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A64311	Letters written by Sir W. Temple, Bart., and other ministers of state, both at home and abroad containing an account of the most important transactions that pass'd in Christendom from 1665-1672 : in two volumes / review'd by Sir W. Temple sometime before his death ; and published by Jonathan Swift ...	Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.	1700 (1700)	Wing T641; ESTC R14603	342,330	1,298

that of our League at the Hague wherein Count Dona enter'd and which seemed the first Instance of the Suedes concerning themselves in this Country or Spain's Affairs The Holland Deputy press'd his Excellency hard upon his Promise and his declaring to Us that he had sent his Powers to the Count Molina pursuing him with Res non est integra and Mandatum non potest revocari and such Civil Law Arguments till it grew warm and so not very proper for a Man in ill Health nor in my Opinion for the Business as it stands So that I was fain to divert it upon my expectation of new Powers and particular Instructions by which I hoped to be able to give the Marquis satisfaction in the Project of the intended Guaranty This Morning arrived Sir John Trevor's Secretary with Directions to bring the Business of the Ratifications to a Period by carrying one from hence for Sureties sake in case That from Spain should fail which is expected upon the very Treaty signed at Aix and withal to concert other Circumstances in the manner of the Exchange which is made very imperfect in the Treaty that is one to be delivered at St. Germains and the other at Brussels I carried the Secretary this Afternoon to the Marquis and we have fallen upon this Agreement That to morrow he shall return for Paris with a Ratification upon the Treaty at Aix and with Insertion of the same Powers a blank now in the Marquis's Hands being to be filled up in that Form and to be dated the 16th currant which will answer a Possibility of a Post going to Madrid after the 2d when the Treaty was signed at Aix receiving this Ratification there and returning to Paris by the 24th the Day this Gentleman expects to arrive there For the Exchange it shall be made at Paris and by the Hands of our Ministers there who shall deliver the Spanish Ratifications and at the same time receive the French with which the Marquis is content and will proceed to the publishing of the Peace so soon as our Ministers are possest of the French Ratifications which may afterwards be sent hither at leisure The Day we propose for exchanging the Ratifications is the 26th and the 28th for publishing the Peace in case we receive a Courier by that time with Advice of the French Concurrence in that Day For the Manner of executing the Treaty I confess I was of Opinion nothing should be mentioned of it till the Exchange and Publication were past since new Difficulties may arise upon it which will be easiest overcome when the Thing is done and perhaps the Parties will have begun to disarm The Marquis was of my Opinion in it and therefore has proposed only in that Point that after the Publication Commissioners may be appointed on both sides to meet upon it and the Mediators desired by both Parties to intervene likewise by their Commissioners for the better composing of any Difference that may arise between the Parties and to whom the Adjudication of such Difference may be referred The Place of meeting to be Oudenard or Courtray as most commodious for adjudication of the Limits which may fall in Dispute After this Matter thus digested and Promise of the Ratifications to be in my Hands to morrow by Noon I came away with Sir John Trevor's Secretary But the Marquis sent after me to desire he might speak with me alone And told me he was to thank me for sparing him this Morning in Disputes he was falling into with the Holland Deputy That in short the Dutch had cross'd him in an Alliance he was making last Year with Sueden because they would make themselves Masters of the Affair and now would buy the Suedes Dependance at the Cost of Spain That he had all the Reason in the World to be satisfied with His Majesty's Conduct of this Affair but little in the Dutch That he knew no Reason why they should not pay what they had promised to Sueden after the Treaty of Breda nor why all the Money Spain could spare should not be given His Majesty upon a nearer League between Us who was the only Prince had proceeded affectionately and generously in the Spanish Affairs and who was the best able to support them in case he were in Condition to make War without his Peoples Purses That he expected the Baron Isola suddenly here for Conclusion of the Guaranty and this Affair with Sueden And that at last if it must be paid by Spain it should be all laid in His Majesty's Hands to dispose of as he pleased I gave his Excellency Thanks for Expressions so obliging in what concerned our Part in this whole Affair But desired him to take it for a Ground in all the Superstructures to be made upon the present Foundations That Spain must not disoblige Holland even to oblige Us but dissemble any Resentments they had given him and sacrifice them to the