The speech of the President de la Tour, envoy extraordinary from His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy to His Majesty at his first publick audience Novemb. 2, 1690.

The speech of the President de la Tour, envoy extraordinary from His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy to His Majesty at his first publick audience Novemb. 2, 1690.

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THE SPEECH OF THE Preſident de la Tour, Envoy Extraordinary from his ROYAL HIGHNESS the Duke of SAVOY, To His MAJESTY, At his Firſt Publick Audience, Novemb. 2. 1690.

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THE SPEECH OF THE Preſident de la Tour, Envoy Extraordinary from his ROYAL HIGHNESS the Duke of SAVOY, To His MAJESTY, At his Firſt Publick Audience, Novemb. 2. 1690.

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Publiſhed by Authority.

SIR,

HIS Royal Highneſs my Maſter does by me Congratulate Your Sacred Majeſties Glorious Acceſſion to the Crown; It was due to Your Birth; deſerved by Your Vertue, and is Gloriouſly maintain'd by Your Valour: Providence had deſign'd it for Your Sacred Head, for the Accompliſhment of its Eternal Decrees, which after a long Patience, do always tend to raiſe up choſen Souls to repreſs Violence, and protect Juſtice. The Wonderful Beginnings of Your Reign, are moſt certain Preſages of the Bleſſings which Heaven prepares for the Uprightneſs of Your Intentions; which have no other Scope than to reſtore this flouriſhing Kingdom to its Greatneſs and break the Chains which Europe groans under, This Magnanimous Deſign, worthy of the Hero of our Age, fill'd his R. H. at firſt with inexpreſſible Joy; but he was conſtrained to conceal it in the ſecret of his Heart: and if at laſt he has been free to owne it, he is oblig'd to the very Name of Your Majeſty for it, ſince that alone has made him conceive ſome hopes of Liberty, after ſo many years of Servitude.

My Words, nor the Treaty which I have Sign'd at the Hague with Your Majeſties Miniſter, do Expreſs but weakly the Paſſion which my Maſter has to unite himſelf by the moſt inviolable Ties to Your Service. The Honour, SIR, which he has to belong to You by his Birth, has tyed the firſt Knots of this Union; the infinite Reſpect which he has for Your Sacred Perſon, has, as it were, knitted them faſter, and the generous Protection which You are pleaſed to Grant him, will without doubt, make them Indiſſoluble. Theſe are the ſincere Sentiments of His Royal Highneſs, to which I dare not add, any thing of mine; for how ardent ſo ever my Zeal may be, and how profound the Veneration which I bear to Your Glorious Atchievements; I think, I cannot better Expreſs, either than by a Silence full of Admiration.

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Edinburgh, Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderſon Printer to Their Majeſties, 1690.

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The speech of the President de la Tour, envoy extraordinary from His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy to His Majesty at his first publick audience Novemb. 2, 1690.

La Tour, Filliberto Sallier de.

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1690

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