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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58501	Remarks upon a late paper, entituled, A true relation of the cursed designs and intrigues which have been lately carry'd on, both in England and France, to restore the late King James, &c. discovered by some gentlemen lately arriv'd from St. Germaines.		1694 (1694)	Wing R939; ESTC R8504	16,122	12

't is true the R●●ator hath given us his Opinion for them which I perceive he thinks Just and Honourable But it is most likely that he would not have past this Complement upon a French Popish College were it not to aggravate the Machiavillian Doctrine of the poor Irish whose Countrymen nevertheless he affectionately pities But Secondly We must take the Liberty to declar● also that there is no such College in Pari● as the Irish College true it is that there is th● College Lombard in which Lodgings are give● gratis to some few poor Irih Priests and non● others but without Government Collegiate Rules Sallaries Stipend or Maintenance whatsoever their Subsistence chiefly consisting an● proceeding from Masses and Priestly Function● exercised in the Churches and Chappels of tha● City Those Irish Priests we affirm were never consulted about this Declaration nor 〈◊〉 they had been consulted is it probable that th● Irish Army would be more Conscientious tha● their supposed Natural College or have murmured against such an Admirable Salvo whic● they had found out for the Security of th● King's Conscience and Satisfaction of thei● Countreymen's I suppose nothing more need to be said concerning their Imaginary Reasons which were never given nor like to be given if desired nor do they infer rightly or conclude truly I● short they are the Relator's Reasons and that 〈◊〉 enough But we cannot pass by the irreconcileable Differences between the Lord Melford and my L. Middleton about the Empire of the World without remarking that this is just as true as i● is politick and practicable for a Convert unde● the shadow of Religion to cloath himself i●● Wolves dress the first A la mode Suit of tha● kind which I am confident was ever put on by an Hypocrite as he would have my L. Melford to be but however the Learned Relator seems to confirm this Miracle by a Tantum Religio● which is as much to the purpose in this place as Tytire tu patulae c. In his next Paragraph the Relator is very busy about Expresses into Flanders and England from Flanders to St. Germaines Consternations Mutinies New Declarations doing and undoing booting and unbooting till at last he leave● England very well contented with this last Declaration but the Irish still continue in great Disorder about it and being very unruly and weary of King James would give any thing to be at Home Never did Knight Errant of very good Note equip himself more formidably against the Whimsies of his own Adutled Brain than this Man hath done We must again take the Liberty therefore as we have done to deny p●remprorily what our Relator most impuden●ly affi●m● in these ●wo Paragraphs and accordingly we assure the Reader First That the Declaration so Signed by the King as is pretended was not sent to the Irish in Flanders before it had been published in England Secondly That the said Declaration was never afterwards ordered to be sent to the Irish Army Thirdly That the Irish Army never mutiny'd about it nor had any Reason so to do Fourthly That there was no such Thing as a Second Declaration To the First we do affirm that the said Declaration was actually in England before my L. Middleton arriv'd in France but it is true that after my L. Middleton came to St. Germaines in or about the Mon●h of May the King commanded Sir Richard Neagle to give the Irish Officers an Account of that part of the said Declaration and not the Declaration it self which related to them which was to re-establish the Act of Settlement in Ireland but withal to take care to recompence those who followed him to the last for the Loss●s they might sustain by renewing the Act of Settlement which Act by the way was notoriously known to be broken contrary to the Sense and Design of the King as also of many eminent Irish Catholicks who proportionable to their Estates suffered more considerably by the Repeal than most of the Protestants had done And the King himself lost thereby Lands to the Yearly value of about 3000 l. In an●wer to Sir Richard Neagle's Letter the Irish Collonels and Commanding Officers have unanimously and under their Hands declared themselves in●rely and fully satisfy'd with what His Majesty had done and were all well contented to rely upon his Promises for such Recompences as His Majesty should hereafter procure for such of them as might be Losers by the Re-establishment of the said Act of Settlement And it is also so true that neither the Irish Officers nor the pretended Irish College were acquainted with or consulted about this Declaration that neither they nor the Lord Prima●e of Ireland nor the Bishop of Dublin knew the Contents of the said Declaration until His Majesty had Advice of its publication in England And that then and nor till then the King discoursed with the said Primate and Arch-Bishop together with my Lord Lucan about what related to the Irish and then and there they all of them professed their Satisfaction in what His Majesty had done This is Matter of Fact and will be attested in its proper time and place not only by Gentlemen of very good Note but by Men of undoubted Honour and Conscience By what hath been already said it is sufficiently evident I hope That First the Declaration was not sent to the Irish before published in England Secondly That the Declaration was not sent by His Majesty's Command afterwards but only that part of it which related to the Irish. And Thirdly That the Irish did not mutiny upon it and we shall now make it appear that they had no reason so to do We must then acquaint the Reader That upon the Capitulations of the City of Limerick the Irish Officers who treated about it as the Lord Lucan Collonel Garet Dillon and others neither desired nor agreed for more in that Article relating to their real Estates than that they should enjoy them according to the Act of Settlement which was consented to by the English the Capitulations were accordingly concluded and Signed by those and such other Officers of the Irish as were concerned to treat and conclude about the same Thus then was the Articles agreed to and Signed by the Irish Officers Now what says the King in his last Declaration In that Parliament says he meaning the first Parliament to be assembled after his Return We will also consent to every thing they shall think necessary to re-establish the late Act of Settlement of Ireland made in the Reign of our Dearest Brother and will advise with them how to recompence such of that Nation as have followed us to the last and who may suffer by the Re-establishment accordding to the degree of their Sufferings thereby 〈◊〉 ●o as the said Act of Settlement may always remain in●ire It had been already observed that the Irish neither desired nor Capitulated for more than than to be restored to their Estates according to the Act of Settlement and so

