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A89169	A view of the court of St Germain since the year 1690. With an account of the entertainment Protestants meet with there. : Directed to the malecontents Protestants of England.	Macky, John, d. 1726.	1696 (1696)	Wing M221B; ESTC R180252	10,565	16

Dr. Granvil obliged not only to retire from Court but also from the Town of St. Germain to avoid the daily insults of the Priests and the dreaded Consequences of the Jealousies with which they possest't King James's Court against him Dr. Gordon a Bishop of Scotland the only protestant Divine that then was there met with a ●orse Treatment still than Dr. Granvil and was reduced to 〈◊〉 necessity of abjuting his Religion for want of Bread with ●●ich he could not be supplied but upon those hard terms ●●wever K. James being sensible that such an usage would ●●●●udice his interest in Britain resolved to prevent the having of any Protestant Divine there and therefore sent Bro●●●● Macqueen in Company of Major Scot into England who ●●●●ght Letters from him to his Friends in which he required them to trouble him no more with Divines as Messengers This bad Success did not altogether discourage the Protestant Party they made a second effort upon the constitution of the before mentioned Council of Five to have one of the number at least a Protestant They insisted upon the Advantages which might thence redound to his Majesties affairs in Britain and for that end did earnestly recomend my Lord Chief Justice Herbert as a Person both well qualified to give Advice in English Affairs and of an unspoted Reputation in his Country Those reasons where so convincing that the Irish fearing they would obtain their demand an Information was trumped up against the Chief Justice by Mr. Comptroller Skelton and Sir William Sharp of having said that King James's violent Temper would ruine himself and all that followed him My Lord owned the Words but made so ingenious an Explanation of his meaning which was in relation to the Act of Settlement in Ireland that King James was satisfied The Irish having missed their Aim formed a short time after another Plot against him and charged him of Corresponding with the English and mis representing the Transactions of that Court whereupon he and a Worthy Lady with whom he boarded were confined and Broomfield the Quaker committed to the Bastile And thus was this Lord Chief Justice for no other Reason but his adhering to a Protestant interest excluded from all share of management of Affairs in King James's Court tho his Capacity and sufferings were sufficient in the Eyes of all reasonable Men to have intituled him to a share in that Prince's Favour and Secret If my Lord Chief Justice Herbert was so used I would fain know upon what ground any of our Jacobites should flatter himself of a better Treatment Mr. Cockburn of Lantoun in the Kingdom of Scotland wa● the next Protestant that had Merit and Favour enough t● pretend to a share in the management of King James● Affairs This Gentleman having followed him in Irelan● was taken at Sea after the Battle of the Boyn and broug●● prisoner to London but a proposal being made of Exchangi●● him for Captain St. Lo Then prisoner in France he 〈◊〉 ●●larged and during his abode here did so ingra●● himself with the most considerable of the disaffected protestants that he was recommended by them to King James as a person fit to serve him in the Affairs of greatest Trust He was no sooner arrived at St. Germain that he told that prince his Friends in England thought that my Lord Melford who was then returned from Rome was a great Grievance and ought to be laid aside that the only way for the King to procure the good Opinion of his Subjects in Britain and reconcile them to him was to put the management of his Affairs in protestants Hands This prudent Advice of the disaffected protestants of England or of Mr. Cockbur had in effect quite contrary to what they expected King James took it so ill that in few days after an Order was procured from the French Court commanding him to depart France under severe penalties being too much a Friend to the English Interest Mr. Cockburn was forced to obey and has lived as an Exile in Holland and Hamburg ever since But the Submission of the Scotsh Highlanders affoord us still some more convincing proofs of King James's hatred for the protestant Religion and of his ingratitude towards such who had made a Sacrifice of all that can be dear to Men to support his sinking Fortune in Scotland The Lords Dumfermling Dunkel Colonels Cannon Graham and several others protestants having forfeited their Estates and Families retired into France as also did the Colonels Buchan Maxuel Wachop and some other Popish Gentlemen but when they came to St. Germain the Papists were immediatly preferred to considerable Posts both in the French and Irish Armies where the Protestants tho their Merit was greater were exposed to all imaginable hardship and contempts My Lord Dumfermling and Colonel Cannon are too Illustrious Examples of King James's Ungratitude to be here past by The Earl through a mistaken notion of Loyalty and Honour had Sacrificed his Honourable Family and a Plentiful Estate to follow that Prince in his misfortune and it most be granted that such a Proof of Loyalty deserved some kind Returns yet happening to Quarrel at St. Germain