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B23787	China and France, or, Two treatises the one, of the present state of China as to the government, customs, and manners of the inhabitants thereof ... from the observation of two Jesuites lately returned from that country, written and published by the French Kings cosmographer and now Englished : the other, containing the most remarkable passages of the reign and life of the present French King, Lewis the Fourteenth, and of the valour of our English in his armies.	Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712. Viaggio del P. Giovanni Grueber tornando per terea da China in Europa. English.; Grueber, Johann, 1623-1680.; Orville, Albert, comte d', 1621-1662.; Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech), 1620?-1692.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2163	63,324	224

their breaches restored their Fortifications and put them all into a good posture of defence But that which was remarkable in this progress the King had no extraordinary Militia he trusted so much these new Subjects that he entered into all their populous Towns attended only by his houshold Servants and usual Guards This got him the love and respect of the Walloons and secured him the hearts of his people as well as the Walls of their Towns About this time a King of Guinny who lives at a City called Arda sent an Ambassador to Paris to treat about an establishment of a Trade between that place and the Islands of America under the French Scepter The King entertained him and his motion very kindly and sent him back with Tokens of his liberality There had been an Order of the Kings Council published by which certain Wares of the Hollanders were prohibited in France They labored by their Ambassador to perswade the King to revoke this Order but in vain for the King was now resolved to revenge himself upon them for their insolent carriage towards him and his people in the West and East Indies and in many Foreign Countreys where they had ingrossed all the Trade to themselves It is certain that both the English and the French had great cause to complain of the Hollanders who had on several occasions discovered an unsufferable Pride and a haughty carriage not to be endured by Crowned Heads They had exercised their cruelty upon the Subjects of both Kingdoms beyond the Seas and had seised upon their Goods affronting thereby their Princes who are ingaged to protect them These and other unjust practises as was pretended obliged the French to prepare for War Therefore in his Progress in Flanders he visited himself the Fortifications of all his Frontier Towns and caused the weakest places to be fortified with new Works from Dunkirke he went to Amantiers from thence to Lille to Courtray to Aeth He found that Monsieur de Montal had strongly repaired the Walls of Charle le Roy for which he highly commended him Before the War was proclaimed Madam de Orleans the only Sister a live of our Gracious Monarch came over here unto England to visit the King and the Duke of York She was received with all the expressions of kindness that Nature did require and her Vertues deserve But as all our satisfactions are momentary she had no sooner seen these dear Relations but was forced to leave them again and return over to France where she died so suddenly that most men entertained the bad reports that were raised about her death However the Court of France honored her Birth and Vertues with an outward Mourning and the Duke of Orleans's countenance seemed to be very sad and pensive until the King had cheared him up with the thoughts of another Wife The Daughter of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine was pitched upon the Mareschal du Plessis was sent to espouse her in the Dukes name in the City of Mets the sixteenth day of November The Duke himself wen● as far as Chalons to receive and welcome her The King the Queen and all the Court expressed their joy and satisfaction for her safe arrival and about a year after she was brought to Bed of a Son All this while the War was preparing against Holland England and France were to unite their Forces by Sea and Land On the seventh day of April 1672. the King published his Declaration to forbid all Commerce and Trade with the States of the Vnited Provinces and immediately after appeared at the Head of an Army of One hundred and fifty thousand Men with whom he carried all before him in the Low Countreys as a violent torrent Nothing was of a sufficient resistance for so great a power every one did judge that he would win all the other Towns the following Spring if there were not a stop put to his undertakings But the motion of the French is always violent at the first and then at the least discouragement it begins to abate The Dutchy of Cleves the Electorate of Cullen the Dutchy of Limburgh the County of Zutphen Vtrecht and its Territories Holland Brabant Overissell the Oriental Frieze Groningen and the Dutchy of Geldres were full of French Troops on a sudden Orsoy Vesel Burick and Rhineburgh that had been so strongly Garrisoned that the Dutch thought them to be the Bulwarks of their Land were surrendered at the first appearance of the Kings Standard Reez Emmerick and Groll were delivered to the Bishop of Munster