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A50474	Cardinal Mazarin's letters to Lewis XIV, the present King of France, on his love to the Cardinal's niece together with his secret negotiation with Don Lewis D'Haro, chief minister to the King of Spain.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Méndez de Haro, Luis, 1598-1661.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1540; ESTC R5209	91,866	304

must likewise be made to the Secretary of State Don Pedro Coloma LETTER XXXV To Monsieur le Tellier Eighth Conference Begun in such a manner that the Cardinal thought all would be broke off Earnest instances of Don Lewis for the Prince the Cardinal's answers From St. John de Luz September the 3d. 1659. YOu will find hereunto adjoyning the Relation I told you should be delivered to you by the Sieur Charlet and I defer till to Morrow the sending you that of Yesterday's Conference if we do not hold one again to Morrow For although I employ every moment to dispatch Business yet I question my strength and their Majesties must bear with me if I do not inform them of every thing so succinctly as I would I have put something into the Letters which I gave to Messieurs de Noailles and de Vardes for their Majesties touching what past in Yesterday's Conference but seeing the Sieur Bartret will arrive sooner than they to give an account to their Majesties that I thought in the beginning of the last Conference that all would break off considering how Don Lewis spake to me of the satisfaction of Monsieur the Prince in telling me with great concern 't was very strange that after so many Instances made he might not obtain that the Catholick King should recompence the Services which Monsieur the Prince had done him In fine the business proceeded so far that I express'd my self in terms which left it to his own choice whether we should break off the Negotiation but he quickly grew cool and hindred me from rising up with great protestations his Intention was always the same in relation to the Peace the consummation of which was no longer to be doubted so that having been sometime without appeasing my self I began again to treat with him as before and the end of this Conference which lasted near Six Hours was well enough as their Majesties will see by the relation I shall send them I must not omit the saying by the way that I well foresaw I should hazard no great matter in resenting so stifly the dissatisfaction Don Lewis gave me about the Prince for I immediately read in his Countenance he came with intention to make this last tryal at the pursuit of Monsieur the Prince's Agents and some Spaniards his Abettors who have near access to Don Lewis so that 't was no difficult matter for me to make Head against Don Lewis Sally and I am bold to say I did it in such a manner that all the advantage remained on my side and I hope this action will produce something considerable for the King He earnestly entreated me not to communicate to any body what ●past Yesterday between us which is what I promis'd him and I have kept my word and therefore it is fit no body should be acquainted with it LETTER XXXVI To Monsieur le Tellier Particular relation of the Eighth Conference Of the Duke of Lorrain Discourse of the Cardinal with the said Duke's Envoy Small inclination of the Spaniards to this Duke His Treaty with France in 1639. The Elector Palatine scarcely recovers half of his Countries tho' protected by France and Swedeland Great effort of Don Lewis for Monsieur the Prince as strongly repulsed Of the Constable of St. Paul Rebellions severely punish'd in France Replies of Don Lewis furnish'd him by Monsieur the Prince's Agents His new Proposition in favour of him Contrary Proposition of the Cardinal Of the Duke of Newbourg From St. John de Luz Sep. 4. 1659. I Will now make you a Rehearsal of what past in Yesterdays Conference which was the Eighth to the end their Majesties may know the particulars of it It began with the Interests of Monsieur de Lorrain on occasion of the Sieur de la Chaussee who came from him and brought Letters for Don Lewis and me Don Lewis told me this Duke desired leave to come here to sollicite in person his own Affairs but he must see the King his Master first and he spake to me in terms whereby I easily found his intention was not to bring him here in haste and Don Lewis having ever spoken to me about the Duke as of a Person who enjoy'd his full liberty I thought it therefore not amiss to hint to him by the way that this Gentleman knew otherwise seeing he told me that the Duke of Lorrain thought himself under a greater constraint than ever in that he was oblig'd to give it under his hand not to stir from Toledo and the adjacent places and not to come within Six Leagues of Madrid so that he was more confined now than when he had his Guards for then he flatter'd himself with some hopes of escaping of which he could have no thoughts now I told him moreover something of the Conversation which I had with this Gentleman to confirm him by the