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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64312	Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the war begun 1672 to the peace concluded 1679; Selections. 1692	Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing T642; ESTC R203003	165,327	545

I cannot pretend to know what the true ends or subject of it was The common belief in England and Holland made it to be our jealousie of the French Conquests going too fast whilst ours were so lame and great hopes were rais'd in Holland that it was to stop their Course or Extent but these were soon dash'd by the return of the Ambassadors after having renew'd and fasten'd the measures formerly taken between the two Crowns And the Ambassadors were indeed content as they past through Holland that the first should be thought which gave occasion for a very good Repartee of the Princess Dowager to the Duke of Buckingham who visited her as they pass'd through the Hague and talking much of their being good Hollanders she told him That was more than they ask'd which was only That they should be good English-men he assur'd her they were not only so but good Dutchmen too that indeed they dit not use Holland like a Mistresz but they lov'd her like a Wife to which she replied Vrayement je croy que vous nous ayméz comme vous ayméz la vôtre When France lost all hopes of shaking the Prince of Orange's Constancy they bent all their thoughts upon subduing and ruining the remainder of the Countrey They had avanc'd as far as Woorden and from thence they made their ravages within two or three Leagues of Leyden with more violences and cruelties than would have been prudent if they had hop'd to reclaim the Prince or States from the obstinacy of their defence The Prince encamp'd his Army near Bodegrave between Leyden and Woorden and there made such a stand with a handful of Men as the French could never force The Winter prov'd not favourable to their hopes and designs and some promises of Frosts inveigled them into marches that prov'd almost fatal to them by a sudden thaw This frighted them into Cautions perhaps more than were necessary and gave the Prince and States leasure to take their measures for a following Campagne with the Emperor Spain and the Duke of Brandenburgh and Lunenburgh which prov'd a diversion to the Arms of France and turn'd part of them upon Germany and Flanders so as to give over the progress any further in Holland Upon the approach of the Winter the Prince after having taken Narden three leagues from Amsterdam in spight of all resistance and opposition from either the French or the Season resolv'd like another young Scipio to save his Countrey by abandoning it and to avoid so many Sieges as all the Towns they had lost would cost to recover He contented himself to leave the chief Post guarded with a part of the Army and with the rest marched into Germany joyn'd part of the Confederate Troops besig'd Bonne which had been put into the hands of France at the beginning of the War wherein the Elector of Cologn and the Bishop of Munster had enter'd jointly with France The boldness of this Action amaz'd all men but the success extoll'd the prudence as well as the bravery of it for the Prince took Bonne and by it open'd a passage for the German Forces over the Rhine and so into Flanders and gave such a damp to the Designs and Enterprizes of France that they immediately abandon'd all their Conquests upon Holland in less time than they made them retaining only Mastricht and the Grave of all they had possest belonging to this State In this posture stood affairs abroad when the Peace of England was made in February 1673 4 upon the strength and heart whereof the Prince of Orange concerted with the German and Spanish Troops to begin an offensive War and in the head of an Army of above Forty Thousand Men to march into France The French began now to wish the War well ended and were very glad to accept his Majesties Mediation The King was desirous to make France some amends for abandoning the Party and making a separate Peace Some of his Ministers foresaw he would be Arbiter of the Peace by being Mediator and that He might hinder any separate Treaties by mediating a general one and might restore Peace to Christendom whenever he thought fit and upon what Conditions he thought safe and just The only difficulties that appeared in this Affair were what the Confederates were like to make in accepting the King's Mediation whose late engagements with France had made him thought very partial on that side And the House of Austria finding that Crown now abandon'd by England had too greedily swallow'd the hopes of a revenge upon them to desire any sudden Treaty till the Successes they expected in the War might at least make way for reducing France to the Terms of that at the Pyrenees This I suppose gave some occasion for my being again design'd for this Ambassy who was thought to have some credit with Spain as well as Holland from the Negotiations I had formerly run through at the Hague Brussels and Aix la Chapelle by which the remaining parts of Flanders had been sav'd out of the hands of France in the Year 1668. But having often reflected upon the unhappy Issue of my last Publick Employments and the fatal turn of Councels in our Court that had occasion'd it against so many wiser mens Opinions as well as my own I resolv'd before I went this Journey to know the ground upon which I stood as well as I could and to found it by finding out what I was able of the King 's true Sentiments and Dispositions as to the measures he had now taken or rather renew'd and trust no more to those of his Ministers who had deceiv'd either Me or Themselves Therefore at a long Audience in his Closet I took occasion to reflect upon the late Councels and Ministry of the late Cabal how ill His Majesty had been advis'd to break Measures and Treaties so solemnly taken and agreed how ill he had been serv'd and how ill succeeded by the violent humour of the Nation 's breaking out against such Proceedings and by the Jealousies they had rais'd against the Crown The King said 'T was true he had succeeded ill but if he had been well serv'd he might have made a good business enough of it and so went on a good deal to justifie what was past I was sorry to find such a presage of what might again return from such a course of thought in the King and so went to the bottom of that matter I shew'd how difficult if not impossible it was to set up here the same Religion or Government that was in France That the universal bent of the Nation was against Both That many who were perhaps indifferent enough in the matter of Religion consider'd it could not be chang'd here but by force of an Army and that the same force which made the King Master of their Religion made him Master of their Liberties and Fortunes too That in France there was none to be consider'd but the Nobles and the Clergy

