Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	kingdom_n	14,965	5	6.1241	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59469	Delenda Carthago, or, The true interest of England in relation to France and Holland	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2890; ESTC R12938	6,529	10

Delenda Carthago OR The True Interest of England in Relation to France and Holland AS the Happiness of our Scituation secures us from the Invasion of any who are not our Masters at Sea The same Reason makes it altogether against the Interest of England to seek to enlarge her Dominions by Conquest upon the Continent For the Charge of Transporting besides the Accidents of the Sea is such Odds as she can never wage an equal War The Truth of this will appear to any who shall read the Wars of England in France the vast Expence of Blood and Treasure the many Hinderances and Disappointments in sending our Reliefs by Sea and after the most prosperous Successes the little Effect and Final Loss of all Which indeed prov'd our greatest Benefit by sending us to live at Home And I think it very plain that the loss of Callice and ridding our Hands of all the Seeds of War the Garrisons we had in France was exceedingly for the Advantage of England We call'd them Bridles upon France but they prov'd Sponges to us and drain'd more Money from us and sometimes Men than if employ'd upon the Fleet would have enabled us to bridle France and the Seas and to have extended the Privilege of the Flag to both Worlds The Fleet are the Walls of England To Command at Sea not to make Conquests by Land is the true Interest of England And the same Reason makes it the Interest of France not to meddle with us He can extend his Conquests with fifty times less Expence and Hazard upon the Continent Nor does he desire more of England than not to hurt him Accordingly we find that France has always endeavoured to live well with England and indeed they have courted us and always shewed a more particular Kindness to the English Gentry than to any other Nations who travelled thither for their Education And when we were lately obliged to declare War against them for we began with them yet it was not for any Injury they had done to us nor had we one to instance And by the Issue of all the Wars that England ever yet had against France it plainly appears to be the Interest of England to have no War with France at least never to carry our Arms into France For suppose the best the utmost you can propose even to conquer France as we did once before How shall we keep it What Armies of English must we always have there to prevent their Rebelling Would transplanting of all England serve the Turn Sure such a Conquest would drain and ruine England as the Indies have Spain But suppose we had it and could keep it Our King would make his Residence in France and England would become a Province like Flanders when their Earls came to be Kings of Spain Or as Scotland is now to England which was wisely foreseen by Hen. 7. when he for that very Reason married his Eldest Daughter to Scotland and his Younger to France thinking it much more the Advantage of England to have the Accession to Scotland than of France the Greater always swallowing up the Less as Rivers are lost in the Sea What then is the Interest of England as to France Surely to grow great at Sea and command the Trade which is our Greatness but by all means to let alone their Continent where a Conquest would prove our own Destruction Let us now look how our Interest stands as to Holland It is Interest that governs Kingdoms Nations do not fall in Love with one another as particular Persons do for their Beauty The Publick still moves by Interest and that will never lye The Interest and Life of Holland all the World knows is Trade It is Advantageous to others but it is N●c●ss●ry to them Their Continent cannot make them live Therefore whoever rivals their Trade must be irreconcilable to them nor can they ever be true and hearty to such England has been their only mighty Rival for the Trade of the VVorld VVhence that wise Chanc●llor of England the Earl of Shaftsbury in his Speech to the Parliament 5. Feb. 1672. lays it down as a Maxim never to be forgot in England Let this be remembred saith he The States of Holland are England's eternal Enemy both by Interest and Inclination And he gives the Reason because we are their only Competitor for Trade and Power at Sea and who only stand in their Way to an universal Empire as great as Rome Then he shews how true they have been to their Interests in working all the Miscief they could to England not only by violent but false and treacherous Ways And he instances in their Breach of Treaties both in the Surinam and East-India Business and their heighth of Insolence to deny us the Honour and Right of the Flag and that though it had been owned by them in the Treaty of Breda yet they disputed the King's Title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great Offers to the French King if he would stand by them against us Lastly He compares them to Carthage and us to Rome that is that it was impossible both should stand upon a Ballance that if we do not master their Trade they will ours They or We must truckle One must and will give the Law to the other There 's no Compounding where the Contest is for the T●ade of the whole World No Treaties no Alliances will or ever did bind them to us longer than till they could make an Advantage by us After a firm Treaty in 1619 ensued the Murder of the Engl●sh at Amboyna in November 1624 and other Depredations in the East Indies You may see a whole History of their Breach of Treaties and most Barbarous and Perfidious Cruelties upon the English By Dr. Stubbe Printed in 1673. Since K. James the First says he reigned in Great Britain they have neither kept any League in reference to Trade and Commerce That rich Trade we had into the East Indies at Japan Amboyna Banda and the Moluccoes is totally ruined Our Islands of Poleran Palaway Lantere unjustly seiz'd into their hands and the Damages we suffered there are computed in 1653 at 1656233 l. 15 s. and we are now totally excluded those Seas by these Hollanders Their Usurpations there have been accompanied with Barbarities and Outrages Besides the Cruelties of Amboyna they exercised innumerable others as appears by the Depositions from 1616 to 1620 Printed at London A. D. 1622. The English Ships being taken and their Goods confiscated the Captains Souldiers Factors and Mariners were made Prisoners clogg'd with Irons kept in Stocks bound Hand and Foot tied to Stakes haling and pulling them with Ropes about their Necks spurning them like Dogs throwing them headlong down Rocks and Clifts murthering some and starving others to death Some were landed among the Indians where they found better Usage among the Paynims than the Protestants of Holland Some were so lodged that they were forced to tumble in their own