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A58380 Reflections upon the conduct of the King of Great Britain in the late wars Contained in a letter from a subject of one of the confederated princes, to a friend in Holland. Done into English. 1682 (1682) Wing R727; ESTC R222084 6,129 4

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them the rest being uncapable to defend them were in a great consternation The Most Christian King did not fail to take advantage of this juncture and having made them Propositions of a General Peace which he caus'd to be Printed they easily disposed themselves to accept them and to perswade their Allies to do the like They sent for that purpose to the Duke of Villa Hermosa who opposed it a long time but the Parliament in England seeing by the disposition of the Hollanders that it would be almost impossible to prevent the Peace and not being willing to leave the King armed turned all their thoughts from War and took the resolution to speak no more of Money until they had obtained their demands in affairs of Religion that Duke did likewise then accept of the Peace seeing there was no timely succour to be expected from England This Sir I take to be the true Draught of things from whence we are to judge if the King of England is the only cause of the Greatness of France We may certainly say the Jealousies that arose betwixt him and his Parliaments are the true occasion of them It was to be wish'd both for Him and Us that either one Party or other had yielded sooner I am not well enough acquainted with the Maximes of their Country to decide positively which ought to have done it The King not only thought his Prerogatives were usurped upon but seem'd to have just apprehensions of engaging in a War which it would be in the Power of his People to put an end to by shutting their Purses If they had furnished him with the Sum of 600000 Pounds when he demanded it he might either have engaged himself in a War or been in a posture of making Peace as he thought convenient but those Gentlemen apprehended to put Arms into the Hands of His Majesty for fear that he should make use of 'em to render himself absolute However since they found it necessary to do it afterwards had it not been better they had done it in time To speak the Truth methinks that Great Body though compos'd of so many Wise Heads did not sufficiently foresee what might happen or those Gentlemen did secretly aim at Peace while they openly declared for War and they hoped the heat and resolution which they shew'd for the latter would produce the former without striking a blow and such an one too as they desired We must however say that they shewed a great deal of Wisdom in not continuing inflexibly bent to the last to hazard rather the Ruine of Europe than to confide an Army in the King The consideration they had for the Publick Good has likewise appear'd in that they made no difficulty of paying that Army though the King kept it on foot much longer than they ordered for the obliging the French to restore the Towns of the Spanish Netherlands before the restitution of the Swedes The King likewise on his side had manifestly made appear the little ground there was to suspect him of a design to render Himself Absolute since having that Army so long at his Disposal he made not the least use of it to that purpose Methinks then that His Subjects may be in repose on that side and would to God for our Interests that the future Parliaments may be in the same disposition as was that we speak of of yielding rather to His Majesty than suffer France to draw the fatal advantages from their Dissention which in all likelihood it will endeavour to do I am c. London Printed for H. R. 1682.