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An extraordinary express sent from Pasquin at Rome, to all the princes and potentates of Europe.
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with whom we are now to contend and who are resolv'd not to hearken to any Peace till France be abased but it is my misfortune that in this abasement I shall find my own The King will not give Ear to my Counsel and perhaps when he shall have a mind to take my Advice it may then be too late He always thinks that he hath strength enough to break thro' the multitude of his Enemies and to make way for a favourable Peace but this account is very different from that of the Confederates who advance on all sides to enter into France Peradventure if I were Master and should make propositions to them they would hearken to me but the King will never consent to this till the last extremity Therefore I come hither to know to which Party I ought to adhere in case the Enemies should invade the Kingdom THE ORACLE The Success of the Campain of the Year 1691 shall shew it to thee XXII THE Duke of Orleans tir'd with doing nothing and vex'd to see himself rejected and despis'd went to consult the Oracle saying I have always very well discharg'd my Trust whensoever the King hath thought fit to require my Service witness the Battel and Taking of St. Omer and altho' his Majesty hath been pleas'd to express the satisfaction he receiv'd from the Glory that I had there obtain'd nevertheless I remain without Employment and the King neither talks nor takes no more notice of me than if there were no such Person in the World Whence does this proceed THE ORACLE The King would not have his Actions Eclips'd by thine neither doth he desire any other Glory but that which he acquires himself XXIII THE King of Sweden having declar'd that he is very willing to assist his Allies but withal to keep a Neutrality with France that he might thereby promote the Commerce of his Subjects whilst the most part of other Nations were engag'd in a tedious War went to consult the Oracle saying The King of France offers great advantages to hinder me from affording any Supplies to the Confederates and to induce me to stand Neuter He hath propounded an Expedient to stop the Vessels that I am oblig'd to send to the Hollanders by vertue of a Treaty made with the States General and if I have a mind to enter into Pomerania he will not only pay all arrears and summ's of money due to me but will also restore the Dutchy of Deux ponts and defray the charge of the War moreover he promiseth that the King of Denmark shall make no attempt upon my Countrey but shall likewise remayn neuter on my account and that we shall both enter into a Treaty of Commerce with France and make a league together to oppose all that shall endeavour to incommode or disturb us therein Whereas on the one side I am allur'd by the advantage of Traffic on the other the treachery and ill usage that I have receiv'd from France deters me all these fair propositions being only the product of that necessity with which he finds himself urg'd what then shall I do THE ORACLE Relye not on a reconcil'd enemy XXIV The King of Denmark being sollicited on the one side by the fair offers of France and detain'd on the other by the interest of Prince George who stands in need of King William's assistance to establish the Crown in the Family and knowing not what to determine to preserve both came to consult the Oracle on this occasion saying The present offers of the King of France are fair and good but they are not to be compar'd with the advantages that will hereafter accrue to my Countrey by a strict union with England for if the Princess of Denmark should ascend the Throne there would be a great and indissoluble band of unity between England and my Dominions besides that the assurances which the King of Great Britain now reigning hath given me at present of his amity and the sincerity that I have always found in the word of this Prince have oblig'd me to send Forces to assist him in finishing the Conquest of Ireland my own interest also exciteth me to afford him this supply against King James since the later design'd to exclude the Princesses his Daughters and their off-spring from the Crown to transfer it to a stranger whose extraction is unknown but I would willingly assist the King of England without leaving the King of France who considering his present circumstances will not be offended as he would have been heretofore at the aid that I have sent into Ireland since he is now as Meek as he was haughty in times past THE ORACLE Beware of the French disease for that of England had its original in France XXV The King of Poland being sufficiently disgusted at France when he had caus'd the Sieur Granville to depart out of his Dominions and having declar'd to the Queen that after the marriage of the Royal Prince his Son with the Princess of Nieubourg he would no longer hearken to the Ministers of France thô they were able even to bestow on him the same faculty as Midas had heretofore of turning every thing he should touch into Gold came in this resolution to consult the Oracle saying The French baits have caus'd me to lose the high reputation that I had acquir'd before Vienna I confess my weakness hitherto in placing my Summum bonum in a little yellow clay which I have kept more carefully than holy Relicks and I have often look'd on the effigies of the Louys d'Ors as a Tutelary God and the object of my happiness However I now begin to understand that these material goods are but froth in comparison of the worth of real glory which alone can set my Son on the Throne I know that the taking of Caminiec can at present contribute more thereto than all the treasure of France but on this occasion my Allies have at least this consolation that I have taken more from the French than from the Turks and that to exhaust is to weaken That War can be but of little moment where the danger and the honour are not great therefore for the future after the example of Hannibal I shall turn to the side of glory as soon as the marriage of the Royal Prince with the Princess of Nieubourg shall be accomplish'd and to that end I have stopt my ears against all the Syrens of France since I observe that their King will have enough to do to preserve his Crown for his own Son and that the Emperor alone can establish mine on the head of my heir I am come hither to receive your wholsom Counsel THE ORACLE Endeavour thy self by thy own valour to secure the Crown for thy posterity XXVI The King of Portugal after his Alliance with the House of Nieubourg thought himself also oblig'd to imbrace the interest of the Empire and the common cause of his Allies but the French who are alwais pregnant of politic contrivances