Advantage both We and Spain received by their present Separation from France And so our Discourses ended and we are returned into the same good Correspondence we were in before I went to Aix which had been interrupted by some Letters I received from his Excellency there and some I returned in the Style I thought they deserved It being perhaps natural to the same Men to be the least subject to do Injuries and the least capable of receiving them For it is easie enough to find Morals for the first but Christianity enough for the last I doubt is difficult I am c. To Monsieur de Witt. Brussels May 27. S. N. 1668. SIR BY my last from Aix I gave you Account of the Signing of the Peace and was in hopes by this to have given you also an Account of the Ratification which is not yet arrived from Paris Mean while the Ravages made by the French Troops over all the Country and their Approaches to this City alarm us here as if they had a Design to wrangle upon some Formalities and in the mean time put themselves in a Condition to carry the greatest Advantages upon expiration of the Truce I will not have the least suspicion of such a Proceeding the most Christian King having already given notice of the Peace to the Pope and other Christian Princes And which is of greater weight knowing that Sueden has already entered into the Tripple Alliance Therefore the Business that gives me most Pain is to draw from Spain the Satisfaction stipulated to Sueden upon which your Deputies here have without doubt already given you the Marquis's Answers tho' indeed somewhat cold and uncertain I have since given him a very pressing Letter Letter from the King my Master upon the same Subject but have had yet no Answer further than that he has not yet seen our Tripple Alliance nor knows the Advantages given to Spain by it or whether they are equal to Spain and France He makes Difficulties also upon the Subsidies of these Months past between the

Forces into the Field resolved to compel him by joining with the Dutch if he could not persuade him to make the Peace and the Duke of Nieuburg prepared to second him in this Design The French were not wanting in their Offices to the same Ends so that a private Agreement was made about the beginning of this Month for the French Dutch and Munster Envoys to meet at Cleve and there treat the Peace under the Mediation of the Elector of Brandenburg Assoon as the King received this Alarm he sent an Express immediately to command me away the instant I received it with a Commission to the Bishop of Munster and with Instructions to do all I could possibly to hinder the Peace and with Bills of Exchange to revive his Payments which had been long intermitted and Promise of more to be remitted every Post which I was to order into his Agent 's Hands here in my Absence I went accordingly acquainting none with my going but the Marquess here who gave me Twenty of his own Guards with Command to follow absolutely all Orders I should give them I was to pass through a great deal of the Spanish Country much infested with Dutch Parties more of the Duke of Nieuburg's and more yet of the Brandenburgers who I know were all Enemies to the Affair I went upon and therefore thought it best to pass for a Spanish Envoy sent from the Marquess Castel-Rodrigo to the Emperour and charmed my small Guard and the Cornet that commanded them to keep true to this Note And some of my Servants as most of the Guards speaking Spanish I spoke nothing else unless in private or when I was forced out of it by some Incident In this Guise I came to Duseldorp where the Duke of Nieuburg happened to be contrary to what I had been informed assoon as I was in my Inn one of his Officers came to know who I was and whither I was going and would not be satisfied by the common Answer from my Servants and Guards but would receive it from me when he came up tho' with much Civility yet he prest me so far that I found there was no feigning with him and so bid him tell the Duke that within an hour I would come and give him an Account both of my self and my Journey I remembred the great Kindness that had ever interceded between His Majesty and this Prince and tho' I went upon an Errand that I knew was disagreeable to him yet I thought he would be less likely to cross me if I acquainted him frankly with it than if I disguised scurvily as I was likely to do being the Thing of the World I could do the most uneasily I had a Letter of Credence which I brought out of England at my first coming over for this Prince but passing another Way to Munster I had not used it and so resolved to do it now I did so gave it him told him my Errand how much His Majesty reckoned upon his Friendship and desired his good Offices to the Bishop of Munster in the Design I went upon of keeping him firm to his Treaties with the King my Master This Duke is in my Opinion the finest Gentleman of any German I have seen and deserves much better Fortune than he is in being small very much broken and charged with a very numerous Issue he seems about fifty Years old tall lean very good Mien but more like an Italian than a German All he says is civil well bred honneste plain