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prince_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	4,461	5	11.5012	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53018	A New-years gift to impostors: or, The manifest of William the Third King of England, Scotland, and Ireland delivered and dispersed at the French Court, &c. as an overture to the General Peace, proposed about the later end of the year 1693. and concluded in 1697. Faithfully done out of the original into English, and now published by a true friend to truth and justice, and consequently to his King and country.		1697 (1697)	Wing N818; ESTC R221381	7,733	4

to himself the Dignity of a Sovereign enters into a Country with Violence forces the People he hath subdued to own him for their King oppresses them with Levies and Taxes cements his new Throne with the Blood of the most Illustrious of his Subjects and upon the least Suspicion sacrifices to the Security of hi● Crown and his Life those whose Conduct migh● occasion the least Umbrage A Tyrant is one who seducing his Fellow Subjects declares against his Prince and the Government of his Country and who by excess of Power and Success acquires and engrosses to himself alone the Sovereignty and Dominion and who according to his own Avarice and Fury disposes of all th● Treasure of the People whereof he himself is bu● a Member and in short whose Power generally ends with his Life Am I an Usurper Am I a Tyrant Can any one of those barbarous Qualities which form the one or the other be observed in my Conduct Am I born a Subject of England Am I got into it by Force or Violence Have I overloaded its People with Levies and Taxes Can I be reproached with any of those brutal Actions which darkens the Histories of the most Illustrious Conquerors If I am neither an Usurper nor a Tyrant but Rightful and Lawful King of England what Shame can it be for France at this time to own me as such She who at other times not only acknowledged such but concluded Treaties of Peace Alliance and Commerce with 'em as if they had been lawful Princes But if this obstinacy of France causes all my Pain and Trouble if by her ways she alone hath hitherto opposed the Happiness of my Fortune I have still this Comfort to see my Self Recognized by all the other Princes of Europe and to see my Embassadors hold the same Rank at their Courts which those of England have always had The Emperor the King of Spain the Duke of Savoy the Princes of Germany and the States General have voluntarily entered into a League together to support me upon the Throne They 'll sooner perish as I may say then let me fall while my Enemies by open Force strive to wrest the Scepter from me And when on the contrary they 'll come to Reason and fair Means I am of my self ready to quit the Throne in order to restore the Tranquility of all Europe Let France gain as many Victories as she will let her take Towns and Ships drown'd the Frontiers with Soldiers threaten all the Earth with an ensuing Conquest all that will but turn to her Ruin because she is but one against many Let her examin her own inward State let her behold with Motherly Eyes the Dearth and Scarcity of Corn her Inhabitants are reduced to In fine let her cease to delude with the Power of her Mony a Prince who freely renounces the Crown and an Infant who in a long time will not have Strength enough to wear it Let her also consider the number of Enemies she is surrounded with and let her measure the greatness of their Hatred to her with that of her Outrages to them Let her look upon all her concluded Treaties violated all the Truces she hath broke all the Towns she hath burnt all the People she hath reduced to Beggary and who demand Justice of Heaven for these Evils Let her at last seriously reflect on the unsteadiness of her own Conduct and she 'll find her self guilty of the same Perfidies she unjustly upbraids me with and whereof she accuses my Allies Would a Treaty of Peace secure unto us her Friendship tho' to obtain it we should grant her all her Pretensions Would the Emperor trust to it after seeing her in cold Blood break a Truce of 20 Years newly concluded between her and him Would the King of Spain send his Fleet to Sea with Safety after the Insult made in full Peace upon his Admiral Papachini Wou'd the Duke of Savoy be more Civilly treated by her Minister Wou'd the Princes of Germany keep their Countries and Privileges with Security and Freedom And would not the States General have cause to fear her Resentment and Revenge in Hatred to the generous Protection and the powerful Succours which they have given me However if it be resolved to restore Peace to Europe who require it all the World that seek it will be astonished at the Effort which secretly invites me to it when every one tells me that the publick Good ought to weigh over my private Advantage Let us therefore commit that happy Violence upon our Selves and sacrifice my Glory to this Repose and let us at least by excess of Generosity surpass those who have not been able to overcome us by their Arms. To accomplish so fine a Project and of so general an Advantage I declare as to my part I am ready to renounce the Three Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland to abandon these Isles for ever and give 'em up to King James secure the Possession of them to the Prince his Son and to return to Holland quietly to exercise the Dignity of Stateholder if France will but on her part restrain her self to the Execution of the Pyrenean Treaty and consent to annul all subsequent Ones His Most Christian Majesty knows that he never performed but One Article of that Treaty which without any other Proof is sufficiently evinced from all that 's passed since that time If Offers so reasonable and Proposals so advantagious be rejected the evil Consequences of their refusal ought not to be imputed to me The Sacrifice I make to the publick Good is a sufficient Justification of me and is a Satisfaction to me in the midst of my Pains and Afflictions I quit a Radiant Crown and a Scepter Illustrious and Flourishing to give them to another I descend of my own Accord without Violence and without Constraint from the Throne after having had the extream Pleasure of mounting it and Sweet of commanding in it I forsake Fortune Honour Glory and Triumph to become nothing in re-assuming a private Condition I become as it were a Phantom after having been something on the Theater of the World and after having had so much Suceess whereof I ought now to enjoy the Benefit I reserve no more on 't to my Ambition and Fortune than the Imagination and Shadow After this let my Enemies say what they will against me let 'em form all the Ideas to themselves they please my Sincerity will give the Lie to all their Impostures They shall always find me ready to execute what I offer and always ready to restore together with the Peace the Tranquility and Happiness which they have lost FINIS Besides other States Crown'd-Heads and Potentates who then Complemented Their Majesties on the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Nota Bene out of the London Gazette of the Year 1688. Number 2358. Hague June 29. ON Friday last the Marquis d' Albyville Envoy Extraordinary of His Majesty of Great Britain Communicated to the Princess and Prince of Orange the Happy News of the Birth of the Prince to whom he delivered at the same time His Majesties Letters And the next day he had Audience of the States General to notifie the same to them The Heer Van Zuylestein parted from hence yesterday for England Whitehall June 23. This Day the Sieur Zuylestein who is come from her Royal Highness the Princess and His Highness the Prince of Orange to of the Prince had his first Audience of the King being Conducted by Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies Whitehall July 1. The 28th past the Sieur de Zuylestein who is sent from her Royal Highness the Princess and His Highness the Prince of Orange to Congratulate upon the Birth of the Prince had Audience of the Queen the 30th of the Queen-Dowager and this Day of the Prince being conducted by Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies Numb 2367. THe Sieur de Zulyestein has had his Audience of Leave of Their Majesties of the Queen-Dowager and of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales being Conducted by Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies Add That he was publickly Prayed for as Prince of Wales at the Chappel-Royal at the Hague till it was thought convenient to discontinue it