Algier and compell'd to engage at the Ottoman Port to send the Dauphin with a great Army to the frontiers of Germany to harass the Emperor and to give his Highness my Collegue an opportunity by dividing the Forces of the Empire to respite and to gather his Forces together to invade Leopold lest the whole burden of the War should fall on my shoulders I flatter'd myself with the expectation of great succours from Rome after the general extirpation that I had caused of the Hugonots in my Kingdom and the submissions that I had made to the Holy See since the exaltation of this present Pope who was pleas'd more over to promise that by his Pastoral authority he would procure a reconciliation with the Catholick Princes on the account of some small restitution to the end that I might be in a capacity to oppose the Hugenot Potentates to which effect I had bent my chiefest forces nevertheless with an intent to restore all afterwards to the Catholicks which I would have readily granted to them for the accommodation of my affairs But the Venetian Policy is an impenetrable mystery to my Ministers of State they bawl'd aloud at Rome that the Prince of Orange is an Usurper and a more dangerous and formidable Heretick than Calvin himself who advanc'd his Conquests only with the tongue and the pen whereas this Prince makes use of his Sword and that a remedy ought to be provided in time but all my zeal for the Catholick Religion hath hitherto produc'd no effect and it is alledg'd to me that it is not a War maintain'd for the cause of Religion but for that of Ambition In the mean time thou know'st Oh Deity that presidest in this Place that I labour to reestablish the King of England on his Throne and that I have almost exhausted my treasury to preserve Ireland for him but instead of a recompense it hath been objected to me that it is my own interest that obligeth me to act and the Catholicks are so far from assisting me with Croisades that they sing Te Deum when the Hugenots are victorious this causeth me often to deliberate whether I ought to recall the later into my Kingdom to enrage my Catholic enemies but the mischief is they will give no credit to my word nor I to their The Union of the Allies is more closely knit together than the Gordian Knot and requires another Alexander to untie it but it is a Clock that always goes and never strikes it is a Lute on which some strings are always jarring or out of tune I have devis'd an Expedient to defend my self and not to fear them for I find them to be better Travellers than Soldiers I hope that if they always March as they have begun they will soon be ready to return into their Winter-quarters and then I shall have no longer any cause of Fear on the side of Germany My Cousin of Luxemburgh who is as subtil as a Fox hath promis'd to deceive the Prince of Waldeck once more I have drain'd my Subjects and Churches of all their Money because I knew it is the sinews of War and with this familiar Spirit all things may be effected with the help thereof I penetrate every where even into the most secret Counsels and it is my only Refuge my Life-guard and the best Ally that I have at this time It often performs the function of a General by gaining the Victory for me as well as that of an Orator amongst the Ladies and by its Vertue I subdue many Obstinate Enemies But alas it is my sad misfortune that this familiar Spirit could never tame the Prince of Orange who is the Enemy that I most dread above all others and I am very much afraid lest he should have a powerful party in my Kingdom as he hath had in England moreover I have been assur'd that he is Cannon-proof and that he fears no danger what course then shall I take to defend my self against him THE ORACLE Restore unto God and Men that which belongs to them otherwise thou shalt drink the Juice of ORANGE XX. MADAM de Maintonon who had accompanied the King into the Temple afterwards entreated the Priestess to conduct her to a convenient place and to set her in a decent posture that she might interrogate the Oracle which being accordingly done she said By the favour and assistance of the Reverend Father La Chaise I have quieted my Conscience and secur'd my Honour against all Obloquy and Slander never any poor Lady in France ascended to that high degree of Glory to which I have arriv'd only by my Intrigues I have refus'd the chief Honours of the Court but I have exercis'd in a manner all the functions of a Queen I had a respect for Madam the late Dauphiness because she preceeded me at Court but when another shall come I do not intend to give her the same Honour or Deference since I am at present the first in right Shall it be said that I who have attain'd to so great Intimacy and Familiarity with the King and his Female Counsellors should give place to an upstart this I confess would be a very great vexation to me therefore I come hither to consult thee on this occasion THE ORACLE Women and Fruits have their Flowers and Seasons XXI WHEN the King was gone out of the Temple the Dauphin succeeded in his place and said I fear lest being as yet Dauphin I should become greater than my Father which is a thing without a president in France but Woe to him that is to be the first Example Madam the late Dauphiness often reproach'd me by reason of the little share that I had in managing the Affairs of the Kingdom to whom it chiefly belong'd and because very often the pleasure of a Minister of State hath prevail'd over mine indeed it is their Conduit through which I have frequently receiv'd favours from the King who hath too much Ambition to suffer me to Rule during his Life and after the example of Charles the Fifth to put the Royal Authority into my hands Tho' the People have much inclination to me ever since the Troubles in which they are involv'd the Catholicks are desirous of me and the Hugenots wait for me with great Devotion notwithstanding that the Dauphiness as many others were to make her self to be regarded was accessary in tormenting them but they are perswaded that I was not engag'd in causing the Vexations that were offer'd to them and that the good Precepts of the Duke of Montausier my Governour were prevalent in me neither indeed could I ever approve of all the violent proceedings that have been promoted with respect to them because I well fore-saw that they would be attended by mischievous Consequences and would partly kindle all those Combustions that we see at this Day inflam'd in the Kingdom which cannot but produce most dangerous effects The King 's Evil Council hath rais'd up this vast number of Enemies