ROLL A*CDS INGRATITUDE* Or, A SERIOUS EXPOSTULATION WITH THE DUTCH. Shewing their Ingratitude to this Na^ tion, and their inevitable Ruine, without a fpeedy Compliance and Submifsion TO HIS Sacred Majefty BRITAIN- % Charles Molloy of Lincolns Inn y Qz nt. LONDON: Printed by f. f. for Fr. K. at the Princes Arms in Cbmerj Lm. i66(. The Explanation of the Frontispiece. W Hat may this Emblem mean i A Cotv with Kings ?’ A Miter’d Prince ? Thefc are my (lerious things i Fed by a KING too, 0,1 have it now: Holland is reprefented by the Cotv. Engine's Great t Monarch gives this Bea[i its food, Which is the Ifiiie of a Vip'roue Brood. Intuitively view this belly d Creature f And you (hall finde it both in form and feature The Dutch Refemblance , and to come more near,, A Flemijh Free and both Calves do bear. See how her Neck (he doth extend to feed. Yet (damn’d Ingrate) would make her Feeder bleed. Her EfTence (he receiv’d from England , yee Ingrateful She doth now difowji that Debt. Grateful Acknowledgement this Beafi now fcorns, But drives to goar her (Maker with her horns. Nowfince tisfo (GREAT KING) Commiffiongive,', How long this bafe unthankful Beaft (hall live,. Her fides wit h fat ambitioufly do fwell? ’Tisonclyfeemingfat, She is not well s s he’s out of tune, her looks declare her lick Of Tumult, and Diforder,.Lunatick. She muft have Dotfors, and (he muft endure- Phlebotomising, toenjoya Cwe. Our KIN G’s the Balfm , and the Hellebore, That muft preferve our Int’reft , andreftore Hollands dead Stupor , to a juft quick fenee ; Both of Ingratitude and Reeompence. Hee’l teach Her both at once to feel, and know, Thefe two deep points? what She doth tvantmiw. He that enjoys the Danifb Regal Seat, — Holds by the Horns, who in a Bergen heat A3 pire* Pretends much friendship, and with Pitch and Tar, And her own Moneys, carries on the War. Denmark beware,left we hereafter Scoff; Her turn being ferv’d, She then will turn you off. Rather, fince (heel not bear her Sovcraigns yoak, Hold her Head fair for Englands fatal firea^. When by that blow She fills, we rauft conclude The judgement juft againft Ingratitude. Sit faft brave Den, fince Mounted, let her know Who was her after once, who muft be now. Spur to the quick,th\s Slow-pac’d Animal 5 Though She may wince or kick, thou canft not fall. Be bolder is thy own, fpare not her fide, Hold faft the Horns, thou maift command her Hide, Make her to bellow, if She will not own . Her juft Allegiance to the Spanijh Crown. Make known, the World's not come to that ftiangc pais, That the right Owner dares not Ride his Aft. Munfter ftick dofe, forth'own and CHARLES his fake, And leave her nor, till that her heart doth ake. Thou hitherto moft glorious things haft done ; Go on, and perfeft what theu haft begun What do my Eycsbcholdupon the Ground i The Cow's Clefe-fttelfan is the Gallick Crervn, That Princethzt fideswithaJJ<6e///V«< Stem, Is fure t'have Dirt thrownon his Diadem. By that he makes Home-fpun Rebellion fwell, And fo doth teach his Subjefts to Rebel. Laftly, you fee a Prince that ftrongly tuggs, And boldly fucks this Sullen Beaft’s rich duggs. Many attend her, and I hope concur ( n diftind Intercfts) to Ruine her. Great CHARLES and MunfttrmW conjoyn inone, To ft.are her Elefh } Let Lewis pick the lent. WORLDS WONDER, THEIR enemies terror, AND Noble Defenders of their KING, and Countreys Honor, BRITISITNATION* Dear Countrey-mca, jT may be in this conjuncture of fairs ■, you may thinkj have \Jaid too little, as things now ^/land between His Majefly of Britain , and the Flemings, trmly I could fay more y it being my duty to Vindicate my Countreys Honor and Intereft, as far asjuch high provocations , multiplied ' . _ \ by The Epiftle Dedicatory* by the weight of fo many Obligations , may juflly bear • yet have I been fo far from fet - ting Wounds bleeding afrejh, tfince I hope there is an Antidote making ready in Hol¬ land ) that I have labored {perhaps without thanks') to falve with as much gentlenefs as modefly could give me leave t tbe fad andfatal !Breaches • However, l (hallbe more ready to asl^pardon, than pjfend by being too cenfo* rtonSjOr