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A70600	Mr. De Labadie's letter to his daughter, Mrs. Delabadie, nurse to the pretended Prince of Wales written in characters and deciphered by Dr. Wallis ... : which said letter is referred to by Mr. Fuller in his two narratives, and is a plain demonstration of that horrid imposture : with reflections upon it, and a full answer to the material objections, in a late pamphlet entituled, The truest account of Mr. Fullers discovery, &c. / by another hand.	Another hand.; Fuller, William, 1670-1717?; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Labadie, James de.; Labadie, Mary Anne de.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2261A; ESTC R10912	12,860	48

this Intrigue was the overthrow of the Protestant Religion But the Concluding Paragraph gives us the Finishing Stroke viz. He was afraid of those Hereticks that were about the Queen Why what 's the Danger from those Hereticks why truly they suspected that the Queen like the Grecian-Horse was Big with Designs against our Troy but they poor Souls were attended with Cassandra's Fate viz. They were not believed till the Plot discover'd it self but if there had been no Imposture Design'd Why should they be in such a Mortal dread of the Hereticks Could they kill with a bare Look like the Basilisk Might not the Queens naked Breast and Belly have been exposed to the View of the Heretical Ladies without any danger Might not such Persons have been present at the Labour and have been admitted to see the Child actually delivered from the Queen's Body Or was it below the Queen of England to have been Delivered on a Pallat-Bed in the view of the next Heiress any more than it was below the late Queen of France to be Delivered of the Present King upon a Pallat-bed the Duke of Orleance who was the next Heir being an Eye-witness But the Case is plain the Protestants who were concerned in Conscience and Interest to be strict observers were more likely to discover the Imposture then others and therefore it was necessary they should be put out of the way So that we have the True Reason from Mr. Delabadies Pen why no Protestant Lady was ever Admitted to View the Queen's Breasts and try the Reality of her having Milk either before or after the Pretended Birth and that same is the Reason why no Ladies of the Reformed Religion were ever admitted to see or feel her Belly and in short this unfolds the Mystery of all those Precautions made use of to Amuse the World and to prevent a Discovery as her different Reckonings the keeping of the Place of her Lying-In uncertain and the Methods taken to have all her Physicians and Servants absent at the Time of her Pretended Delivery except those concerned in the Intrigue And for that very same reason it was that she pretended to be delivered in Bed Covered and that the Protestant Ladies might have no opportunity to satisfie themselves it was Ordered that the King and Council should be present in the Room when all things were prepared for the Imposture that so there should be a necessity of the Queen's being covered and a Plausible Reason why the Ladies should not desire the contrary and by this means it was impossible that they could be either Eye-Witnesses of the Birth or actually discover the Cheat. We come now to Examine the Arguments advanced by the Author of the Pamphlet Intituled The Truest Account of Mr. Fuller's Discovery of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales Born the 10th of June 1688 by a Person of Quality But before we touch on the Particulars it is necessary that the Author should be a little Unmaskt He pretends Page 1. That the Succession of the CROWN is otherwise Legally and Sufficiently Secured against any Title or Plea from the said Prince and that it may reasonably be thought that the Noise some Little Writers have lately made about this Affair has proceeded only from some sordid desire of Lucre by the Sale of their Copies and of rendring themselves Popular and Gracious with the Unthinking Mob rather than out of any Zeal to Serve the Government And Page 5. That the Persons supposed or declared our Enemies have True Faults enough to imploy our Censures and therefore 't is neither a part of Generosity nor Christian Charity to charge 'em with uncertain Suspicions or any thing but what will bear the Test of a Visible Proof All this is only an Amusement by which the Author would Impose upon the World as if he were no Enemy to the Present Government and that he had only undertaken this Province out of a respect to Truth but they must be very silly Birds indeed who are caught with such Chaff The whole design of this Pamphlet is to fix a Note of Injustice upon the present Government as having charged such things upon the late King as he was never guilty of and particularly in relation to this Counterfeit Prince We come now to consider his Arguments which are pag. 1. That Whether the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales were Legitimate or Supposititious has not yet been thought a Question worthy enough to be examined by publick Authority Which is a downright untruth for the Late King Iames thought it worthy to be proved by such depositions as he was able to procure and to have the said Depositions how Lame and Defective soever entred on a publick Record in Chancery as our Author owns himself pag. 5. and 22. and that they were publisht by Authority just before the Revolution pag. 20. By which its apparent that the Question was thought worthy of a Decision on his side by all the authority that he was Master of which does naturally imply that the truth of the matter was questioned by some Authority or other and that it was really so is plain to the View of the World by the Prince of Oranges Declaration wherein he desir'd that the Examination of this Question might be referred to a free Parliament and this he was impowered to demand by the Authority of our Laws according to which his Princess was the presumptive Heiress to our Crown But King Iames durst not adventure to bring the matter to this Touch-stone and therefore its apparent that instead of alledging that this Question has not been thought worthy enough to be examined by publick Authority our Author ought to have said that the late King Iames durst never submit the matter to such an Examination But we shall suppose the Gentlemans meaning to be this that neither the Convention nor any of the Parliments since the Revolution have thought the matter worthy their Examination And if it be so it 's the less for the Credit of his Party for then it must of necessity follow that they thought the matter so palpable that it needed no further Enquiry But if he mean that the Parliament or Convention ought to have made a scrutiny into this affair before they had proceeded to the settlement of the Crown He may be pleased to consider that they were not under the least obligation to do so for the late King had so much diffidence of the Justice of the English Nation that he durst not trust them with the Determination of the point but immediately sent to France his Queen with her pretended Son Nurse Midwife and other Servants who must have been examined if the matter had been submitted to their Enquiry and having in stead of calling a free Parliament according to the Princes desire recall'd the Writs for Summoning of one which he had endeavour'd to make for his Interest and then withdrawn in person from the Kingdom the succeeding Convention and

