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A48636	Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend.	Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.; Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712.; Lisola, François Paul, baron de, 1613-1674.; Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing L2375; ESTC R20948	11,893	23

if they had a right to deal as they please towards other Nations and yet none to do towards them by way of Retalliation any more then they shall think fit to give them leave to do an over weening opinion of their own greatness which all Princes and States ought to be jealous of as not knowing where their ambition will end And besides these things thus instanced in we have great cause to take notice that as the effect of the implacable hatred of the French to our Nation they cannot forbear in their writings to express their inveterate malice against us as that Book called le Politique de France writ in the year 1669 and Dedicated to the French King is a pregnant Testimony where no better Epithetes are allowed us then being without friends without faith without Religion without honesty without any justice of defying or provoking Natures light or unconstant to the highest degree cruel impatient gluttons proud audatious and covetous proper for ready execution and assaults but uncapable of managing a War with judgment with other such like opprobrious and reproachful expressions besides a Method propounded to be observed in order to the Conquest of England Page 158 159 160 161. enough to raise a lawful indignation in all true Englishmen against such insolent slanderers who by their impudence endeavour to impose their own Characters upon in contrary to the known experience of the rest of the world And now Sir I have no more to add then all Circumstances considered my agreement with the Pamphlet in this Principle that while France is so great as at present it can in no kind be for the safety of England to subvert Holland and Zealand c. which are properly called their out-guards or works against all Invasions and cannot be demolished or in the hands of the French without laying England naked or at least the more open to that Nation and that nothing is more demonstrable then that since the United Provinces cannot signifie much without freedom they will under their own Government be of most use to all Christendome save France who only wants them as a qualification for threatning instead of courting their Neighbours in maintaining the general Ballance of Europe even as it was great wisdom in the long Parliament for the wickedest of men may have worldly prudence to joyn with Holland in the preserving of Denmark as necessary for the Ballancing of Sweden when Cromwel in his time in revenge of manifest affronts and hatred had designed the ruine of the Dane And thus Sir having in obedience to your Commands given you freely my sense of the Pamphlet and Letter without varying from the matter in either as it is in them respectively stated I hope you will pardon any thing wherein I may differ with you in judgment or opinion for I have this for my Buckler that what I have writ is Truth and that I aim at nothing in it but the true Interest of the King and Kingdom of England and Protestant Religion denying that any can have more Cordial affection for them then my self who am c. April 17 th anno 1669. According to the Printed Copy IN obedience to an Order of Council of the 16th present requiring my opinion what is fit to be done for relief of Sir Francis Toppe and Company I do humbly certifie that I have perused their Case and find that they complain of great losses and damages sustained in the year 1644. whilst they lived in St. Malo from the French by seizing their Goods in a time of Peace in the very Harbours of France whither they had brought those Goods in a way of Trading and where by several Treaties then in force and by the very Law of Nations which gives a security to the Persons and Estates of all who reside peaceably within the Dominions of any Prince or State they ought to have been safe and free from all Arrests the owners not having done any thing whereby to forfeit their Interest in them which course if suffered must needs be the destruction of all Trade and Commerce between the two Kingdoms as it is also very dishonourable and injurious to his Majesty that the publick faith should be broken to his Subjects who Trade under his protection by vertue of the Treaties made between the two Crowns and it is much to be feared that the proceedings in France may become very prejudicial in this kind to the whole trading of the English Nation in that Kingdom if nothing be done to stop this growing mischief In regard this is not the single Case where this course hath been put in practice the like having been done several times to English Merchants at Rouen who are not yet free of the trouble for a Capture at Sea whether real or pretended to have been made in 1616. by an English Privateer of a French Ship belonging to one Delaun●y valued but at six thousand Livers And whilst I had the Honour to serve his Majesty as his Ambassador in France two English Ships coming into Harbour at Marseille when they had Landed their Goods and paid all duties were seized upon Ships and Goods and notwithstanding all my solicitations would not be discharged But some Months after the War breaking out were given to the East India Company there they pretending some Ships of theirs to have been formerly taken by the English And now as I hear at St. John de Luz the same usage is threatned if not already begun to our Merchants there for the reparation of the Widow de Lazin for some goods of her late Husbands taken from her by the Parliament in 1643. So as all this makes me fearful it may come to be a constant Custom if not prevented I do therefore offer it as my humble opinion that all care should be taken for the prevention of it And for this particular Case of Sir Francis Topp's and Company that in the first place a fair application may be made to the French King as well by his Ambassador here as by his Majesties Ambassador at Paris for the just satisfaction of the Petitioners which may be hoped will prove effectual and should it not it will then be time for his Majesty to consider what is further to be done for the vindication of his own Honour and and the protection of his Subjects Hollis FINIS