A Compleat collection of papers in twelve parts relating to the great revolutions in England and Scotland from the time of the seven bishops petitioning K. James II. against the dispensing power, June 8. 1688. to the coronation of King William and Queen Mary, April 11. 1689.

The Emperor of Germany's Account of K. James's Misgovernment in joining with the King of France, (the Com∣mon Enemy of Christendom) in his Letter to King James. viz.

LEOPOLD, &c.

WE have received your Majesties Letters, dated from St. Germans the sixth of February last, by the Earl of Carlingford, your Envoy in our Court: By them we have understood the Condition your Majesty is reduced to; and that you being deserted after the landing of the Prince of Orange, by your Army, and even by your Do∣mestick Servants, and by those you most confided in, and almost by all your Subjects, you have been forced by a sudden Flight to provide for your own safety, and to seek Shelter and Protection in France: Lastly, that you desire Assistance from us for the recovering your Kingdoms. We do assure your Majesty, that as soon as we heard of this severe turn of Affairs, we were moved at it, not only with the common sense of Humanity, but with much deeper Impressions sui∣table to the sincere Affection which we have always born to you. And we were heartily sorry that at last that was come to pass, which (though we hoped for better things) yet our own sad thoughts had suggested to us would ensue. If your Majesty had rather given Credit to the Friendly Remonstran∣ces that were made you, by our late Envoy, the Count de Kaunitz, in our Name, than the deceitful Insinuations of the French, whose chief aim was, by fomenting continual Di∣visions

between you and your People, to gain ther••by an Op∣portunity to insult the more securely over the rest of Chri∣stendom. And if your Majesty had put a stop, by your Force and Authority, to their many Infractions of the Peace, of which by the Treaty at Nimegen you are made the Guarantee, and to that end entred into Consultations with us, and such others as have the like just Sentiments in this matter; We are verily perswaded that by this means you should have in a great measure quieted the Minds of your People, which were so much exasperated through their aversion to our Religion, and the publick Peace had been preserved as well in your Kingdoms as here in the Roman Empire. But now we refer it even to your Majesty, to judg what condition we can be in to afford you any Assistance, we being not only engaged in a War with the Turks, but finding our selves at the same time unjustly and barbarously Attacked by the Freneh, con∣trary to, and against the Faith of Treaties, they then reckon∣ing themselves secure of England. And this ought not to be concealed; that the greatest Injuries which have been done to our Religion have flowed from no other than the French them∣selves; who not only esteem it lawful for them, to make Prefidious Leagues with the sworn Enemies of the Holy Cross, tending to the destruction both of us and of the whole Chri∣stian World, in order to the checking our Endeavours which were undertaken for the Glory of God, and to stop those Successes which it hath pleased Almighty God to give us hitherto; but further have heaped one Treachery upon another, even within the Empire it self. The Cities of the Empire which were surrendered upon Articles, signed by the Dolphin himself, have been exhausted by excessive Impositions; and after their being exhausted have been Plund∣ered, and after Plundering have been burned and razed. The Palaces of Princes, whi••h in all times, and even in the most destructive Wars, have been preserved, are now burnt down to the Ground. The Churches are robbed, and such as sub∣mitted themselves to them, are in a most Barbarous manner, carried away as Slaves. In short, it is become a Diversion to them to commit all manner of insolences and Cruelties in many places, but chiefly in Catholick Countries, exceeding the

Cruelties of the Turks themselves: which having imposed an absolute necessity upon us to secure our selves and the Holy Roman Empire, by the best means we can think on, and that no less against them than against the Turks; We promise our selves from your justice ready assent to this, That it ought not to be imputed to us, if we endeavour to procure, by a just War, that security to our selves which we could not hitherto obtain by so many Treaties; and that in order to the obtain∣ing thereof, We take measures for our mutual Defence and Preservation, with all those who are equally concerned in the same Design with us. It remains that we beg of God that he would direct all things to his Glory, and that he would grant your Majesty true and solid Comforts under this your great Ca∣lamity; we embrace you with tender Affections of a Brother.

At Vienna the 9th of April 1689.