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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90805	The politicks of the French King, Lewis the XIV. discovered with respect to Rome. Emperour, and princes of the Empire. Spain. England. United Provinces. Northern princes. Suisse cantons: and of Savoy. With a short account of his religion. Translated from the French. Licensed according to order.; Aprit de la France et les maximes de Louis XIV découvertes ̀l'Europe. English.		1689 (1689)	Wing P2770A; ESTC R229739	67,320	98

hand he helps them with the other he knows how to bring the Turk into Hungary when he supposeth them fit for his Designs and Interests against the Empire when he thinks they may be serviceable to him as assistants in advancing him to the Throne of Europe to which our Great King hath confined his Ambition But it often happens that Man purposes but God disposes France would have you believe her true-hearted and real that the Holy See and every body besides should of her Ambition make an Article of their Creed Let her do and say what she pleases I do not for all that believe that if so be Faith and Truth were lost that any one would go look to find it in France All her by-past Actions do but too much bespeak her not to be any longer honest and that Faith cannot agree with the King's Humour so that a Prince failing in that the Holy Father ought to beware of him he is a close Enemy counterfeiting the Devoto a whited Sepulchre that dazles the Eyes of those who approach him He is an Orpheus who charms Christendom by his kind promises and noise of his Louises dor but within he is a very sink of Falshood insatiable Ambition of unparallel'd Covetousness and of barbarous Cruelty from whose Cruelty and out of whose Hands the Church should put it into their Litany Good Lord deliver us for fear they Christians fall into the same miseries that the Jews did in the time of Antiochus the Illustrious The Policy of France in relation to the Emperour and Princes Electors of the Empire CHarles V. did manifestly weaken the House of Austria by dividing it into two branches bestowing the Empire on Ferdinand his Brother and Spain to Philip his Son I must needs confess that these are two Twins so nearly related to each other by Blood by Alliances and common Interests that one will have much ado to touch the one without offending the other or destroy the one without debilitating and reducing the other to the utmost extremity This House hath evermore held up her Head against France she alwayes counterpoized with France the Empire of the World Spain took from Antony of Bourbon King of Navar the Kingdom he had acquired by his Marriage with Jane De Albret Heiress of Navar so that 't is easie to suppose that at present the House of Bourbon being exalted to the Throne of France since Henry IV. time may be from its Cradle Enemy to the House of Austria and if she could de-Throne both of them no question she would with all her heart get into their place if she could and thereby joyn the Empire to France France to Spain and the Low Countreys and then by and by very easily ascend to the Universal Monarchy of all Europe If this project don't succeed 't is at leastwise the intent and purpose of the French Politick Spirit and what Lewis XIV drives at who was not far from effecting it when Vienna look't upon her self near destruction and an hundred to one but had fallen into the Ottoman Chains Scarce any one is ignorant of the Correspondence the King of France holds with the Ottoman Port that it was upon his intreaty that the Grand Seigniour first violated the Truce concluded with the Emperour that he might second and abet Count Tekely's Designs whom France assisted with Money and Counsel The Emperour and his Council knows better than any body the occasion that moved the Port to send back Count Caprara together with the Propositions of Peace he brought along with him The Marquiss D'Seppeville Embassador of France failed not with all expedition to send one Courier after another to his Master to give him notice thereof who failed not forthwith to dispatch a Person to the Grand Visier to oblige him to persist in his Siege of Vienna he laying before him that his Honour was ingaged that the City was at the last gasp that it stood him upon to take it at what rate soever for his own Reputations sake and good of the Port that this Siege having made such a noise in the World he could not quit it but with Eternal Infamy to the Ottaman Empire and Grand Visier and for the better facilitating the taking of it and to divide the Armies of the Empire he was about to enter into Flanders with a powerful Army which would undoubtedly force the Empire to recal his Forces to defend themselves and the King did effectually make good his promise for he entered of late years as we see into Flanders burning pillaging and taking all before him after the Turkish manner imitating therein his Allie whom he was so forward to serve and second and the King divesting himself of the Title of Most Christian took upon him that of his Friend and Allie the Grand Sultan for places that ought to be most sacred to Christians and the retirements of the Nuns fared no better Several Virgins suffered Martyrdom by a Violation never before heard of in Christendom But all this did much contribute to the King's Design and the French Policy obtained its wish there was Forty Thousand Men just ready in Alsatia to pour into Germany to make himself be declared Emperour at the Head of this Army His Manifestoes were already in print ready to be spread abroad that to prevent Christianity from falling into Slavery he was forced to withstand it by a powerful Army and by declaring himself Emperour to hold the Reins of the Empire to defend it as serving as a boundary to France and to Europe it self considering the incapacity of the Emperour c. for the King knew what he said when he tells us the Emperour was not fit to Reign Without all question had Vienna been taken the Princes and Electors would have had recourse to him and been of his side for their own preservation being the only Prince who had Forces ready and who at that juncture was capable to retard the progress of the Infidels But Vienna being relieved we saw then the truth of what I have alledged that their Spirit came down and they became crest-fallen they cared not to joyn in the common joy of all the Universe which could not sufficiently praise God for this Signal Victory by their Bone-fires and Te Deums wherewith the Air echoed again None but France stood mute and who forbid divers Church-men to give thanks for the same upon pain of incurring the high displeasure of the most Christian King. Here you may perceive what Spirit France is of in relation to the Emperour who that it might have an opportunity to keep him under and throw him down from his Throne and so take his place The King of France heartily wishes that Vienna might sall into the hands of the Mahometans But as our Thoughts are not as Gods Thoughts so this King of Kings has disposed of things otherwise who by vouchsafing such grand Victories to the Christian Forces France must be fain to change their Batteries and