with one Captain Brown a Papist about a Trifle the Captain was incouraged and countenanced in his Quarrel by the Court and made Commander of a Company of Scots Reformed Officers is Catalonia whilst this Noble Lord was despised for his ad●ering to his Religion this ill Treatment broke his Heart and he sunk under he Weight of his hard Fate at St. Germai●● His misfortoun lasted longer than his Life for notwithstanding his Meris Sufferings and the interest made by his Friends he not could obtain a Christian Burial and his Corps was laid in a Chamber till an opportunity was found of digging a hole in the Fields in the Night where they Thurst him in Nor was Colonel Cannon better used then my Lord Dumferling This Gentleman Commanded as General over King James's Army in Scotland and served him with so much faithfulness that every body thought he would be preferred to a great Command upon his arrival at St. Germain but he positively refusing to abandon the little Religion he had which was Protestant was reduced to the Scandalous Allowance of half a Crown a day whilst papists who had served under him were advanced to good posts This unhappy Gentleman finding himself thus neglected fell sick through Grief and Want and died having taken the Sacrament from the Hands of Dr. Granvile three dayes before his Death but the priests who were alwayes buzing about him took the opportunity of his being speechless to thrust a Wafer down his Throat and gave out that he dyed a Papist and by this means got him the Favour of Burial which his Corps had else been excluded from as well as my Lord Drumforling's If the Sufferings and great Merits of these two Gentle Men have not been able to Molify King James's Heart and to brain from him any generous Returns I

King James's hatred to every thing that bears the name of Protestant but if what has already been said is not sufficient sure I am that the rest should be to no purposes What Protestant has he ever so much as seemed to Trust since he lives in France I know that my Lord Middleton must be excepted for indeed King James has a seeming Trust in him There is no Man that has been at St. Germain 〈◊〉 must needs perceive that he is not chief Minister as Melford was nor manages Affairs betwixt Versailes and St. Germain that being done by Innes and P●rter He is but seldom called to the Couneil and the French Court has never depended upon his Corespondance since the disappointment they received by our Fleets going into the Streights I hope these Instances will ●●nvi●●e all good Men that have any sense of Liberty Religion and Honour how unreasonable it is to be a Jacobite and to think that the Present Misfotune of King James will frighten him from invading our Laws and Liberties in time to come seeing that neither the abandoning of Wives Children and Estates nor the hazarding nay Loss of Life in his Service can render him Just and Favourable to such Protestan●s who have made a Sacrifice of all those Things to follow him And if it be so as certainly it is what must those Protestant Nations expect if ever he re-obtains the Government who have renounced him and set another Prince upon his Throne If these who have followed him into France are denied the Exercise of their Religion when his Circumstance make it his Interest to grant it what must we expect if ever he be again in possession of the Crown My Lord Chief Justice Herbert and the other Gentlemen before named who firmly adhered to his Interests even in his greatest Misfortunes were contemned despised and suffered to Starve because they were Protestants how can we or any Protestant Jacobites who have none of those Merits pretend to be better used If the loss of Honours and Estates has not been sufficient to obtain from him Christian Burial upon what Ground can our Jacobites who have dene nothing for him flatter Themselves with the hopes of great preferments If he is reinthroned In short if the Examples he had of his Father's Misfortunes and his Brothers Exil wherein he himself was a shater together with the Sense of his own Misfortunes have not been able to work a Reformation upon him as appears by the above written Accounts can we expect that ever he will be made more plyable The Education of his Prince of Wales whom no body deubts he designs his Successor is another Instance of his irreconcilable Antipathy to the Protestant Religion and English Liberties One would have thought that Interest as well as Policy would have made him educat his Child a Protestant or at least oblige him to put protestants ' about him of enquestioned Reputanon to instruct him in the ways of pleasing the people but instead of that Dr. Beejon a famous and violent Papist was made his Preceptor and none but Popish Servants were allowed to be about him so that he can imbibe nothing but what is for the Interest of Rome and Destruction of England Can people be so mad as to expect good terms from a prince who not only thus Treats his Protestant Subjects who have followed him in his Misfortunes but also whose Religion lays him under a Necessity of deing it Could greater Obliga●ions be laid upon any Prince then were upon hin by the Church of England when a Subject Her interest Saved him from being prosecuted for the Popist plot excluded from the Succession to the English Throne and afterwards Dethroned by the Doke of Monmouth ye● all those