easie and has an Air of Truth and Honour He made great Professions of Kindness and Respect to the King was sorry he could not serve him in this Affair his Engagements were already taken with the Emperour and his Neighbour Princes for making the Munster Peace and by that Means keeping War out of the Empire He doubted I could not serve His Majesty upon this Errand neither for he first believed I could not get safe to Munster the Ways being all full of Dutch and Brandenburg Parties who had Notice of the King's Intention to send away to the Bishop upon this Occasion and if I should arrive he believed however I should find the Peace Signed before I came My Answer was short for I was very weary that go I would however I succeeded that for the Danger of the Journey I knew no providing against it but a very good Guide who might lead me through Ways the most unfrequented that I would desire His Highness to give me one of his own Guards to conduct me because none would expect a Person going upon my Design would have one in his Livery for a Guide and I desired he would let me pass as I had done hitherto in my Journey for a Spanish Envoy The Duke after some Difficulties at first which we turned into Pleasantries complyed with me in all I took my Leave and went away early next Morning I never travelled a more savage Countrey over cruel Hills through many great and thick Woods stony and rapid Streams never hardly in any high Way and very few Villages till I came neat Dortmund a City of the Empire and within a Days Journey or something more of Munster The Night I came to Dortmund was so advanced when I arrived that the Gates were shut and with all our Eloquence which was as moving as we could we were not able to prevail to have them opened they advised us to go to a Village about a League distant where they said we might have Lodging When we came there we found it all taken up with a Troop of Brandenburg Horse so as the poor Spanish Envoy was fain to eat what he could get in a Barn and to sleep upon a heap of Straw and lay my Head upon my Page instead of a Pillow The best of it was that he understanding Dutch heard one of the Brandenburg Soldiers coming into the Barn examine some of my Guards about me and my Journey which when he was satisfied of he asked if he had heard nothing upon the Way of an English Envoy that was expected the Fellow said he was upon the Way and might be at Dortmund within a Day or two with which he was satisfied and I slept as well as I could The next Morning I went into Dortmund and bearing there that for five or six Leagues round all was full of Brandenburg Troops I dispatcht away a German Gentleman I had in my Train with a Letter to the Bishop of Munster to let him know the Place and Condition I was in and desire he would send me Guards immediately and strong enough to convey me The Night following my Messenger returned and brought me Word that by eight a Clock the Morning after a Commander of the Bishop's would come in Sight of the Town at the Head of twelve hundred Horse and desired I would come and join them so soon as they appeared I did so and after an easie March till four a Clock I came to a Castle of the

l'empressement de V. A. á me faire un compliment aussi triste qu'obligeant ces deux choses ont fait que deux Lettres si fort eloignees par leurs dates se sont presque rencontrées á leur arrivée Car j'ay beaucoup á me louer de la diligence avec laquelle Monsieur Ferroni tache de me faire tenir les faveurs de V. A. Les vins m'ont paru excellens si j'osois je dirois volontiers qu'ils semblent tenir quelque chose du Prince qui les envoie les changemens de Climat la longueur les traverses du transport la rigueur de l'hyver ni les ardeurs de l'eté ne luy ont rien fait perdre de sa seve de sa force cela ne fournit il pas un embleme assez naturel de la personne de V. A. J'ay au reste plus d'obligation á V. A. qu'elle ne pense sur son present de vins non seulement parce qu'elle m'a fait gouter des delices du plus beau pais du monde sous le Clymat le plus triste mais sur tout parce que son present m'a excité á devenir beuveur qualité qui me manquoit absolument qui est pourtant necessaire pour se bien tirer d'une ambassade en Hollande Je ne say ce que V. A. fait le plus paroitre dans les expressions si touchantes dont sa Lettre est remplie ou la fecondité de son esprit ou sa tendresse de coeur pour le Roy non Maitre C'est pourquoy j'espere que V. A. ne me sçaura pas mauvais gré d'avoir envoyé á sa Majesté la copie de sa derniere Lettre dans laquelle elle a donné des marques si tendres de la part qu'elle prend aux evenemens de la Famille Royalle Les Etats Generaux paroissent surpris de la nouvelle que leur a apporté un exprés depeché par leur Ministre á Paris qui vient de leur apprendre la marche des Troupes Françoises au nombre de 30000 hommes elles s'avancent vers les frontieres leur rendez-vous est marqué a Peronne On ne decide point encore sur le dessein de cette marche on ignore si elle regarde ou la Flandre ou ce pais icy on ne sait point si l'approche de ces Troupes ne tend point á cacher les veritables desseins á mieux reussir dans les mesures qu'on