much the King promises for them but to explain this Matter more fully and to leave no room for Cavil we shall divide the Article-Men as they call them into three Ranks First Those who lost by the Repeal of the Act of Settlement Secondly Those who will lose by the Act of Re-establishment Thirdly Those who had no real Estates at all and by Consequence will neither gain nor lose by it Now to the first and second sort of those who followed the King into France after the Capitulation it is most certain that they amount not to the hundredth Man of those who followed him and as for those who stay'd behind they had the benefit of the Articles and were or ought to have been admitted to their Estates according to the Act after a Praevious Oath of Allegiance taken to K. William and Q. Mary These therefore I suppose neither are nor intended to be concerned in the King's Declaration neither can those who lost by the Repeal of the Act of Settlement he offended at the King's Resolution to re-establish it In short it affects those only who followed the King to the last and will be Losers if the said Act be re-established these also must be distinguished into two sorts those who followed the King purely out of Lovalty Zeal and Affection to his Person and Cause and those who for some Extravagancies and Misdemeanours during the War under K. James did not think it safe to stay behind for they had heard and were well informed that many vexatious Suits were car●●d●on against some on this side the Shannon who had taken Protection under K. W. for Misdemeanours commited during the War even to the undoing many of them But howeve● 〈◊〉 either of those sorts of Persons had any Reason to be offended at any part of the King's Declaration relating to them For first had the King taken no Notice at all of them they could never have justly pretended to more than they themselves desired or agreed unto by their Capitulations Nor Secondly had they deserted K. James and gone over to K.W. they could never have had any other Conditions than to be admitted to their Estates according to the Act of Settlement But Thirdly The King for thei● Loyalty and good Services to Him promises to recompence such as may suffer by the Re-establ●shment according to the degree of their Sufferings and what better and securer way could he have proposed to do this than by the Advice and Consent of his Parliament And what greater Promises could he have made the man relation to their Estates and in his present c●rcumstances than he hath done especially as hath been already said since the very Repeal of that Act was in a great measure extorted from the King contrary to his own Opinion therein often declared and contrary to the Interest of very many considerable Catholick Irish. For it is well known that after the Act of Settlement many Conveyances and Purchases were made among themselves under that Title which by the Repeal are dest●oyed And so univ●rsally w●re the Catholick-Irish Merchants more especiall in Galloway and thereabouts conc●rned in this Repeal that their Loyalty was ●o a little suspected upon that Account and many hard things said of them during the Siege not nec●ssary now to be repeated What more then could these Men have desired of the King than to be restored to their Estate according to the Act of Se●●lement and Promise to those who may suffer by the Re-establishment of it of a Recompence according to the degree of their Suff●rings which is much more than they had and Reason to hope for under this present Government By this Time I ●ope it is ●●iden beyond Con●radiction First That in France ●e Irish Army did never mutiny about the King's Declara●ion and Secondly That they had no Re●son so to do I suppose there is no need of ●aying any thing about a Second Declaration For First we have and do affirm That there was no Declaration at all ●en● by R. J Order to the 〈◊〉 Army And next by what hath been already said there cannot nor could be any Occasion for a Second Whatsoever relates therefore more to the ●●ish is meer fictitious Stuff and the Man 's own Imagination We must now take Notice and thank the true Relator for it That he hath offered one piece of Truth to us viz That the King caused the Declaration to be put in the Paris Gazette From whence we may observe these two Things First That the King had well considered the Consents of his Declaration which most probably was communicated to and approved of by the Court at Versailes and that by the Publication of it he intended no less than the Christian Wo●ld should be acquainted with his just and merciful Resolutions taken for the Satisfaction of his Subjects and that he always would and now actually doth stand by the same upon the Conditions therein offered The Second Remark is That had the Faculty of Sorbon declared against the said Declaration as this Man pretends especially when formally consulted and in a Case of Conscience 〈◊〉 it is most unlikely we should ever have found it in the Paris Gazette or that after it the King should be so extreamly much made of in the Court of France as this Man tell us he is though in the same Paragraph he hath the Folly to say also that he hath lost thereby the Affection of the French Nobility which comes very near a direct Contradiction 〈◊〉 except he can make a Court subsist without Nobility or extreamly much made of as he words it without Affect●on In his next Paragraph he tells us of Articles and twelve Heads God help his poor Head for we know 〈◊〉 where 〈…〉 any such Ar●●cles except in tha● 〈…〉 Then he proceeds to acquain● us ●ha notwithstanding 〈◊〉 King had lost the Interest and Affection of the French Nobility and Clergy and the high Di●contents and Disatisfaction of the Irish together with his own Ingratitude and Inconstancy yet now the court is elevated with Joy at the Hopes of his Return But as Ill-Luck will have it he tells 〈◊〉 in the lame Breath That the great Joy was o●● sudden tain'd 〈◊〉 Sorrow and a total Dissolution of all hopes of a Second Restoration Immediately after this dismal Dissolution The King is nevertheless so certainly assured that he could not said of being receiv'd in England without any Opposition that he posts to Versailes to demand Succours But Oh! the Inconstancy of Fortune and Favour of Princes when all Things just before were ready Abroad as well as at Home and no doubt in the least but they would have answered Expectation the French King dashe● all with a Speech which King James taking in Sheet-Hand and these Gentlemen of very good Note taking it also in short Hand from the Mouth of King James the whole Court ever since hath been in a Fit of the Choslic●● by which they are so disfigured and