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<HEAD>A Copy of a LETTER FROM THE FRENCH KING TO KING JAMES In An&s;wer to one from him.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Tran&s;lated from the <HI>French</HI> Copy.</HEAD>
<P>YOUR Maje&s;ty &s;eems to be too &s;en&s;ibly Afflicted with the late Di&s;a&s;ter of our Fleet; the Di&s;appointment we mu&s;t confe&s;s was unexpected and Surprizing, &amp; has occa&s;ion'd no &s;mall Interruption in the Mea|&s;ures we had taken: But however the &s;evere Application that you have made, by imputing that unhappy Accident to the ill Fortune that attends your Affairs &s;ince you betook your &s;elf to our Protection, we cannot admit of, much le&s;s can we allow the Con&s;equence which you &s;eem to imply, and which your Friends are apprehen&s;ive of, that the Blame of that Di&s;appointment &s;hould, in our Na|tion, any wayes affect your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>The Mi&s;taken Informations you receiv'd from your Dependents in great <HI>Bri|tan,</HI> we are &s;en&s;ible were no otherwi&s;e repre&s;ented to us by your Maje&s;ty, than as they were fir&s;t communicated to you; the ill Succe&s;s whereof &s;hall be &s;o far from obliging us to withdraw our Protection from you, that it has only added Vigor to our Endeavours, to repair by Land the Misfortune we have &s;u&s;tain'd at Sea. The Glory and Grandure of the <HI>French</HI> Nation has been too well e&s;tab|li&s;hed, to be &s;haken by one Storm.</P>
<P>The Succe&s;s we may rea&s;onably expect from the Siege of <HI>Namur,</HI> will be &s;uf|ficient at lea&s;t to Ballance the In&s;ulting Hopes of our Enemies: We are already Ma&s;ters of the Town, and have no rea&s;on to de&s;pair (if the A&s;&s;urances given us by <HI>Vauban</HI> may be rely'd upon) of a Pro&s;perous Progre&s;s from &s;o formidable Forces as are now employ'd in that Service.</P>
<P>'Tis true, the Account of the Surrender of Great <HI>Waradin</HI> comes &s;omething un|&s;ea&s;onable, but we hope the Con&s;equence is too remote, to affect the Enterpriz|es of our Summers Campaign on this &s;ide, upon which the Fortune of the War &s;eems to depend.</P>
<P>We hope to per&s;wade our People, that the De&s;cent which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;eem to threaten upon our Coa&s;t, is rather an Ammu&s;ement than any awayes Practica|ble. There are &s;ome about us (and with whom our mo&s;t Important Councils are concenred) who appear apprehen&s;ive in ca&s;e of a De&s;cent, or any other In|rode into our Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> that it may occa&s;ion a Revolt among&s;t our Subjects. But we pre&s;ume the <HI>Di&s;cipline</HI> we have <HI>u&s;ed,</HI> has not been &s;o ill be&s;tow|ed as to admit of any &s;uch Rebellious Practice. Our Subjects are <HI>French men,</HI> and we have taken care <HI>to make them Catholicks,</HI> who will not ea&s;ily learn the He|reticall Di&s;tinction between Revolt and Rebellion.</P>
<P>The Reque&s;t which you make of retiring from our Kingdom, we cannot at this time hearken to. The late Ob&s;ticles in our Affairs, upon which you &s;eem to ground your Propo&s;al, is an irrefragable Argument for our with-holding our Con&s;ent: Fora&s;much as it would be looked upon by all the World, as well Friends as Enemies, that we want either Inclination or power to protect you, which would be un&s;uitable to our Character, and inconvenient for the pre&s;ent po&s;ture of Affairs.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From our Camp before <HI>Namur,</HI> <DATE><HI>June</HI> the 18. 1692.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>LEWIS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed, And Reprinted, 1692.</P>
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