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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

and bestow your Friendship only upon such as deserve it since you cause Persons to be employ'd who acquit themselves so worthily I think my self happy to have negotiated with him and that by his means your Lordship hath been pleased to give me a new Testimony of your Goodwill For the Favour you say His Majesty is pleased to have for me I have no otherwise deserved it than by my Respects for his Royal Person whereof I shall endeavour to give Proofs upon all Occasions His Majesty will please to afford me In the mean while I shall wait with Impatience for some Opportunity to shew how sensible I am of all your Lordships Civilities which I shall ever acknowledge by a true Esteem for your Merits and by a strong Passion to let you see that I am with as much Sincerity as you can desire My Lord Your c. Monsieur de Witt á Milord Arlington Le 14. Fevr. S. N. 1668. Monsieur COmme il n'etoit pas possible d'envoyer icy un Ministre plus capable ni plus propre pour le naturel le Genie de cette nation que Monsieur le Chevalier Temple aussi croy-je que l'on n'auroit pas pû choifir une personne qui puisse ou venille plus equitablement juger de la disposition en laquelle il a trouvée les Etats á repondre aux bonnes intentions du Roy de la Grande Bretagne Il ne doit pas etre moins satisfait de la promptitude avec laquelle les Etats ont passé outre á la conclusion signature de traitez pour lesquels il est venu icy qu'ils sont de sa conduite de sa belle maniere d'agir en toute la suite de sa neg●t●ation Il paroit Monsieur que vous vous connoissez en hommes que vous ne donnez votre amitié qu'á ceux qui la meritent puisque vous faites employer des personnes qui s'acquittent si dignement Je m'estime heureux d'avoir eu á negotier avec luy de ce que par son moyen il vous a plû me donner un nouveau temoignage de votre Bienveillance Pour ce qui est de la bonté que vous dites que sa Majesté a pour moy je ne l'ay merité point que par le respect que j'ay pour sa personne Royale dont je tacheray de luy donner des preuvez á toutes les occasions qu'Elle me faira la grace de m'en faire naître J'attens bien avec autant d'impatience celles ou je vous puisse temoigner combienje suis sensible á toutes vos civilitez que je reconnoitray toujours par un veritable estime pour votre merite par une trés forte passion de vous faire voir que je suis ave● autant de sincerité que vous pouvez desirer Monsieur Votre c. The Triple Alliance copied from the Original Papers WHereas by the late Treaty concluded at Breda between the King of Great Britain and the States General of the United Netherlands both Nations have been restored through the Blessing of God to that ancient Friendship and good Correspondence which was between them And in Order to cut off all Occasions of farther Differences and to prevent all new Accidents which might tend to the Disturbance of the said Amity and good Correspondence of the Subjects on either part some Articles and Rules of Navigation and Commerce were there agreed and particularly by the Eleventh Article of the said Treaty it was ordained That the said King and the said States General shall be oblig'd as Friends Allies and Confederates mutually to defend the Rights and Immunities of each others Subjects against all such as shall endeavour to disturb the Peace of either State by Sea or by Land or such as living within the Dominions of either shall be declared publick Enemies by the one or the other And because it is not particularly determined in what way and manner the said Confederates stand oblig'd mutually to succour each other and that it is the fix'd Resolution of the said King of Great Britain and of the said States General more and more to corroborate and accomplish the said Agreement Therefore in the first place and above all other things they consent to confirm the said Treaty concluded at Breda together with the said Laws of Navigation and Commerce relating to the same as by these Presents they are confirm'd under a mutual and undissolvable Obligation to observe and accomplish them truly and faithfully and to command the Subjects on both sides exactly and religiously to observe and fulfill them according to the genuine Sense and Tenor of the said Treaty and Articles And for the better ascertaining the mutual Assistance that the Parties are to give to each other which was omitted in the preceeding Treaty for increasing Amity and Friendship between the said King and States General and that full Provision may be made by a nearer Alliance and Union for the safety and mutual defence of both States against the pernicious Endeavours and hostile Attempts of any Enemy under any Pretext whatever We whose Names are underwritten in virtue of the Orders and full Powers granted to us and hereunder to be inserted do covenant and agree That the said King of Great Britain and the said States General of the united Netherlands shall be mutually obliged united and confederated together as they are by the Force and Virtue of these Presents mutually obliged united and confederated in a perpetual League defensive in the manner and under the Conditions following I. That if any Prince State or other Person whatever without exception shall under any Pretext invade or attempt to invade the Territories Countries or any Places that lie within the Dominions of the said King of Great Britain or shall exercise any Acts of Hostility by Sea or by Land against the said King or his Subjects the said States General shall be obliged as by Virtue of these Presents they are obliged to send forty Ships of War well furnish'd with all things necessary to assist the said King to oppose suppress and repel all such Insults and acts of Hostility and to procure him due reparation for any Damages sustained That is to say Fourteen of the said Ships shall carry from sixty to eighty great Guns and four hundred Men a just allowance and computation being made as well with respect to those Ships that carry a greater as those that carry a lesser number of Men Fourteen other Ships shall carry from forty to sixty Guns and one with another three hundred Men at the least Allowance to be made as before and none of the rest to carry less than six and thirty Guns and a hundred and fifty Men. Besides which they shall assist him with six thousand Foot-Soldiers and four hundred Horse or shall pay a Summ of Money with due regard to the just value of such an