who had taken up Arms to vindicate the French quarrel The next attempt was the Passage over the Rhine which was first undertaken by the Count de Guiche at the Head of Two thousand Horse he swom over it although three Squadrons of Horse and some few Foot were ready to receive him on the other side When the French had recovered the Bank they charged so desperately that the Enemy was disordered and fled to their Foot for succor They had Barricadoed themselves in but when the Prince and the Dukes of Orleans and Longueville were got on the other side with their Infantry they resolved to assault them in their Trenches The Prince desired to march in order against them but some of his Men were so furious that nothing could keep them in The Duke of Longueville in a rage went so near them with the Prince that the Duke was killed and the Prince wounded in the left arm with many more laid upon the ground When they saw the whole Army surround them they desired quarter which was granted by the Prince by that means they yielded and were all taken prisoners It is not good to render an Enemy desperate a small company in a danger have won the victory therefore the Prince freely offered them their lives This Action amazed the Hollander and astonished the Prince of Orange who expected the Kings Army another way Harnen was taken by Monsieur de Turenne Nimeguen and Schenk also Doesbourgh and Zutphen were surrende●ed into his Majesties hands and the City of Vtrecht sent Deputies to yield it up Monsieur de Luxemburgh was sent thither to take in all the places about Vtrecht After this Turenne recovered Crevecoeur Coërden Grave and Bomel so that almost all the Inland Countrey thereabouts submitted to the French The Hollanders were then so much troubled that they offered Conditions of Peace to the King but he hoped to gain all the rest of their Countrey Therefore they were rejected as unreasonable The King after all these Successes left the Army the Six and twentieth of July and arrived at Paris the first of August where he was congratulated and welcomed by all the Societies of his Kingdom The Queen was so much overjoyed that she commanded a Chappel to be built at Roan and dedicated it to Our Lady of Victories for as amongst the Heathens they did give to Pallas the Goddess of War several attributes and names betokening the many good

twentieth of December and his eldest Son the Duke of Enguien succeeded him in his Principality and to the honor of being the first Prince of the Blood Royal of France In the year 1647. the Mareschal de Gassion forced many places to submit he was wounded at the siege of Lens and carried to Arras where he died Monsieur Villequier commanded in his absence and took the Town About this time the Duke of Brezé was killed over against Naples with a Cannon Bullet and his Fleet was put to flight by the Spanish Armado But the misfortunes and ill successes of the Duke of Guise brought all his family to ruine He had been sollicited by the Rebellious Neapolitans to command their Army against their lawful Prince He too credulously trusted an unconstant Rabble and went to Naples to manage a War against Spain in that part of the World and dispossess the House of Austria of one of its best Kingdoms His first arrival was attended by some Successes and the favor of the Inhabitants but when the Court of France out of a jealousie of his greatness began to frown upon him and deny the assistance which they had promised and might have sent him the Neapolitans betrayed him to their old Masters for their own safety and pardon He was carried into the Prisons of Spain from whence he could scarce obtain his freedom in three years This great disappointment brought the House of Guise to a low estate together with some other miscarriages that they have been guilty of In this Campagne Lerida the strongest Bulwark upon the Borders of Spain was streightly besieged by the Army of the Prince of Condé The Count de Harcourt had attempted it the year before but this place stood it out till the last so that the siege was raised to succor some other more considerable Town which the Spaniard was ready to carry In the beginning of the Spring 1648. that dismal year for England the Prince of Condé appeared again at the head of an Army in Flanders where he took Ypres in twelve days but before this siege was over where the French Army suffered many wants the Spaniard had recovered Funes Courtray and Lens These advantages had made them contemn their Enemies commanded by the Prince So that General Beck assistant to the Arch duke Leopold in his Army assured him of a full victory over the French With this perswasion they ventured to ingage but the Troops of Lorraine were disordered in the Battle and the Archdukes Cavalry were so miserably treated that if the Prince de Ligny had not come in with his reserve the Archduke had been made prisoner General Beck died with the displeasure of his ill success as well as by his wounds This Battle was fought the twentieth of August it caused several petty Towns to open their Gates as Lens and Furnes c. At this time Mareschal de Schomberg the Kings General in Catalonia took the Town of Tortoise in the Kingdom of Valencia and defeated the Army of Don Francisco de Melo the Spanish General that came to