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A63970 Reflections upon the French Kings declaration for the restauration of the late King James, to the kingdom of England / by John Tutchin. Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707. 1690 (1690) Wing T3382A; ESTC R6390 5,903 2

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REFLECTIONS upon the French Kings Declaration For the Restauration of the Late King JAMES to the Kingdom of England By JOHN TUTCHIN HOW far the Court of France has influenced this of England since the Restauration of Charles II. is too well known and the Effects thereof too apparent at this time the whole management of Affairs here being carried on by a French Interest during the late Reigns had certainly ere this time brought us to pay homage to the Crown of France had not the Providence of God prevented it by the late glorious Revolution Without doubt King Lewis is deeply concern'd at the present Condition of the English Nation and the Misfortunes of its Abdicated King whom he designed to trick out of his Dominions Therefore like a resolute Hero he is resolved to make the best of a bad Market and since he is defeated in his Intrigues he is resolved to rally again and improve every opportunity for the advancement of his Interest In persuance of which he has disembarqued some of his Troops at two several times on Ireland to assist the late King to maintain a Rebellion against Their present Majesties and having provided a third Embarquement to make a Descent either upon England or Ireland he has published an insiuating Declaration dated at Versailles the 14th of this Instant May which he has caused to be printed in the English Tongue thereby ●o debauch our Army and People at their first Landing which Declaration is the Subject of these Reflections He begins his Declaration with a Formal Harangue of the good Affection and Intention he bears the English Nation c. His love to England we do not question certainly believing he loves it so well that he would have made it his own ere this time if it had lay'n in his power and his sincere Intentions we doubt not of when we remember how sincerely he added Lorrain and other Countries to his Dominions And when we consider that the restless Endeavor of this Tyrant has ever been the Agrandisement of his own Power and the Enlargement of his Territories we cannot but imagin that he will stretch his Empire to the utmost Limits of these fertile Kingdoms if ever he should have the power and God for our sins should suffer us to be such Cowards as to be overcome by him And he farther Insinuates That he is not at all desirous to bring or continue on the English Nation the Calamities of War c. I suppose he writes this Declaration only for the Jacobites of the Kingdom I hope he is persuaded that the other Party are men of more sense than to be misled by so specious a Wheadle The Inhabitants upon the Rhine of Savoy Piedmont the Vaudois and many others can testify how much he desires the Peace and Tranquility of Protestants and his own Subjects can tell us how far we are to believe his Word or Declaration tho' it were as irrevocable as the Edict of Nantz Next he goes on to declare That in Case the Subjects of Great Britain will return to their Allegiance and restore the late King James to his Throne before or at the 24th of June next That he will cause to cease all hostile Actions That he will restore all the Merchants Ships and Effects taken since the Rupture And pay all the Taxes we have been at in 18 months at three payments In the first place As to the Restauration of the late King James This is a bitter Pill indeed and will hardly be swallowed by the English Nation without great Reluctancy the late King was very bad before he abdicated the Government and we suppose he is not much bettered by the Conversation he has had with King Lewis But his most Christian Majesty would have acted more like a Politician to have given the People of England a longer time to have restor'd their Monarch than the 24th of next Month for I confidently presume it will not be in the power of Lewis himself together with the assistance of the dear Joys of Teaga●land in conjunction with his forward Villains in Lancashire and other Parts to accomplish this mighty Work so soon Yet tho' the Restauration of the late King be the pretence we very well know that he is out the Tool by which King Lewis works his own Interest He is out the Head of his Army and such a Head too as is placed upon the top of a Fiddle only to make a Shew and nothing at all concern'd in the Musick Indeed the French King has lent him an Army of his Men in Ireland but as a Gratification of so singular a Kindness he has the whole strength of the Kingdom put into his hands as Cautionary Towns And the Insolencies of the French are already so great that the miserable Irish Papists themselves would willingly enjoy an opportunity to revolt from their Government And should we be as foolish as the French King persuades us to be and restore the abdicated King again should we not take a Serpent into our Bosoms that would certainly sting us to death We are very well acquainted with the Nature of that Man and the Mercy and Favour he shews a conquer'd Enemy a Specimen of which he gave in the West where he ingloriously murder'd in cold Blood so many hundreds of the Duke of Monmouth's Men nor can we expect any better usage upon his Return without doubt he has now learnt an effectual way how to Dragoon us into wooden Shoes and Bread and Water But as I hinted before the Question is not about the Restauration of the late King but the establishing of the French King in these Dominions and who but one as void of Sense as a Jacobite can think any otherwise And if we come under a French Power what can we expect but the Devastation Hostility and Bloodshed that those Countries have suffered that have had the misfortune to be added to the French King's Dominions It is a good old French Rule Avez le Francois pour ton amy non pas pour ton voison The French may make good Friends but never good Neighbours So that it is no small Benefit to our Land that it is surrounded with the Ocean and fortified with Rocks from the Incursions of so encroaching an Enemy But before we admit of the French King's Proposals in this Case we must not only lay aside all regard to present Interest as well as the future safety of Posterity but we must also shake off all the Principles of Honour Justice Loyalty and Humanity For we cannot restore the late King without deposing King WILLIAM And how barbarous an Act would this seem not only to Foreign Nations but to Posterity also It is certainly inconsistent with the Native-Bravery of the People of this Kingdom to depose a Prince that has passed the devouring Billows of the wild Ocean and ventur'd his Person and Troops to redeem us from Slavery of Mind and Body Let not such horrid Ingratitude be