a prises Quoy qu'il en soit l'alarme est icy á un tel point qu'on a pris sur le champ la resolution de continuer la solde á six mille hommes qu'on alloit congedier que le Conceil d'Etat a ordonné de dresser promptement un etat de guerre qui comprit tant les levées d'hommes que les munitions de bouche de guerre qui seroient estimées necessaires en cas de rupture avec la France Qu' enfin on a fait partir de Shevelin en diligence une barque pour l'Angleterre avec ordre d'y retenir Monsieur Van Beuninghen qui etoit sur le point d'en partir Pour moy je ne say ce que je dois juger sur toutes ces apparances je gemiray toujours sur les evenemens qui pourront mettre en danger le repos de la Chretienté qui depuis un tems sous les ordres de sa Majesté a eté l'objet de mes veilles de mes soins Et sans doute que sila guerre recommence elle va donner lieu á des grands evenemens desquels on aura peut etre á donner el para bien á V. A. non comme eloignée de la tempête mais parce que les grands Princes ne respirent que les grandes occasions Je supplie V. A. de m'en offrir toujours par lesquelles je puisse luy marquer avec combien de passion de verité je seray toute ma vie Monsieur De V. A. Sme c. To the Procurator of the Court of Holland upon the Rights of Ambassadors ONE of my Secretaries having given me a Copy of a Paper signed by you F. de Brusis which was brought to my House and given to one of my Servants by which Paper you summon one N. Wat Valet or Footman to the English Ambassador to appear before the Court of Holland By the Title you give the said N. Wat you make it plain that you believe him to be actually in my House and Service Upon which I have thought good to tell you that I look upon you as an Insolent Fellow for daring to bring such a Paper into my House and that I do not intend any of my Servants shall be look'd upon as subject to the Jurisdiction of any Court of this Country or of any other beside those of the King my Master And if any of them offends against the Laws Complaint must be made to me that I may either order Justice to be done or deliver the Offender of my own accord to be punish'd by the Law of the Place having before-hand dismiss'd him from my Service Therefore I do not design to be exposed to such an Insolence as this that you have committed against me in treating me like one of your Burghers as well by the Paper left in my House as by the ringing of the Bell whereof you make mention What I here say you may let your Masters know from me by whose Order you pretend to have acted Besides for their further Information let them know that while I reside in this Country I will never suffer the Rights and Privileges so long granted to Ambassadors by the Law of Nations and hitherto observed and respected by all Princes of Christendom to be violated or any way infringed in this Country in my Person under pretence of any particular Sovereignty of a Province or Privilege of a City in a Common-wealth where I have the Honour to serve a King in quality of his Ambassador Au Procureur de la Cour d' Hollande sur les droits des Ambassadeurs UN de me Secretaires m'ayant fait voir la copie d'un billet signé par vous F. de Brusis qui a eté porte dans ma maison donné á quelqu ' un de mes gens par lequel billet vous sommez un certain N. Wat Valet ou Lacquais de l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre de comparoitre devant la Cour d'Hollande Par la qualité que vous donnez au dit N. Wat vous faites bien connoitre que vous le croyez actuellement dans ma maison attaché á mon service lá dessus j'ay trouvé bon de vous dire que je vous tiens pour un Insolent d'avoir osé porté un billet dans ma maison que je ne pretens

the Chevalier de la Fourrille who had been dispatch'd secretly from Court some Days before the breaking up of the Camp at St. Germains and with the Troops quartered near the Borders of Lorrain made a sudden March into that Country and seized upon the City of Nancy and that by so unexpected and quick an Attempt that he failed very little of surprizing the Person of the Duke and had taken the Dutchess That the Duke escaping had retired to a small but strong Place called Bidsch where he busied himself in assembling what Forces he could for his Defence That the Mareschal de Crequy being dispatch'd from Paris had met this News upon the way and returned with it to Court from whence he was dispatch'd in haste the second time to Lorrain That the French Camp near St. Germains was marched towards Peronne under the Command of Monsieur Vaubrun but that by Orders sent after them upon the way they were to be divided into two Bodies of which one was to march away to the Mareschal de Crequy in Lorrain and the other towards Sedan where they should make a stand and face any Attempts that might be designed from Flanders or this Country towards interrupting the Success of their Affairs in Lorrain Monsieur de Witt told me further That the States having considered these Advices had ordered them the Commissioners immediately to acquaint me with them And further that though the States esteemed it a Matter of so great Importance that all the Parties of the Triple Alliance ought