should fall into it with the greatest Regret that could be yet he did not see what else was to be done and did not know one Man in Holland that was not of the same Mind That he did not talk with me as an Ambassador but a Friend whose Opinion he esteem'd and desir'd That he told me freely Leur fort leur soible and would be glad to know what else I thought they could do upon all these Circumstances Et dans accablement de leur Estat par une si longue guerre I return'd his Compliment but excus'd my self from giving my Opinion to a Person so well able to take Measures that were the fittest for the States Conduct or his own but desir'd to know what He reckon'd would become of Flanders after the Dutch had made their Separate Peace because the Fate of that Countrey was that wherein the rest of their Neighbours were concern'd as well as they He answer'd It would be lost in one Summer or in two but more probably in one That he believ'd Cambray Valenciennes Namur and Mons might be lost in one Summer That after their Loss the great Towns within would not offer at defending themselves excepting Antwerp and Ostend for which they might perhaps take some Measures with France as I knew the French had offer'd Monsieur de Witt upon their first Invasion in 1667. I ask'd him how he reckon'd this State was to live with France after the Loss of Flanders And if he thought it could be otherwise than at Discretion He desir'd me to believe that if they would hope to save Flanders by the War they would not think of a Separate Peace but if it must be lost they had rather it should be by the last which would less exhaust their Country and dishonour the Prince That after Flanders was lost they must live so with France as would make them find it their Interest rather to preserve their State than to destroy it That it was not to be chosen but to be swallow'd like a desperate Remedy That he had hop'd for some Resource from better Conduct in the Spanish Affairs or that some great Impression of the German Armies upon that side of France might have brought the Peace to some reasonable Terms That for his own part he had ever believ'd that England it self would cry Halt at one step or other that France was making and that if we would be content to see half Flanders lost yet we would not all nor Sicily neither for the Interest of our Trade in the Mediterranean That the King had the Peace in his Hands for these two Years past might have made it when he pleas'd and upon such Conditions as he should think fit of Justice and Safety to the rest of his Neighbours as well as himself That all Men knew France was not in a condition to refuse whatever Terms His Majesty resolv'd on or to venture a War with England in Conjunction with the rest of the Allies That the least show of it if at all credited in France was enough to make the Peace That they had long represented all this in England by Monsieur Van Beuninghen and offer'd His Majesty to be the Arbiter of it and to fall into the Terms he should prescribe but not a Word in Answer and all received with such a Coldness as never was though other People thought we had reason to be a little more concern'd That this put him more upon thinking a separate Peace necessary than all the rest That he confes'd Cuncta prius tentanda till he found at last 't was immedicabile vulnus That for their living with France after Flanders was lost he knew well enough what I meant by asking but after that the Aims of France would be more upon Italy or Germany or perhaps upon us than them That it could not be the Interest of Franco to Destroy or Conquer this State but to preserve it in a Dependance upon that Crown That they could make better Use of the Dutch Fleets than of a few poor Fisher Towns that they should be reduc'd to if any Violation were made either upon their Liberties or Religion That the King of France had seen their Country and knew it and understood it so and said upon all Occasions That he had rather have them for his Friends than his Subjects But if after all I concluded their State must fall in four and twenty Hours yet it were better for them to defer it to the last Hour and that it should happen at Night rather than at Noon This was discours'd with such Vehemence and Warmth that he was not able to go on and having said It was not a Matter to be resolv'd between us Two I left him after wishing him Health enough to go through the Thoughts and Businesses of so great a Conjuncture Next Morning I went to the Prince and after some common Talk told him what had past in my Visit to the Pensioner and ask'd His Highness If he had seen him since or knew any thing of it He said No and so I told him the Detail of it and upon Conclusion That he said he saw nothing else to be done but to make a separate Peace and that he knew not a Man in Holland who was not of his Mind The Prince interrupted me saying Yes I am sure I know one and that is My Self and I will hinder it as long as I can but if any thing should happen to me I know it would be done in two days time I ask'd him Whether he was of the Pensioner's Mind as to what he thought likely to happen the next Campania He said The Appearance were ill but Campania's did not always end as they began That Accidents might happen which no Man could fore-see and that if they came to one fair Battel none could answer for the Event That the King might make the Peace if he pleas'd before it began but if we were so indifferent as to let this Season pass for his part he must go on and take his Fortune That he had seen that Morning a poor old Man tugging alone in a little Boat with his Oars against the Eddy of a Sluce upon a Canal that when with the last Endeavours he was just got up to the Place intended Force of the Eddy carried him quite back again but he turn'd his Boat as soon as he could and fell to his Oars again and thus three or four times while the Prince saw him and concluded this old Man's Business and His were too like one another and that he ought however to do just as the old Man did without knowing what would succeed any more than what did in the poor Man's Case All that pass'd upon these Discourses I represented very particularly to the Court the first Part immediately to the King the rest to the Secretaries of State and added my own Opinion That if His Majesty continued to interpose no further than by