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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60052	A Short and true relation of intrigues transacted both at home and abroad to restore the late King James		1694 (1694)	Wing S3557; ESTC R10572	11,578	16

Confederates who are sensible of his Designs will accept of no Conditions from him of his own Proposals but intend to bring him to their Conditions they all foresee that he intends to become Emperor of the West which he cannot attain to but in consequence must extirpate the House of Austria in whose Preservation all the Princes think themselves obliged to keep up the War rather than voluntarily suffer themselves to be brought under a Yoke of Tyranny and Usurpation The Emperor is well satisfied that the War made by the Grand Seignior against the Empire was promoted by the French King and since furthered by him which consideration requires the Emperor to decline all his Proposals until the French King first allays that War raised by himself upon the Emperor As for the King of Spain the French King is a Plague to him by ravaging of his Territories seizing his Towns and Forts without any pretence of Justice and compelling his Subjects to swear Allegiance to him by the Law of Conquest which by Divine Law is no Lawful Right but a Homicide and open Robbery for Mankind was free in the beginning but since by the Power of Usurpation subjected under a Yoke which lost the World forty times over more Lives to continue and maintain Man's Ambition over Man than are left living in the World therefore as God's Laws are against destroying and killing of Men certainly that Power which cannot govern nor live but upon the destruction of God's Creation cannot be called Just nor Lawful Jure Divino but an absolute Tyranny though some of our Divines will say that a Conquest is a Lawful Title so it is by the Law of the Sword but against the Law of Natural Right Some perhaps may take occasion to question by what Law did King William and Queen Mary ascend this Throne A Question as soon answered By a better Title than ever Alexander the Great or Julius Cesar had to any Part of their several Conquests K. William and Queen Mary had the Choice and Affection of the People which is the best Foundation and surest Title that ever Prince had to build upon and without which no Prince can be safe on the Throne But that Prince that has it and knows how to keep it and retains it may reign and rule in defiance of all Foreign Enemies if it does not happen to him to have a corrupted Council which is the overthrow of any State Kingdom or Empire We need not go Abroad for Precedents having some of the Council at Home in being that brought us almost to Destruction and are as likely to do it once again as ever they did before if God prevents not It is true enough that where a Prince has not an Army to rule absolutely no King of England can hurt the Privileges of the Subjects if his Ministers and Judges be but faithful to the Prince and People in discharge of their Trust according to Law but otherwise all goes to wrack We exclaim against the late King 's Evil Counsellors and who can say that there was one good amongst them It is commonly said that they that have betray'd the Secrets of one King against the Oaths commonly taken have since betrayed another Or how can this King and Queen believe themselves happy in the Counsel of those whom they themselves know to have been false to the late King Or is it to be thought the Kingdom is asleep when a Clamour is raised against the late King 's Evil Counsellors when at the same time the major Part of them are still in our Councils and Places of Trust which denotes a long Snake in the Grass But I shall do by them as God Almighty did leave them and return to conclude my Discourse only adding that the Court of St. Germains dreads nothing more than such an Alteration of the Lieutenancy and Justices of Peace over all England as it has pleased their Majesties of late to cause in London The Resolution of the Confederates against the Peace has altered the Measures of France abolished the Thoughts of a Restauration and has put a Period to all the Designs of an Invasion from France hither It is of all hands in France believed that thrô the Distraction amongst the Clergy and Gentry about the Taxes the scarcity of Money among the Commonalty with the want of Provision and the excessive Expences of the War to maintain so many Armies the Glory of that Crown without a Peace cannot hold much longer the declination of the Wealth of France having reduced all People to a very low Ebb. And if the late King and the French King did hold a Resolution to land an Army in this Kingdom this Island is so naturally strongly situated that they would find it a difficult Matter to land an Army here having the Elements to fight with and the Sea to conquer before they can touch the Shore and perhaps the Attempt whenever tried may prove as fatal to France as the overthrow of the Spanish Armado was to Spain Which makes me think of Hegesippus who personated King Agrippa in his Discourse to Claudius of the Danger and Difficulty of invading Great Britain which Discourse ended as Florus said of the Ligurians and as I may say and conclude Major labor est invenire quam vincere Mr. Waller 'T is not so hard for greedy Foes to spoil Another Nation as to touch our Soil FINIS