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A25618 An account of the private league betwixt the late King James the Second, and the French king in a letter from a gentleman in London, to a gentleman in the countrey. Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.; Gentleman in London. 1689 (1689) Wing A344; ESTC R1701 13,039 19

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King. To be convinced of this we need only to cast an Eye upon the War of Holland in 1670. 'T is certainly known 't was a War of Religion undertaken meerly for the propagation of Popery The French Minister manifested plainly in his Speech to the Emperours Council which has been since Printed in French that the Hollanders being Hereticks who had forsaken their God all good Christians are bound to joyn and unite to extirpate them and to implore Gods Blessing upon so good a Work. But how cunningly did they proceed in the Dukes Cabal to dissemble the part they had in such a Design 1. They reformed the Cabinet Council and turn'd at once out of the Committee for Forreign Affairs Prince Rupert the Duke of Ormond the Lord Keeper Trevor the first Secretary of State that was ever kept out of a Commission of that nature 2. They advised His Majesty to Prorogue the Parliament according to the French Kings desire 3. They sought a Quarrel against the Dutch by sending a Yatch with order to Sail through the Dutch Fleet and require striking to His Majesties Flag Although the Dutch Fleet was then at Anchor not far from their own Coast 4. They fell upon the Dutch Fleet of Smyrna without any Declaration of War when the Dutch Ambassadours had offerred all possible satisfaction to the King upon this affected Quarrel 5. The English Fleet fought for the French so bravely and interprised themselves between the French and the Dutch with so good a success that when the English Fleet the Strength of our Nation which was to be lessen'd for the execution of their Designes was reduced into a sad condition the French Squadron came off as fresh and as entire as when they first Sailed out of their Ports 6. When they sent the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord Arlington into Holland they gave their instructions for the insisting in the behalf of the French altho' the second head of the French demands was upon a publick Exercise of the Roman Religion in the Vnited Provinces the Church to be divided and the Romish Priests to have a maintainance out of the Publick Revenue After this we shall do well to make some reflections upon Coleman's Letters to Sir W. Throgmorton the Duke of York's Agent at the Court of France See how he expresses himself in one of them dated February 1674 5. For you know well that when the Duke comes to be Master of our Affairs the King of France will have reason to promise himself all things that he can desire For according to the mind of the Duke the Interest of the King of England the King of France and his own are so close bound up together that it is impossible to separate them the one from the other without ruine to all three but being joined they must notwithstanding all opposition become invincible Those who knew nothing of the League concluded between England and France in the Year 1670. were extreamly at a loss what to make of those words of Coleman words so express and precise as nothing could be said more But they who have seen the extract of that League published by the Abbot Primi easily conceive that they referred to the secret League of 1670. and that the reason why the English Court has been so industrious to maintain and cultivate the Union with France was only in order to preserve those hidden Interests they judged inseparable though the true Interest of the State was indeed diametrically opposite to the entertaining any Union with a Crown all whose designs were level'd at the ruine of England and the Protestant Religion We find much the same stile in a Letter of Father la Chaise Jesuit and Confessor to Lewis the XIV to Coleman He saith Page 110. That the French King considers his own Interest and the Interest of the Duke of York as one and the same thing and that if the Duke would undertake to Dissolve the Parliament the French King would assist him with his Power and Purse to procure such an one afterwards as might be favourable to their designs Now I should think that when one offers ones Power and Purse to a Prince that this supposes a Treaty with him and that Prudence would not permit a King to write to a Prince to employ his Interest for Dissolving a Parliament of England without knowing himself engaged in the greatest confidence with him Some it may be will imagine that this was only an ordinary Treaty But Coleman has exprest himself so clearly in the Case that he has not left us room to mistake him See what he writes to Father la Chaise We have here a mighty work upon our hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the subduing of a Pestilent Heresse which has domineer'd over a great part of the Northern World a long time There were never such hopes of Success since the Death of Queen Mary as now in our days when God has given us a Prince who is become may I say to a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a work pag. 118. collect of Letters This was the grand design carried on in 1675 which makes it evident that the Treaty made by the Dutchess of Orleans was not forgot but that the same was inviolably observ'd and stuck to Had we the other Letters of Coleman and Father la Chaise as well as of the rest of the Agents of the English Court which Coleman declar'd were still in White-Hall when he was examin'd where the rest of these Letters were it would be easie to judge that matters have been still carried on in the same strain between the Duke of York and the French King. There are Men enough that know that the choice was made of the Letters that were to be published they eclips'd and suppress'd those wherein the Court and Duke of York were more particularly concern'd But without putting our selves to the trouble of guessing we have but too many Evidences to leave us the least Shadow of a Doubt Can we in England forget the things that past at the time when the Popish Plot was discovered by Oates Bedlow Prince Everard Smith c Can we forget the indefatigable Pains the Duke of York took to turn the Conspiracy in which he was so deeply concerned upon the Presbyterians as appears from Dangerfield's Discovery published Anno Domini 1678. Can we forego the remembrance of those remarkable Events which happened soon after the Assassination of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey the Sham put upon Mr. Roderick Mansell the Depositions of William Lewis and Laurence Moubray The Oaths of Secrecy and the Litany of the Papists publish'd by Robert Bolron Can we forget the Conspiracy of the Papists in Ireland to subject that Kingdom to the French King as long as we have before our Eyes the Narrative of Thomas Sampson Printed 1680. and the Depositions of Mac-namara Fitzgerald and Nash besides the Papers about the