XVI. BOOK heretofore known; yet he allowed himself the more time, that he might in his compass see those parts 1659. of France where he had never been before, and indeed give himself all the pleasure and divertisement, that such a journey would admit of. To that purpose he appointed the earl of Bristol to be the guide; who knew most of France, at least more than any body else did; and who always delighted to go out of the way; and Daniel O'Neile to take care that they always fared well in their lodgings ; for which province no man was fitter. Thus they He goes by wheeled about by Lyons into Languedoc, and were Languedoc; so well pleased with the varieties in the journey, that they not enough remembered the end of it, taking their information of the progress in the treaty from the intelligence they met with in the Lyons into and so on ward. An account of the close of that way. When they came near Toulouse, they found that the French court was there, which they purposely designed to decline. However the king, going himself a nearer way, sent the marquis of Ormond thither, to inform himself of the true state of the treaty, and to meet his majesty again at a place appointed, that was the direct way to Fuentarabia. The marquis went alone without a servant, that be might be the less suspected; and when he came to Toulouse, he was informed from the common discourse of the court, that the treaty was upon the matter concluded, and that the cardinal was expected there within less than a week. It was very true, all matters of difficulty were over in less time than was conceived possible, both parties y they purposely designed] they were obliged XVI. treaty in the diffi prince of equally desiring the marriage, which could never be BOOK without the peace. The cardinal, who had much the advantage over don Lewis in all the faculties 1659. necessary for a treaty, excepting probity and punc- respect of tuality in observing what he promised, had used all culties concerning the arts imaginable to induce don Lewis to yield Portugal both in the point of Portugal, and what related to and the the prince of Condé, and his party. He enlarged Condé. upon "the desperate estate in which Flanders was; "and that they could possess themselves entirely of "it in one campaign; and therefore it might easily “be concluded, that nothing but the queen's abso"lute authority could in such a conjuncture have disposed the king to a treaty; and, he hoped, that "she should not be so ill requited, as to be obliged "to break the treaty, or to oblige the king her son "to consent to what was indispensably against his "honour that if he should recede from the interest "of Portugal, no prince or state would hereafter "enter into alliance with him: that though they "were bound to insist to have Portugal included in "the peace, yet he would be contented that a long "truce might be made, and all acts of hostility for"borne for a good number of years, which, he said, 66 66 was necessary for Spain, that they might recover "the fatigue of the long war they had sustained, "before they entered into a new one if they would "not consent to that, then that Portugal should be "left out of the peace, and Spain at liberty to prosecute the war, and France at the same time to "assist Portugal, which, he said, in respect of the "distance, they should never be able to administer "in such a proportion as would be able to preserve "it from their conquest;" not without insinuation, XVI. 1659. 66 66 BOOK that, so they might not renounce the promise they had made, they would not be over solicitous to perform it. As to the prince of Condé, that the "catholic king was now to look upon France as the "dominion of his son in law, and to be inherited by "his grandson, and therefore he would consider "what peril it might bring to both, if the prince of "Condé were restored to his greatness in that king"dom, who only could disturb the peace of it, and "whose ambition was so restless, that they could no 66 longer enjoy peace, than whilst he was not in a "condition to interrupt it." The cardinal told him, in confidence, of several indignities offered by the prince of Condé to the person of the queen, of which her brother ought to be very sensible, and which would absolve him from any engagement he had entered into with that prince; which he would never have done, if his majesty had been fully informed of those rude transgressions. And therefore he besought don Lewis, "that the joy and triumph, "which the king and the queen would be possessed "of by this peace and marriage, might not be clouded, and even rendered disconsolate, by their being bound to behold a man in their presence, "who had so often, and with so much damage and 66 66 66 disdain, affronted them both; but that the peace "of France might be secured by that prince's being "for ever restrained from living in it; which being 66 provided for, whatsoever his catholic majesty "should require in ready money, or pensions, to "enable the prince to live in his just splendour "abroad, should be consented to." Don Lewis de Haro was a man of great temper, of a sallow complexion, hypochondriac, and never XVI. 1659. weary of hearing; thought well of what he was to BOOK say; what he wanted in acuteness he made up in wariness, and though he might omit the saying somewhat he had a good occasion to say, he never said any thing of which he had occasion to repent. He had a good judgment and understanding, and as he was without any talent of rhetoric, so he was very well able to defend himself from it. He told the cardinal, "that he knew well his master's affairs "needed a peace with France; and that the accom"plishing this marriage was the only way to attain "it: that the marriage was the best and the most "honourable in Christendom, and ought to be equally desired on both sides; that his catholic majesty was sensible of his own age, and the in"firmities which attended it; and desired nothing more than that, before his death, he might see "this peace and this marriage finished, and made 66 66 66 perfect; and that he was well content to purchase "the former at any price, but of his honour; which "was the only thing he preferred even before peace: "that for Portugal, the groundless rebellion there "was so well known to all the world, that he should "not go to his grave in peace, if he should do any thing which might look like a countenance, or "concession to that title, that was only founded upon treason and rebellion; or if he should omit "the doing any thing that might, with God's bless 66 66 66 66 ing, of which he could not doubt, reduce that kingdom to their duty, and his obedience: that his resolution was, as soon as this peace should be concluded, to apply all the force and all the trea"sure of his dominions, to the invasion of Portugal; which, he hoped, would be sufficient speedily to 66 66 XVI. 1659. 66 66 66 BOOK "subdue it; and was a great part of the fruit he promised himself from this peace; and therefore he would never permit any thing to be concluded "in it, that might leave France at liberty to assist "that war: that the catholic king had done all he could, both by don Antonio Pimentel and mon"sieur de Lyonne, that his most Christian majesty might know his unalterable resolution in the point "of Portugal, and with reference to the prince of "Condé, before he consented to treat; and that he "would never depart from what he had declared in "either: that he had made a treaty with the prince " of Condé; by which he had engaged himself never "to desert his interest, nor to make a peace without providing for his full restitution and reparation, "and of those who had run his fortune, and put "themselves under his protection: that the prince "had performed all he had undertaken to do, and "had rendered very great service to his catholic majesty; who would not only rather lose Flanders, but his crown likewise, than fail in any par"ticular which he was bound to make good to the "prince:" and therefore he desired the cardinal "to 66 66 66 66 acquiesce in both these particulars, from which he "should not recede in a tittle; in others, he would "not have the same obstinacy." When the cardinal found that all his art and crafty eloquence were lost upon don Lewis's want of politeness; and that he could not bend him in the least degree in either of these important particulars, he resolved they should pay otherwise for their idol honour and punctuality; and after he had |