to concern themselves in it as wholly destructive to those Ends of conserving the Spanish Dominions which were mutually proposed in the said Alliance yet they the States should not nor indeed could not proceed to any Resolutions thereupon without first knowing those of his Majesty and being assured of his vigorous Conjunction And hereupon they desired me to give his Majesty Notice immediately by an Express to the End that I might know his Sense and Intentions upon this Conjuncture or at least be instructed to confer with the States upon it After this much was enlarged by Monsieur de Witt and the Commissioners concerning the very great Importance of the Seizure of Lorrain as the cutting off Burgundy wholly from the rest of the Spanish Dominions as well as all further Communication between any of the Netherlands and many of the Princes of Germany with the Suitzers So as they compared Lorrain to a Cittadel in a Town from which all the rest would be commanded at pleasure They added That the Dutchy of Luxemburg would be in a manner block'd up and maimed in their mutual Assistance with the rest of the Spanish Provinces That the Electors of Mentz and Tryers would have the French Feet upon their Throats And consequently that whenever France should begin with Flanders after the Possession of Lorrain the County of Burgundy would be their own in an Hour and Flanders in a very short Time without greater and readier Assistances than there seemed to be any reasonable Hopes for After this they told me They had received likewise a new Account by this Post of all the French Preparations at Sea and the present Estate of their own Fleet of which they gave me this inclosed List And by all I can gather from their Discourses I judge they are capable of any vigorous Resolution that his Majesty should think fit to inspire them in Conjunction with us But that without it they are resolved as they express it * To leave it to God and to see the French at their doors without stirring a-foot De laisser agir au bon Dieu de voir la France á leurs Portes sans se remuer Upon all which they pretend that the Disposal and Ballance at this Time of all Affairs in these Parts of Christendom lie before his Majesty from whom both the Empire and Spain as well as Sueden and this State will receive their Measures Three Days since the Baron d'Isola was with me to communicate a Letter he had newly received from the Emperor declaring his Resolution to join with the Triple Alliance in the Guaranty of the Peace of Aix which he desired me to give his Majesty part of by the Post But having told me at the same time that he resolved to give your Lordship the same Account I omit to trouble you with any further Particulars He came to me again just upon the Close of what I have written and shewed me a Letter from Monsieur Louvigni at Brussels containing the Particulars of what has hapned in Lorrain and little different from those I had before received by Monsieur de Witt only that the Duke of Lorrain resolved to retire with all his Forces into the Mountains and hopes to defend himself some time provided he might be sure of not being abandoned I am ever my Lord your c. To my Lord Keeper Hague Sept. .... S. N. 1670. My LORD I Lately gave my Lord Arlington the Account which was given me by the States Commissioners of the Seizure of Lorrain with their Reflections upon it and the Consequences it must needs have upon all the Affairs of Christendom and their Desires of my communicating all from them with Speed and Care to his Majesty which I did I have since received by last Post and by a Letter from his Lordship the King's Orders for my immediate Repair into England and for my acquainting the States with it and that it is only with Intentions of my informing his Majesty better in the several Points that concern the present Conjunctures of my Station here This I have done in a Conference upon it with Monsieur de Witt. I found him at first very pensive upon the News of it and apt to reflect upon this hapning so soon and unexpectedly after the late Seizure of Lorrain and both after the many Delays and Difficulties raised by us as he apprehends in admitting the Emperor to the Guaranty of the Peace of Aix in conjuction with the Triple Alliance which we formerly so much desired He remembred at the same time the many Instances we have made for many Months past about such a Trifle as the carrying off our Planters from Surinam whom he takes by the Articles to become their Subjects and the invincible Difficulties in which we have engaged Matters between our East-India Companies in which he says he is assured our Merchants have no Part but as they are instigated by some Persons at Court whose ill Intentions he fears towards the late Alliances contracted between his Majesty and these States both for our own mutual Safety and that of all Christendom He reflected upon a Coldness in all our Negotiations of that kind ever since Madame's Journy into England and upon the late Journy of the Duke of Buckingham's to Paris which he could not think was * To see the Country or learn the Language Pour voir le Pais ou apprendre la langue And desired I would