is most natural and obvious to his desires God grant Sir that those places which we buy for him to day at the price of our blood of our goods of our Honour and of our consciences be not in a short time the Magazins and Arsenals that shall furnish out the ammunition destined to batter down ours God grant that those places be not the refuges of those Vessels which may hereafter block up our Havens God grant that the influence Dunkirk has does not make it self sensible even unto our residences Sir The most infallible Maxime for to judg wholsomly of the actions of men is to examin their interests which commonly are the Rules they prescribe to their actions and the delicatest Politician doth not absolutely reject the conjectures which might be drawn from their passions being often mingled together and running almost insensibly into those powers which gives motion to the most important affaires Those that are perswaded that as he had not faln out with the Catholick King but through rage and choller which made him arrest all his Ships and commit such insupportable Robberies upon the coast of Spaine are also of this opinion which hath also great deal of likelihood as well in respect of Cromwell as other Politicks it being very credible that the Furies wherewith he is agitated doth often occupy that place in his spirit which was destiny'd to the pure lights of reason Sir After what manner soever we manage our Judgment upon this matter it is impossible for to divide it between the Protectors interests and his passions and at whatsoever time we consider both the one and the other we find them in a perfect harmony to conspire against our greatness neither can we think the seeming union that is betwixt your Crown and England for the present to be any thing else but a Captious Truce which the Interest of the Protector hath violently extorted from his inclinations hoping to be better able to follow them after that the inveiglement of your Minister shall have done forging the most dangerous armes that can be employed against your Crown and Kingdome It is in this Kingdome Sir where besides other States which have but indirect alliances with the House of England that he seeth at every instant the Manes or Ghost of Henry the great threatnings the Parricide of his Son in Law it is in this Kingdome that he beholdeth Reigning so gloriously that blood which is confounded and mixt by many straight alliances with that which he had so barbarously spilt upon the Scaffold of White-hall It is in this Kingdome that he seeth already form'd in the noble minds of the French those lightnings and tempests with which they shall hereafter chastise his criminal head after that the providence of God shall through the loss of your Minister purifie their generous inclinations so naturally devoted to Monarchy the furies which alwayes agitateth Parricides impoisoneth daily the ulcerated and cankerous soul of this Tyrant by the fear of the indignation which he cannot escape but in appearance only by the diffidence he hath in your promises which he seeth to be forc't from your inclinations by the hatred of your blood which he hath so outragiously injured he knoweth too well that a Minister which is capable to put into his hands that which he durst not pretend unto with all the force of his arms is a Minister which nature doth not produce in all times and in all ages He cannot expect to find in an alteration which might happen God knows when in your Councel those faculties he hath met with in a blind and stupid Minister whose ignorance he improveth so well that he would willingly pâ—event those ordinary resolutions in France which perhaps in time would oppose the most rigorous and most subtil spirits he would make use of that imbecillity to conquer our Country which serves him now to deceive it and all these confiderations joyned together will undoubtedly represent themselves to his mind and reduce him peradventure to his own natural Genius which induced him to make war upon us by the space of four years with insuppor-table Pyracies without ever daigning to denounce any against us as if he were minded to adde that disdain to which we daily expose our selves to the other damages which we sustain in the ruin of our commerce that Genius which though obliged by so solemn a Treatie yet hinders him not upon all occasions fromtreating us rather like slaves then allies that Genius which is so fortified by a particular interest alwayes inseperable from such avaritions souls as his nay by those rapines and outragious Extortions which he can commit every hour in the sight of our Ports which are so near his and without comparison more commodious more considerable and more profitable to him then all the advantages he can derive from the far research of the Fleet of Spain which one may say to be as uncertain as their course is in the vast extension of the Ocean Those projects which came to nothing in the Indies but to his own confusion doth certainly turn his restless and ambitious imaginations to other parts nearer home and which are more exposed to his Tyranny He feeds his soul with those Soaring Ideas of the ancient Brittans which seems not to him so impossible as their examples and without doubt when he considers that the first of his Conquests costs him but so little pains he sooths up his ambitious thoughts which Ferries him over our Seas and represents unto him one time Guienne revolted under his Standarts and another time he fancyeth Normandie reduced under his Laws But we hope Sir that God Almighty will limit those vast designs by some extraordinary effect of his