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<HEAD>A LETTER FROM THE Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>PARIS,</HI> TO THE Late King JAMES.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Great SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AS the King is truly &s;en&s;ible of Your Maje&s;ty's firm adherence to his Intere&s;t, even with the lo&s;s of your Three Kingdoms, &s;o he has redoubled his Care, and has left no &s;tone unturned to re&s;tore Your Maje&s;ty to the &s;aid Kingdoms again; not only by endea|voering to reduce them, but by making War al&s;o again&s;t all the Con&s;e|derates who oppo&s;ed him in this his Undertaking. And although the King beyond hopes has not been &s;ucce&s;sful in the fir&s;t, though there was a very good pro&s;pect of it, yet he &s;ucceeded in the other, in having en|larged his Dominions very much, and by encrea&s;ing the &s;ame &s;till by the Great Conque&s;ts he makes every Year, by the great and continual Victo|ries he obtains over his Enemies from time to time; but all this is not &s;uch a &s;atisfaction to his Generous Mind, as that would be, if he could re&s;tore Your Maje&s;ty to Your Throne again. This grieves the King, and &s;ticks &s;o much to his heart, that he does not value the &s;miles of Fortune, &s;o long as it frowns upon Your Maje&s;ty. And as good Offices claim Gra|titude, &s;o the King not only Royally received Your Maje&s;ty into his King|dom, but maintained and Cheri&s;hed you too in that Grandeur to this ve|ry hour, be&s;ides his Kindne&s;s he &s;hewed to that great number of your Sub|jects which he Maintained, and Employed. No le&s;s was expected from the Holy See, whom Your Maje&s;ty &s;o highly Obliged when Reigning, who in&s;tead of out-doing the King's Kindne&s;s towards Your Maje&s;ty, &s;tands now marked with Ingratitude. But now the King &s;eeing his Kingdom Exhau&s;ted of Money, by the immen&s;e Charges he has been at, and his own Subjects Croaning under the Mi&s;eries that attend a War, and then con&s;idering the Effu&s;ion of Blood of &s;o many Thou&s;ands of Chri&s;tians, and that a Prince who will reap the Benefit of his Arms, mu&s;t make Peace when he is the mo&s;t Victorious. Therefore the King amid&s;t his great Victories &s;tretches out the Scepter of Peace, to all his Enemies; which as he has done at fir&s;t, in particular to the Duke of <HI>Savoy,</HI> out of Compa&s;&s;ion to withdraw him from his Ruine: So he does now in General to all the Confederate Prin|ces. But The&s;e, as well as He, being pufft up with great Hopes, and ex|pecting
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the turn of Fortune, refu&s;e the King's fair Offers, and &s;tand upon &s;o high Terms, which amount even to the <HI>Pyrenean</HI> Treaty! A thing not to be expected from &s;o Victorious a Prince, as our King is. Yet, the King being de&s;irous to &s;ee the Peace of <HI>Europe</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hed, for the Rea&s;ons above mentioned, is willing to grant them more ample Propo&s;als; &s;uch as he does not doubt but would he accepted of by the Confederates; and he meets with no other Difficulty, than the <HI>Re-inthroning</HI> of Your Maje&s;ty. Which as it is the Thing the King takes the mo&s;t to Heart, &s;o he has la|boured for it, more than for any other thing: But it &s;eems Heav'n is again&s;t it, and will have it otherwi&s;e. It lyes therefore in your Maje&s;ty's Power to remove that Ob&s;tacle and to further that &s;o much wi&s;hed-for Peace; by following the Laudable Examples of that great Emperour <HI>Charles</HI> the Fifth, and <HI>Ca&s;imire</HI> King of <HI>Poland;</HI> who quitting their Empire and Kingdoms, cho&s;e rather to live a Religious, and Retired Life, a Life which the King was a commending much t'other day: A Life, I pre&s;ume to tell Your Maje&s;ty the advantages of, by mentioning the dangers of t'other. Your Ma|je&s;ty was &s;eated upon a Precipice, and the more you are Elevated, the more dangerous will prove the Fall. In that Retirement you will be &s;afe as it were upon a Plain, from whence you may look back upon the dangerous Rocks be|hind you. De&s;cending from the Throne, you mount to the repo&s;e of a private life. And as there is nothing to be e&s;teemed a plea&s;ure, or a happy &s;tate without a perfect &s;afety; &s;o your Your Maje&s;ty will find, that you will then be more contented, more happy, and con&s;equently more high than you was before. There you may &s;ecure your &s;elf from the dangers of a trouble&s;ome Kingdom, and bewail the perilous condition of Worldlings, and purcha&s;e an Eternity of Joys. No other Earthly condition can equal that: 'Tis a Hea|ven upon Earth, &s;eparating us from the re&s;t of the World, and contented with its own Tranquility, and Delights. Such a one it will be to Your Ma|je&s;ty, if you embrace it voluntarily, and withdraw your heart from all world|ly Cares and Creatures, and contemn a Worldly Diadem. Which that you may do, the Author of all good grant that Your Maje&s;ty's Affections, Acti|ous, Thoughts and De&s;ires may be ordered by him to that end, that they may begin and end in him, who is the Aby&s;s of Happine&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Paris</HI> <DATE>the 22d. of <HI>June</HI> 1694.</DATE></DATELINE><SALUTE>Great SIR,</SALUTE> <SIGNED><HI>Your Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Humble, and Mo&s;t Obedient Servant,  FRANCIS,</HI> Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Paris.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Super&s;cribed thus, <HI>To His Mo&s;t Excellent Ma|je&s;ty</HI> James <HI>the Second, K. of</HI> Great Britain, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>LICENS'D, <HI>July</HI> 12. 1694.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed, and are to be Sold by <HI>Rich, Baldwin</HI> in <HI>Warwick-Lane,</HI> 1694.</P>
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