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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26253	An exact copy of a letter from the Count d'Avaux, His Most Christian Majesties ambassador at the Hague dated the 9th of January 1684 and directed to the King his master which was intercepted by the Marquess de Grana governour of the Spanish Netherlands : as also the copies of other three letters relating to the same affair.	Avaux, comte d' (Jean-Antoine de Mesmes), 1640-1709.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4267; ESTC R26666	6,298	4

as they shall propose me that so your Majesty might not be at a loss to present a Memorial in case of necessity but if not yet to desire a Conference with the States General who will immediately send their Deputies to discourse with me in this Affair and in pursuance of this Conference I would deliver over in writing what has been discoursed betwixt us which would be a means to palliate the matter for the Lords of Amsterdam are not a little alarmed at the pretended coming over of a 136 and do say that it is nothing else but to amuse them that I am so earnest to make these proposi●ions to them and there is nothing will more advantage the interest of your Majesty then to shew them that i●●s out of respect to them that you have bin so frank in your proceedings and that is it which must perswade them when we enter upon those expedients which will not too much ingage your Majesty I most humbly beseech your Majesty that you will be pleas'd to let me know if there be any Affairs wherein I might launch out my self to the uttermost without being any obstruction to what your Majesty demands relating to the ruin of the open Countrey of the Spaniards in which I find so many difficulties if the matter should come so far which I yet question I do not give my self the honour to ask of your Majesty what I must do as to the assurance that may be desired of the Lords of Amsterdam in case they cannot bring the States General to grant unto your Majesty what has been laid before me as yet I know not what the intent of your Majesty is I can only say that the Lords of Amsterdam have not as yet explained that matter and have told me expresly that these are remedies they must only have recourse unto in case of the uttermost extremity neither will they say any thing to me of that Affair before they have lost all hopes of obtaining from the States General those assurances of giving your Majesty satisfaction which they do yet flatter themselves they shall obtain A Copy of a Letter from Monsieur de Saint Disdier to Monsieur de Mesmes THere hath bin here no Alterations since I have had the honour of Writing to you by Castell I had also two days ago the same honour of Writing to you by the way of Liege The Lord● of Amsterdam do their endeavours and Monsieur D'Avaux so manages his Affairs as to obtain his ends and in case Affairs cannot be brought to succeed according to our wishes it must be imputed to the great opposition we meet with In the mean time we can promise our selves that these Affairs will not come much short of our desires as for me I make it too much my interest as well in Relation of my Station as to the honour of Mounsieur D'Avaux as to wish that all things may come to a happy Issue Sir your most humble and obedient Servant Saint Disdier The Copy of a Letter to Monsieur de Mesmes 9th Jan. 1684. AFfairs here are brought to a great extremity and I do foresee they will grow more difficult It i● no● likely that any thing can be obtained in the midst of these disorders against the will of the Prince of Orange but the Lords of Amsterdam will never consent to the Levies It is believed he will do it in Opposition to them which we must expect A Copy of a Letter from Father Limoion to the Reverend Father Grenier at Marseilles D●tea at the HAGUE Second of January 1684. Most Reverend Father and Master THe Aff●irs of State in these parts is to prevent the United Provinces from proceeding in the ●e●les that so the King may the next Compaigne make himself Master of the Spanish Netherlands we flatter them here with illusory Promises for in all probability within four Months we shall have a Bloody War Yours FINIS Printed at the Hague by Jacobus Sek●ltus Printer to the States and Re printed at London for Randall Tayl●r 1684.