mercy upon poor England now Tyrannized and oppressed and that by a mighty stroke of his Justice he will no longer suffer this Tyrant to usurp the Lawful Inheritance of that August Prince who is Cousin German to your Maj. and who does so perfectly answer by his merits the Proximity of blood that is betwixt your Majesties In that case Sir what advantage shall France find in the necessity they have reduced the King of England to in Allying himself so straitly with the King of Spain In that case Sir may not we with great deal of reason complain of the little forecast of your Minister who by a very peculiar address against your Interest should joyn the most redoubtable puissance of the Sea with the considerablest forces of the Land that is in the world In that case Sir should not we with great deal of judgment apprehend from a Lawful King justly incensed that power which makes us now tremble being in the hands of an usurper whom we so often oblige and so observantly respect In that case Sir the same policy which yields up Dunkirk to the Changeling power of a Tyrant raised only by the uncertain motions of a blind and capricious fortune shall not refuse Callais to the soveraign authority of
then half the considerations they should have made upon this subject and that they have acted after the manner of them who deceiveth the sight by taking away one half of the day from the objects they would have shown and that your Minister keeps from your knowledg the most solid and the most important part of your interest We cannot deny but that your Maj. had a great deal of Reason to wish the falling out betwixt Spain and England but we maintain you had none at all to buy the Rupture at the price of a publick Scandal which eclipseth the glory of your Reign by such unparallell'd baseness which obscureth the splendor of your Renown by such tyes as makes you lose your ancient Allies by such unnecessary condescentions which makes the Protector of England Protector of the Hugonots in France by the unbridled licentiousness which made them build more then forty Temples since the death of the late King your Father of Sacred Memory and by the giving up of those places which gives the entry in the nearest places to your Capital City to the ancientest and mortallest enemie of your State Sir If all the forces of the Empire and Spain were triumphing in the midst of your Provinces if our fields were covered with the multitude of their Legions if all Europe had conspired against the Lillies we should never have look't for any succor from England and if we had certainly we should have shed tears of blood to be reduced to so great a straight as to seek for consolation in the infidelity of Rebels who would never have granted us any but to our destruction And we do firmly believe Sir that we shall never be brought to such Extremities as might make our interests depend from the good will of such people as have principles so directly opposite to ours The Divine Providence which so diffusively spreads its benediction upon the Piety and Valour of your Majesty hath ordained far more auspiciously the events of your happy destinie still Victorious over the indiscreet follies of your Minister shall more and more mark your dayes with continual Victories But Sir Is this to answer those blessings of heaven Is this to be sensible of the glory of your Reign Is this to know the advantages of your Victories to end them with the loss of your Conquests with the surrendring of Mardike and those other preambles to the Siege of Dunkirke which they forced out of your hands even with terrible menances You exhaust your Treasures you ransome your Subjects you expose all your Nobility all your Army is endangered every day they fight against the element they combat with the Rigour of the season and all those strugglings more then humane hath no other motive but the surrendring of the Key of Flanders unto a Nation which in two hundred years could not comfort themselves of the loss of that of France in being deprived of Callais Sir whosoever would had seen that which is done to day upon the Frontire of France drawn in a Table he would certainly have considered it as a Capricious fancie of a Painter who would have taken pleasure to play with his own imaginations or rather of a description of a Masquerade where those who enter the Lists do only make their Swords glister for the divertisement of the beholders If one would have shewn on the one part those vast fields of Dunkirke covered with Battalions and on the other part that little Territory of Mardike covered only with fourteen or fifteen hundred men which looketh upon the motions of the others with their hands hanging loose by their sides should not one have greater reason to believe that the later were Senators of old Rome who would for their own pleasure and recreation cause an Army of Gladiators and slaves to fight before them than to imagin that this great multitude were composed of free borne-men who with all their hearts sacrificeth their lives and fortunes for the conservation and glory of this handful of people We see the remnant of 4000 men flying up and down the banks or dunes of Flanders only for the service of 2 or 3000. Goviats or Crackropes which England sent in this small number We see them daily continue those sad engines and projects of this bloody spectacle wherewith they make account to feed the greedy eyes of Cromwell towards the beginning of the next Campain we see that this false Prophet beholdeth from the top of the Tower of London all those combats where all the blood that is spilt whether Spanish or