violent again/} cm Enemy • for\ give me leave to tell you, I thinkwe live in an Age that cannot well be flattered by fine words, truth and the matter is that they J hope I have laid it down , arid that without gtlded Sentences. Accept them $ and weigh them juflly , for on my word they come from a faithful and loyal SubjeB to fiU Majejfy, CO fff?rifff?fff ¥f f $ f? f m* Hollands ingratitude T O C ^JESJR endured without exclamation the Sena¬ tors Poniards, as whetted by intereft or Revenge; ^ but when that of his own Imp Brutus was prelcn- tca againft him, he covered his face, leaving the world with no lefs fhame then indignation againft fo much un- naturall ingratitude. The like might we do in' relation to the Dutch. As to impute the fomenting ofa War now againft our Royal Soveraign : their bafe and barbarous dealings with us at both the Indyes againft our Factories and Trade; and their many nd horrible outrages com- mitted,as well on the Seas and other Ports in the World; as alfo at Amboyna , as at Cityny , to be onely the fame hand that aliifted the Enemy towards the lofs of 'Rachel , in one word only to the fordidnefs of their Eafi and Weft- Indy Companies, and other Merchants; who have not onely been known to fell Ammunition to the Turks and other Mahmetans , the very blafphemers of their Reli¬ gion, (— if they own any by retail) but even to his Ca- tholick Majefty, when he was bound in Honour no lefle then Intereft, to be their Enemy, In grofs. Neither had I ever wilhed the charming thofe Frogs, B but Agai»ft bis Ca- tholick. but that I lee them fo ready to become an Egyptian Plague, by croaking againft us in our own Waters , yet though mod of their Gentry were buried in the cruelty of fuch as formerly govern’d them, and all marks of Ho¬ nour almod blended amongftthero, inthofeof Frcfit ; they {hall find fo much civility in me, as to endeavour rather to bind up then inlarge the Rupture their indifcre- tion hath made with his Sacred Majetty ■> to whom 1 fhall inmodefty fhew how far they Hand obliged, and offer rcafons to difl’wade them from thofe wilde courfes, by which they do no lefs tickle the hearts of their Enemies with delight,then wound thofe with ftiameand fear who doaffeftrhcm. . Here then let me crave leave to addrefsmy Speech to this ungrateful Neighbour, and thus expofulate with him. After that France, tired with labour, the driving of her own Children had caufed in the Bowels of her State, and child by the cold didrufl conceived of Tour fuccefs, ' * haddeferted you in.defpair, 1. You may remember how England opened her ten¬ der Arms to receive your Fugitives, and her Vurfe to pay your Souldiers. So that a foot of ground cannot be called yours, that owes not a third part to the expence , Valour, or Counfel of theEw^jof whom fuch glorious fpirits have expired in your defence,as have been thought at too too mean a rate to double the value of what they fought for; Brave Sidney falling upon fuch ground as his glorious Midrefs thought too bafe and ignoble to bury him in; though you offered to purchafe that Honour, at the price of the richeft Mmment you were then able to ml „ Did a. Did not the Englifh difpute your Title at ofendfiW they had no earth to plead oa, the very ground failing them,before their Valours ? Yet whilft fighting there,not oncly agaitift the Flower of the SpaitjJh Army, but the TlagueJiungerj>x\& Cold difpaire; their fellowes put you in pofieliion of Since beyond your hopes. So as it may be Hid [without Hyperbole ; The Nobility and Gentry Queen Elizabeth loft,doubled the number, the Cruelty of Spaines great Vhilip had left you ? 3. Do not theMaritim Townes of Ke»f, Fjj'ex, Suffolk and Norfolk, .,&c. abound with the Iflue of thofe Swarms, the very found of their fellowes Calamities, and miferic® had driven out of their Hives? 4. Have you not had Liberty to Trade,and to become ixce Horizons, nay fo Gracioufly 'nave you been ufed by His Sacred Majefty, and his Royal Father, and by his new generous Parliament to admiration, witnefling but the A&sofNatuarallizingfomany ofyourfpawncin ia°. 