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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

A Short and True RELATION OF INTRIGUES TRANSACTED Both at Home and Abroad To Restore the Late King JAMES Virgil. AEneid lib. 6. Facilis descensus Averni sed revocare gradum hic labor hoc opus est London Printed in the Year 1694. A short and true Relation of Intrigues transacted at Home and Abroad to restore the late King James WE may see by the overturn of the late King the Instability of Human Greatness and that Soveraignty is like the Globe of the Earth full of Windings and Turnings having its Ebbs and Flows like the Ocean which never rests and which shews Government to be a slippery Path for if the Prince chance to catch a Fall though such a Mishap may not prove Mortal yet it so disables him ever after that he cannot recover himself Which at this time seems verified in the Fall of the late King who now finds himself mistaken in his Measures which renders all his Endeavours frivolous and turns to no other Account but to frustrate his Expectations and to remove his Hopes from ever ascending the English Throne again The Nobles and Commons in Parliament assembled after the late King's Coronation demonstrated their Fidelity to him by their unexpected Attainder of the late Duke of Monmouth who but a little before was the Peoples Darling and yet notwithstanding was sacrificed for the preservation of the late King an Instance of so much Integrity at that Juncture of Time when the late King dreaded nothing more than the Landing of the Duke of Monmouth that if the late King had but esteemed the Affection of the People pursuant to the Experience he had then of their Loyalty and retained the same and contained himself within the Rules of Moderation in point of good Government and not openly exceeded the Limits of the Law and strove to content the People which is the End of all good Government a Duty incumbent upon Kings and Princes to do he might have Ruled and Reigned to this Day and all the Days of his natural Life with as much Honour Grandeur and Satisfaction as any Prince that ever reigned in England The late King had more Experience in Government than any Prince that came before him He had seen the Tragical Fate of his Father's Death the Turnings and Windings in his late Brother's Reign wherein he himself had an ample Share every way and was fifty two years a Subject before he came to be King So that it might be expected from a Prince of his Knowledg and Years to rule well and to fulfil that Saying of Maecenas to Augustus Nemo bene Imperat nisi qui ante paruerit Imperio Whereas had the late King but kept the Reins of his Government equal in his Hand so as to be able to have made a Judgment when to drive fast or slow and between both had kept a middling Pace and by an impartial distribution of Justice pleased the lower Orb and trusted not too far to corrupted Ministers and Judges who are the Plagues of all Governments according to Cicero Acceptatio munerum est praevaricatio Justitiae Veritatis he had been now instead of a Deposed Prince in a Foreign Land happy at Home But now he can tell that a People can do better without a King than a King without a People and as nothing would have pleased his Ambition but to trample upon the Liberties and Privileges of his Subjects so the Subjects thought themselves obliged to let him know that the Affection of the People is the surest Foundation of Government by their declaring their aversion to the late King and seating the present King and Queen upon the Throne The late King thought to imitate Henry the 8th the contrary way but came short of his Undertaking and losing the Love of his People lost himself and three Kingdoms Henry the 8th fought the Pope at his own Weapons pick'd his Locks with his own Keys lock'd in the Supremacy and shut out the Pope And for his Seconds had the two great Convocations of Roman Catholick Divines then residing in both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg together with all the Monastical and Collegiat Theologues throughout the whole Kingdom which bespeaks the English Roman Catholicks both at Rome and all Abroad very scandalous having no Reputation nor Esteem any where out of England but hated mortally The late King to oblige the Pope and out of his fervent Zeal to Religion likewise went about to alter the Case and to remove the Aspersion wherewith all the English Roman Catholicks are branded and fix it upon English Protestants when he with a Protestant Army attempted to establish Popery against Law in a Protestant Kingdom and to extirpate the Protestant Religion An Undertaking too dangerous as it fell out to be attempted and no wonder it should when a Prince against all the Rules of Religious Policy and contrary to good Conduct in point of good Government without any more necessity to compel him than his Ambition and Zeal to take such Measures as would not only incense the People against him and inflame three Kingdoms but also entail an Intestine War upon the Kingdom For St. Augustin a great Doctor in the Church as well as in the Politicks says Remota justitia quid sunt Regna sed magna Latrocinia the removing of Religion and Justice le ts in an Inundation of Sorrow Calamity and Distress to the overthrow of all good Law and moral Honesty which the late King now sees when instead of being attended by his Nobles Ministers and his Judges and seated at Home upon the Throne he himself with the help of his more than corrupted Council brought all upon himself and is necessitated to be maintained at the Expence of another Prince which shews the Uncertainty as well as the Infelicity of humane Greatness to see a Prince that might have been happy but would not and now instead of Ruling and Commanding his late great Officers is again glad to receive and listen to the meanest of his late Subjects A Prince that would not hear the Counsel of the Wise but embraced the Advice of Fools is accordingly accommodated who expected by his Exile when he left his People to return Triumphantly an absolute Monarch as he thought but so far from it at this time that that Prince from whom he expected Succour has enough to do to defend himself being surrounded by many Enemies which leaves the late King no hopes of Supply there having to that purpose received the King of France's Answer but in February last which crown'd all the late King's Misfortunes with additional Sorrow as presently will appear The late King hath no other Remedy left him as the Case stands now Abroad but to court his late injured People to bring him back again which is not so easily to be comprehended That Prince must be reduced to great Hardships that first receives a broken Head and petitions him that gave it for a Plaister it looks as if no