so well tho' in Exchange perhaps of Danger to come in case of no new Revolutions that whenever there should be in England a Prince less direct or less foreseeing than his Majesty or either a weak or corruptible Ministry I could not answer what Measures we should take That upon this Ground I thought they could not do wiser than to root this Alliance in the very Hearts of the People and current Genius of the Nation and not rely wholly upon the present Inclinations or Judgment of his Majesty or the Dispositions of the Ministers For if there were any Thing that lay cross to it in the common Interest or Humour of the People it would be upon all Occasions breaking out to disturb it and whenever that should concur with the Dispositions of the Prince they would be able to make a great Noise in the World I told him That many Persons in England either to make way for the French Alliance by weakning or breaking this or else perhaps to discredit the most applauded Councils of the present Ministry had made a Noise about the Marine Treaty as if it had been a ruining the Nation and from thence took Occasion to infuse into all People as far as they could that we should never find any Fairness or Directness or Equality in all we treated with the Dutch but Subtilty and Hardship and Injustice and when Occasion was Obstinacy and Injury in all Matters of Commerce between us while we gave them Reason to believe we thought their Friendship necessary or very convenient to us That I had ever since I knew him maintained the contrary to his Majesty assured him of the Sincerity I had found in their Proceedings and been always made confidently believe by them that his Majesty should find them ever reasonable and easy in what should be offered in reducing Matters of Commerce to an Equality and to be reciprocal between us That it was a small Matter that all my Credit and perhaps Fortune lay at Stake upon their making this good But I was sure it was considerable that the very Safety of our Alliance might at one Time or other come to lie at Stake upon it too And therefore for my Part I thought they could not do in the World a wiser Thing than to give us all reasonable Satisfaction in these Points by consenting to any Reglements of Commerce which might import Equality and be reciprocal between us That any Equality it self would be the same Advantage to them that a long Arm against a short would be between two Men with equal Swords for considering their Parsimony Industry Necessity of turning all their Stock to Trade for want of Land and multitude of People and on the other side our native Luxury want of Order or Application and our Extent and Cheapness of Land and Ease of Taxes which made People chuse to turn their Mony that way They could never fail of Advantage enough in any Equality and upon it would find the surest the most commodious Ally and the best able to protect them that they could have in the World being without any Ambition or Designs among our Neighbours further than to keep the Ballance of Christendom And yet on the other Side the only Power that was feared by France and that were able in Conjunction of our Fleets with theirs to awe them by what they might suffer from Sea into some Consideration of what was fit for them to act at Land During this Discourse which I enlarged the most I could to the Purpose resolving to bend all my Force upon the Effect of it I found Monsieur de Witt very attentive and willing to let me go on with Marks in his Countenance of relishing and as I thought approving what I said which made me resolve to go yet one Point further and to the Root of all that could spring into any Jealousies between us I told him it was true That there wanted not some among us that would be so wise to know that it was impossible for us ever to fall into any firm Confidence with the States upon their present Constitution nor particularly with him upon the Prince of Orange's Occasion That for my part I was not at all of that Mind That tho' the King could not lose the Affection he had for his Nephew yet he was of Opinion he could not express it better than by infusing into him the Belief That he could make himself no way so happy as in the good Will of the States and trusting wholly to Them in the Course of his Fortunes and not to private Factions or Foreign Intrigues and Applications That his Majesty was of an Opinion himself That Princes were not apt to do themselves more Hurt and make themselves less any way than by affecting too much Power or such as was directly contrary to the Stomach and Genius of the Country which fell to their Share And besides this I knew his Majesty was so just and so reasonable that tho' he should take kindly of the States any Respects they should shew his Nephew yet I did not believe he would offer That to any other King or State which he should not take well that any other should offer to him and I did not believe he would ever be put upon any such Designs by his Council or his People's Inclinations For they who lookt upon the Prince in a possibility of one Day coming to be their King and that loved a Prince who grounded his Power in the Affections of his People and loved to Rule by Laws had rather perhaps see the Prince of Orange happy in the good Will of the States and such moderate Power as they should think consistent with their Government than of a Humour and Aims at any Thing that might tend to subvert their Civil Constitutions So that I saw nothing of Danger to them upon this Chapter either from the Judgment and Disposition of his Majesty or the Humour of the Nation But was confident in case we could agree upon Matters of Commerce nothing could ever intervene to break an Alliance that was so useful to our Selves and all Christendom besides And so I left it with him Upon this Discourse Monsieur de Witt with very great Signs of Satisfaction told me That all I said was so reasonable that he agreed with me perfectly in it And upon that said a great deal of the Sympathy he had ever observed between us and how easy That would ever make any Thing we should fall in Treaty of That he knew from Monsieur Meerman I had been the occasion of giving him any Credit in England of an honest sincere Man and he would never lose mine upon that occasion by giving the King Cause to believe other of him That he confest he had often told me That the States would be ever contented with an Equality with us in point of Trade and that provided they might know what it was we would be at and that we proposed nothing

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