relieve it All these Sieges Battles and Rencounters hapned during the Treaty at Munster which excluded the French and the Spaniard Their quarrels alone could not be ended for the Spaniard had intelligence of a secret Conspiracy in France where the greatest Princes were concerned He did therefore expect to recover what he had lost by the favor of the Domestick Wars and troubles of his Neighbors The Prince of Condé and many more of the Blood Royal were united together they published their Manifesto to justifie their taking up Arms to reform the Government as was pretended and to remove the Cardinal from that great trust reposed in him by the Queen Paris held for the Rebels and many other Towns were in danger of following the same example The Inhabitants were more then usually scurrilous and scandalous against the King the Queen and the Cardinal These troubles had almost deprived the young King of his Crown and Scepter had it not been for the seasonable assistance and kind Mediation of our great Monarch and the vigorous endeavors of the Mareschal de Turenne more faithful to his King then to his Religion At last after much Bloodshed in an intestine War the Prince retreated into Flanders with those of his party whom neither Love Loyalty nor Interest could perswade to guard their young King The Spaniard put him at the Head of their Troops with which he recovered almost all the Towns that he had formerly lost If the Mareschal de Turenne had not stopped the progress of the Princes victories he had invaded the Crown it self as well as the Frontier Towns But after an absence of several years the King invited him home received him into his favor bestowed upon him his Government and Employs and treated the Dukes of Conti and Longueville in the same generous manner publishing a General Pardon to all other offenders in the Civil Wars On the Seventh of September 1651. the King being thirteen years old was declared of Age sufficient to take upon him the Government and to begin to act in person in that sphere where providence had put him The Declaration was approved of in the Parliament of Paris and proclaimed all over the Land The War continued still between France and Spain In the years 49 50 51 and 52 the Spaniard had the greatest Successes against the French for they were assisted by the Sedition and Treachery of the Inhabitants as much as by their own valor and numbers of Men to recover more then they had formerly lost But after the Kings majority he appeared himself at the head of his Troops and with his presence gave them so much courage and resolution that they turned the fortune of War The City of Bar and the Castle of Ligny was surrendred to the Mareschal de la Ferté in 1653. The Duke of Espernon besieged Bellegard but could not take it till the news was come that the King was in the Camp then the Governor was loath to stand it out against his own Prince Rethel and Mouzon were retaken by Monsieur Turenne St. Menehou by la Ferté the twenty seventh of November Du Plessis Praslin behaved himself so gallantly in taking this place that the King gave it him to command Grancey surprised Castillon and withstood the valorous efforts of General Caracena The year 1654. was honored with the greatest solemnity and most sacred Ceremony of France the Coronation of their King at Rheims with that holy Oyl which they affirm to be faln from Heaven and sent from God for that purpose to anoint their Kings therewith When they have been thus inaugurated the people have a particular respect for their persons After this Stenay was besieged by the French commanded by Mareschal d' Hocquincourt when the Spaniard saw they could not hinder the taking of this place they labored to make a Diversion and to recompence themselves for their loss by the invasion of Arras

belonging to the Crown of Spain he was glad that His Majesty of England would let him alone and not intermeddle in this Affair The pretence to colour the invasion was that some Articles of the Treaty of Marriage were not performed by the Court of Spain The King by his Ambassador at Madrid acquainted them with his demands but they neglected to give him satisfaction this caused him to publish his Manifesto to justifie the seisure of those Lands and Towns which he said belonged to the Queen by agreement at her Marriage At the end of May 1667. he entered into Flanders with about Thirty thousand Men well furnished The first Garrisons were forsaken as Armantiers La Bassée Condé and S. Guilhain Bergnes and Furnes were yielded up to the Mareschal d' Aumont The King commanded Charleroy to be rebuilt and fortified that it might serve as a Bulwark against Flanders Tournay was besieged and assaulted but could not stop the impetuous torrent of the French that carried at this time all before them Douay waited for their coming its Governor had the meen to stop the French progress But upon his Majesties Summons he obeyed and sent him the Keys Courtray was taken in four days Oudenard and Alost were quickly frighted into a compliance with the French Lille was the next Garrison that had the unhappiness to be in the French Kings way The Governor of this place had the reputation of a brave Commander he had under him 800 Horse and 4000 Foot in Garrison and was resolved to defend it Therefore