Mr. De Labadie's Letter To his Daughter Mrs. Delabadie Nurse to the pretended Prince of Wales Written in Characters and Deciphered by Dr. Wallis Professor of Geometry in Oxford Which said LETTER is referred to by Mr. Fuller in his Two Narratives and is a plain demonstration of that horrid Imposture WITH Reflections upon it and a full Answer to the Material Objections in a late Pamphlet Entituled The Truest Account of Mr. Fullers Discovery c. By another Hand Printed in the Year 1696. Mr. De Labadie's Letter To his Daughter Mrs. De Labadie c. THAT Madam De Labadie's Letters and Papers Domonstrating the Management of the suppositious Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales were found in her fathers Trunks some years ago and put into the hands of the Government is very well known the memory whereof being Lately reviv'd by Mr. Fuller in his two Books on that Subject and the truth of it called in question by another published since in favour of that pretended Prince It is thought fit for the satisfaction of the Nation to publish the following Copy of one of those Letters from Mr. Labadie to his Daughter with some Remarks upon it to make it appear that what Mr. Fuller hath advanc'd concerning that horrid Imposture is as well Demonstrated as a thing of that nature can be except those who were Actors in the Affair would confess it which we have now no reason to expect The Reader is desired to take notice that the following Letter directed to Mrs. De Labadie is one of those that the Late Q. of Blessed Memory ordered to be Printed but the performance of the same was prevented by the L. N. Pretending they were mis-laid as Mr. Fuller acquaints us in his further Confirmation pag. 5. And being in Cyphers was amongst other Papers of that sort Committed to the Care of Dr. Wallis Professor of Geometry in Oxford and by him Deciphered The Letter is thus TO Mrs. De Labadie present I Am so troubled about what you told me last time I saw you that I cannot forbear any longer Writing to you to know how her Majesty behaves her self in that hazardous undertaking I must Confess the only thoughts of it makes me tremble I hope Nevertheless that the Ingenuity of her Country and the Goodness of her Cause will bring her off Lord what a happy thing it would be if we could get a Successor for our King that would settle our Fore-fathers Profession in our Country which can never be but by this means I am afraid of those Hereticks that are about her if these could be put out of the way it would be a very good thing Adieu my Dear and don 't fail to write to me by the bearer and in the same hand I rest Your ever Loving Having accounted already for the Authority of this Letter it remains that we proceed to our Remarks In the first place the Intreigue concerning the Sham Prince is so plainly express'd in the Letter that it can admit of no other Gloss yet to obviate such Cavils or Evasions as the Faction abounds with we shall make the following Animadversions upon it Here 's in the first place an hazardous matter to be undertaken by her Majesty that Mrs. De Labadie is acquainted with and which she imparts to her father Now her Majesties being really with Child could not in Common sense be called an undertaking but her Counterfeiting to be so might very well be express'd by that Name and have the Epithet of hazardous as properly adjoin'd And Mrs. Labadie being design'd for her Nurse she was the fittest person in the World to bear a part in the Management and that the Queen was only to Act the matter is evident from Mr. De Labadie's Concern to know how she behaved her self Whereas had there been a real Pregnancy and a Natural Birth there had been no need of any such Enquiry nor no Cause for his Trouble but rather for his Joy But that the Only Thoughts of it should make him tremble as he expresses it in the second Paragraph is yet a plainer demonstration of the hazard and danger to which he was apprehensive their Party would be expos'd if her Majesty did not behave her self as she ought which yet nevertheless he is in great hopes she will because of the Ingenuity of her Country and the Goodness of her Cause It 's true that the Ingenuity of the Italians in matters of Love has been noted for many ages of which the Book written by her Countryman Ovid de Arte Amandi is a Famous Instance but that there 's any other Ingenuity in Childbearing among the Italians than what is Natural to all other Women is a thing not so much as pretended to and then as to her being brought off by the Goodness of her Cause it plainly discovers that her Cause was not the Common Cause of all Mothers which is by the appointment of the Almighty to Replenish the Earth but hers was to Replenish the Church of Rome and this is a fresh Instance of the Principles of the Romish Party that there are no means how unhallowed soever which they don't think lawful to put in practice for the advancement of their Cause His next Paragraph contains a plain Declaration what that Cause is viz. To get a Successor for their King that would settle their Forefathers Profession in their Country This is truly very pleasant other Kings use to get Successors for themselves but K. Iames poor Prince must have one got for him If there were not other Circumstances which prove this Imposture to be a Cheat of another Nature we should be tempted by this Expression to think that our Monarch had like Henry King of Castile got some body else to lie with his Queen seeing he was not able to get her with Child himself but if that had been the Matter there had been no need of the Queen's being so very Circumspect in her Behaviour nor of making use of the Ingenuity of her Country to Counterfeit a Big-Belly but it was plain that a King of Clouts in the strictest sense was to be Paum'd upon the Nation and that was the true Reason which made all this Precaution Necessary We are at a Loss to understand whether by the Last Sentence viz. Which can never be but by this means the Author understood that the Popish Religion could never be Establisht in England without such a Successor or that there was no other way to procure a Successor but by this means If it be the Latter then it is a plain demonstration that they knew the Queen to be Impotent as well as the King or otherwise they might have made use of the King of Castiles Means above-mentioned which the Goodness of the Cause and her Majesty's Italian Ingenuity would soon have perswaded her to but if it be the former then we hope it will open the Eyes of our Protestant Iacobites and convince them that the Chief Thing aim'd at by