French is drawn as if it were in a sacrifice which we our selves do offer to his illusions And which is more deplorable in these transactions it seems we are not contented to subject this age wherein we live to the will of this tyrant but that we do also affect to enslave our posterity to the English servitude by surrendring those places so famous and so considerable in the world Those places are so considerable Sir that France could not endure they should remaine in the power of Spain whose Naval forces are well known to be nothing dreadful to your Maj. and your Minister is pleased to deliver them unto England which is already Mistress of all the Seas and who doth only consider them as the first step or degree upon which they will hereafter mount up the bastions of Callis if the weakness of your Minister doth not prevent them by opening the gates by virtue of a treaty But Sir We humbly supplicate unto you that you would be pleased not to receive this which we now offer unto your Maj. as any spightful exaggeration carried on by the wings of malice It being evident that there is not so long a way between Dunkirk and Callis as there is between London and Dunkirk The Protector who makes the Pavillion of France humble it self before him which neither the Henryes nor the Edwards could ever have done cannot behold with a good eye those places in the hands of the French which the aforesaid Kings of England had enjoyed in your Kingdom wherein he keepeth by his Intelligence a party which those Kings had not And without doubt Sir he exasperates daily that Ulcer which knaweth incessantly our own entrails within us and the interest he assumes in the sylliest creature that belongeth to those of the reformed Râ—lâ—gion proveth pregnantly that Mardike and Dunkiâ—k are not the bounds he puts to his designs God grant Sir that when this Daemon of ambition is once established in the main Continent by your Maj. own forces which gives him more advantages against your self then he could have hoped for in thirty years of open War against your Crown That after he hath made parties of his own within your Kingdome through the connivance or at least the ignorance of your Minister who doth even Idolatrize him God grant I say Sir that he doth not convert all his forces against France it self which is without contradiction the object which
FRANCE No Friend to ENGLAND OR The Resentments of the FRENCH upon the Success of the ENGLISH As it is Expressed in a most Humble and Important REMONSTRANCE to the King of France upon the Surrendring of the Maritime Ports of Flanders into the hands of the ENGLISH Wherein Much of the Private Transactions between CARDINAL MAZARIN and the late PROTECTOR OLIVER are discovered Translated out of FRENCH LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. A Most Humble and Important REMONSTRANCE To The KING OF FRANCE Upon the surrendring of the Maritime Ports of Flanders into the hands of the English SIR VVE bring unto Your Majesty the resentments of all France or rather those of all the Catholick parts of Europe which crieth for Justice upon the most Christian of Kings for one of the Insupportablest and most outragious injuries that haply the Church ever yet received since its nativity upon earth Is it possible that under the Reign of Lewis the 14. the Altars should be overthrown upon the frontiers of France which his glorious Predecessors hath semented with their own proper blood in Palestine Is it possible that the victorious Arms should not be imployed but for to abolish and exterminate the Sacraments which sanctifieth them Is it possible that that Sacrifice should be crowned wherein the blood of Henry the Great is Immolated to the fury of a Parricide by the inhumane banishment of the King of England driven out of the Kingdome by his orders nay that the shameful Sacrifice should be crowned by the prophanation of the blood of Jesus Christ it self Pardon great Sir the importunity of the subject which constrains us to open our mouths Those pathetick motions of a most bitter sorrow are only incouraged by the Interest of your sacred Person by the glory of your Crown and by the zeal which we owe to Religion That so dilicate tenderness we have alwayes had towards all that which carries the sacred name of your Maj. can hardly justifie to posterity the respectful silence we have kept hitherto contrary to all the Maximes which in all times were received in France upon the oppression of your people upon so much injustice done to the publick and the private upon the infraction of all the ancient Laws of the Realm and indeed Sir our moderation would have chang'd into prevarication and impiety if our tongues had not followed the motions of our heart at the aspect of so many eminent places I mean those abominable Idols which hath almost obfuscated the light of our Churches since they raise them upon the ruines of temples which threatneth us with the cruellest rebellion that ever crushed a Crown and the most desperate Heresie that ever yet attempted the dishonouring of the Church and Christianisme We doubt not Sir but if the providence of God let this work fall into your hands they will imploy all the false colours to render it black and odious to your Royal Judgment wherewith interested flattery serves it self in the Courts of great Princes for to disguise the most important verities They often condemn under the odious titles of Libells and Pamphlets the most necessary Remonstrances especially at such times as they consecrate under the specious pretexts of your Princes service such actions as are most disadvantagious to