13°.and 14 0 . of His now Mi jellies Reign with Pbwer to buy and purchafe Land in Fee Ample, Tale or otherwife in any of His Cities, or Countrycs, no mark of diftincti- on being impofed in relation either to Honour, profit,or Juftice ? 5. Has not His Sacred Majefty been alwayesfo Tender of his Royal word that he made with you before he left the Hague , and the Prefervation, whilft you needed it, and friendlhip,fincc God hathinabled you to fubfift,as he fcarcehad let foot on his Royal Throne here, before the fence of your fafety no lefle then His own Nature and Religion, Infpired him with an earneftnefs to renew or ftrengthen His Royal Alliance with you mot foobfervable in relped of any Neighbourdfefide, doubling lam fure, B 2 no noleflein their Retaliation, then acceptance, the poor and few marks of gratitude, have dropt from you $ Ra¬ ther expunging them, with your more frequent Injuries, as being more willing to impute your failings to the lefle Courtly nature of the Soyle and People, then the want of gratitude and Civility in fo prudent a State to fuch a Potent Neighbour as Iritaw, who nextto God may juft- ly be (filed her Maker, in difpenfing with fo many dangers and inconveniencies for your fake ? 6. Can you think fo wife a Counfel as this Nation was fteered by, did not apprehend 5 that though the making Outfit E- you free might fortifie the queers out works :, yet it cou ^ not but as much difmantle the Royal Fort of the Monarchy, by teaching Subje&s the way to Depofe their Spaniard. p r j nccS ^ anc j p, e no loofers by the Bargain,which (by the way) would haverendred you unacceptable to all neigh¬ bour Mcnarchs, for thereby you’d furnifh their Subjefts with a pretence upon all occasions of advantage to do the like? Was not theaflifling you, an occafion of our Invafion in eightly eight, by a Navy held invincible in the Creed of Rom , till the more glorious valours of tire EnghJ}), (af- fifted by the Lord of Hofis) had clearly confuted the Dover. Popes Title, even to the amazement of the Clifts , and Wonder of the World. The onely reafon then that kept Ring Thilip from heading a Royal Army in his own Per- fon, was fear he did apprehend of being caft in hispaflage out of Spain (as his Father Charles the fifth was) upon the Eritifi (hore, knowing the Englifh more cordial in your prefervation, then ever to fuffer him to come and go in peace, when he came on fo bloody an errand ? 7. And though he as a magnanimous Prince, andfo great great a Monarch as he was, yet he did often defire his sifter of England to hear his juft defence for his fo rigorous proceedings 5 She refufing to difpute the truth of your Complaints, prefuming it more probable for a ftranger to be a Tyrant, then that the natural Inhabitants fhould upon a fighter caufe, caft themfelves into the no leffe bloody, then fcorching flames of a .civil and uncertain War: She feeming rather to forget the Obligations She owed him, either as a private Perfon or Brother, when he was King of England , then her neighbours oppreffions. I (hall not here need dra w blood in your Faces by Appli¬ cation, your own confcience does it. 8. Were not your Meffengers received into England in the quality of Embafladors, they being then too modeft to own higher Tides then of P oor Petitioners, calling themfelves proftrate at the feet of no lefs ?otentTribunal 0 then what you were admitted to in the quality of Et»- baf adors but the other day, and the which you now fight againft? Ha! tell me,Was it notfuch an honour you could never have attained to, but through the clemency of a gracious Prince < Your own Meffengers at the very time, in the fame quality, but narrowly efcaped the Gallows, when they went with their own Petition to his Gatholicfi Majeftj. And did not his late Sacred Majefty, out. of Q(i( md( his Princely goodnefs, imbroider your Meffengers with Titlesumvorthy fuch ingratitude,as you afterward (hew- f ^ ed him and his againft your alliance then made and pro- felled > 9. Have not you opened your Arms to receive thofe into yout Counfels and Pay, that even the whole world does bluih at the reflexion of fo horrid an Aft 5 fuch is it,tnat at its Relation Tears fall on my Pen, as if it fhould fay, Thou