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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38820	Discourses on the present state of the Protestant princes of Europe exhorting them to an union and league amongst themselves against all opposite interest, from the great endeavours of the court of France and Rome to influence all Roman Catholick princes, against the Protestant states and religion, and the advantage that our divisions give to their party : wherein the general scope of this horrid Popish Plot is laid down, and presented to publick view / by Edmund Everard ...	Everard, Edmund.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3528; ESTC R176794	41,879	50

in the Business of the Reduction of Rochelle the Consequences whereof have been the cause of most considerable Conversions of Estate Wars and Disorders of Europe which we have seen since that time CArdinal of Richelieu who without doubt was the greatest Person and Minister of State that France hath of many years produced or which it may be it shall have hereafter for a long time was he who first laid the Axe to the foot and roots of the Imperial Family of Austria and having in an admirable manner pierced into the knowledge of that wherein the true Interest of France might consist to raise the glory of its Kings to the highest degree of all greatness he knew also to adhere only to essential Maxims whence so glorious a Work ought to be commenced And this is so true that we may positively conclude as a most certain thing that whatever Mazarin hath executed since and whatever Messieurs Le Tellier Colbert Louvois and de Pompone have since performed in our days for the Grandeur and exaltation of their Monarch are no other than the fruits of the Heroick Labours of that great Minister and the Execution of the Memoires and secret Instructions of his Ministery it being certain that so far as they have not departed therefrom their Glory and Success have been inseperably united to the greater part of their Expeditions and so far as they have departed from them their Enterprises have many times been attended with loss of Glory to their Master these are things which we observe sometimes by the way whilst we confine our selves to the pursuit of our Observations and Remarks upon some Errors of Estate in the Ministry of France but our design at present is to begin to observe for our private satisfaction that Point alone for the Reduction of Rochelle a Capital quid pro quo of Estate of the most part of the Potentates of Europe who might have hindered it if they on that occasion had known their true Interest and the excellent Conduct of that great Minister at the same time And first of all we will apply our selves only to observe what is but too well known I mean the misadventures which have successively fallen out in Europe to the prejudice of the most powerful Estates therein by this Reduction only and those greater which are ready to befall them if some part of them redress it not The Siege of Rochelle being settled about it the Town was but weakly relieved by the English so that we may affirm that their last expedition which seemed to be set out for that purpose after the death of Buckingham was rather a succour of show and appearance than reality if it might not be said rather that the good King then could not do all he would for their Relief Holland blind to their enemies own true Interest upon this occasion lent their Maritime Forces to advance this Reduction Spain who ought more than any other Potentate to have known and apprehended the consequences thereof thought it better to give credence to its pretended Council of Conscience then to great Spinola who having personally visited Rochelle in the conjunctures of the Siege and perceived the Infallibility of its Reduction unless speedily relieved for it was he that gave that advice to the Cardinal to shut it out from the Sea the Infallible means of its Reduction and repented thereof too late he prophesied punctually at the Council at Madrid all the misadventures which befel them and followed upon this Reduction to the prejudice of the greatness of the Austrian Family All the Roman Catholick Party of France made it so strong a Point of Religion to contribute what lay in them to this Reduction that we may say of them as sometimes the deceased and very wise Marshal of Bassompiere They were great fools who gave themselves no repose until by the sacrifice of their goods blood and lives they had effected it Let us now examine apart in a few words that which consequently did happen upon this Error of Estate to the Imperial House of Austria to Holland and France it self I speak of State Affairs and also by the consequences thereof to the greater part of the rest of Europe For England we need only take a small tast of the Travels and Addresses of the late Monsieur President de Thou Embassadour of France in England to understand that upon the King of England's failing to succour Rochelle was the foundation whereon that insinuation was advanced into the spirits of the People of that Kingdom that his late Majesty of Great Britain had in secret by the perswasion of Henrietta de Bourbon his Wife embraced the Roman Religion and that his designs tended to nothing more then to procure the destruction of the Protestant Religion in England as well as in France if it could possibly be done which supposition though doubtlesly false against that pious and learned Prince yet it was ocasioned by that unhappy slackness of supplies for the relief of Rochelle we may say that it was upon this foundation that France by the means of the said Lord Thou gave life to the universal revolt of all England and to that unfortunate Catastrophe which all Europe have beheld with horrour and astonishment and this is the very truth that the departed Monsieur de Thou who was not a Person that would speak untruth did affirm before his death to several of his Confidents of which some are yet alive that he protested that he died with sore regret that he had intermedled with that unfortunate Affair As for the most Illustrious Family of Austria in examining what hath befallen it on these two Heads since that fatal Reddition First with respect to the Imperialists the King of Denmark the Elector of Saxony the Elector Palatine of the Rhine the Princes of Transylvania and all their Confederates being humbled or destroyed we may truly say it was in a condition to do what it could reasonably desire in Germany but by the Consequence of that Reduction France was in condition to send its Aids abroad and to make Alliances and having in consequence thereof subscribed to the Swedish League it is easie to see what after the Great Gustavus did set foot in the Empire did happen through the whole extent thereof to the prejudice of this Illustrious House till the Peace of Munster and Osnaburg The eight Electorate Brisac and Philipsburg with all the Conquests of the Swede in the Empire and the enfeebling the Body of the German Church for the Recompences made to the Elector of Brandenburg and Prince of Meckleburg are the living Monuments of the failures on that side For Spain we may say that till the Reduction of Rochelle it was not always triumphant but it had thitherto supported the weight of its greatness with glory and was in an Estate to make all them to fear it who did not love it till then Flanders Italy and Germany beheld a numerous Armies on their side the