A MEMORIAL Of His Excellency The Count D' Avaux, Ambassador Extraordinary from His Most Christian Majesty.  
Presented to the State's General of the United Provinces on the 29th of April, 1684.  
THE Count D' Avaux, Ambassador, or Extraordinary from the Most Christian King finds himself obliged, to satisfy the Orders he has received from the King his Master, to put your Lordships in mind, how that since Spain has declared War against France, and that His Majesty could in no wise dispense himself from Employing his Arms in the Lowcountries, in order to the bringing that Crown to prefer the Re-establishment of the Peace before the Continuation of the War, His Majesty was willing at the same time to use all the Facilities that could reasonably be expected from him, towards a speedy Accommodation. Your Lordship too hath effectually seen, by the Memorial which the said Count D' Avaux presented to your Lordships in the Month of February last: He has moreover offered to your Lordships on the behalf of His Majesty, all the Expedients the most capable of disposing the Spaniards to consent to this Truce, or at least to remove the War out of the Lowcountries; and there was so much the more appearance, that these Expedients would produce all the good Effect which His Majesty might promise himself from thence, and that they left you not any occasion of uneasiness for the Barriere, and gave you the time necessary for the prevailing with the Catholic King, to consent to the said Truce, or to any Accommodations heretofore proposed.  
Nevertheless the Intrigues and Solicitations of the Ministers of Spain, have still had such Power and Prevalency at the Hague, as not only to hinder your Lordships from Deliberating upon the late Offers of His Majesty, but also to take the Resolution of fortifying with all the Troops you had left, the refusal of the Spaniards; insomuch that it is at present in the power of those who Command the said Troops, to Engage by any Act of Hostility, all the United Provinces in a War against His Majesty, and to break for ever the good Correspondence which the Cities and Provinces, the most firm to the Ancient and true Maxims of the Commonwealth believe it still necessary to keep with France.  
This it is which determined His Majesty to departed forthwith, to put himself at the Head of his Arms, and to make his way to a Peace by force of Arms, after he had found all the means of Gentleness and Moderation ineffectual. But though His Majesty is entirely disengaged from the Offers he made, by the Expiration of the time he had fixed for the agreeing upon those matters; and that he well knows he might Attaque Places whose Conquest might be more easy, and of a greater advantage to his Crown, than that of Luxemburgh; yet he has resolved upon the Besieging of that Town, as well because it is entirely divided from all that aught to make up the Barriers of the Lowcountries; and that it may not give any just occasion of fear to those who take Interest therein, as because the Design which His Majesty has of making himself Master thereof, tends rather to facilitating the Peace and Safety of his own Subjects, than the incommoding those of the Catholic King, to whom this Place cannot be of any use: And moreover, His Majesty already possessing all the Countries which surrounds it, the Spaniards are only wedded to the keeping it, out of the hopes they have it will ever furnish them with the occasions of renewing the Wars, and with the means of doing more damage to France than any other in the Dominions of the Catholic King. Yet as His Majesty only makes War with Intention of Concluding Peace upon Reasonable Conditions, He declares by the said Count d' Avaux, that if before the 20th of the month of May next, the Governor of the Low-Countries, whether upon his own motion, or the request and solicitation of your Lordships, will effectually put into the power of His Majesty, the said City of Luxembourg, with 14 or 15 Villages and Hamlets which are of its Dependence; His Majesty will not only consent that the Cities of Dixmuyde, & Courtray, after His Majesty shall have caused their Walls, and Fortifications to be leviled, should be restored with their Dependencies to the Catholic King; but that he will also desist from the demand he made of forty Villages, which were severed by the Treaty of Nimeghen, from the Government of Tournay, and which have reunited to the Chasteleny of Aeth; And that he will only detain of all the Places he has possess't himself of, since the 20th of August last, that if Beaumond, with three or four Villages which remain of its Dependency; Bouvines, which has not any, and Chimay, with twelve, or fifteen Villages which depend thereon; so as by the means of this Reciprocal Cission, or Renunciation, namely, on the part of his Majesty, all the Rights, and Pretensions upon Alost, the old Borough of Gaunt, and other Places demanded by his Procurator General, at the Conferences at Courtray, and all he has possess't since the 20th day of August last, bating the said Places of Beaumond, Chimay, Bouvines, with the little which depend thereon; and on the behalf of the Catholic King, as well the said Places of Beaumond, Chimay, Bo●vines, and Dependencies; as the City of Luxemburg, and the Villages of its Provosty; the Peace may be Established, and all sorts of Occasions of Division removed, which might alter it in the future; Otherwise leaving France and Spain in the same state of Possession, in which they were at the raising of the Blockade of Luxembourg, without any pretention, being likely to be started on either part for any reason whatsoever. Thus his Majesty has reason to believe, that if your Lordships have no other prospect than the re-establishment of the Peace with the Conservation of the Barriers; or will oblige the Spaniards to guarrant themselves by the speedy acceptation of those last Offers of his Majesty, of all the Consequences of the War, which cannot be to their advantage; or if the Catholic King has no regard to their Remonstrances, His Majesty expects, that your Lordships will take such measures, as that your Troops may not come to any act of Hostility against his Majesty.  
But as the sincerity of his Intentions for the repose of Europe, has hitherto prompted him to open to you, the ways which may procure the Re-establishment of the peace; if you continue to neglect them, and to keep so little measures with him, as to suffer your Troops to act at the pleasure of the Spaniards; His Majesty declares to you at this present, that upon the first act of Hostility, they shall commit upon his Troops bating in the fortified places, belonging to the Catholic King, he shall think himself bound, (though with grief, and unwillingness) to give immediately Orders for the seizing on all the ships, Merchandises, and Effects, which shall appertain unto their subjects, and consider and treat you henceforward, as those who foment and maintain with all their forces, the stubbornness of the Spaniards, and who make War no less upon his Majesty, than his declared Enemies.  
This his Majesty has ordered the said Count d' Avaux, to make known unto your Lordships, and to demand of you a positive Resolution, at the farthest within fifteen days; which his Majesty will expect, in the Head of his Arms: Now declaring, that time being expired, he pretends to be neither tied to any of the Propositions, he has heretofore made, nor to those he makes at this present.  
Given at the Hague, on the 29th of April, 1684.   

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