count Palatine and give Satisfaction thereupon to his Friends He gave the same Assurances to the King of England by his