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<HEAD>Declaration of the Comte de Tourville Commandant his mo&s;t Chri&s;tian M^t^i^e^s fleet.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Tran&s;lated from the French Original.</HEAD>
<P>THe Engli&s;h po&s;&s;ibly may be &s;en&s;ible, novv the French Fleet is upon their Coa&s;ts, hovv much they haue been deluded the&s;e tvvo years by fal&s;e notions, indu&s;triou&s;ly impos'd upon them of the vveakne&s;&s; of France, and &s;trength of the Allies. They may perceiue that tho&s;e, vvho by &s;ubverting the Lavvs of the Government, and di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the rightfull King, have dravvn &s;o povverfull an Enemy upon them, haue al&s;o brought them &s;o lovv, that they are not able, even vvith the help of the Dutch, to maintain the Dominion of their ovvn Sea, nor pre&s;erve their trade, &amp; them&s;elves from vtter ruine. The People, in&s;tead of that full enjoyment of their Liberties &amp; Properties. vvhich they promis'd to thm&s;elves from their nevv Ma&s;ter, have never been more oppre&s;s'd vvith Taxes, &amp; the vexations of Arbitrary procedings, &amp; vvith all tho&s;e mi&s;chief, the bare apprehen&s;ion vvher of has hurried them into their pre&s;ent extremities.</P>
<P>The U&s;urper at fir&s;t extorted great &s;ums from a Parliament abonding in Pre&s;|byterians, by giving up to them the Religion E&s;tablisht by Lavv. He has &s;queez'd more out of this la&s;t Church-of-England Parliament, by &s;acrificing the Presby|terians to them: all the vvhile equally fleecing both. The&s;e aids vvere more than needed tho &s;ecure the Quiet an Trade of the Kingdome, both at home &amp; abroad, if they had been applied that vvay, &amp; not diverted to &s;ecret &amp; infini|tely expenceful cour&s;es to &s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngthen him&s;elf by foreign Forces, alvvays &s;u&s;|picious, and alvvays fatal to the Nation. Parliaments haue been already tvvice hindred from taking an account of this Money, lea&s;t their Eyes &s;hould be open'd, and the de&s;ign of their total oppre&s;&s;ion expos'd to their clear vievv. That oppre&s;|&s;ion vvould haue been ea&s;y enough, if the U&s;urper had not met vvith &s;uch an Enemy as the King of France. But it vvould be more ea&s;y, if the Nation de|priv'd of trade; drain'd of Money an divided by the animo&s;ity of tvvo Parties, both fomented by the U&s;urper, vvith his countenancing novv the one, and novv the other, become a defencele&s;&s; looker on, vvhile the Authority of the Lavvs is &s;ubjected to the foreign force, vvith vvhich he &s;eeks to fill the Kingdom.</P>
<P>His vveakness vvill oblige him to go on yet a vvhile in overreaching the En|glish, and per&s;uading them his Mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Maje&s;ty arms &s;o &s;trongly, only to pur&s;ue the pretences vvith vvhich he amus'd them at fir&s;t, to driue them into utter ruine, by engaging them to maintain to the utmo&s;t a quarrel vvhich is his ouvn, not theirs. In the mean time the French come not again&s;t the English but again&s;t an U&s;urper, vvho has engag'd them into &agrave; Revolt equally con|trary to the Doctrine of the Church of England, an the Lavvs of the King|dom; and on vvhich he could put no better colour than the votes of men con|ven'd vvithout Legal Authority: in a vvord, vvho actually has brought more mi&s;chief upon them in eighteen months, than an Enemy could haue don in a long vvar.</P>
<P>There are many vvho pre&s;erve a &s;ence of their fidelity: imports to vnite, and a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves His mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Maje&s;ty h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s no de&s;ign to Invade the En|glish Nation, nor take advantage of their di&s;orders for his particular ends. He has pre&s;erv'd their Lavvful Souereign for them, and the Heir apparent of the Crovvn, from vvhom they may hope for quiet &amp; &s;ecurity, vvhich they can never expect vvhile foreign and u&s;urping hands are, &amp; alvvays vvil be &s;natching
<PB REF="2" MS="y">the Crovvn. He has furnish'd His Maje&s;ty of great Brittain vvith means to keep him&s;elf up in Ireland, &amp; to prevent the U&s;urper from ruining them utterly by the ea&s;iness vvith vvhich they put into his hands the opportunity to en&s;laue them. He is in a condition to cross all his de&s;igns by &s;ending nevv &s;uccours to His Maje&s;ty of Great Britain, and cutting off the means of &s;ub&s;i&s;ting from the Ene|mys His conduct is demon&s;tration that he aims at nothing but the Re&s;toration of a Prince his Ally, and never dream of de&s;troying a Kingdom, vvhich he ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es it his bu&s;iness to pre&s;erve to him. All then vvho loue their King, their Countrey, their Religion, their Lavvs, &amp; the good of the Kingdom, ought to be &s;en&s;ible that they cannot run them&s;elves into any danger &s;o great, as being at the mercy of the Prince of Orange, if orce he be out of fear of His mo&s;t Chri&s;tian M^t^i^e^s Arms, &amp; get the Irish thorn out of his foot; and that the French far from Enemies, are truly the Defenders of their Liberty.</P>
<P>It is therefore declar'd that as on the one &s;ide His M.^t^i^e^s Fleet has orders to fall upon the enemies and rebels of his M.^t^y of England vvherever they &s;hall be found: &s;o on the other that all vvho vvill return to their duty, &amp; recogni&s;e their ovvn King, shall not be look'd upon as enemies: that on the contrary they shall meet vvith all po&s;&s;ible Kindness &amp; &s;uccour for them&s;elves as vvell as all other his good &s;ubjets: that no ho&s;tility shall be exercis'd again&s;t the Per&s;ons, or Places vvhich vvill return to his obedience. That vve shall confide in all vvho shall come authoris'd by him, &amp; joyn vvith them in all expedient<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> proper to avoid shedding the blood of his People, and the other mi&s;eries of vvar. And that vve shall make it effectually appear, that as vve act according to the intentions of a Prince vvho&s;e goodne&s;&s;e tovvards them had no bounds, and the vvant of vvho&s;e mild Government has been &s;o often lamented, vve have no de&s;ign but again&s;t R<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">lli<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> vve shall manage vvith con&s;i|deration and tenderne&s;&s;e even to the Rebels them&s;elves, if by a &s;peedy &s;ub|m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion they vvill prevent the punishment vvhich they have de&s;erved. They may farther be a&s;&s;ur'd, that regard shall be had to their &s;ervice vvho shall become examples to others, &amp; revvards procur'd for them, &s;uch as their fidelity can ex<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ect. And vve hope, that tho&s;e vvho mas have been &s;urpris'd by pa&s;&s;ion &amp; the artifices of enemies to their quiet, vvill open their eyes, ac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">novvledge the &s;in erity of our intentions, thank France for pre&s;erving &s;o good a Ma&s;ter for them, &amp; become &s;en&s;ible, that as they cannot hope for any end of their misfortunes and divi&s;ions but by his return, they can as little expect their Trade again, as long as it depends on Allies &s;o much intere&s;ted as the Hollanders, vvho in less than a year of their clo&s;e union, have don them more harm, than in many years of open vvar.</P>
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