his State and Person and those who formerly took the liberty to represent to their Kings of the first race the extream prejudice which their Sovereign Authority received by the misgovernment of the Stewards of their Pallaces were most severely punisht as Rebells nay at such times as those who were upon the point of disthroning them were recompenced as most faithful and obedient subjects Sir be pleased to judg of this piece according to the nature of the matter it s made of If it be true that it is a collection only of detraction and calumnies as shall be represented to your Maj. then suppress it with all the rigor that Soveraign Authority oweth to the chastisement of presumptuous licentiousness But if on the contrary it does only purely and simply discourse of the mistery of iniquity which they keep occult from the eyes of your Maj. and if it be not only true in all its parts but also very important to the good of your service and that of all your Realm received as an inspiration from heaven which having a regard of the purity of your intentions setteth before you the precepts of your duty by the groanings of your people rather then by advertisement which God often sendeth to such Monarchs as contemneth his Law We doubt not Sir but that your Maj. studies it with all the care possibly you can and that in the frequent entertainments of piety which are so usual to your Maj you do not strongly attach your self to the Doctrine of the world which teaches us That one is not more obliged to know what his Dutie is then he is to do so much as he knoweth of the same This obligation is indispensible and common to all the world and certainly Princes ought to make greater reflection upon it then others being more exposed to the danger of being seduced by the fallacious Sophistry of Casuists and the artificious intrigues of their Ministers then the common sort of men are All Christendome which admireth the greatness of your Virtues hath not doubted but that in respect of what past betwixt the Councel of France and Cromwell of late years the good inclinations of your Majesty were often forced by the pretended necessity of your State and your fair twins of light often troubled at the Traiterous artifice of your Ministers Sir one cannot believe that your Majestie hath been ever informed of the miserable Estate of the Qu. of England your Aunt who is least even in mendicity only to please the cruel Assassinate of her Royal Spouse One could not imagin Sir that the blood of the great Henry which gives you your being could so unnaturally abandon his daughter and her little Infants even at the indigencie of bread which never fails the most miserable who can ever perswade himself that your royal Soul could ever have consented to the alienation or rather proscription of the King of England your Cozen German and your Ally Is it any thing else Sr then the Phlebotomy of your own proper blood which a fortunate Politician draws as if it were from your veins to sacrifice it to the Pannick terror of an Usurper How Sir what imagination can figure such a thing as that the Monarch of France Prince of the most warlike and most generous Nation in the Universe could consent to such baseness as to make the noblest Crown of the world stoop to the most Capricious Idol that ever yet carryed favour with fortune This false Protector of England takes a resolution to Consecrate his detestable Tyranny by the preheminence he would have given his fantastical Government before the August Crown of the Lilâ—ies and France fails not to obey his orders punctually Her Pavillion which
a Lawful Monarch when his auspicious destiny shall consolidate both his Throne and Glory Should we not judge Sir that as the hand of God is not yet seen over the crimes of Cromwell so do they weaken the weight of these considerations and according the ordinary maxime of your principal Minister who is not accused of too much providence they give no other answer to this kind of reasoning but that we most conform our selves to the Times and take new parties according to new Conjunctures But we must humbly beg of your Maj. to make a more serious reflection upon this State that this straite and inviolable Alliance hath put all Europe in and we doubt not but without expecting any revolution in England or alteration in Cromwels partie you will easily find out the extreme prejudice which this desperate peace hath done to your Interests Can your Majestie perswade it self that the States of the United Provinces hath not conceived an Extraordinary Jealousie at this near neighbour-hood of the English Or can your Majesty believe that this Republick the wisest that is in the Universe doth not extremely repine at the surrendring of those Sea-Ports of Flanders unto the only Nation of the world which contend with them for the Empire of the Seas Hath not your Maj. reason to apprehend that those faithful places which acknowledged with so much fidelity valour and wisdom the obligations they have owed unto your Crown are not now toucht to the very quick by the participation which you make of the most considerable places of the low Countries to such people as have scarce yet sheathed the Swords which but a little before they so injuriously drew against the Hollanders Can your Maj. doubt but those prudent and Sage Politicks are well inform'd that the Imbargo of their Vessels the interruption of their Commerce so advantagious both to France and their State the false complaints of their Embassador and Vice Admiral were only practises concerted betwixt your Minister and Cromwell for to reduce those brave defenders