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A51449	The most Christian Turk: or, a view of the life and bloody reign of Lewis XIV. present King of France Containing an account of his monstrous birth, the transactions that happened during his minority under Cardinal Mazarine; afterwards his own unjust enterprizes in war and peace, as breach of leagues, oaths, &c. the blasphemous titles given him, his love-intrigues, his confederacy with the Turk to invade Christendom, the cruel persecution of his Protestant subjects, his conniving with pirates, his unjustly invading the empire, &c. laying all waste before him with fire and sword, his quarrels with the Pope and Genoieze, his treachery against England, Scotland, and Ireland, the engagements of the confederate princes against him; with all the battles, sieges, and sea fights, that have happened of consequence to this time.		1690 (1690)	Wing M2870A; ESTC R216384	73,891	189

Death of Turin being wounded and many Persons of Quality killed This was seconded by the Overthrow of the Mareschal de Crequi near Treves For the Confederates having besieged that place which had been surprized by the French the Mareschal came to Succour it but the Besiegers drawing off and giving him Battel his Forces were totally defeated with the loss of Three or Four thousand Men and of all the Baggage and Cannon c. the broken Army scattering and getting into the adjacent Town The Mareschal with sive or six men got into Treves and the Governour being killed took upon him to defend the place but the Besiegers having made Three Breaches so wide that Forty Men a-breast might enter the Officers finding the Ditches likewise filled up and the Storm ready to be made they Capitulated without Crequi who to regain in some measure the Credit he had lost suffered himself to be made a Prisoner of War Binch was likewise taken by the Dutch and many other Advantages gained So that Lewis the Great began to think that he had overstood his Markets and thought it high time to look out for Confederates Whereupon he drew the King of Sweeden into an Alliance with him to divert the War on that side of the King of Denmark and Duke of Brandenburg But the Sweeds had but little Success in his Quarrel as being worsted by Land and Sea and having nothing but the French King's Word for Reparation Insomuch that they were obliged to sit down by the Loss and thereupon Lewis XIV began to tamper with the States of Holland to clap up a Peace without the Consent of their Allies But whilst it was on Foot which made the King grant the larger Terms his Forces under the Duke of Luxemburg were beaten near Mons by the English Dutch and Germans In which Action his present Majesty of England signalized his Valour and Conduct to a wonder and the Duke of Monmouth being a Voluntier in the Army by his Example so animated the English that they let the French see they were capable of turning the Scale of Victory These Bad Successes making Lewis the Great fear he should be reduced to Lewis the Little he made such Offers which were seconded by many Promises and Crafty Insinuations that the States did conclude a peace and had all their Towns except Maestreicht delivered into their possession which made many wonder But those that have weighed the Matter give these Reasons for their making a peace when other Princes their Confederates were in Treaty for that of Nimeguen was still on Foot First They perceived the Ambassadors of their Allies had been several Years in debate at Nimeguen without bringing any thing to Perfection as to the Treaty with France and they had greatly wasted their Treasure in the War and found a peace was necessary to Recruit Secondly Their Trade on which the Provinces mostly depend was greatly obstructed by which means the People were Impoverished Thirdly They were Constrained to take up Moneys on the publick Trust to supply the Charge of the War which being of long Continuance could not but have consumed vast Treasures Fourthly That the Spaniard had not those Forces on foot in the Netherlands that was Expected which might have hindered the French from taking several Towns in Flanders of which without any considerable Opposition they had possessed themselves Fifthly That all things were restored to them that had been taken away which would have been difficult to have Recovered by other means Sixthly By this Treaty they caused to be rendered up to Spain part of what had been taken during the War Seventhly That the French Ministers assured the States that they would speedily make a Peace with their Allies and that they the States should be Arbitrators of that Peace These are given as Reasons And indeed considering how the Ministers of France pressed it with Eagerness and declared the Extream Passion and Desire the King their Master had to be at peace it might have been thought that he mean'd as he said The King himself during the Negotiation sent them a Letter wherein he styled them His good Friends Allies and Confederates promising wonderful things in the most obliging Flattery But no Words or Promises can bind this Leviathan for Lewis knew well enough what he did by making a Separate Peace considering if he should be brought to Strict Terms with all the Allies he must of Necessity part with Lorrain to the Duke its Rightful Lord and with the Franche Compte of Bourgogne to the King of Spain taken contrary to faith given since the Pyrenean Treaty But by not having the Dutch Army upon his back he sound himself able to deal with the rest and to tire them out by delays And indeed by taking these Measures he constrained the Duke of Brandenburg and the Prince of Zel to restore all they had taken from the Sweed since that King stood for the French Interest King Charles II. of England perceiving Lewis XIV delayed the Treaty to incroach upon Flanders found his Honour touched since he became a Mediator and was to be Guarrantee of the Peace And thereupon sent over five or six Thousand Men to defend the Spanish Netherlands where the French during the Treaty and daily Expectation of Peace were like so many Tartars or wild Arabians Ravaging and destroying the Country but the