Thou art not able to exprefs its blacknefs. Wherein Hol¬ land canft thou glory ?Not with colouring it with a char- ritable Protection ? O! no, for Cure I am that will vaile itfelf at the Relation of fo horrid a Villany; then what fatisfa&ion can you give the world,or fancy to your felves, when you ihow a Prefident how to protect the horridfl Regicide, that ever drew breath, fuchasare cul¬ pable of no lefs Crime then the Blood ofRings,Chriftian Kings 5 nayfuchaone as the world when living never could (nor though dead} beable to match; it was that glorious Prince, when living, that efpoufed you, as it were, into his Royal Family; it was he when your Em- bafladors were jeered, that out of the great Mafs of Hol¬ land , could not afford them felves Cuffs, could anfwer, It was never good world when States men tteh. notice of fitch irijks. -It was He that could part with his Royalty and Prerogative, and give you the honour and profit then to hill in his Seas, when otherwife you might have ftarved for Frill , It was He that gave you thofe many Priviledges that your own Cronolo- gers have ingraved to pofterity, yet have you been fo far from managing this Partiality or Charity, within the or¬ dinary careere of Prudent Princesfwho upon a lefsdefcr- tion of Fortune then was obferved, withdraw their affi- ftance from all parties, looked upon with an unbiafled A* fpe&)efpecially fuch who are not only Traytors to us, but alfo in State Policy to all Princes and States whatfoever. 10. Nay fee further your ingratitude, that no fooner providence had meafured out the Kingdom into Peace, by reftoring of us our Dread Sovereign unto his un¬ doubted Right, and-the very words of a firm Alliance and Amity ( concluded betwixt you and him) fcarce cold cold in his mouth 5 but what wonderful outrages you committed in our Ships and Merchants in almoft all places and Ports where you could either find or meet them,but efpecially there,where you found your felves able to tre¬ ble the Englifh power and (Length, who if equally but Man'd or Ship’t, would have reduced your Brandy cou¬ rages into that combuffion, which they fay that Wine bears, and that onely by its flames to behold your own Ruines Nay fuch was your Ingratitude, as if nothing were more indifferent to you, ihen who were happy y jo England were miferable. Nay after our good God had given their Royal HighneJjcs that Triumphant Conquejl over you, and difperfed that Invincible Fleet fas you thought^) of yours 5 and contrary to all expectation, broke your Swords , and knapt your Spears in funder , yet you then let your Ribald P en vomit out floods of Re¬ proaches •, inhope to involve us in a Civil U ar again, who was then in a flreng labour with a peace to An Angry and jujlly difpleafed Cod j yet blejfed be his Nat/te^ it was fuch a punifmcnt as the Man after his own heart chofe. Nor did you in all your horrid Libels, Pamphlets and Pictures forget any one thing that could be faid to his Sacred Ma- jeflies Court parliament and Kingdoms difparagement,the which with an impartial eye, would onely delineate your. own. No Indecency I am fire in any of them obfervable during their proceedings , that it not eafily to.be mated,with an Enormity of yours. , So as the Fhanaticks Ring-leaders, or.your Pilates in our Veffel by accident then, proved more His Majefties Friends and made better ufe of reafonof State. - For. . ( 3 ) For finding their Faction here was able to return them no more then a bare compliance of mock-God-Prayers, arid alfo finding that Prince of Wonder the Duke of Albemar¬ le was ready to give them the Reward of Tray tors and Rebels they did (aslhope you will) diffolve, and it may be returned to theirfirlt-Principal, the Devil: yet fuch was your ingratitude, that there was nothing want¬ ing towards the fomenting and ftirring up the fame. Now 1 have in part drawn Jo the knowledge of a!