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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52161	An historical relation of the conspiracy of John Lewis, Count de Fieschi, against the city and republic of Genoua, in the year 1547 written in Italian by Augustin Mascardi, Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to Pope Urban the Eighth ; done into English by the Honourable Hugh Hare, Esq.; Congiura del conte Gio. Luigi de Fiéschi. English	Mascardi, Agostino, 1591-1640.; Hare, Hugh, 1668-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing M904; ESTC R19812	70,962	242

Sect will be as regardless of the Examples drawn from History as they have hitherto been of all the Arguments that have been urg'd from Reason to Convince them of their Error However let them consult their own Experience and that may sufficiently inform them that Providence seldom I might say never fails even at the last Critical Instant to rescue an Establish'd and well Administred Government from the Tyrannical Yoke of a Foreign Invader or a Rebellious Subject They might likewise for their farther discouragement remember what a constant Series of ill Success has attended all their Projects that their Plots have been still disappointed their most Cunning Designs unravell'd and that after their incessant and restless Endeavours for almost Four Years Their Majesties Sacred Persons are yet safe and their Government stands secure So that unless this discontented Party continue under the same change Infatuation that hath so long possest them they must certainly now despair of ever seeing Popery and Arbitrary Power again Triumphant in England And this if any thing will perhaps induce them out of a tender regard to their own safety to desist from their unnatural Conspiracies and Barbarous Attempts against the Religion and Liberties of Providence of God hath fix'd on so firm a Basis that I doubt not but the final Consequence of all their Malicious Projects how subtilly soever they may be contriv'd and carri'd on will be the destruction of their Cause and their own unpitied Ruine H. Hare A RELATION OF THE Conspiracy OF John Lewis Count de Fieschi IT pleased the Divine Providence to grant to the Republick of Genoua a respite from the Miseries under which they had lately Groaned For the Citizens being wea●ed out as well by their Civil Dissenti●ns as by the Oppression of a Foreign ●ower were at last made sensible by ●hese their Misfortunes how necessary it was for them to Agree They presently found the good effects of a settled Government every Man 's private Stock daily encreasing even beyond expectation when instead of misapplying their Industry and weakning their strength he fomenting different Factions they wisely studied to improve their own Estates and when that Money which was before consumed in providing for an Army and imfeeding the insatiable Lusts of the Foreign Governors was far better employed in Traffick and Merchandice This Happiness the Republick enjoyed when of a suddain there happened a most unfortunate accident which had like to have deprived the Genoueses of the Liberty they had so lately regained by the intended Subversion of the Established Government I me●n the horrid Conspiracy of John Lewis Count de Fieschi the Original where of is so necessary to be known that shall derive it from its first Source During the heat of those never to be forgotten Wars in Italy between the Emperor Charles the 5th and Francis the first King of France Andrew Doria a General very Famous both for Courage and Skill in Maritime Affairs fought under the French Colours his conduct wonderfully kept up the Reputation and promoted the Interests of that Crown While at the same time that he faithfully discharged the Trust reposed in him he took a severe Revenge of the Spaniards for those Cruelties they exercised at the sacking of Genoua in the Year 1522. But Princes are very often so satally unhappy as to disesteem their bravest Subjects while they are ready and willing to serve them with Faithfulness and Diligence Thus did Francis the first who by these indiscreet Methods exasperated the mind of Andrew Doria though he was at that time so absolutely necessary to the carrying on the French Designs The Pay assigned him was not returned to him Philibert de Chalons Prince of Orange whom Doria had made a Prisoner of War was set at Liberty by King Francis without paying the Ransom due to Doria the King did likewise with great importunity and when that was denied with high words demand the Marquess del Vasto and Ascan●● Colonna who had been taken in Battle by Philippin Doria Vice-Admiral to Andrew But that which afflicted this good old Man far beyond the Considerations of his own private Interest was to find that the King wou'd not perform those his Promises which regarded the profit and the reputation of the Republick of Genoua whereof this was an eminent Instance The City of Savona having transferr'd there Obedience from the Republick of Genoua to the Crown of France proposed to themselves great advantage from the Conveniency of their Haven which brought them in a vas● profit to the irreparable damage to the Trade of Genoua This Andrew Doria frequently complain'd of to the King earnestly desiring that as a ●compence for his past Services h●● Majesty wou'd restore to the Republic● that which by all the Rules of Justice entirely belonged to her The King was so well satisfied of the reasonableness of this Petition that he promised it shou'd be granted But when he had balanc'd in his Mind on the one side the Obligations he was under to be Just to his Word and on the other side the hopes of improving his Interest he rosolved contrary to his promises to keep the City in his possession He had found by experience how instable the Genoueses were in their Resolutions and how little he cou'd relie upon the assistance of the Republick for the advancing the Interests of his Crown in Italy For the City of Genoua being sometimes oppressed by a ●action of the Nobility and sometimes objected to the Caprices of the giddy Mobile did without due consideration ●lter the Form of its Government according to the Temper of the prevailing Party Therefore the King thinking it so necessary for the furtherance of his designs in Lombardy to ●ave at his command a convenient Port he made choice of Savona and gave the charge of it to Monseigneur de Montmorancy By this stratagem the King assured himself that he had both put a check to the inconstancy of the Genoueses and made his own undertakings more easie to be accomplished For the City of Savona lying near to Piedmont Montferrat and Lombardy was by its situation no less proper for War than for Commerce which gave the Genoueses occasion to fear that its increase in Wealth and Reputation wou'd in a few Years spoil the Traffick of the Port of Genoua and thereby enable Savona to claim an equal share with them in the Dominion of the adjacent Seas All these matters had been frequently represented to the King but without any good effect so that at last Doria was necessitated out of his sincere Love to his Country to abandon the French Interests He being now throughly exasperated by the many Contempts before related grew every day less and less exact in the furthering the King's designs and it happening luckily about this time 1528 that the City of Naples was besieged by the French under the Command of Lautrech Vice-Roy of Milan Philippin Doria in pursuance of the directions given him by Andrew did