the King came before it with his whole Army laid siege to it and after a very stout resistance obliged the renowned Governor to save the rest of his men by yielding up the Town upon honorable terms The King made his entry on the Eight and twentieth day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and seven During the siege the Spanish Commanders had raised a small Army with an intent to Assault the French before Lille Marcin was at the Head of these Troops in his march when Crequy Rouvray Lillebonne and Bellefonds met with his Cavalry in two several Rencounters and broke his design For these Captains had so disordered his Men and scared them that they could not be perswaded to attempt upon the French again without more assistance After this Campagne the King went to Paris and in the first appearance of the Spring One thousand six hundred sixty and eight he gave order to his Armies to march towards the Franche Comte The Prince had the command of this expedition but when the Inhabitants understood it they sent to his Majesties Deputies to treat of yielding to him to prevent the spoils of an Army Whilest the Deputies delayed the Prince with his Army being ready went streight to Besanzon where he encamped On the sixth of February it was surrendered into his hands some other Towns were taken without resistance and Salines was seised upon suddenly At that time his Majesty was come to his Army which he caused to draw near to Dole a place well fortified and furnished with Men and Cannon which caused the Inhabitants to stand upon their Guards and think of a resistance but when they saw that the French had possessed all the Outworks in one night and lodged themselves under their Counterscarpe they accepted of his Majesties offers and sent him the Keys of their City All these places were taken in twelve days to the great astonishment of all Neighboring People There had been some overtures of Peace made the year before To prevent the conclusion of them the King appeared with his Army this year so early in the Field for the Dutch had threatned him by their Ambassador to joyn with the Spaniard if he would not hearken to an accommodation This Speech together with the Resolution of his Neighbors of rising up in Arms against him brought forth the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle Unto which place Colbert was sent as an Extraordinary Ambassador to meet with the Ministers of the Mediating Princes It was signed the sixth of May and sent to be published at Paris and Brussels but the French King was mightily offended at the Dutch who had forced him against his will to this conclusion of Peace therefore in due time he was resolved to find an occasion to punish them for their sauciness In the mean while the Nobility and Gallants of France that had prepared their equipages for the next Campagne when they saw themselves disappointed by a hasty Peace resolved to venture abroad in Foreign service Fame had told them of the long Siege of Candy by the Turks and that these Infidels did daily win upon the besieged by their numbers therefore the greatest Zealots of them resolved to hazard their persons for the releif of that noble City belonging to the Venetians The Duke de Roannez the Count of St. Paul the Duke de Chateau-Thierry the Chevalier de Harcour with many other brave Adventurers voluntarily ingaged themselves in this expedition It is certain that they behaved themselves with all the gallantry that could be expected At their return they acquainted the King with the condition of the place and the strength of the Turks This perswaded his Majesty together with the Sollicitations of the Venetians to send over thither the Dukes of Beaufort and Navailles with about 10000 Men to see whether they could raise the siege All the World expected a Success answerable to the French courage At their first sallying out upon the Turks they beat all down before them but when the Turks saw their vigor abate they charged furiously upon them and routed them forcing them back into the City Walls Beaufort himself was lost and killed as it is supposed in the rout but his body could not be found afterwards He was much to be blamed for venturing his person and the honor of his Prince amongst the meanest Soldiers for Commanders of his rank and quality are to be mindful that the safety of the whole Army depends upon the preservation of their lives They are never to hazard themselves in the Front of a Battle but when their presence is necessary to give courage to their fainting Soldiers or to add more vigor to them when the victory is almost in their hands After the defeat of the French the besieged City was yielded up to the Turks General upon very favorable condition The King had intelligence about the end of the year 1669. that the Duke of Lorraine did endeavor to stir up the Emperor and King of Spain against him This caused him to send the Mareschal de Crequy with an Army of 18000 Men into Lorraine to take in that Countrey The Duke seised upon Pont a Mousson and pulled down the Walls Epinal and Chaté held out a litteè but they were at last Surrendered up into his hands and the old Duke was driven out of all his Principality This year 1670. the King visited his new conquered Towns in the Low Countreys repairèd