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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64315	Miscellanea ... by a person of honour.	Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.	1680 (1680)	Wing T646; ESTC R223440	87,470	252

or dangers And if they should open a War they foresee the consumption which France must fall into by the stop of their Wine Salts and other Commodities now in a manner wholly taken off by our two Nations And the head that may be made against their Forces in the Field it self by a Body of English Infantry so much renowned abroad So as though their first Interest be to continue the Peace while it may be done with any safety yet when that fails their next is to open a War in favour of Spain and conjunction with us And the greatest they have in the world is to preserve and encrease their Alliance with us Which will make them follow our measures absolutely in all the present Conjunctures THE Crown of France considered in the extent of Countrey in the number of People in the riches of Commodities in the Revenues of the King the greatness of the Land-Forces now on foot and the growth of those at Sea within these two years past the number and bravery of their Officers the conduct of their Ministers and chiefly in the Genius of their present King A Prince of great aspiring thoughts unwearied application to whatever is in pursuit severe in the institution and preservation of Order and Discipline In the main a Manager of his Treasure and yet bountiful from his own motions wherever he intends the marks of Favour and discerns particular Merit To this in the flower of his Age at the head of all his Armies and hitherto unfoiled in any of his attempts either at home or abroad I say considered in all these circumstances France may appear to be designed for greater Atchievements and Empires than have been seen in Christendom since that of Charlemaigne The present Greatness of this Crown may be chiefly derived from the fortune it has had of two great Ministers Richelieu and Mazarine succeeding one another between two great Kings Henry the Fourth and this present Prince so as during the course of one unactive life and of a long Minority That Crown gained a great deal of ground both at home and abroad instead of losing it Which is the common fate of Kingdoms upon those occasions The latter greatness of this Crown began in the time of Lewis the 11th by the Spoils of the House of Burgundy and the Divisions of the Princes which gave that King the heart of attempting to bring the Government as he called it Hors de Page Being before controul'd by their Princes and restrained by their States And in point of Revenue kept within the bounds of the Kings Demesnes and the Subjects voluntary Contributions 'T is not here necessary to observe by what difficulties and dangers to the Crown this design of Lewis was pursued by many succeeding Kings like a great Stone forced up a Hill and upon every slacking of either strength or care rolling a great way back often to the very bottom of the Hill and sometimes with the destruction of those that forced it on till the time of Cardinal Richelieu It was in this great Minister most to be admired that finding the Regency shaken by the Factions of so many great ones within and awed by the terror of the Spanish greatness without He durst resolve to look them both in the face and begin a War by the course of which for so many years being pursued by Mazarine till the year 60 The Crown of France grew to be powerfully armed The Peasants were accustomed to Payments which could have seemed necessary only by a War and which none but a successful one could have helpt to digest and grew heartless as they grew poor The Princes were sometimes satisfied with Commands of the Army sometimes mortified and supprest by the absoluteness or addresses of the Ministry The most boiling blood of the Nobility and Gentry was let out in so long a War or wasted with Age and Exercise At last it ended at the Pireenes in a Peace and a Match so advantageous to France As the reputation of them contributed much to the Authority of the young King who bred up in the Councils and served by the tried Instruments of the former Ministry But most of all advantaged by his own personal Qualities fit to make him obeyed Grew absolute Master of the Factions of the great men as well as the purses of his people In the beginning of his Minority the two disputes with the Pope about the outrage of the Corsi and with the King of Spain about the encounter at London between the Count D'Estrades and the Baron De Batteville Ambassadors from those Crowns both carried so high and both ended so honourably and to the very will of France Were enough to give a young Prince the humour and appetite of trying yet further what there was could oppose him The Invasion and easie success in Flanders fed his Glory and encreast the reputation of his Power Till this career was interrupted by the Peace at first then the Alliances between Us and Holland and afterwards the Peace at Aix and the Tripple Alliance contracted purposely to secure it since which time the Counsels of that Court have turned wholly from Action to Negotiation Of which no man can yet see the success nor judg whether it may not be more prosperous to them than that of their Arms. If there were any certain heighth where the flights of Power and Ambition use to end one might imagine that the Interest of France were but to conserve its present Greatness so feared by its Neighbours and so glorious in the world But besides that the motions and desires of human minds are endless It may perhaps be necessary for France from respects within to have some War or other in pursuit abroad which may amuse the Nation and keep them from reflecting upon their condition at home Hard and uneasie to all but such as are in charge or in pay from the Court I do not say miserable the term usually given it because no condition is so but to him that esteems it so And if a Paisan of France thinks of no more than his coarse Bread and his Onions his Canvass Clothes and Wooden Shooes labours contentedly on Working-days and dances or plays merrily on Holy-days He may for ought I know live as well as a Boor of Holland who is either weary of his very ease or whose cares of growing still richer and richer waste his life in toils at Land or dangers at Sea and perhaps fool him so far as to make him enjoy less of all kind in his riches than t'other in his poverty But to leave strains of Philosophy which are ill mingled with discourses of Interest The common people of France are as little considerable in the Government as the Children so that the Nobles and the Soldiers may in a manner be esteemed the Nation Whose Interest and Hopes carry them all to War And whatever is the general humour and bent of a Nation ought ever to be much considered by