by his voluntary negligence suffer the French King's Affairs to receive an irreparable damage For he who but a little before had with incredible Valor obtained a remarkable Victory over the Emperor's Fleet in the Gulph of Salernum in which Fight the Imperalists lost Don Hugh de Moncada Vice-Roy of Sicily their Admiral was now pleased to permit without any opposition some small Vessels laden with Provisions to sail by his Fleet into Naples And this Relief coming so seasonably to the Besieged proved the ruin of this Enterprize As soon as Pope Clement the Seventh had received notice that Doria began to fall off from the Interests of France he dispatch'd orders to Cardinal Salviati his Nuncio in that Court to represent to the King how necessary it was for him by just and satisfactory Concessions to regain to the service of his Crown a Person of so approved Courage and Skill in Maritime Affairs since it was highly probable that Doria if he were throughly exasperated would shelter himself and the Interests of the Republick under the Emperor's Protection which cou'd not fail to defeat the Expectations the French then had of the Conquest of Naples At the same time that these friendly intimations were posted away to the Court of France the Pope dispatch'd Sanga his Secretary to Cajole Doria into his Service with the offer of a large Pension The Court of Rome was at that time justly apprehensive that Doria's Interest and Reputation might probably over-balance the Affairs of Italy to the advantage of the Emperor if he shou'd be induced to comply with the honourable proposals offer'd him by his Imperial Majesty Therefore that this foreseen accident might be effectually provided against and not as was falsly pretended for any occasion the Pope then had of Doria's commanding his Fleet this Crafty Embassy was resolved on as the most likely method to prevail When this important affair came to be debated in the French King 's Privy Council some that were Enemies to Doria took this occasion to represent him as a Person so excessively haughty in the exercise of his Authority and so throughly disgusted at the King's Usage of him that it wou'd be impossible ever to regain him to the French Interests therefore that a sudden stroke might frustrate those designs which cou'd not without vast difficulties if at all be diverted by an amicable accommodation and that the Emperor might want so necessary an Assistant in this juncture of Affairs it was thought advisable that Doria should be Assassinated This advice was not rejected but in pursuance of it as was generally reported necessary Instructions were privately given to Monsieur de Barbezieux who was then Sailing for Italy with the French Fleet of which he had been created Admiral a little before Doria in the mean time received private intelligence of these designs and being throughly exasperated with so ungrateful and perfidious a return for his former Services he immediately entred into a close correspondence with the Marquess del Vasto his Prisoner of War by whom he offer'd his Service to the Emperor which was very readily and kindly accepted And now Doria made a publick Renunciation of his Friendship with the French King by sending him back the Collar and the Instrument of his Admission to the Order of St. Michael The Articles that Doria made with the Emperor when he first entred into his Service were such as the Republick might reasonably promise themselves from a sincere Patriot He wholly neglected this advantageous occasion of increasing the Honours and Revenues of his Family contenting himself that he had effectually secured the Liberty of Genoua and restored to them their Dominion over Savona by the Protection and Assistance of his Imperial Majesty This Resolution of Doria so throughly awakened the French King out of the slumber into which the false Policy of his Ministers had cast him that being desirous to repair his past negligence by his present sedulity he thought it advisable to endeavour to regain Doria to his Interests by honourable and advantageous Proposals But the King's Repentance began so late that it proved absolutely fruitless For Doria being now throughly bent upon the delivering his Country from the power of Foreigners wou'd not admit of any offers that might delay the execution of these his generous designs Nevertheless the French King who had been so careless to keep in the friendship of Doria became now so eagerly impatient to recover that without considering how great respect was due to a Crowned Head he stoop'd so low as voluntarily to offer a full satisfaction in all those particulars which Doria had often Petitioned for and had been as often denied Nay with so great indiscretion was this affair managed that by making these Proposals to Doria before some other person had privately sounded his Intentions in it the King exposed his Royal Dignity to the disgrace and himself to the shame and vexation of receiving a peremptory repulse Accidents of this nature are often observed to happen in the Courts of Princes who being puffed up with insolent thoughts of their own power believe that their Fortune needs not the assistance of any one to establish or support it And sometimes brave Men who are constantly in the Camp or at Court miss of that esteem which is due to their Merits and which is daily bestowed on far less deserving persons if they have but the advantageous Character of being Foreigners It being too Natural to Princes as well as the rest of Mankind to undervalue their present Enjoyments and hanker after unexperienced Novelties no less in the Publick than in the Private Circumstances of their Lives Doria having for these reasons settled himself and the Twelve Gallies under his Command in the Emperor's Service he presently applied his Mind to the deliverance of his Country from the Dominion of France for like a true Patriot the Liberty of his Country had always been the only Object of his Thoughts The Republick was at this time overpowered by a Popular Faction who under the pretence of the publick safety fomented with Arms and Tumults the unwarrantable Passions of Private Families not making a due difference between the Liberty of the Common-Wealth and the Licentiousness of some of the Members of it Hence it came to pass that whenever any Faction found that their own Forces were too weak to desend them in their Irregularities they reinforced themselves with Foreign Auxiliaries and thereby brought into the City a new Model of Government One while the Faction of the Adorni Expelled that of the Fregosi a while after the Fregosi overpower'd the Adorni Sometimes they gave themselves into the Protection of the Duke of Milan then again they removed the Governors he sent them Next they chose to be under the Government of the French by and by they shook off that Yoke and then were again willing to receive it So that by the frequent change of Applications the dangerous wounds that had so