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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43876	An Historical account of the most remarkable transactions betwixt the Duke of Savoy and the French King contained in several letters pass'd betwixt them before the rupture / translated from the original French copies.	Victor Amadeus I, King of Sardinia, 1666-1732.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2097; ESTC R4787	20,955	37

Territories with all possible Protestations of my Zeal to serve him But this signifies nothing Monsieur Catinat desires some Commissaries to explain himself about the King's Intentions I send him two Persons to Pignerol He tells them in general Terms That the King is not satisfied with my Behaviour that he had received Orders to enter his Troops into my Territories that he would give them Bread but that I was to furnish them with Forage and with a pound of Flesh each Soldier and gives a hint that he would write to me something more particular Those Villages through which he enters into my Territories give him what he desires after he is enter'd there he desires of me in a Letter to send him some Body to whom he might explain himself I sent to him the Marquiss of Ferrero whom you formerly knew as my Ambassadour Monsieur Catinat begins with General Complaints and ends with telling him that the King expects I should send into France over the Bridge of Beauvoisin 2000 Foot and two Regiments of Dragoons of my Troops and that I was to resolve upon 't in 48 hours in case I had no other Proposals to make The Marquiss Ferrero did all he could to let him see a second time the little Grounds of his Complaints the great occasion I had for my own Troops and in fine offers him a League defensive But Monsieur Catinat persisting in his demands he assures him That I would send those Troops over the Bridge Beauvoisin into His Majesties Service Monsieur Catinat seems to be very glad of it and told the Marquiss of Ferrero That henceforth we should look upon His Majesty's Troops as our Friends and in assurance of it Countermands the March to Grugliasch near Turin because the said Marquess had made some mention about it I writ to the Count Provane whom I thought to be at Paris to Represent to the King what the Marquess Ferrero had told Monsieur Catinat without any Success and to add some Proposals to satisfy the King about the Troops with the Advantage of His Majesties Service and the least Prejudice of my own What will you say when you hear that neither Monsieur Catinat's nor my Express could not at all return that he leaves briskly Veillane and comes to Orbassan from whence he sends a Commissary to let me know that the Troops were not enough to satisfy the King that he desires some other assurance of my good Intentions for the King's Service that he did not positively know what it was but believ'd it might regard some place That Monsieur Catinat expects an Answer in Twenty four hours that it was about Eight or Nine that about the same time to morrow he did expect some Proposals for want of which he would begin to commit Hostilities I send him the Abbot of Verrue Monsieur Catinat repeats his Complaints and desires some Assurance of my good Intentions He is desired to tell if he had any Power from the King to Treat He answers That he has none but that he may accept some places in the King's Name We desire to know what Place he expects he makes some difficulty to tell it and desires we should guess it at last he says That the Communication of Pignerol and the Cittadel of Cassal must be assured but says at the same time they made no Reflection upon the new City of Ast The Popes Nuntio goes to him in order to accommodate Matters betwixt us he shows him my Letter wherein I assure him That I was no ways a treating against the King no not so much as in my Thoughts but all this without effect The Marquess Ferrero and the Abbot of Verrue return thither they hear nothing but the same things repeated The Marquiss Ferrero returns thither once more alone with a Letter from the Marquiss de S. Thomas wherein he shows my readiness to satisfie the King with an assurance of my good intentions He is extreamly surprized to hear out of Mounsieur Catinat's own mouth that he had not spoken of an assurance in the singular but in the plural number that he had given it sufficiently to understand to the Abbot of Verrue yet it seem'd to be the same thing to that Abbot and to the Commissary to speak in the Plural instead of the Singular Number as they have done both But Mounsieur Catinat who aim'd at his ends persisted in this Opinion and declared afterwards that there was nothing but the Cittadel of Turin and Verrue that could satisfie the King that in case they were not put in 24 Hours into his hands he could not longer defer to commit Hostilities as if the entring with an Army into a Country and to make them subsist at the expences of the People were great marks of Friendship And yet he would by no means nay he had no Power to treat about the conditions which is in plain English to live at discretion In this great extremity seeing my People at the Mercy of a Foreign Army I thought fit to give my self the Honour to send to the King a Letter the Copy of which I have join'd to this and sent it to Mounsieur Catinat by the Count of Marcenaese He agreed to suspend all actions of Hostilities and dispatch'd immediately his Nephew to carry the Letter to the King with all possible speed And indeed his speed was so great that he was but few Hours above a seven-night a going and coming Mounsieur Catinat gave me notice of his Arrival by sending me His Majesties Answer the Copy of which I have also join'd to this I confess I was mightily troubled to see a Letter writ with so much reservedness and that did not give me the least sign of the King 's reconciling to me which I did expect and far from giving me the least hopes about the restoring of my Places he gives me sufficiently to understand that he required long proofs of my Affection before he could be persuaded of it insomuch that if these things altogether false and supposititious and some other slight ones could so easily perswade him to the depriving me of the said Places would he ever want some pretences to retain them I sent nevertheless the Marquess Ferrero and the Marquess of S. Thomas to Monsieur Catinat with a full Power to Treat They endeavoured to acquaint themselves with his Power and his Sentiments The first was in very good form but the other answered little my expectation For beginning with the Troops instead that he had always said they were to go into France by way of the Bridg of Beauvoisin he insists that they were to join his Army that was to act against the Dutchy of Milan and consequently engage my self into an offensive War without knowing why or who in the same manner as Tributaries are oblig'd to March putting my Territories to the discretion of Friends as well as Enemies and making it the Seat of War and in case it should have been the King's interest to recal

