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peace_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	2,090	5	11.6019	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60228	The minister of state vvherein is shewn, the true use of modern policy / by Monsievr de Silhon ... ; Englished by H. H. ...; Minister d'estat. English	Silhon, sieur de (Jean), 1596?-1667.; Herbert, Henry, Sir, 1595-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3781; ESTC R5664	174,658	197

Covenant and with it the fortune of th' house of Israel He hath also permitted that the wealth of the new world should pass into other hands then theirs That their Fleet should be beaten and that Heretiques whom they name Rebels made use of the treasures against them which were destined for th' oppression of a Prince whom they took for their Enemy in regard that he was not their subject or ought not to be their Neighbour without depending on them Yet praised be God we have been wiser for what the King had undertaken his Constancy was never tyred and He Acted not by halfs nor laboured without Effect no irregular passion could make diversion upon his designes He finished all of them He hath dissipated all th' ill humours of the State He hath confounded the Rebellion of his subjects and our Allies have seen all the powers of France displayed and all the vertue of the French to master their ill fortune and draw them from the bottom of the pit In that miraculous passage over the Alpes when Italy saw her deliverer to descend and that Milan durst take some free breath and Naples think of a gentler Domination who would not have believed that the King would have pursued his Victory and taken in Italy a Revenge of the losses of his Auncestors And neverthelesse by a Councell that was understood a few persons and by an extraordinary prudence he quirted the deceitfull appearance of good He retired from Italy and contented himselfe for that time to stench the blood of it and bind up the wound for to finish in Langnedock the Cure of an Evill that was in its Crisis and which a greater stay might have made incureable But of that we will make God aiding hereafter a discourse apart The Tenth Discourse That Princes do approve but of the Services they Command and punish oftentimes them that are done against their Orders LEt a Minister of State know that he doth alwaies ill when he acts against th'orders are given him That in the State good intentions are not warrantable if th' effects are not agreeable to the Prince That the works of supererogation are not current there and that the services that are rendred if they are not commanded are things put to hazard which are exposed to the capricious humour of a person interressed and shall sometimes be condemned by him who would be sorry if they were not done who drawes profit from them and hereby accommodates his affairs so true it is that reason of State is a strange thing and that the Condition of men and chiefly of publique persons is unhappy Th'Examples will declare better then discourse which is to be observed in this matter The Carthaginians punished with death the Captains that had gained a battel without advice and against the rules of War nothing is read answerable to the jealousie the first Romans had for Command They could not give a good countenance to the successes which were obtained with disobedience And there were Fathers who would not give life their Children that were victorious in Combats that had been forbidden them At the siege of Cambrey or of Dourlans the Count Fuentes caused the head of a master of the Camp to be cut off who in an assault advanced further then he was commanded and took a post of very great Importance And though the profits of these happy faults and of those blind successes remain to the Prince and Country 'T is certain there 's cause for their punishment to hinder th' imitation which is often dangerous And for th'Evill is in it that the Judgement of a superiour should be sleighted by a particular person and his Authority violated Amongst us these Attempts are praised when they prosper and they are not punished when they are unfortunate But it is a condition inseparable from our humour and an effect of that blindnesse which possesseth almost all France To neglect prudence and Order and to have an esteem onely for Impetuosities and to Idolize nothing but Courage Observe an Example very remarkable in our time and a fault of another nature then the prudence and love of the Country would have advised and the Prince to whom it was of Advantage judged it worthy of punishment At the peace which was made 1617 by the Mediation of the King betwixt the Republique of Venice and the Arch-Duke Ferdinand who is now Emperour The King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy The Republique of Venice employed Octavian Buon as their extraordinary Embassador a Gentleman of great opinion among the Citizens to manage that affair with the Gussony their ordinary Embassadour near the King The Instruments given to their Embassadours commanded them not to consent to any Treaty of peace but on condition the Galleres which had been taken from the Venetians at Spalatre by the Duke of Ossone should be restored and that that blot was taken out from th' honour of the Republique They had also Orders though not so formall and express to oppose th' union that was in forming between the two Crowns to give joyntly the Law to Italy and to the rest of Europe Neverthelesse the Spaniards who sayl with all winds and raise profit out of all occasions put a great value upon th'Evidences of Esteem and Affection they made out to the King in submitting to him so great differences and exposing of their affairs to the judgement of his Agents But to sell this honour to him at a very dear rate they pressed th' union whereof I have spoken Union which they had long in their thoughts and had sought since France was delivered of the Spanish Invasions and had secured her selfe of their Ambushes Union to which they aimed with the same heat they did at the Monarchy since it was to be the Bridge to passe them safely and the necessary principle for the ruine of other Christian States and losse of their liberties Bentivoglio Nonce and now a Cardinall and Protector of France joyned his good endeavours to those of the Spanish Embassadour in favour of that so much desired Union and fatall Intelligence However if that design fail they would have peace not being able any longer to make War That Gradisque which the Venetians besieged was upon its last breath That the Duke of Savoy swollen with the reliefe was come to him from France was powerfull and Don Petro of Toledo weak and his Army shattered since the siege of Vercel They would have I say peace but after their manner and upon a vain shadow of honour which they believed to have done us and upon a light smoak of difference wherewith they thought to have intoxicated us They would exempt themselves from Evils which hung over their heads they would have it neverthelesse with vapouring and reputation as if fortune had been propitious to them They would have no mention made of it in the Treaty of the restitution of the Ships of the Republique and that the Ships should remain with them as Trophies of