answers I had made that the King intended to alter nothing which had been determined at Paris in relation to Lorrain But it 's fit their Majesties should know the discourse I had with the Sieur de Chaussee He began by telling me his Master would see the best Friend and most affectionate Servant I had in the World that he desired nothing with greater passion than my Alliance that his intention was not to marry nor to return into Lorrain if 't were not desired but to remit all to Prince Charles his Nephew and to go into Germany into England or any other place his Majesty should prescribe that he would resolve on all this with Madam and with his Brother and other Princes of his House and that in fine he had still some interest in the World and Friends to render some signal Service to France if his Majesty thought fit to employ him the rest of his days Hitherto all went well but the end spoiled all for he added that his Master would chuse rather to dye a thousand Deaths than to re-enter into Lorrain on condition of sacrificing the least part of it and that I ought to interess my self herein by reason of the Alliance he proposed to me In fine he talk'd to me of restoring all to Monsieur de Lorrain just as if it had been no more than a pair of Gloves I told him I was sorry for the Proposal of the Alliance which his Highness had ordered him to make me because this stopt my Mouth and hindered me from speaking so much as one word in favour of his Interests it being impossible to hinder every one from believing that my own would make me speak tho' in effect I could never have any other than those of the King and the State for the least of which I should think my self happy to sacrifice both my Family and my own Person that after this his Highness would plainly see I was the unlikeliest Instrument to procure any change in what had been determin'd at Paris with the King of Spain's Plenipotentiary and ratifyed afterwards that I might truly say the King's

the Queen has been pleased to write to me on this occasion they have fresh informations that this Prince and the Marquess de Caracene had assured their Friends that they should soon have an occasion to put in execution what they had agreed on but that they expected Monsieur the Count de Harcourt should give 'em a Writing in which he should engage himself in the Prince's Interests which Writing their Majesties know the Count has given which has oblig'd his Majesty to command him near his Person It will be fit to demand an express Audience of Don Lewis to entertain him on this point and that you tell him you have order to insist immediately on some resolution in relation to the Prince For his Majesty considering the Conduct he continues to hold in a time wherein he believes all things adjusted touching his Interests would speedily know what he might expect that he may resolve according to the acceptance or refusal which he shall make of what has been determin'd at Paris on what respects him and I entreat you to let me know the answer to Morrow Morning at farthest that I may give an account to their Majesties of it by the return of Monsieur le Tellier's Messenger LETTER XXIII An earnest Letter from Cardinal Mazarin to Lewis XIV the present King of France to disswade him from loving his Niece Her inclination her conduct her designs Assiduity of the King in writing to her and of the passion he has for her Her small affection for the Cardinal His Complaints His Remonstrances The difference there is between the Infanta and his Niece Of the Marriage of the Duke de Richlieu Reasons against the Marriage of the King with his Niece The Cardinal's displeasures To the King From St. John de Luz August the 28th 1659. LEt me entreat you to be perswaded once for all that I cannot render you a greater and more important service than to speak to you with the liberty you have permitted me hitherto in matters relating to your welfare for which none of your Majesties Servants can be more earnest and solicitous I shall begin with speaking to that part of your Letter of the 13th of August which relates to the deference the person in question has for me and the other points you have signified to me in her favour I am not surprised at what you write seeing the passion you have for her as is ordinary with others hinders you from discerning the truth and I must answer you that were it not for this passion you would agree with me that this Person is not capable of Friendship that she has an ambition without bounds a restless and awkard Spirit a contempt for all the World no prudence in her conduct and an inclination to all Extravagancies that * The Sequel has shew'd he knew his Niece's humour perfectly she is more foolish than ever since she has had the Honour to see you at St. John d' Angely and that instead of receiving your Letters twice a Week she receives them now every day In fine you would see as well as I that she has a thousand defects and not one quality which may render her worthy your affection You testifie in your Letter to believe