/, your In¬ gratitudes^ yet not one hundred part of what they are , and for their hainoujnefs deferve onely a Pen of Steel, to Record them in the wrinkled brow of time, there to remain to pojlerity. Give ir.e leave to expoltulate with you, for I in Con¬ science, and as an Englijh man, cannot but pay that duty which f in honour owe to this famous Nation, but ask who made you fo far our Surveyors, as to limit out the extent of their conveniences,that are found to have laid out themfelves to purchafe yours ? Was ever fo high an intrufion offered, as for a Neigh- to preferibe how another (hould be regulated in matter of Trade, and what Bottoms are fittelt to be imployed ? Would you not fcorn the like Ufurpation, though nude byyour-"-Fr^»ce, ornew fworn Ally Denmark, who for fo many years hath ground your faces with a Tole, never yet impofed upon you by our Rings in our Seas ? For the proof of whofe Propriety, I leave you to Learn¬ ed Selden, in his MARE CLAVsVM, and another ex¬ cellent Piece Entituled DOMINIVM MARIS , &c> Traoflated out of Italian by a Perfouof Honour. And And if you were not unwilling for thofe many years to come Healing, and bribing the Ufurpers fulong, for yourFilbing, why fliould you be fo touchy now, with fuch as inquire whether it was worth your Coflt ? And though I was pleafed to hear fo rich a Town as Aafier- dam could be founded on Herring-bones , The Lord of Holts is my taithfull witneis how'affii&ed Hhouldbeto fee it hazard the reducing into its firft Principle by a war with England. And thus much! underfhndof your Trade, that the late Ufurpers did aotondy give you the Fith but baits umpict to catch them, l,oaden by boats full out of the Thames y which they would never have done, had they been as foil of circumlpechon as that creature is reported to be of eyes. Now this conlidered pray why may not his Majelly aflutne to hiriifejf the rights of difpofure, and Regulating that which undoubtedly is his own, and why may not he take that undoubted Style of Lord of the Britifh Ocean} as well as you at 6«/«y,and the Indies, that drive with your Maker who (hall be mod High and Mighty. Ibere are threethingjprincipally infified upon,by which the United Provinces pretend to have fixed an Obligation upon England and expunged their former Score , which tnvcrtbdcjs upon an impartiall debate will rather frove wholly chargeable men their own account then 9*rs\ jo far are they from having given a julljatis- fa&ionftr all the LovejCofi^and BloHd 3 exptnded by us tnthetr pttf ervation. I. The firft jj the afiiftance lent us m Eighty Eight G which ( 1 °) which was no more then the profeft Antagonifts to the quiet of Italy, did freely contribute againft the common Enemy in the battle of Lepattto, who did there oppofe the Grand Signior in relation to their Refpeftive fafeties. Befides it was a true received maxiine in the wife Coun¬ fell of Spain and holds fo ftill $ That he that deftres to fubdue the United Provinces, tnujl jirfi Ctf^werEnglandjOr dr are her from thtir fuccour-, ' And finding the latter impotlible, they fell upon the the other as more feazible. 2. The fecund is your Entertainment given to thole paterns of wonder in differing, the didrefl'ed King and Queen of Bohemia, which according to the reft ot your pretended Curtefies unto England , you have drained far higher then the ftring is able to bear in its natural extent, therefore I (hall take leave to tune it right in the ears of all impartiall Judgements, and after fitting open the Ca¬ binet give men free leave to value the Jewel), which in truth amounts to no more then giving houfe room to a vertuous Prince undone by your Councell and the reft, of the union 3. For the third is your entertainment likewife which you gave his Sacred Majefty in his exile and thofe of his LoyalNobility & followers,that run the fame hazard with their dear Mafter in his afflictions,during the Ufurper$,tjie which truly was no more but houfe room, his true 5 ypu did it,but wherein could you be endangered by it,for by thatAft you had only Ihowed fomc part of your acknow¬ ledgements to the living branches, nay the very Images and children of thofe famous men that had foripeijy,ex¬ pired in your prefenatioD,but alfo purchafed that, from the Princes in the world, which,youcpu|4:;ncT?r h?re 00 done otherwife, An eternal love; fuch, tliat had not Al¬ mighty God made his Sacred Majefty a fecond Caufe in the