Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
B20762	The conduct of France since the peace at Nimeguen written in French by a person of quality ; made English.; Conduite de la France depuis la Paix de Nimegue. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6597	34,125	107

THE CONDUCT OF FRANCE Since the PEACE AT NIMEGUEN Written lately in French by a Person of Quality made English LONDON Printed by H. Hills Jun. for William Cademan at the Sign of the Popes-head in the New-Exchange in the Strand 1684. THE PREFACE TO THE Reader I Can't well tell of all Mankind how I come to be giving to the Public what I now present them with was neither by my Birth nor Profession cut out for an Author and without vanity could much better draw up a Regiment than write a Book Have made one however before I was aware heard by some Friends of mine to discourse pertinently enough or as they thought I did of the present conjuncture of Affairs engag'd me insensibly to couch it them in a Memoire to the End as I suppose they not all speaking so good French as I perhaps might do not having been the time I was in the Country should by the means be better understood by that Nation as they happen'd to have converse together But as 't is observable plurality of words steals from a Mans Mouth when Tongue is once upon the Wheel fluency of Ink too is generally occasion'd when once People take their Pen in hand The remembrance of one thing brings another into Mind and when one thinks to be drawing to conclusion wonders to see we again are to begin afresh A Book then 't is I have writ as I told you when I thought nothing less and more have let the Book appear in Print vast Field I had for subject and could still have had something yet to say would I say all I knew But I conceiv'd this sufficiently enough to let the designs of a Crown be understood whose Ambition reaches at more then it can grasp Now as I make no manner of Question Ocean of Faults will be found in this small Tract I beg the Reader will forgive considering as I have all my days profess't Arms may be better at my Sword than Pen. THE CONDUCT OF FRANCE Since the Peace of NIMEGUEN THere is not any tho but little verst in Publick affairs ignorant what 't was some years since induced France to make a Peace She then saw the better Part of Germany United against Her and Spain with Holland agreed to the same purpose And though till then their Arms had all along met with favourable Success being more then they could promise the continuance of was glad to prevent with caution those Possible misfortunes which might have happened in case once their Good Fortune should begin to leave them But what most powerfully obliged to the taking of those measures was finding ●er self loudly threatne'd from England whose Weighty Arms in Conjunction with so many others were capable of Sinking Her to as low a Pitch as She then seem'd Flourishing in a topping Condition It had been Remonstrated by more then one hand to the Kingdom of England that of all Things they should lay hold of the Fair Occasion to invade France where they had formerly been the Masters of many Fair and Rich Provinces that whilst France had her Forces imploy'd without and her hands full abroad those of England would meet with no resistance means not only to an accession of Dominion but also of Glory These Considerations or the Jealousies rather that people had of the Growing Greatness of the French sway'd with them to resolve to do something more then the bent of some Private Interests had a mind they should There being then a good understanding between the Court of France and that of England a Rupture of this Kind went much against the hair The French no sooner sensible how far those reasons I now touch't upon were prevailing presently satisfied England they not only were ready to lay down their arms but even to submit to Terms Store of good Guineys cleverly bestowed in the right place and amongst those most violent for a War with France rebated immediately the passion and rendred their propositions for a Peace the most reasonable imaginable upon the point of declaring England was now become a Solicitous Mediator of an accommodation Proposals were accordingly made on either side and whilst each insisted upon the matter of their right which was long in debate without Redressing of the mischief in matter of Fact France whose Aim it was to take Holland off from her other Allies handsomly in the mean while insinuated by her Agents thither express sent amongst the Common Sort of People How their State was not to be Retriev'd in Nature but by the means of a Peace that their only Shoulders had hitherto born the burthen of the War and must expect to bear on so long as War continued That trade never flourisht in a time of desolation and misery and since in Trading their chiefest welfare as that of their State it self did absolutely consist in the regaining of their Peace again which had made that State once so flourishing ought now to be the scope of their utmost endeavours The strength of these reasons carry'd a poison not to every Eye perceivable for though a truth it was the United Provinces did really stand in need of a Peace they should however have had regard to the proper Interest of their respective Allys who for their only preservation had engaged in the War But as reflections of that kind went not with the Grain of the People who long'd for nothing so much as the return of their dear Trade they made no impression They were besides extreamly harrast now and weary of War for as the French had right enough observed to them that State of theirs was forc'd to pay a good part of the Emperor's Brandenburg's and other of their Allys Forces which occasioned of necessity an Augmentation of Subsidies Subsidies so extraordinary heavy that the whole thing it was rais'd out of did not answer And indeed a Man of Four hundred Pound a Year Rent was obliged to pay the State Five hundred and to see himself undone and mouldred to nothing without the possibility of a remedy Every Body then sensible of their particular inconveniencies thought of nothing but present redress without the least concerning for what might be hereafter Of the whole Body of that Common-wealth none but his Highness the Prince of Orange truly penetrated the consequences of the Peace which in that present face of things must of necessity to all the Allys in general prove very disadvantageous since without lending hand to deceive our selves we could not flatter with the hopes of Restitution from France high and haughty in the glories of her Conquests and common sense might tell us we first ought to have obliged it to one by force of Arms before so much as the proposal of any thing like it could be proper Now to leave France in the actual possession of so many important places bordering upon Germany and Flanders so close and so many Baits to its usual Ambition was properly by leaving him one foot in the