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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

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

same Subject sent in 1680. by the Duke of Ormond to the Court. All these particulars appeared so evident to the Parliaments of Westminster and Oxford that they judged it impossible to reserve for the Duke of York any hopes of his Succession to the Crown and that the Court Party and Favourers of the Duke would have thought themselves to have gain'd much if the Duke who was lookt upon as the Author of all these Intriegues might only have retain'd the Title of King with leaving the whole Administration of the Government to the Prince of Orange We Englishmen having since that been so good natur'd as to admit the Duke to the Crown after the Death of King Charles II. whom the Papists had conspir'd to Murther on purpose to make place for the Duke Let any one judge whether there be any likelihood he should have renounced his League with France which he had always lookt upon as absolutely necessary for the making his designs to bear notwitstanding a publick Neutrality that was to be heldwith France as he was Guarantee of the Treaty of Nimeguen After all this a Man must have lost both Sense and Memory to suppose that he broke this Treaty since his coming to the Crown Moreover we have seen James II. an unconcern'd spectator of Lewis XIV seizing of Orange and of the Desolation of his Son-in-Law's Subjects who were forced to embrace the Romish Religion by the Violence of Dragoons All Europe have seen the accomodation of the Business of Bantam suspended without any other Reason but the design of having a Pretence in reserve to break with the Hollanders as also there were equal pains taken in 1670 to find out a plausible one to unite with France and to ruine a State which endeavour'd to preserve the Liberty of Europe and the Protestant Religion We have seen JAMES II. affording the Algerines a free retreat into his Havens and the Convoy of his Frigats that they might safely carry away with them the Dutch and French Protestants they had taken between England and Holland We have seen JAMES II. take the Government of Ireland from the Earl of Clarendon to put it into the hands of the Earl of Tyrconnel to the end he might new model the Army by putting out Protestants and supplying their Places with Papists as being more suited to carry on his Designs against England and Ireland We have seen him send Prince George into Denmark to hinder that Crown from joining with the Protestant Princes and from quitting his Engagements with France whose Assistance and Power were of absolute necessity to him And within his own Kingdom what is it he hath not attempted to advance his Designs and overthrow the Government in conformity to his Treaty with France and the Directions of Barillon his Ambassador He has put all places of Strength into the Hands of Papists he has kept on foot a numerous Army to suppress all those who might oppose his Designs he has against Law established an High Commission-Court for Ecclesiastical Affairs to violate the Rights of the Clergy and the Universities He has introduced Popish Bishops into England He has allowed a free exercise of that Religion in all Places All which things he durst never have undertaken so openly and with so high a Hand had he not been supported with Hopes derived from the Treaty he had with Lewis XIV whose Arms he lookt upon as able to bring about the Designs he had projected so long since It seems to me that these Proceedings are an abundant proof that he was engaged in a League with France But beyond all this behold here another Argument which cannot be gain-said The French Ambassadour the Count d' Avaux was a publick Person at the Hague he spoke with order from the King his Master and that in the Assembly of the States General he there peremptorily declares the Ninth of September last That there was an Alliance between the King his Master and James the Second he makes use of this League to interpose himself by his Master's Command upon an occasion when Lewis XIV believ'd that the States were forming some Enterprise against James the Second He delivers his Memorial to the States and communicates it to the rest of the Ambassadors at the Hague Sept. the 9th The Memorial was conceiv'd in these Terms THe sincere Desire the King my Master hath to maintain the Peace of Europe will not permit his Majesty to be a Spectator of the Great Preparations your H. M. Lordships are making by Land and by Sea without taking those Measures wherewith his Prudence the inseparable Companion of all his Actions doth inspire him to prevent the Mischiefs which without doubt will be the Consequence of them And tho' the King be well assured of the Wisdom of your Counsels and that it is not to be imagined that a Commonwealth should lightly betake themselves to Arms and kindle a War which at this Juncture cannot but prove fatal to all Christendom yet his Majesty cannot believe that your H. and M. Lordships would ever engage your selves in so great Expences as well within as without your State or suffer so many Foreign Troops to enter your Country and in a Season so far spent put so numerous a Fleet to Sea or prepare so vast a Warlike Train in case they had not formed a Design corresponding to the Greatness of those Preparations All these Circumstances My Lords and so many more which I must not here relate persuade the King my Master that these Preparations have an eye to England And therefore the King my Master has charged me in his Name to declare That the Engagements of Friendship and Alliance which he has with the King of Great Britain will not only oblige him to succour him but also to consider the first Act of Hostility your Ships or Land-Forces shall exert against his Britannick Majesty as a manifest Breach of Peace and open Rupture with his Crown I leave it My Lords to the Prudence of Your H. and M. Lordships to consider the Consequences of such like Vndertakings And his Majesty has ordered me to make this Declaration to you in his Name no otherwise than in the sincere Intention he has as I have often had the Honour to declare to you to prevent whatsoever might trouble the Peace of Europe Subscribed Done at the Hague the 9th Septemb. 1688. The Coun d' Avaux Than which as it seems to me nothing can be said more plain and express What does the English Embassador hereupon Some days after he presents a Memorial to the Estates and this plainly of concert with the French Embassador because this his second Memorial did refer to that which the French Embassador Presented and contents himself to assure them that James the Second had no Treaty with France but what was made Publick See here the Memorial of the Marquiss de Albyville THe underwritten Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain has received Order to