men over to it when they cannot be either safe or easie at home When things are once in motion Trade begets Trade as fire does fire and People go much where much People are already gone So men run still to a crowd where they see it in the streets or the fields though it be only to do as others do to see or to be entertained The want of Trade in Ireland proceeds from the want of People and this is not grown from any ill qualities of the Climate or Air but chiefly from the frequent Revolutions of so many Wars and Rebellions so great Slaughters and Calamities of Mankind as have at several Intervals of time succeeded the first Conquest of this Kingdom in Henry the Seconds time until the year 1653 Two very great Plagues followed the two great Wars those of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and the last which helped to drain the current stream of Generation in the Countrey The discredit which is grown upon the Constitutions or Settlements of this Kingdom by so frequent and unhappy Revolutions that for many ages have infested it has been the great discouragement to other Nations to transplant themselves hither and prevailed further than all the invitations which the cheapness and plenty of the Countrey has made them So that had it not been for the numbers of the British which the necessity of the late Wars at first drew over and of such who either as Adventurers or Soldiers seated themselves here upon account of the satisfaction made to them in Land the Countrey had by the last War and Plague been left in a manner desolate Besides the subordinancy of the Government changing hands so often makes an unsteddiness in the pursuit of the publick Interests of the Kingdom gives way to the emulations of the different Factions and draws the favour or countenance of the Government sometimes to one party or interest sometimes to another this makes different motions in mens minds raising hopes and fears and opinions of uncertainty in their possessions and thereby in the peace of the Countrey This subordinacy in the Government and emulation of parties with the want sometimes of Authority in the Governour by the weakness of his credit and support at Court occasions the perpetual agencies or journeys into England of all persons that have any considerable pretences in Ireland and money to pursue them which end many times in long abodes and frequent habituating of Families there though they have no money to support them but what is drawn out of Ireland Besides the young Gentlemen go of course for their breeding there some seek their health and others their entertainment in a better Climate or Scene By these means the Countrey loses the expence of many of the richest persons or families at home and mighty sums of money must needs go over from hence into England which the great stock of rich Native Commodities here can make the only amends for These Circumstances so prejudicial to the encrease of Trade and Riches in a Countrey seem natural or at least have ever been incident to the Government here and without them the Native fertility of the Soil and Seas in so many rich Commodities improved by multitude of people and industry with the advantage of so many excellent Havens and a Scituation so commodious for all sorts of forreign Trade must needs have rendred this Kingdom one of the richest in Europe and made a mighty encrease both of strength and revenue to the Crown of England whereas it has hitherto been rather esteemed and found to be our weak side and to have cost us more blood and treasure than 't is worth Since my late arrival in Ireland I have found a very unusual but I doubt very just complaint concerning the scarcity of Money which occasioned many airy Propositions for the remedy of it and among the rest that of raising some or all of the Coyns here This was chiefly grounded upon the experience made as they say about the Duke of Ormonds coming first over hither in 1663 when the Plate-pieces of Eight were raised three pence in the piece and a mighty plenty of money was observed to grow in Ireland for a year or two after But this seems to me a very mistaken account and to have depended wholly upon other circumstances little taken notice of and not at all upon the raising of the Money to which it is by some great men attributed For first there was about that time a general peace and serenity which had newly succeeded a general trouble and cloud throughout all His Majesties Kingdoms then after two years attendance in England upon the settlement of Ireland there on the forge by all persons and parties here that were considerably interested in it the Parliament being called here and the main settlement of Ireland wound up in England and put into the Duke of Ormonds hands to pass here into an Act all persons came over in a shoal either to attend their own concernments in the main or more particularly to make their Courte to the Lord Lieutenant upon whom His Majesty had at that time in a manner wholly devolved the care and disposition of all affairs in this Kingdom This made a sudden and mighty stop of that issue of Money which had for two years run perpetually out of Ireland into England and kept it all at home Nor is the very expence of the Duke of Ormonds own great Patrimonial estate with that of several other Families that came over at that time of small consideration in the stock of this Kingdom Besides there was a great sum of Money in ready Coyn brought over out of England at the same time towards the arrears of the Army Which are all circumstances that must needs have made a mighty change in the course of ready money here All the effect that I conceive was made by crying up the pieces of Eight was to bring in much more of that Species instead of others current here as indeed all the Money brought from England was of that sort and complained of in Parliament to be of a worse allay and to carry away much English Money in exchange for Plate-pieces by which a Trade was driven very beneficial to the Traders but of mighty loss to the Kingdom in the intrinsick value of their Money The Circumstances at this time seem to be just the reverse of what they were then The Nations engaged in a War the most fatal to trade of any that could arise The settlement of Ireland shaken at the Court and falling into new disquisitions whether in truth or in common opinion is all a case This draws continual Agencies and Journeys of People concerned into England to watch the motions of the main wheel there Besides the Lieutenants of Ireland since the Duke of Ormond's time have had little in their disposition here and only executed the resolutions daily taken at Court in particular as well as general affairs which has drawn thither the