Terrour of the English put a Check to their Progress Lewis XIV having obtained a Peace with the States of the Vnited Provinces he more and more delayed the Treaty of Nimeguen as not doubting to bring the other Confederates to more Advantageous Terms than otherwise he could have been capable of doing And that which made the French King more urgent for a Separate Peace was that he knew well enough that it could not be Reasonably made with the Allies in Conjunction but that the Country of Lorrain would be required for that Duke and the Franche Compte for the King of Spain or what ever had been snatched from that Crown since the Pyrenean Peace which had been so openly violated by France And therefore he concluded to divide the Allies was to make his own Terms And indeed it so fell out to the great prejudice of the Confederaters Especially Spain and the Empire as in due place will appear And indeed Lewis XIV by this means preserved most of his important Conquests at that time whilst the Elector of Brandenburg and the Prince of Zell found themselves in a Necessity to Restore to Sweden all they had taken or by standing out run the Hazard of a French Army Ravaging their Countries whilst their Allies who had already made peace could not fairly give them any Assistence unless like him with whom they had made the peace they layed no Stress upon Leagues any longer than it tended to their purpose But the Emperor as well as Holland having concluded with France the rest found themselves too weak long to contend with a Monarch of such vast

c. In short is it possible continues he that a man that loves his God his Religion and his Prince could behold with dry Eyes so many Ruines as I saw in the Principality of Orange Hic Seges est ubi Troja fuit For this see the Book of this learned Man Printed at the Hague the last Year Page 61 62. Nor was it only the Buildings that suffered but the People also who for the most part as well Papists as Protestants were plundered of all they had and many of them Dragooned out of their Religion by the same barbarous Methods as were taken with his own Subjects of the Reformed Religion Lewis XIV is seldom without pretences to quarrel with his Neighbours for he has for that purpose and to exalt himself Chief Monarch of Europe set up a Chamber at Metz called the Sovereign Court before which he causes to be Cited Kings and Princes well knowing they will not appear then under pretence their Lands are Dependences or under the Claim of antient Titles or Claims for which himself can give no Reason he causes them to be condemned as forfeited And from this Court where himself is both Judge and Jury he will admit of no Appeal but proceeds to take possession by sending his Troops to quarter there and Leavy great Contributions upon the Inhabitants that so by Impoverishing them as he uses his own Subjects he may the better keep them under And by this means he adjudged part of the King of Sweeden's Terretories and seized on the Countries of the Primes of Montbelliard Pellite Pierre and divers others swallowing up Provinces like the Great Leviathan without making any Account of Rights or Justice though the time peradventure is at hand wherein he will be obliged to disgorge them with Interest His Eye has been indeed a long while up Italy soaring that way towards the Vniversal Monarchy which made him deal underhand with the Duke of Mantua for the strong Garrison of Cassel which serves as an Inlet over the Alps. Nor had Geneva escaped his Bombs had not the Swisse-Cantons fearful of their own Safety declared with much warmth to stand by that Protestant City with all their Forces The Peace being concluded with Spain Lewis XIV finding himself uneasie to be out of Action picks a Quarrel with that Nation about 500000 Crowns he pretended were to be restored for damages done in the West Indias and thereupon sent the Duke's D' Estree and Mortemer with a Squadron of Men of War to block up Cadiz and to take and destroy all such Merchants-ships and Galleys as they light on And indeed they did considerable Mischief against that Maritime Town by casting Bombs and sending Fire-ships into the Harbour Nor thought they this sufficient but they would have compelled the Dutch Men of War who were at Peace with Spain to assist them and by that Means Involved them in an open Violation of the League For the latter of the Dukes having with him Eight Sail of Men of War and happening to meet two Ships belonging to the States Commanded by Capt. Ewycke and Capt. Mevart he compelled them to Sail with him towards Cadiz However in the Night the former stood away and changed his Course upon which he was followed by the Seiur Belle Isle who being come up with him the next morning ●ired several shot at him whereupon the Dutch Captain returned him a Broad-side and began a sharp Engagement which lasted four Hours but then the Captain being killed with a Cannon shot as likewise a great many of the Men killed and more French Ships appearing in sight they sent on board the French to let them know they would make no longer Resistence This open Violation being highly resented by the Sates General Monsieur D' Avaux the French Ambassador at the Hague put in a dissembling Memorial to excuse it in which he complained That Captain Ewyeke had given the Duke his Word to go with him to Cadiz but changing his Course by Night he gave ground to suspect his Intentions and that the Sieur Belle Isle following him and he finding himself alone with one of his most Christian Majesty's Ships put out his Cannon and came with all the Sail he could upon the French man who sired three shot one after another as a Signal that he should not advance any farther to which the Hollander returned a whole Broad-side of 25 peices of Cannon whereupon the sight began That the Dutch Captain being killed the other Officers sent on board the Sieur D' Belle Isle to let him know that they would make good the Word of their Captain That the Sieur received the Messenger very kindly and after having Lamented the Loss of the Dutch Captain a very brave Man sent him back and gave them time till the Evening to repair their Ship of which the French