that the opinion I have of her proceeds from the ill Offices done her Is it possible you can believe I am so penetrant and able in great affairs and that I cannot see a jot into those of my Family Can I doubt of the intentions of this Person in my respect when I see she never forgets to do the contrary in every thing I desire that she turns into ridicule the advices I give for her conduct that she glories in that which in the sight of all the World prejudices her Honour and mine that she will needs become the Master and change all the orders I give in my House and that in fine despising all the diligences I have used with so great love application and address to bring her into a good course and make her wise she persists in her follies and will be thus exposed to the laughter of all the World who make it a continual Subject of Comedies as will appear from the Papers I keep by me in which you may see the sentiments of all those who discourse on this matter which is at present the Enterainment of the best Wits of all Nations Did the ill conduct of this Person prejudice only her self and even me I might dissemble it but this evil every day increasing and this Commerce doing an irreparable injury to the Glory and Quiet of my Master it is impossible for me to suffer it and I shall be at length constrained to take resolutions by which every one may be fully convinced that when the matter concerns your service I sacrifice all And if I find my self so unhappy to perceive the passion you have for this Creature blinds your reason I must take up the design I signified to you from Cadillac for in short there is no power which can deprive me of disposing how I please of my Family and you will be one day the first in commending me for the service I have done you which will be certainly the greatest of all seeing by my resolution I have put you into a condition of being happy and with this the most Glorious and Compleatest King on earth Besides mine Honour which Jesus Christ who is the Example of Humility said that he would not give to another Honorem meum nemini dabo obliges me to defer no longer the doing what I ought to preserve it I return to the Person who holds her self more certain than ever to dispose entirely of your Affection after the new promises you have made her at St. John d'Angely and I know that if you be oblig'd to marry she pretends to make the Princess that shall espouse you miserable all her life which cannot happen without your being so too and exposing your self to a thousand vexatious disasters For you cannot expect the blessing of Heaven if you do nothing for your part to deserve it Since the last visit which I ever believ'd would be fatal to you and for which reason I endeavoured to hinder it you have begun again to write to her every day not Letters but entire Volumes imparting to her the most minute circumstances of Affairs and placing in her the greatest confidence to the exclusion of every body else So that all your time is taken up in reading hers and writing yours And that which is most incomprehensible is that you practise all imaginable expedients to heat your Passion whilst you are at the Eve of your Marriage Thus do you your self labour to make your self the most miserable of all Men there being no condition more intollerable than a Marriage made against ones Stomach But pray tell me I beseech you what personage does this Girl pretend to act after you be married Has she so far forgot her Duty to

Reasons he had alledg'd to me in favour of the Prince setting perpetually before me that Rebellions were common in France and that those who had been guilty of 'em had been always re-establish'd and hinting to me again what was done in respect to the Constable of St. Paul I thought my self oblig'd to answer him that I was tired with hearing the same things so many times repeated and so much the more in that I did not doubt but he was convinc'd by the answers I made him to inform him and give him means to confound Lainet and the other Adherents of Monsieur the Prince who continually furnish'd him with Arms tho' weak ones to defend his cause that we should once for all agree to bring no more into debate such points as had been already decided it seeming to me I had sufficiently shew'd him that if Rebellions were more frequent among the French they were more dangerous and of longer durance among the Spaniards that if he would take the pains to examin after what manner they were chastised in France when there was an opportunity of doing it he would soon see by the severity which all its Kings have used that they were not very encouraging to the French to make revolts that not to ascend higher than the Reign of Henry IV. he would find the Marshal of Biron with his Head taken off without having executed any thing of what he had projected against the State he would see the last Duke of Montmorency so Illustrious by the Services of his Ancestours chastis'd in the same manner as Biron the Quality of his Relations and the endeavours used on all