his Troops out of Italy I should have been left to the Mercy of a Powerful Enemy whom I had drawn upon me without having the least reason to complain of it to all which Mounsieur Catinat did only Answer That he would promise the King should never call back his Troops before I was sufficiently secured of my Enemies You may judge if so slight a promise was security enough to a Prince who should have offended all his Neighbours only to please a King that desires my Troops my best places and to make my Territories the seat of War pretending these were the only means left to keep me in his Favour In fine all what these Ministers represented to him about it signified nothing at all and Monsieur Catinat strongly persisted to have my Troops not to send them into France as he had always said but to act against the Dutchy of Milan When they were about the point of the Cittadel it was always hoped that the King would have given order to Monsieur Cattinat to accept some equivalent as I had desired of His Majesty but without success It was represented that I would be exposed in that Town to the capriciousness of a Governor and to some other accidents that happen but too often between the Citizens and a Foreign Garison that they must have found some expedient to secure me against it Monsieur Catinat did indeed propose that the little Gate towards the Town should only be opened and that the Soldiers should be kept in a very strict Discipline Judge I beseech you Sir of the delicacy of these expedients At last he says that this was not foreseen that they would make an Inventory of what they found in the Cittadel and that it should be restored by a Peace Do not be angry that I tell you that the little success my great submission to the King met with and the great persistance of desiring the Cittadel without making choice of some other place in Piedmont did augment my troubles seeing I must either leave my Capital City or live there without either dignity or security I sent again my Chancellor and the Marquiss Mouroux to Monsieur Catinat to make a new tryal about my Troops and to see if there was some hopes left to find some expedient about the Cittadel but they found neither one nor the other I send my Chancellor again to him the same day to make some new endeavour He proposed to Monsieur Catinat some plausible means which he rejected It was that I would put the Cittadel into the Pope's or the Switzer's hands That the Governor should be to the King 's liking That the Garison should be pay'd by His Majesty and that the Governor should promise that in case I should really do any thing against the King's interest he would put the Cittadel into his hands The same Expedient was very near made use of by the late King your Father being in this Country in person much more might His Majesty have been satisfied with it having Pignerol Cassal Verrue and some of my Troops in his possession In fine the refusing of so generous proposals has made the Idea of my misfortunes so much the more terrible having nothing for my security but finding that at the same manner as Monsieur Catinat having fix'd my Troops and seem'd to be pleased about my consenting to it yet did nevertheless make some new demands so far above the former as also the desiring first of my Troops going into France by way of the Bridge of Beauvoisin and then the insisting on the joining of them with his Army so after being in possession of the Cittadel and Verrue he may make some more extravagant demands For in fine to be plain after one thing is done without reason we must expect to do a great many more I have not been able to put out of my troubled Mind some Reflections I made about the King's breaking a Defensive League made for his Service and at his Desire without any Formality and without saying the least obliging word He has broken it by two Lines in his Letter in which he tells his Ambassadour That after the Month was pass'd he would pay no more the 100000 Crowns according to our Treaty I could never obtain the sending back of my three Regiments I have sent to serve his Majesty though it was expresly said That he would send them back as soon as I had occasion for them The necessity of which has been evident enough He has obliged me to raise some Troops which I stood in no neccessity of How could I be assured that the Treaty and Monsieur Catinat's Promises would have been more solid and stricter observed when two Places of so great importance as the Cittadel of Turin and Verrue are should have been restored If there be any difference it is this that it would have been easier to continue a League Defensive to send back the three Regiments according to the agreement than to render the above-mentioned Places These words to give and to render are very hard to be executed and he that is forced to give has great reason to avoid it as much as he can and he that resolves upon 't ought to prepare himself for patience for he that finds himself obliged to render has no less pains to perswade himself to it Monsieur Catinat did pretend that the Letter I writ to the King was an Engagement I beseech you to judg of it by what you 'l find in the Margin of a Copy of the said Letter which I send you In sine Sir after all the ill usage I received from the King I am sure if he would give himself the trouble to hear the reading of this Letter he would not desire to be Judg of this Affair and if he did desire it I seriously believe he could not hinder himself from pronouncing in my favour My Chancellor has writ a Letter to Monsieur Catinat of which I send you a Copy as also another of his Answer After which having demanded Contributions in my Territories and I hearing of nothing but Threatnings was forced to accept the Succours which those that always look'd upon me as a French-man had the generosity to offer me in this great Extremity to which I am reduced which I did not consent to till after I had left no Stone unturned to keep me from that necessity This is so very great that I do not think to flatter my self so much as to believe that all Europe will pitty me without excepting the most generous and just Men in France Good God! how was it possible it should be for the King's Interest to oppress a Prince who has the honour to be so near related him who has given him such Substantial marks of his Zeal and Affection whose Countries are surrounded by those of his Majesty's and who by the rest of the World is taken to be a French-man What will those Princes say which France would fain separate