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The Congress at The Hague
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hang'd the next Day for having revolted against their Captain Brill is not a Town that can pretend to divert impatient Travellers Every body was thinking of means to get out of that solitary Place and my Lord Monmouth whom all the World knows to be very Active and of a Temper to despise all Perils had a good mind to venture over without a Convoy At last he found a way to oblige two French Privateers the only name we ought to have been afraid of to secure our Passage To speak plain there were two French Privateers of twenty Guns each riding in the Maese that had been taken by the Dutch and being turned into Merchant men and man'd with French Protestants they were ready to set sail for Port-a-port by the help of a handful of Guinea's they were prevailed with to accompany us to the English Coast And my Lord Dorset and Mr. Wharton being arriv'd at the Brill in the Katherine-Yacht and approv'd of our Design we set sail about four a Clock in the Afternoon We were in all six Sail two Yachts two Privateers and two Merchant-men and the Katherine-Yacth being the stout Admiral of our little Fleet we had these following Orders sent us from on Board of her 1. If we weigh Anchor in the Day-time then we will hoist up our Top-sail and fire a Gun if in the Night we will hang out a Light in the Shrowds and fire a Gun 2. He that spies any Sail at Sea more than his own Company or Squadron shall hoist and lower his Ensign as often as he shall see Ships if in the Night then to make false Fires until he be answer'd with the like 3. In case of thick and foggy Weather we will every quarter of an Hour tinckle our Bell or fire a Gun now and then which must be answer'd with the like by every Vessel with a Musquet 4. If any lose Company and meet again in the Day-time he that is to the Windward shall hall up his Main-Sail and keep it in the Brayls until such time as he that is to Leeward shall come up with him 5. If any make Land in the Day-time he must hoist up his Ensign and keep it out until he be answered 6. If any spy Land or any Danger in the Night he is to hang out two Lights more than he had before and fire one Gun and bear away or tack from it 7. If we make Sail in the Night we will hang out a Light at the Ensign-Staff if shorten Sail in the Night then we will fire one Gun without altering our Lights We cou'd not get that Night out of the River the Wind being very low and the Tide spent and we were forced to come to an Anchor about seven a Clock at Night five or six Miles beyond the Brill where we continued for two Days and two Nights together March the 12th We weigh'd Anchors early in the Morning making use of a fresh Gale that blew North-east insomuch that having advanced that Day and the following Night we came the next Morning within two Leagues of Marget March the 13th The Sea was extremely calm yet the Katherine-Yacht making use of her Oars and we striving to follow her we came at last so neat the Shoar that my Lord Dorset and Monmouth with their Company thought fit to land in their Barges March the 14th A thick Fog hindred us to gain the River but towards Night we weigh'd Anchor and having weigh'd and cast them out again for several times acording as the Tides serv'd it being the only means by which we advanc'd we arriv'd March the 16th at Greenwich and from thence we went to London FINIS Books Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane THe Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant Containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu To which is added a Particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happen'd the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or the Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy Victoriae Anglicanae Being an Historical Collection of all the Memorable and Stupendious Victories obtain'd by the English against the French both by Sea and Land since the Norman Conquest Viz. The Battle 1. Between K. Henry II. and Robert of Normandy 2. At Morleis 3. At the Rescue of Calice 4. At Poicters 5. At Cressy 6. At Agincourt 7. At the Mouth of the River Seine 8. At Vernoil 9. At Cravant 10. At the Relief of Orleance with the great Actions of the Lord Salisbury and Talbot 11. Of Spurrs Dedicated to all the Commission'd Officers of the Maritime and Land Forces The Present State of Christendom consider'd in Nine Dialogues between 1. The present Pope Alexander VIII and Lewis XIV 2. The Great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Savoy 3. King James the Second and the Marescal de la Feuillade 4. The Duke of Lorrain and the Duke of Schomberg 5. The Duke of Lorrain and the Elector Palatine 6. Louis the XIV and the Marquis de Louvois 7. The Advoyer of Berne and the Chief Syndick of Geneva 8. Cardinal Ottoboni and the Duke de Chaulnes 9. The young Prince Abafti and Count Teckeley Done out of French