towards Rome in spight of his Generall I speak not of the raising of 14000 furious Lutherans and burning with the first Zeale of that Heresie t' employ them in a Warre where th' Holy Chaire had so great a part But after that Rome was taken that dreadful accident was hapned by the course wherewith it was guided After that th' Holy Citty had served for spectacle to the World of the justice and of th' Impiety of Men After that the Pope was besieged in the Castle of St. Angelo Why did not th' Emperour cause the scandall to cease at the first news he heard of it Why did he not deliver Rome of that heretique Garrison which abused th' holy things who prophaned the most sacred Mysteries of our Religion and added to all the kinds of cruelty all the kinds of sacriledge Why did he suffer the Pope to be put to Ransom to redeeme himselfe with Money from the vexation of victorious Heretiques and that Ostia and th' other strong place of th' Ecclesiastique State were the Price of his liberty and th' Arguments of his servitude I know well that some answer may be made in his favour and for his discharge That 't is permitted to make use of th' Advantage which we have not sought but fortune hath offer'd That 't is lawfull to draw good from th'evill which happens against our intentions That 't is the destiny of the things of this World That the prosperity of some is raised by th' Adversity of others and that th' affairs of State are like those of Merchandize wherein the greatest secret is to know when to make right use of the time and t' employ th' occasions to profit when they are offered To that I answer first that the evills which I have spoken of and those dreadfull Accidents were the sequells of the breach of many treaties made with Clement and of the violation of publique faith in his person And therefore that the effects could not become Lawfull whose causes were so notoriously unjust That the River cannot be very sound if the Spring be poysoned That conclusions retain alwaies the conditions of the principles f●om which they arise and partake of their spots and weaknesses and that they who have been the promoters of some Evill or have not diverted it when they were obliged are bound to repaire it and ought to be security for th' ill consequences they bring with them In the second place I answer that the person of the Pope and the dominions of th' Holy Chaire are priviledged-things and of right are not subject t' all th'Inconveniences and t' all the disgraces to which the Person and States of other Princes are exposed for the Reasons above given and which shall not here be repeated As to th' affliction th' Emperour seemed to declare at the News of th'Accident and the Demonstrations he published of an eminent grief As to the mourning he put on to make his Displeasure visible and to the Processions he made upon that occasion And the Rejoycings for the birth of his Son He caused to cease To weep th' ill fortune of the Pope All that was but illusion and Comedy So that false sadnesse suddenly disappeared and that vain shew of griefe was presently belyed by the proceedings above mentioned And moreover Francis the first reproached him in one of his Manifests that he had dared to think to send Clement into Spain and conceived that monstrous vanity To have at the same time in his hands the two principall persons of the World and two so great prisoners as a Pope and King of France The Spaniards answerd that if Charles had had the will who could have hindred him to have executed it And who are strong enough to oppose his designes in a time when Fortune refused nothing to his desires when his prosperities gave feare t' England and Italy was amazed at the blow which it had newly received When France was mortified for th'Imprisonment of its King and th'heretiques of Germany made brags of the purging of Rome from its abominations and abating the Pope dome under th' Authority of a Catholique Emperour To that Answer may be made with Francis the first That Charles was diverted from that designe by th' Horror the proposition raised to all Spaine That the people murmured and the Clergy raged when there was speech of leading the Vicar of Jesus Christ in Triumph and to make a Prisoner of th' head of the Church Though it be very hard to justifie the truth of this fact to make visible a matter so darke 't is better to leave it in darknesse and to suspend herein ones beliefe for the honour of a Prince that hath much merited of the Church in divers occasions and to whom the glory of beating back Soliman cannot be denyed and th'assuring of all Christendome in the defence of his patrimny and the States of his brother At least 't is certain that if he was a sinner he was a Penitent and that he washed his faults with the teares of three years which he poured out in his retraite from the world before death tooke him away from it Others aggravated this fault by th'Evills which Fortune raised t' interrupt his prosperities and by the diverse faces which she shewed to them of his Race They mentioned the disgraces of his Brother The Route of his Armies at Ezechio and at Bude and th' other Victories which Valour did not so much give to the Turk as th' ill Fortune of Ferdinand and the Cowardise of his Captains They did not conceale th' occasions wherein he saw his designes overthrown and his person in danger The sinking of his Fleet in th'haven of Algiers and that fearfull losse which hath not been equalled by any losse made by Christians on the Sea but by that which his Son made in the Sleev of England They represent the successe which the second League had against him in Germany The Chase which Maurice Duke of Saxony gave him And the necessity whereunto he was reduced to save himselfe by night and the sixth person at Isburg and to consent to the peace of Passo so injurious to Religion and so unworthy of th' Empire And to conclude they adde th' ill successe of the Enterprize of Provance and the shame of the siege of Mets which was the last deceit fortune put upon th' Emperour and th' accomplishment of the designe he meditated to put himselfe out of her power in quitting the World where she is so soveraign I will not affirme that all these Evills befell him in revenge of the sacking of Rome and th' affront offered to th' Holy Chaire It might happen that God sent or permitted them for that subject And it might fall out also that they sprang from other reasons and were th' effect of another cause Insomuch that according to the judgements that are made upon that Matter and th'Examples which are alleadged of them whom God hath punished for offending of Popes There 's