ever they find that grand Usurper to advance for he is now taking his aim and so well play'd his Cards that he hath made the Duke of Savoy to sneak and truckle not daring so much as to put his Nose towards France In times past the Dukes Ancestors did defend the City of Geneva as well as the Inhabitants they had a great deal more reason for it then France now a days upon the account of the pretensions to it and the rights the Counts of Geneva have yielded up to the Duke of Savoy Charles IV. Proclaimed that Duke Prince of Geneva and of all the Territories thereunto belonging and they have inherited it till the Year 1532. But the present Duke is so far from making any opposition against France that he would rather deliver up all his Rights and Claims to it and let himself be cullyed out of it under pretence of reinvesting the Bishop now although that Prelate should be setled and France master of it what course would the Duke of Savoy take if the King would not remit to him Would he have recourse to Menaces or Reprisals If he should do so the King of France would jerk him soundly like a Boy and would make him kiss the Rod to boot So that I would not have Geneva to flatter her self with the treacherous promises of the French King nor yet with the Assistance which Policy and Reason might oblige the Duke of Savoy to send them Let her e'ne rely on her Allies the Swisse Cantons upon her own though slender Forces and upon so many French Officers who have fled for refuge thither who will be sure upon the first news of it to run to her assistance or otherwise they must have lost common Sense and all sentiments of Honour and Thankfulness Again if so be the Emperour make his Peace with the Turk he must send for the Duke of Lorain to help him who is a great Captain and even laden with Victorious Lawrels whose very name will make France quake I and he may serve him for a inlet whereat to enter into his Dutchy of Lorrain where his Subjects quite spent with the Tyrannical Dominion of France expect him as their Moses and deliverer The King is a Lyon in a Foxes Skin he is not so formidable as men believe him his only end is to make himself be feared and he obtains his desire by threatnings but shake off this panick fear look upon France nearer mind her soberly and seriously consider the continual running away of her Inhabitants the punishment and imprisonment of another part of them is as so much Bloud flowing from her Veins which by little and little weaken her Add hereto the just complaints of the Catholicks the decrease of her Revenues and what is worst of all for her the death and the going away of so many Generals within these few years and so suddenly one after another doth she not seem to behold that Scene Heaven hath contrived on purpose to humble her for indeed she is at a lower ebb then one would imagine I 'll engage she is as sick as her King and that they be both smitten to the heart The first Enemy that sets upon her will not be long alone he will be soon seconded but it will be just as in the Fable of the Counsel of Rats who consulted together to go hang a Bell at the Cats neck their sworn Enemy but not one of them durst venture to do it first Who would ever have said the Pope would have contributed his assistance to the Union of the Switzers Yet 't is true he did so as we may have observed in the business of Glaris which I have above recited Nay his Nuncio is very intent at his leisure hours to open the eyes of the Catholick Cantons for those silly people provided the King tell them of intending to re-establish a Bishop 't is enough for them that 's all they care for but they are not sensible of what is behind the Hill that the grand Usurper lyes hid under the Bishops Mitre I have but one Admonition more to give the Right Honourable Cantons of Switzerland that is to say the King hath no respect nor good will towards them He takes them for Scaffolds to be made use of when need requires and when that is over he looks upon them as no body I desire no other proof of what I say then what of a fresh date happened to the Ambassador which the Cantons not long since sent to the French King After he had wrangled with them about their Commission not being in general Terms on purpose to refuse them Audience well this difficulty once removed by a second Commission dispatched to them they were e'ne fain to go away as they came without so much as seeing the King or obtaining one only Audience This is the greatest undervaluing and most sensible affront that ever Free-born men had given and if the Cantons pass by this and don 't shew their just Resentments of it they 'l be despised by all the Princes of Europe and it will not be the last ill turn of this nature that will befall But that I may fully certifie you of the truth of what I here deliver see here word for word the Harangue or rather Complement these Gentlemen past upon Mounsieur Colbert Croissi Minister of the Foreign Affairs at their departure Sir Our Lords and Superiours sending us hither to do what in us lyes and make use of all importunities to endeavour to win the Kings affection to the end he might be inclined to uphold the City of Geneva their Allie in the possession of what they have hitherto been above One Hundred and Eighty Years grounded upon Authentick Treaties But his Majesty being resolved to commit to his Parliament of Dijon a business which is plainly acknowledged for an affair of State which depends upon Treaties of Peace Covenants and Alliances the which said Parliament our Superiours will never acknowledge as just no nor give their Allies the Citts of Geneva counsel to yield to their Treaty which is theirs also Moreover his Majesty giving us to understand by your Excellency that he would no more then you confer with us touching this matter and because we are afraid that a longer stay here might be as unwelcome as our coming we could not do better then withdraw home again to make a faithful report of what hath past to our Lords and Superiours We are come to take our leaves of your Excellency and to give you many thanks for the patience you have had in several Conferences beseeching you that in pursuance of the reiterated Orders we have had given us in behalf of our Lords and Superiours who notwithstanding they be much troubled at the bad success of this Embassy seeing they take more into consideration the prosecution of 25 Canons then the fidelity of many thousands of the best and most stedfast Allies of that Crown who have shed their Blood and