had not less need having fourteen Men killed and six wounded And so he goes on to salve up the matter by endeavouring to make the Dutch Captain the Aggressor The Damage the French King did the Spaniards at Sea and upon their Coast were received but trivial by the King and therefore contrary to Oath and Promise he caused all the Spaniards Estates and Effects in the New Conquests to be seized so that after some Debates the Court of Spain found it self under a Necessity of complying with his peremptory Demands and thereupon the Marquess de Los Balbaces obliged himself to pay the 500000 Crowns at one entire Payment so soon as the Spanish Plate Fleet arrived and this Agreement was taken by the French as satisfaction yet it proved not so for the Men of War being yet Abroad took after a long and desperate Fight two of their Galleys which Monsieur D' Avaux undertook likewise to excuse by another Memorial to the State viz. That the Sieur Forran that had commanded a Squadron of his Most Christian Majesty's Ships not knowing of the Agreement and Accommodation concluded by the French Ambassadors at Madrid concerning the Five hundred thousand Crowns had met on the Coast of Biscay two Spanish Galleyoons mounted each with Sixty four Guns sailing towards Cadiz and that endeavouring to hinder them from going thither according to his first Orders there ensued a very obstinate Fight between them which lasted a Day and an half when two Ships of the same Squadron coming in and joining with the Sieur Forran the Galleyoons yielded and were carried into Rochell That his Most Christian Majesty having received certain Advice thereof had sent Orders for the discharging the said Galleyoons and had commanded him to tell the States that this Accident should not make any alteration in the Accommodation That the Count Stirum their Admiral being present at the end of the Fight and having answered the Sieur Forran who sent to him to know whether he would assist the Spaniards that he had no Orders to intermeddle with this Disserence and retiring thereupon after he had saluted the French Ships his Most

Command of the Duke of Lorrain and others and the Duke Duras in vain watching an Opportunity to relieve it with an Army of between Sixteen and Eighteen thousand Men the Besieged beat a Parly and on the Eighth of August Hostages were exchanged and on the Ninth the Capitulation was Signed in pursuance whereof the Place was Surrendered and the French Garrison marched out viz. 4500 Foot 400 Dragoons 280 Horse besides six or 700 Foot that went in small parties with the Baggage being the Remainder of 10000 that were in Garrison at the beginning of the Siege The reduction of this strong Place that had cost so great a Summ in Fortifying and in which such confidence had been reposed did not a little startle the Court of France and as is usual upon such Emergencies occasioned the change of a great many Ministers of State And what heightned the Consternation more was a fear of a General Revolt of the Protestants of that Kingdom seeing many of them forced their Way through the French Barriers of Languedock Provence and Dauphin and brought Terrour upon Savoy the only stickling Prince for France joining with others in the Valleys of Piemont Lucern c. which obliged the French King to keep strong Guards on the Frontier Places of Dauphin And some French Troops attempting to burn the Corn near Ghent were so warmly received by the Cannon of the Town and an Ambushment laid in a hollow Way that most of them were cut off And now perceiving they must quit the Electorate of Trier they resolved to use it with the same Civility they had done the Palatinate burning ten Towns beside what they had formerly Consumed and laying that fruitful Country Waste like a Wilderness and farther proceeded to burn Frankendale Neustadt Lubesheim Pettersheim Dirminstheim Wachenheim with several other Places and a great many Villages in Housdurgh Which Vnchristian Proceedings demonstrated their Power to be of short Durance in those Countries The City of Bonne Fortified by the Care and Diligence of Cardinal Furstemberg at the extraordinary Charge of the French King having been a considerable time Besieged by the Elector of Brandenburgh and making a stout Resistance despairing of Relief was constrained on the 10th of October to beat a Parly and sent out three Officers to treat about Articles of Surrender which were finally concluded and Signed on the 12th under Seventeen Heads considerably Honourable to the Garrison and the same Day Three ●undred Men of the Troops of Brandenburgh Holland and Munster took Possession of one of the Gates of the Town and on the Fifteenth the Garrison which at the beginning of the Siege consisted of 7000 Men marched out to the number of 3500 and 1500 remained sick and wounded in the Town The Governour Count Alsfelt was carried out in a Litter and all the Stores and Cannon c. were delivered up to the Elector So that by the Loss of this Town the French lost their footing in those Parts and began to think of going into Winter-Quarters after having indamaged those Countries more than Forty millions can repair in one Campaign Whereupon to be rid of so cruel and wastful a People the Emperor published his Avocatoria commanding all the French to depart out of his Dominions when on the other hand Lewis XIV lay great Taxes to raise Money for his carrying on the next Campaign We might enlarge upon many other Particulars to display this Ambitious and Bloodthirsty Monarch who has been so long the Troubler of Europe as his League with the Empire his solliciting them to make no Peace and encouraging them to stand off by promises of the powerful Diversions he intends to make in the Western Parts Under the favour of which his Ambassador at the Port insinuates what they have lost in the East as we find it set forth at large in the Emperor's Declaration c. But we think we have said enough to give the World a Prospect of this great Leviathan Who floats on Seas of Blood with vast desire To out-brave Heav'n and set the World on fire But Heaven's Bolts hit sure whene'er they 're aim'd And oft have Monsters full as mighty tam'd FINIS