The Last Resolution of the Most Christian King, IN Relation to a General PEACE; and the present Misserable Estate of HUNGARIA and the EMPIRE: Contained in a Memorial Given in, unto the ESTATES of the EMPIRE Assembled at RATISBONNE The 26th of July 1683. By the Count of CRECY Plenipotentiary there from his said Christain Majesty.  
Translated from the French Printed Copy by a sure Hand, and reprinted at London by G. C. Anno Dom. 1683.  
THE Count of Crecy Plenipotentiary for the most Christian King at the Diet of Ratisbonne, answering by his Majesty's Order to the Proposition that was made him the 11th of July, in the Name of the Imperial Commission and in the behalf of the Emperor, by Monsieur his Commissioner, finds himself Obliged to avouch that his Majesty having received almost at the same time, the Proposal and Writing, which had been communicated to this Diet by the Dictatorship, the Fourth of this Month, under the Name of the Commission Imperial, has extremely admired at the variance, and almost incompatible Contradiction of the two Writings, which he has been very much troubled to apprehend, that being so near so great misfortuns wherewith the Emperor's Estates have been threatened for this long while since, and with which they are already at the point of being overwhelmed as the Proposal of Monsieur the Commissary alleges, the Emperor's Ministers should by a Writing so far distant from all Accommodation as is the Decree of the Imperial Commission, bring into dispute all that has been for so long time transacted in the Conferences at Nimmengen, resume the same Difficulties which they have been Obliged to abandon, and which have been determined after a method the most , that could be observed among Sovereign Princes; think to make it appear, that they did his Majesty a favour in not demanding Damages while they despoyl him of all that he possesses by virtue of the Treaties of Munster and Nimmengen, and openly demonstrate a Design to kindle a new War in the Empire, instead of managing their Affairs to the best advantage, and reuniting their Forces against the Infidels.  
In a word, ought it not to seem very strange, that in one of these two Writings that appeared almost at one and the same time, there should be an acknowledgement of standing in a Pressing and most indispensable necessity of the speedy Assistance of the Princes and Estates of the Empire against the Inundation of the Ottoman Arms, and that in the other there should be nothing of argument left-forgotten to retain and Employ in the very Heart of the Empire, all the Forces of the same Princes and the same Estates, and to set them by the Ears one against the other?  
It is an Easy thing to make a judgement of this so surprising Variety; For that we cannot attribute the Confession which Monsieur the Commissary makes in his Proposal, of the Extremity to which the Emperor's Affairs are reduced, but to the always too Faithful and too sincere Providence of a pressing necessity; and the haughty menaces of the Decree of the Imperial Commission, but to the Humour of the Spanish Ministers, who inspire them, and the Entire Devotion which the Emperor's Minister's are Obliged to have for a Foreign and distant Nation, which never lays to Heart the loss of Hungary nor the Calamities of Germany, and which would have the continual Sacrifice which they make of the Interests of Germany to be looked upon as a mark of its Grandeur and Puissance. But though upon consideration only in its self of the Proposal which Monsieur the Commissioner had in charge to make, there is no Person who may not see how little of reason it contains, and how little it is to be regarded. Nevertheless as his Majesty is resolved not to let any opportunity pass of giving the Estates of the Empire the marks of his good Intentions, he would have the● also call to mind, that it is now some Eight Months ago, when overseeing well, that the Court of Vienna's abandoning themselves to the Counsels of Spain would draw upon it all those misfortunes, wherewith Hungary is at present afflicted, he applied for remedy all those condescensions which in reason might be expected from him to reconcile his Differences with the Empire. 'Tis well known, that he was at the beginning willing to have reduced all his pretensions to the only Possession of what he enjoyed the First of August, 1681. And that of Strasburgh and its dependencies on this side the Rhine. And that he Offered to renounce expressly all his other pretensions, what ever Titles he had or might recover for the time to come.  