THE CONGRESS AT THE HAGUE LICENS'D May 8. 1691. J. FRASER LONDON Printed for Ric. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms-Inn Warwick-Lane 1691. To the Right Noble THE MARQUESS of CARMARTHEN EARL of DANBY c. LORD PRESIDENT of Their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble ORDER of the GARTER My LORD I Humbly entreat your LORDSHIP to throw an eye upon these few Papers I have written about the Congress at the Hague upon the eager sollicitations of some worthy persons of my acquaintance who being curious to know what had past there were not perhaps left at liberty to consider how uncapable I was either to refuse or to satisfy them especially in so nice a Language as the English for I am afraid that by some uneasie Words and by some struggling Expressions it will be easily discovered that I am a Stranger to that Language and consequently I run the hazard to be thought a Stranger to the Subject too In fine I am between fear and hopes and I humbly beseech your LORDSHIP to redeem me from that pain If your LORDSHIP can persuade your self to begin to read this little Book and if you do not throw it away before you have finisht it that will be an infallible sign of my success and your bare indifferency will do me more Honour than the applauding-Praises of an infinite number of others And in this case I humbly desire your LORDSHIP to present it to Her Majesty to tell Her that the Author does humbly dedicate it to Her and that if he has not done it in the usual manner it is only because he endeavoured well to manage the profound Respect and Veneration he has for Her Majesty's Sacred Name I do not question but Her Majesty will peruse it seeing it is recommended by so Great a hand and I shall think my self extream happy to have once in my Life for one half hour entertained the most Pious most Vertuous and most Beautiful Queen in the World It is I confess a very great presumption in a Foreigner to desire so signal a Favour from the chief Minister of State but that very Name of Foreigner seems to soften the boldness and carries with it an Argument so much received by all Civilized Nations that pleads for your generous Patronage The mighty weight of the publick Affairs lies indeed very heavy upon you yet by reason of your LORD-SHIP's vast Capacity and Courage you seem still to be able to bear a greater one you have still some Moments to distribute amongst your Friends and Clients and I humbly beseech your LORDSHIP to be pleased to receive me amongst the Number of the last I shall be very careful not to render my self unworthy of that Name and I intend to make it mybusiness to convince your LORDSHIP by all my Thoughts and Actions That there is no body in the world with more respect and submission than My LORD Your Lordship 's most Humble and most Obedient Servant C. W. London May 5. 1691. THE CONGRESS AT THE HAGUE BEing desirous to see the famous Congress at the Hague where the King to the immortal Glory of the English Nation was to be met by most Princes of the German Empire and amongst them by those that make the greatest figure in it where the ablest and most refin'd Ministers of Europe in the illustrious sight of so many Potentates were to signalize their Eloquence Experience Counsels Skill in Politicks Faith Zeal and what else could make them recommendable to the Wisest and Most Discerning of Princes in the Universe Being I say impatient to see this August Assembly I parted from London January the 30th 1690 1. and arriv'd at Harwich the 31st at Night It was certainly in the worst Season for Travellers and in the worst Weather of that Season The Rain that had lasted several days and did still continue accompanied by a very high North-east Wind gave us but a very melancholy prospect of our Voyage February the 1st Wind and Weather were still the same and at a time we entertain'd our selves with the little success we were like to meet with in our little Voyage the Captain of the Pacquet-Boat call'd the Vine came to tell us that he would set Sail in the Afternoon and that whoever had a mind to go along with him must be ready at that time He told us That a Messenger was arriv'd from Her Majesty with the Particulars of my Lord Preston's and his Complices Trial and I fancy with somewhat of greater consequence and that required a greater expedition That he had express Orders to depart immediately and though it was a hazardous enterprize to put to Sea at a time when those that were upon it would certainly wish themselves tho with the loss of all that was less dear to them than their Lives to be a Shore yet he could not but be obedient Prince Charles Rudolphe of Wirtemberg Brother to that brave General that Commands the Auxiliary Troops of Denmark in Ireland was then at Harwich waiting for the first opportunity to go over into Holland This Prince tho in the prime of his Age being but Twenty three years old had already given great proofs of his Courage and Conduct during three Campaigns in Morea being Collonel of one of the Regiments the Prince Regent of Wirtemberg his Cousin had sent to the assistance of the Republick of Venice but being informed as the News of great and Noble Enterprises is soon spread over the World That the King was going himself to Head his Army in Ireland he immediately resolv'd to leave those ungrateful Fields dyed with the Blood of so many brave Germans that have lost and still lose their Lives worth a better fate in the ignoble Service and for the advancement of the Empire of some few grave and easie Politicians and to signalize his early and better bestowed Valour in the sight of the bravest of Generals and best of Monarchs Much time was required to pass over the wide Mediterranean and though there was but too little given to the tender embraces of the Princess his Mother yet Germany Holland the Channel England and the Irish Sea were not so soon cross'd but the impatient Prince hearing that two obscure names the Boyne and Limmerick were Nobilitated by the Intrepedity Skill Travels and Conduct of their Royal Sire he applauded the King's and grieved at his own destiny The Season was spent and no hopes left for an opportunity to exercise his Courage this year when upon a sudden the Earl of Marlborough was Commanded by the King to Embarque with a considerable Body of Men. Every body knows the success of this enterprise and how soon this fortunate General rendred himself Master of Cork and Kingsale and all this in so critical a time that in the History of the King's Campaign in Ireland that year the Expedition of my Lord Malborough will certainly serve for a glorious Postscript There were many illustrious Voluntiers that served