Obligations were no more than his Coronation Oath could not hinder him from invading he Protestant Religion in general but more particularly the Liberties of the Church of England But perhaps some will Object against what I have said that from the Entertainment Protestants met with at St. Germain 't is not reasonable to conclude that King James pears still such an aversion to our Religion and Liberties For being himself but a Refuge in France and having nothing to live upon but the pension the French King Ilows him it is not in his power to reward those Protestants who have followed him even not to caress them and herefore we ought rather to peruse the Declarations he as put out since his being in France for therein we shall ●nd undenieble proofs that his Misfortunes have much tered his Mind Read vvill our Jacobites say the ●eclaration he published upon his intended Descent from 〈◊〉 Hague and observe vvhat promises he makes both in lation to our Religion and our Liberties the Sincerity thereof you have no manner of pretence to Question for ●●en thinking himself sure of his Game nothing could lige him to disguise the true gentiments of his Heart This is some vvhat indeed Gentlemen and vvere the 〈◊〉 as you say I vvould aggree vvith you but give me 〈◊〉 to tell you that 't is a great Question 〈◊〉 Declaration you speak of which was Printed here did really contain King James's Sentiments but whether it was his own Declaration or Sir James Montgomtrie's it does not matter a pin for his late Majesty did publiekly disown it in a Memorial to the Pope upon his return to Paris and it has been acknowledged in a Jacobite Pamphlet called An Answer to Dr. welwood's Answer to King Jame's Declaration That the same was formed without his Knowledge and against his Inclination I have told you in the beginning of this Discourse that I believe that there are among you some Conscientious Men and to those I shall say nothing at this time but to such that are angry with the Government as I know many amongst you are meerly because they cannot have any Imployment under it and who think without any further Examination to better their Condition by a second Revolution I 'l say that they ought to consider that King James's Popish Friends must be all provided for first of all and pray what will remain then for you For as to Pensions I think you are not so mad as to flatter your selves with such imaginary hopes for the French Army that brings King James over must be paid and their vast-Charges for the Irish war and the Maintenance of King James Re-imbursed before your beloved Prince be in a Condition to Express his Favour to you perhaps you will say that the French King is too much a Gentleman to demand any such thing but I don't know what has given you that Noble Idea of his Generosity But supposing his Temper to be such this War will so much drain his Exchequer that Necessity will force him to demand what is justly owing to him and who shall be able to dispute his Bill of Charges Nay will King James be able to satisfie him I don't know but this I am sure of that as long as you profess the protestant Religion you cannot expect to be more Favourably Treated then his present Followers Some others amongst you are disaffected because as they say without the Restotation of King James a protestan● war will be Entailed of the Nation and because our Treasure is Exhausted by Taxes and Our Blood Expended beyon●● Sea which the Nation cannot long bear To these Gentlemen I must answer That they are much mistaken for the bringing in of King James which they think will put an End to these Troubles would Infallibly bring the Seat of War from Flanders into England For in is Unreasonable to Suppose that so many Noblemen and Gentlemen as are Engaged in King William's Cause would tamely Submit or that his Majesty whose Interest in Europe is so very great would either Ingloriously abandone his Throne or want Foreign Assistance to support him in it 2. King James and the French King are both Old and upon a Change of a Governour in France we may reasonably expect Change of Measures for as to the prince of Wales his Interest stands or falls with that of his Supposed Father but after all is it Reasonable to believe that the French or any other Nation will live in perpetual War with us meerly for the sake of a prince who pretends to be deprived of his Rights There are very few Knight-Errants in this Age or at least sure I am that no Nation in general is acted by their principles and we see the French offer already to forsake him 3. I grant that our taxes are greater then ever our Nation paid but yet they are not so heavy but that we can hold it out many Years at this Rate In short whatever they be I believe there is no good Man but will rather hazard his person to keep the Enemy abroad then see a French and Irish Army in the Bowels of our own Countrey destroying our Substance Burning our Habitations and Committing the Barbarities which they Committed in the palatinate For Certainly by one Months Ravage of this Nature we should lose more Blood and treasure then can probably be-spent to bring the War to an Honourable and Happy Conclusion ●hat happy Moment is not perhaps so far as some people imagine for whosoever will cast his Eyes on the present posture of Affairs in Europe must needs Conclude that the French cannot hold it out much longer FINIS