It is also to be observed, that since the expiration of the time which he had given for the acceptance of his Offers, he would not take any advantage of the ill Condition of the Affairs of the Empire, and the Easy Opportunity which he had to enter Germany (had it been no more than the suffrages of the Electors, and other well affected Princes) and to remove those Oppositions which others made to the Establishment of Peace.  
His Majesty had reason to promise to himself, that after the Electoral College had concluded, that there could be nothing determined upon more advantageous for the welfare and Security of the Empire, than a speedy accommodation with his Majesty, even upon the Terms which he had proposed, therefore that the Court of Vienna would so much the sooner conform to the judgement of so many Electors and Princes, so providently prudent and Zealous for their Country, that while he acted nothing contrary to the good will and liking of the most Interested, he should thereby Reunite the whole Empire in the defence of the Territories and Estates which belong to it. Nevertheless that Court wholly Governed by the Counsels of the Spaniards, and preferring them before the Electors and Princes of the Empire, has rather chosen to leave part of his Forces in the Empire, to satisfy the Fantastical humours of Spain, then receive the Offers which several Electors and Princes made him of their Forces for his own Defence; and to neglect the care of his Frontiers next to the Turks, than desist from that design which he had of declaring War against his Majesty Upon this prospect it is, that that Court has always laboured, by the Credit which it has with several Princes, and by certain Intrigues, which are but too well known, to prevent the Concurrence of those Princes to the Establishment of the Peace, and has also been at greater expenses in Negotiations to all the Princes of Europe, to engage them in Leagues with that Court against France, then in Warlike Ammunitions and Preparations to put his Armies and Fortresses in a condition to make a just and vigorous Resistance, when they should be Assailed.  
In regard therefore that his Majesty has so many proofs of the Evil Intentions of the Imperial Ministers, and that he is well assured, that that Court shall no sooner have patched up a Dishonourable Peace with the Turks, which it has been a long time labouring to accomplish, and which perhaps, it might more easily have obtained, if the meanness of the Offers had not caused the Infidels to conceive greater hopes of winning far more considerable advantages by Force, but that they will pursue their Enmity against France; His Majesty should be wanting, according to all the rules of prudence in what he owes to his Allies, as also to the welfare of his Crown, If he should enter into any Engagement with the Emperor, as he proposes; rather he Declares the contrary, and that he will reserve to himself the same Liberty which he has hitherto adhered to, to take such measures as shall be most agreeable to the Justice of his Rights, and his Obligations to his Allies.  
But yet to let all Europe see how highly his Generosity is sensible of the Deplorable Condition, into which the vast Projects of the Court of Vienna, have reduced the Affairs of Christendom, and to the end he may contribute as much as lies in him, as well toward an Establishment of a good correspondence with the Empire, as also to Reunite all the Dominions that compose it, for the Public Defence, his Majesty Declares, that he will not only upon this consideration forgo all his damages which of right he may lay claim to, for all his Extraordinary Expenses which the Leagues framed against him by the Intrigues of the House of Austria, have Obliged him to disburse, and to content himself with the same Conditions formerly offered; But also, because he will not give the Princes and Estates of the Empire any cause to disquiet themselves, he is contented to agree to a Truce of Thirty years upon the same Conditions which have been proposed on his part for a definitive accommodation, during which time there may be Opportunity sufficient, peaceably to find out the means of bringing it to pass.  
But in regard his Majesty is resolved not to be long delayed in uncertainty, he has given Order to the Count of Crecy to Declare in his behalf, that he revokes from henceforth all the Offers which he made for the welfare and Advantage of Christendom, if they are not accepted by the Estates of the Empire, and the Treaty be not concluded and Signed by the End of August next: And to Declare that all the Miseries that shall afflict Christendom for the future shall be imputed only to those that refuse Offers so advantageous to the Empire.  
Given at Ratisbonne, July the 26th 1683. The Count of CRECY.  
FINIS.   

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