of their Liberties to be slaves to the fantastical-Capricio of England Can your Maj. doubt but those interests so visible and sensible to the States of Holland are not powerfully animated by the recognizance which they owe by so many solemn Treaties to the House of Orange and that this recognizance does also wait upon the famous Ghosts of the Williams of the Fredericks and of the Maurices who all conjure your Maj. by those inviolable tyes they have had with your Crown not to concur to the destruction of that Royall House which honoured theirs with a Princess of as great Virtue as Birth ☞ Can your Maj be ignorant of the difference there is betwixt England a Republick and England a Monarchy that one may consider Great Brittain under a King as a very considerable Country in Europe but that it might be lookt upon under a Senate which assumed such a form as makes it self Formidable to all the Earth And that this Consideration makes That no Prince in Christendome will joyn with your Interest so long as you contribute to the Establishment of a Republick which from the very first instant of its birth embraceth both the one and the other Hemisphere and as it were in a bravery defieth the Universe We have reason to suspect that Admiral Opdam had not with so much violence molested the Coasts of Portugall had not Holland been disturb'd in her own Frontier Neighbour-hood by the English We have subject to fear that the attempts under hand which Cromwell made upon the Zound were the true and real motives that made the States and Denmarke joyn with Spain we fear that your Maj. loseth all your most faithful and affectionate Allies who confederate themselves openly by reason of your Ministers compliance and submission to their sworn Enemies and Hereticks who are prefer'd before the most Ancient the most Sacred and the most Inviolable Alliances of you Crown The Holy See is manifestly injured by those actions which make Heresie triumph in the midst of her Churches we put our selves in the sittest condition to receive the just marks of her Indignation upon a matter of so criminal a Nature as is able to pour thunder upon our heads we provoke her every day more and more by such circumstances as are indeed very worthy the Patriarch of Franticks We lose all our reputation among the Catholick Party we purchase none amongst that of the Potestant whose greatest body abhors the Protectors ridiculous Illusions and all the fruit of our prostitution is but to confound our selves with the Independents that is to say The sworn enemies of all Crowns and Religions Cast your eyes great Prince upon your true and solid Interest and discern with that fair light heaven hath given your Majesty that which is your real service from the imaginary Interest or rather the ill understood Policy of your favourite who by a Monstrous Prodigy which posterity shall hardly believe of your Maj. hath of that Princely pre-eminence hitherto alwayes inviolable Established upon the Frontiers of your Kingdom a Modern Attila the Paricide of Royaltie who is so blind as to permit a formidable party to form it self in the middle of your State Who in the midst of your Triumphs abandons that which wisdom would not permit to foregoe after the loss of four Battels and can give no colour to this pernicious conduct but the inconvenience of a War whose bad success could never be more dangerous then the remedy he hath applyed I mean that cursed remedy or rather that fatal poyson with which he hath broke the Munster peace so glorious and so advantagious to your Maj. hath spread so prodigally upon that ardent fewel which consumes all Europe to the end he might eternize the conflagration thereof Here it is Sir that we find our selves put on by the pure and holy motions of truth which opens our mouths animates our tongues and stirs up our hearts to discover to your Maj. the grand mistery of iniquity that mistery which is drawn from the bottom of hell this is the mistery whereof the cruel Demon of War hath made Cromwell depofitary and another man too Sir which the respect we owe to our Maj. will hardly let us name we would if we could possibly turn it off from the heads of some of those that have the Honour to come neer the most Christian of Kings but alas Sir despair hath overcome the tenderness of our desires one may still suffer with patience that hath some hopes left him and there is no affliction so great but might be qualified if one had some hopes though never so long to come to see an end of them But Sir there can be no such hopes in our misfortune Europe is now condemned to all eternity to endure Warre and misery the Sea-Ports of Flanders have consumed the fatal negotiation of Munster and if it be just that the same hand that broke the peace should perpetuate the
