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The French King's memorial to the Emperor of Germany; Memoire des raisons. English
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France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV); Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.
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1688
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Wing L3129; ESTC R978
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the same desire to contribute what on his part he can to the Establishment of the publick Peace And to this end he declares that he will not hold himself bound to make this perpetual but only to the Emperor and his Confederates his Majesty being very willing that so for the future all occasions of misunderstanding between him and the Empire be taken away and that no cause may be left for a Breach and renewing of the War that a definitive Treaty of Peace be made upon the same Articles with that of the Truce concluded and signed at Ratisbonne August 15 1684. It being provided that his Majesty shall not be troubled nor in any manner disturbed on occasion of the new Fortifications he has been obliged to make for the security of his Estates as well at Hunningen as at Fort-Lewis upon the Rhine And as he has not undertaken the Siege of Philipsburg to open to himself a way to attack the Empire but only to make secure the Entry into his Estates from those who would raise new Troubles so he offers moreover in order to facilitate a Treaty of Peace to demolish the Fortifications of the said City of Phelipsburg as soon as shall have reduced it to his Obedience and that he will cause it to be surrendred to the Bishop of Spire for him to enjoy it after the same manner as his Predecessors have done before the place was fortified without authority to rebuild the Fortifications Furthermore His Majesty is willing to add to these Overtures a more considerable and more convincing Proof of the desire which he has to reestablish a good correspondence with the Emperor and the Empire and to render the same of a long duration That whereas the extraordinary expence he has been at to make the Town of Fribourg a place impregnable as it is at present might reasonably oblige him never to part with it from the Crown Nevertheless in order to procure a happy Peace to all Christendom and to make appear that he designs nothing but to secure his Kingdom and not to preserve to himself means of enlarging the same He is also willing to cause the Fortifications of this important place to be demolished and to surrender it to the Emperor with all its dependences upon condition that he shall never fortifie it hereafter As for the Electorate of Cologne his Majesty offers to withdraw his Troops from thence as soon as the Pope either by his own free will or at the request of the Emperor shall have confirmed the Postulation of the Cardinal of Furstemberg and he will freely interpose his interest as soon as the said Cardinal shall be in the peaceable possession and enjoyment of the said Electorate to cause him to join with the Chapter in such temperaments as may be proposed for the satisfaction of Prince Clement and the Elector of Bavaria in such sort as that the repose of that Arch-Bishoprick may not be disturbed neither at the present nor in time to come His Majesty is also very willing that nothing may remain of what is past nor any occasion for future troubles immediately to put an end to those differences which concern the Succession in the Palatinate and he offers on the behalf of Monsieur his only Brother and of Madam his Sister-in-Law a disclaim of all the Places Territories and Countries as well as the Moveables Ordnance and every other thing which ought yet to be restored satisfaction for the damages being made in mony according to such estimation as shall be made at the least within a years time by Commissioners which shall be named to this purpose and in case they shall not agree within the aforesaid time his Majesty gives his consent that whatsoever shall remain in difference shall be determined by the Arbitrage of the King of England and the Republique of Venice without leaving either one or the other Party at liberty any ways to render it ineffectual It is upon these conditions which are much more advantageous to the Emperor and the Empire than to his Majesty and to his Crown that the public Tranquillity may be re-established and made sure for ever provided that they are accepted before the end of January next to which effect his Majesty is ready to send his Plenipotentiaries immediately to Ratisbonne But after that time his Majesty being obliged to continue at vast expenses he pretends not to be holden to these his Offers and in case of a too long delay or of a refusal to accept hereof He charges from this present all those mischiefs which the War may bring upon Christendom upon those who have forced him to resume his Arms to prevent their evil designs and who would not take the advantage of the Expedients which he proposes for the immediate assurance of a lasting Peace Given at Versailles Sept. 24. 1688. With Allowance