fame, your own interefts could never have purchaf- ed die like * in one word, his Majefty, his Counfel, and tbofe of his Royal Trayn, were the beft Arrow in the Belgtck. Lyons Paw. 1 need not give the Reafons for what 1 fry, 1 fay I need not, for I am fare that there is fcarce a Man amongft you all but were the better' by it, ai.d you know it too too well ever to demand the fame, theictoie I Hull wave all that touches that matter. As for the bulinefs of Amboyna caft into the Ballance, vvhofe very Name, whilft Son and Moon fhall keep their courfe, or an Englif Spirit breath, can never be forgot or (I fear ) forgiven} yet Heaven knows my Soul, 1 (hall be fo far from opening the horrour of its Ad to the world, that 1 will clofe it with thefe few Lines, the which I vvilh you may truly follow. Q O Priam griev'd, when he t9o latt did find , k. ; 2 he Grecian Horje with Armed men was littd : So brave Agamemnon lookf with fad eyes, When he beheld his Daughters Sacrifice. So fight Achilles, when in farrow fent His loved Brices to Alcides Tent: Or, as that brave Thebeam Wife that mourn'd To fee her Hedors body rob'd. Intomb’d, Andre- Such for thof: Cruelties at Amboyna done ntacha, Sy your bacf fiends, may you for ever mourn , In fighs and fable tears , nay fuch that may * - ffajh clear your hands againjl worlds judging day . Ca For For my part really 1 doubt not, but that upon a more ferious refte&ion of your Wifdoms on your own Intereft, you will return to a more ftreight Alliance with his Ma- jefiy, by making juft latisfa&ion for what you and yours have moft ungratefully done to this Nation, unlefs that God in his anger hath fufferea you, to mingle Lethe with the reft of your Liquor. Nay further, give nae leave to tell you, that it is im- poffible for you to fubfift without contrafting a ftreight Alliance with us, and complying with his Majefties juft requefts, the which if not done, you’l find a Britans Courage within few months give Laws, and Command, that which you denyed Sir George Downing, upon fo many of his Majefties Gracious MelTages by him to you, the which you then asit were fcorn’d, but 1 believe fince have-paid foundly for that Ingratitude j but to return, I fay it is impoffible for you tofuolift without for Alliance. i. For firft you cannot truft Spain, or your new fworn Ally France, 'ihe one laying clame to what you pojjejs, the other to what yon are ambitions to obtain. Whereas England ftands free from all fuch pretences, Queen Eliz, ibeth refufing to hold you in grofs, and onely accepted of i'lnjhing and the Brill, the which King James was fo weary of,as he returned them.for a far lefs funs then they were pawned. a. Neither is his Majefty ambitious of any of your Dutch lands , becaufe he has more Marjh Lands already within His Dominions, then is well known,hpw to be dif- pofed of i, befides it were a madnefsfor any true Enghjh man who may live quietly in Ireland (which for torts § 0 yl and Plenty is inferior to no ijland in the whole world, to venture fighting for an Eftate in Holland 0, Is our Alliance likely to change if once firmly effa- iblilhed? whereas there is no longer hold with Ffvwcc.thcn whilft.tbe two Potent Factions of Frotejlant tkPapijt ihal fubfiff within her in peace} by the chilling of which^ or any other inland or foneign matter, they immediately will flag off', and fo leave you to be your own Guardians. Nay if you but go a little further, and thoroughly Scan your Alliance with France , you will find Toyfon at the bottom of their friendfliip, more danger then prote&ion, it having been alwayes the humour of that people to fvc ag¬ ger with their Neighbours for room , upon the leajl enjoy¬ ment of quiets being feldom or never able to jerve their Alliess but when they arein mrfe caje to help themfehes , Nay if you were but fallible of the happinefsof that condition you arein, and of the mojl fcorching Jlavery in the World that that famous Natiott now lies under by their Kings there me thinks Ihould terrifie you, who by fo many brave Conquefts joyntly with the Enghfts to the worlds amazement freed and redeemed you Irom the Spanifi Foak^s ihould now forfake them