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state_n	peace_n	province_n	unite_a	1,120	5	10.2827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91712	France no friend to England. Or, The resentments of the French upon the success of the English. As it is expressed in a most humble and important remonstrance to the King of France, upon the surrendring of the maritime ports of Flanders into the hands of the English. Wherein, much of the private transactions between Cardinal Mazarin and the late Protector Oliver, are discovered. Translated out of French.; Très humble et très importante remonstrance au roi, sur le remise des places maritimes de Flandres entre les mains des Anglois. English.	Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de, 1613-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1186; Thomason E986_21; ESTC R203406	16,767	27

a Lawful Monarch when his auspicious destiny shall consolidate both his Throne and Glory Should we not judge Sir that as the hand of God is not yet seen over the crimes of Cromwell so do they weaken the weight of these considerations and according the ordinary maxime of your principal Minister who is not accused of too much providence they give no other answer to this kind of reasoning but that we most conform our selves to the Times and take new parties according to new Conjunctures But we must humbly beg of your Maj. to make a more serious reflection upon this State that this straite and inviolable Alliance hath put all Europe in and we doubt not but without expecting any revolution in England or alteration in Cromwels partie you will easily find out the extreme prejudice which this desperate peace hath done to your Interests Can your Majestie perswade it self that the States of the United Provinces hath not conceived an Extraordinary Jealousie at this near neighbour-hood of the English Or can your Majesty believe that this Republick the wisest that is in the Universe doth not extremely repine at the surrendring of those Sea-Ports of Flanders unto the only Nation of the world which contend with them for the Empire of the Seas Hath not your Maj. reason to apprehend that those faithful places which acknowledged with so much fidelity valour and wisdom the obligations they have owed unto your Crown are not now toucht to the very quick by the participation which you make of the most considerable places of the low Countries to such people as have scarce yet sheathed the Swords which but a little before they so injuriously drew against the Hollanders Can your Maj. doubt but those prudent and Sage Politicks are well inform'd that the Imbargo of their Vessels the interruption of their Commerce so advantagious both to France and their State the false complaints of their Embassador and Vice Admiral were only practises concerted betwixt your Minister and Cromwell for to reduce those brave defenders of their Liberties to be slaves to the fantastical-Capricio of England Can your Maj. doubt but those interests so visible and sensible to the States of Holland are not powerfully animated by the recognizance which they owe by so many solemn Treaties to the House of Orange and that this recognizance does also wait upon the famous Ghosts of the Williams of the Fredericks and of the Maurices who all conjure your Maj. by those inviolable tyes they have had with your Crown not to concur to the destruction of that Royall House which honoured theirs with a Princess of as great Virtue as Birth ☞ Can your Maj be ignorant of the difference there is betwixt England a Republick and England a Monarchy that one may consider Great Brittain under a King as a very considerable Country in Europe but that it might be lookt upon under a Senate which assumed such a form as makes it self Formidable to all the Earth And that this Consideration makes That no Prince in Christendome will joyn with your Interest so long as you contribute to the Establishment of a Republick which from the very first instant of its birth embraceth both the one and the other Hemisphere and as it were in a bravery defieth the Universe We have reason to suspect that Admiral Opdam had not with so much violence molested the Coasts of Portugall had not Holland been disturb'd in her own Frontier Neighbour-hood by the English We have subject to fear that the attempts under hand which Cromwell made upon the Zound were the true and real motives that made the States and Denmarke joyn with Spain we fear that your Maj. loseth all your most faithful and affectionate Allies who confederate themselves openly by reason of your Ministers compliance and submission to their sworn Enemies and Hereticks who are prefer'd before the most Ancient the most Sacred and the most Inviolable Alliances of you Crown The Holy See is manifestly injured by those actions which make Heresie triumph in the midst of her Churches we put our selves in the sittest condition to receive the just marks of her Indignation upon a matter of so criminal a Nature as is able to pour thunder upon our heads we provoke her every day more and more by such circumstances as are indeed very worthy the Patriarch of Franticks We lose all our reputation among the Catholick Party we purchase none amongst that of the Potestant whose greatest body abhors the Protectors ridiculous Illusions and all the fruit of our prostitution is but to confound our selves with the Independents that is to say The sworn enemies of all Crowns and Religions Cast your eyes great Prince upon your true and solid Interest and discern with that fair light heaven hath given your Majesty that which is your real service from the imaginary Interest or rather the ill understood Policy of your favourite who by a Monstrous Prodigy which posterity shall hardly believe of your Maj. hath of that Princely pre-eminence hitherto alwayes inviolable Established upon the Frontiers of your Kingdom a Modern Attila the Paricide of Royaltie who is so blind as to permit a formidable party to form it self in the middle of your State Who in the midst of your Triumphs abandons that which wisdom would not permit to foregoe after the loss of four Battels and can give no colour to this pernicious conduct but the inconvenience of a War whose bad success could never be more dangerous then the remedy he hath applyed I mean that cursed remedy or rather that fatal poyson with which he hath broke the Munster peace so glorious and so advantagious to your Maj. hath spread so prodigally upon that ardent fewel which consumes all Europe to the end he might eternize the conflagration thereof Here it is Sir that we find our selves put on by the pure and holy motions of truth which opens our mouths animates our tongues and stirs up our hearts to discover to your Maj. the grand mistery of iniquity that mistery which is drawn from the bottom of hell this is the mistery whereof the cruel Demon of War hath made Cromwell depofitary and another man too Sir which the respect we owe to our Maj. will hardly let us name we would if we could possibly turn it off from the heads of some of those that have the Honour to come neer the most Christian of Kings but alas Sir despair hath overcome the tenderness of our desires one may still suffer with patience that hath some hopes left him and there is no affliction so great but might be qualified if one had some hopes though never so long to come to see an end of them But Sir there can be no such hopes in our misfortune Europe is now condemned to all eternity to endure Warre and misery the Sea-Ports of Flanders have consumed the fatal negotiation of Munster and if it be just that the same hand that broke the peace should perpetuate the