but to his inveterate malice which made us fight under the Banners of the Protector of England and which hath now forced us to end that field which had cost us such immense sums of money only to make a chain that might enslave us to this Tyrant It is now Sir more then 27 years that I do not know what slight and almost frivilous interest had made all the earth shake and tremble by such an impetuous motion as if we had believed your Minister all the men of the world could not resist and yet in the very first year of your unhappy Alliance with England they deliver to Cromwell more likely as a Homage then by vertue of a Treaty a Country far more considerable then all the places that had been the occasion of the breach between the two Crowns Thus we buy an Everlasting War at a price at which one might have been ashamed to purchase the most necessary peace France had formerly even by the acknowledgment of your minister preferred the continuation of the miseries of all Europe before it would have left the fortifications of Nancy in the hands of the Duke of Lorrain nay we have proffered to run the hazard of all immaginable revolutions which are too contingent to great enterprizes rather then leave one good place to a Petty Prince even worn out by the process of his own misfortunes And we do now a dayes abandon such Ports as are without contradiction more important to a Commonwealth which is far more redoubtable then the Duke of Lorraine yet with this difference that in the restitution of Nancy we might have found peace with Spain and in the surrendring of Dunkirk we have found War with all Europe What disorder Sir or what confusion hath not your Minister brought to all the Nations of the world by this fatal action the hopes of Consolation which alwayes accompanies and qualifies the greatest misfortunes is now taken away from us His cruelty in revenging the detestation the French have of his government and conduct of your Person is not satisfied with a misfortune which together with other Nations is common to them but he endeavours to stifle in us as much as he can the liberty of desiring which dispair it self could never utterly extinguish in us He disturbs the most sacred and inviolable of our holy Vows and by a monstrous Prodigâ—e which Nature yet could never parallel we find our selves even at this instant in an incapacity of discharging the most essential of all our obligations In how sad a condition Sir doth a French Catholick find himself in the Churches and at the foot of the Altars must he implore the blessings of God upon the Armies of Spain declared enemies of your Majesty or must he seek the favours of heaven upon those of France which a horrid and terrible blindness imployes for the Establishing of Heresie Which shall we behold more willingly the Cross of Burgundy displayed on the top of our Bastions or that of England which doth so criminally degenerate from it self triumphing upon Catholick Rampiers Which shall we fooner desire Sir the loss of our own Colours consecrated to Almighty God in the Churches of Bruxells or the Standarts of Castile dedicated to Divils in the Temples of London What shall we wish for the ruine of your Armies animated by our own proper blood before the Towns of Flanders or the conquest of those places which is without comparison more prejudicial then their conservation We feel in our selves Sir we feel in our hearts a Combate of Religion against the State and of the State against it self Shall we run next Summer to the Siege of Dunkirk then to that of Ostend so to Newport and all this to follow our Natural inclinations to obey our Prince Or shall we stay at home and implore the protection of God upon those places which serve as much at least in the hands of the Spaniard that they give the weakness of your Minister some means to satisfie Cromwells ambition for a year by some other way then the giving up of Call is and Bullin shall we in the Winter prepare branches of Lawrell to Crown the sacred head of our Prince the next spring or shall we draw into a solittude to bewail a misfortune that makes them wither as soon as they are gathered In how doleful Estate Sir and in how deplorable condition doth poor France find it self at this very instant it seems she doth delight to spoil her self of all those glorious advantages she had obtained over England in Ages past it doth not suffice her now to efface the lustre of her ancient Victories by this servile and dependant War which she makeâ— under those Standarts which she hath formerly with so much glory rent to pieces but she must yet for the satisfaction of Cromwell renounce the reputation she had acquired in the negotiations and Treaties they reckon Sir 600. years between the Crown of France and that of England since the unfortunate marriageof Alcenor of Guienne and those who make up this number mark very judiciously that the English who were never-yet weary of contesting the glory of Arms with our Nation were forc'd to yerld to them at least in points of Wisdome and Policy But alas Sir this advantagious opinion which we could never cherish with two much care in the hearts of all people is now Ravished and buried in this last fatal Treaty of London now we make England amends for all the forrow we caus'd her in former times in defending our selves so wisely from all her subtleties surprizes the sole negotiation of Cardinal Mazarin shall sufficiently revenge her to posterity of all those advantages we have gain'd upon her in more then 600 Treaties and Cromwell's fierceness Victorious over the imbecillity of your Minister shall hereafter quite extinguish the glory of our ancient politicians Open your eyes then Great King upon this fatal blindness upon this horrible illusion which rather obscures then stops those glorious exploits which all Christendome exnects from your Royal Virtues Open your eyes great Prince upon the loss of your Allies which they drive ever with violence out of your interests by the despair they are daily driven to by the apprehensions they have that your Minister will never put an end to the miseries of Europe Open your eyes great Prince upon this mortal wound they have given to the general peace which is the only object of the groans and tears of your people which is assuredly the final end of your desires and shall be the work of your Piety and Wisdom if God be Exorable to the Prayers and wishes of all your most Faithful Subjects FINIS