and clea' e to a French Mulhroome, who was ever accounted to fay one Jhing, write another, and mean another, nay admit them into your very Bowels, the which 1 fear will be too too late repented, when like a brood of Vipers you ffiall behold them gnawing their way through the' body of thekSuccqurer, whole life inevitably perilhes thereby.' For pray what can you build by his admittance ip- to your Gountrey of advantage ? O, he is to afiift you you againft the Prince of JUmjlerj is that it, well /e- ry good: but pray if fo, why muft there be no Iefs then fourfcore or a hundred thoufand men in Arms in and about you : Thanks be to God, it is none of EngUnds fmalleft bleffings that they are not able to come hit «er on Horfe-back, and you very well know the French Pro¬ verb, Never Peace at home, unlefs they beat War with o- ther states: Holland is rich and good plunder, therefore look to it •, in ons word, you have good ftore of Ships, and they have good ftore of Men, which I believe you want 5 and you had btft do with them as the Englijh Nobility did William five Conqueror, invite him for fuc- cour, and he proved their Murderer, and then Crown’d himfelf} which was but the French Proverd verified, Sajlon porte paix qttand & fey. The Sword or Club where ere it comes it brings Lawswith it. Laftly,The French are not fo futable to your Humours as the Englijh, who look upon Merchants as Gentlemen, they as Pedlers , in one word, you have only a friend at a Sneeze, the which, in plain Engljjb, is onely Cod help 1 know you are too wife to expeft real friendfhip from Spain , or a continuance of your never to be broken a- 4 "cement made with his Catholic ^ Majejly , if you con¬ tinue as you have begun with Vs. It not being likely he (hould overfee, the advantage will be offered him, of catching of Gudgeons in your Inland Waters , whilft we are out at Sea feuffling for Sprats. If you be prohibited Trading hither but one year Ion- 4, r, I wonder what the Devil will become with the ' French Wines, the mjt ftaple Comodity they have to bar¬ ter in burnt Wines. Monarcbs neither do, nor can look upon you under a milder afpe&then Trajtors , without a Tacit confent of the like Power refident in their People explode them, as confciant of giving the fame caufe jwhereas England does and ever did efteem you in a more Honourable Relation and Intereft , For though you like the Dial of Ahai re- coylcd fo many Degrees back in the Sphear of Toltcj y it is naturally more proper for that hand, and that Power which firft made you a Free State to be touched with' at) Inclination ever to maintain that Honour and Intereft, which the blood of fo many of their Brave Country-men, has expired in the fetting of it up. Experience the true Telititian has made it apparrent how advantageous an Englifb Confederacy and Alliance hath been alwayes to you : For if you confider how Honourable it would be to Spaing who hath long en¬ deavoured it. And convenient to France in regard of her claim to Artojs Si Hannanlt , to convert you into a Colony you would not be fo intent upon Profit as to encroaeh the very whole Trade in the world out of your (under God) Makers mouths as you now do, for 1 know your Wifdomsdoknowit isefteemed by all prudent Nations far inferiour to Safety. - As for your Alliance with £>«#•? mark^ truely that islikclter to ad number then weight to friendftiip,being lyable to bewhiftled off,or 0 $ according to the Inclination of HU Imperial Majtfy fo twifted in marriage* (i6) marriages with the Cathohke King, with whom His Majelty has made a firm Alliance } that the difficulty is as great to diltinguifh between their Intereftsas CenfangH* nitjr: and it may be, he may find his Country too hot tc hold himjif his Neighbour the Swede does but think they have got any thing Rich fiace 4657. Befides thofe E after* Countries have been ever looked upon, not onely as a Store-houfe , wherein God heard* up the miferies of the Winter , but alfo the Cruel Flagues of Incurfons $ appa¬ rent intheO?fliA/ and Vandals , whofe bamarous hands affifted Time, in the deftru&ion of fuch Monuments in as (he alone amongil hcrfleroes, Pompey and C