hands to obtain his Pardon being not able to prevail with Lewis XIII He would see Monsieur de Cinqmars Grand Escuyer and Favourite of this King and Thuanus punish'd in the same fashion the first having executed nothing of the Treaty made with the Count Duke D'Olivarez nor the second committed any other crime than that of having known the thing in which he had no part and not having revealed it that as to Monsieur the Prince I could not but remember his Excellency that Lewis Prince of Conde his great Grandfather would have had his Head taken off at Orleans had not Francis II. dyed suddenly on the Eve of the Day he intended this Execution to be done I ended in desiring him to advertise Monsieur the Prince's People not to have so often in their mouths the Example of the Constable of St. Paul for if he made often his accommodation and even with great advantages because the necessity of Affairs required it yet he at length lost his Head The Don Lewis cryed out 't was true but in the accommodations he was always re-establish'd in his Estate and even in the Places he had on the Somme Ah Sir said I to him would you have Monsieur the Prince now re-establish'd and make such an end as the Constable of St. Paul did I believe you love him too well to wish him the same Fortune It is fit their Majesties should know that by the Discourse Don Lewis has held to me in this Rencounter I have plainly found out that he repeated to me the substance of the Letters which Croisy wrote to Brussels and the Memoirs which have been sent to Paris by Monsieur the Prince I have likewise experimented that it has befall'n Don Lewis what usually happens to those who are constrain'd to fight by their being shew'd their Honour is therein engag'd which is to say to depart the Lists with disadvantage because they therein entred against their Wills and only to deliver themselves from the importunity of their Friends He has been most certainly perswaded he might boldly say what he list and without any danger threaten the breaking off of the Treaty without this endangering of me to resolve on a Rupture And therefore I have omitted nothing to deliver him from this conceit makeing known to him as I have done in this Conference that tho' the Passion with which their Majesties wish for Peace be apparent to all the World and that on my side I should have an extreme regret to return hence without concluding any thing and in the assurance of seeing the War begin again yet I must esteem it advantagious and even glorious this should happen on Monsieur the Prince's account it being certain that not only this Action would be blamed by the Spaniards but that even the very Stones in the Street would rise up against those who had been the cause of this Don Lewis replyed to me what is precisely in one of Croisy's Letters which is that all France would be in an uproar if it were known the Peace fail'd of being concluded because a reasonable Satisfaction was not given Monsieur the Prince Afterwards using me with great gentleness he told me after a Thousand Flatteries he could swear we should part the best Friends in the World and began to enter on the Overture I have already denoted I made to give to the King the Places with which Monsieur the Prince was to be gratified and that in this case I would cast my self at the King's Feet to entreat him to bestow on the Prince and his Son some favours by means of which both one and the other might be better assured of his Majesty's Goodness to ' em He told me then that if I made this Overture to give him a mark of my Kindness to the end to handsomly disengage the King his Master from Monsieur the Prince and that I had no other motive of supplicating the King to make him a better Treatment assuring his Majesty that the Prince should lay at his Feet the Gratification which the King of Spain should make him we might soon come to an Agreement seeing he did not believe that in this case I should insist on the more or the less I interrupted him here entreating him in no sort to speak to me of this because I could not see any Reason to hope that the King would consent to it and that it was out of pure Affection I undertook to intercede with his Majesty to the end that when the Prince begg'd Pardon for the fault he had committed and did remit into his Hands the Places which his Catholick Majesty should give him he might then give him and his Son some proof of his Reconciliation And I greatly extended this Discourse omitting nothing which might warrant him and engage him to accept of this Expedient endeavouring to edg him on by the refusal I made And perceiving from the beginning he pretended to acquit himself in giving something of small consideration I replyed to him That should he consent to my proposing to the King whatever I knew had been offered to Monsieur the Prince I had very strong Reasons to be perswaded that his Majesty would be against it and the Queen would in the opinion which she had of the Prince confirm his aversion He entreated me not to doubt of the Offer