Discourses on Davila. NO. XXIII. — COKTIKtiB. Uti Unique regem, fua multitudo conialutavcraf. THE regent ancl the Cohllable, matters of the person and authority of the King, held the balance in the middle. The Conitable was in deed much opposed to Calvinism, and attached to the Catholic religion ; his af fection for his nephews, and the love of peace, induced liini to consent to make use of manage ment in matters of religion, until the Kingfhould arrive afhis majority. But to corroborate more and more;, the authority of the young monarch, though a minor, those who held the reins of go vernment thought proper to conducft him to Reims, where they prelerve with veneration, ths Phial which a pigeon brought down f> oni heaven,full of holy id, with which Clovis was anointed and con secrated. During the ceremony of consecration, there arose a new contest concerning precedency, be tween the Princes of the blood and the Duke of Cttije. The former j>retende4 that it was due to their birth. The Duke on his llde demanded it, as firft peer ofFrance. The council'pf State de cided it in favor of the Duke of Guise, because the presence of the peers ofFrance, who are twelve in number, fixeccleflaftical and fix laical, was ceflary in this ceremony ; whereas, the Princes of the blood, who have 110 function to discharge in it, may dispense with their attendance. This light fpaik served to inkindle and embitter more and more, the spirits of all parties. The Admi ral and Prince of Conde had set every machine in motion todraw in the Conftableto theirintereft : They were powerfully seconded by the Marshal of Montmorenci, his eldest son, who was Itricftly connected with them. The Constable, always firm in his resolutions, could not determine to dishonor his old age, by placing himfelf at the head of a party, nor by leagueing himfelf with those whom he thought new enemies of religion. The Admiral, always fruitful in resources and expedients, imagined one at this time, calculated ta bring the Conitable into their views, by ways more indirect. There was then held at Pontoife, an aflembly of some deputies of the Provinces, to deliberate upon the means of acquitting the iin menfe debts, which the crown had contra>fled in the last wars. The Marihal of Montmorenci pre fitled in it. There were also some friends of the Admiral. He made use of them, to bring upon the carpet, whatever he thought proper. The Coiigtiies and the Prince of Condi, there demanded, by the organ of their confidents, that tlieyfhould oblige all those who had received benefits orgra tifications, from the Kings Francis Ift and Henry lid, to report them to the royal treasury, pre tending, that a calculation being made, without inipofing new burthens, they might, extinguish the greatelt part of the debt, which both within and without the kingdom, cruflied the state and individuals. Those who liacl received the greatest benefac tions from the late Kings, were tlie Guises, Diana of Valentijiois, the Marshal Saint Andre, and the Constable. They were desirous indeed of hum bling the former : but as to the latter, they meant only to inspire him with fears and jealouiies, and to force him to join the party of the Piinces; that he might not expose liiinfelf to lose the fruit offo many years of services and toils. The ani rnofity of faction was so lively, that the Colignics were not afraid to excite in their uncle those cha grins, and inquietusles. But this ltep had the ordinary fortune of deligns too subtle and too re fined. It produced an efFect directly contrary to that which was intended. The proposition a mounted to nothing less, than to take away from the Constable and the Guises, the greatest part of their property. Diana, of Valentinois, with whom boih parties had formed alliances, began to fecondthe Constable, concerningthis research, which interested them equally. She concerted her plan with art, or a kind of prudence, which is not uncommon in women of her character ; her aversion for the Queen, and her fears of loftng all the gains of her trade, made her think that the true means of her fafety,would be to allure the Constable into the party of the Catholic religion, and a closer connection with the Guises. She launched out into inve<ftives against the Admiral and the Prince of Conde, whom ihe considered as the authors of the proposition made at the afiem bly atPontoife ; Ihe deplored the miferiesof the state, whose government, in the hands of a child and a foreign woman, was the instrument of per nicious councils, to foment the ambition andgra tify the paflions of certain individuals, to whom were facrificed the fafety and tranquility of the kingdom ; into which they introduced, without lhame, Heresies condemned by the Church, and against which the late Kings, with just severity, had employed fire and sword. She added, with the fame-vivacity, and sincerity, that all France was aftoniflied and enraged, to fee, that a Mailt morenci, whose house had been the firft of the whole nation to embrace Christianity ; that a man, who for so long a time had filled the firft office in tlie state, ihonld atprefent allow hu.ifelf to be faf'cinated by the artifices of a wo;man , that, a slave to her caprices, and to the ""P. information of the King of Navarre, fie co,lfe " e ed to ali their enterpnzes again!* religion, reinonftrated to the Con (table, that laving arms and the power in his hands, he was penfibly obliged to oppose the dd g of governm enr, and to watch Itill, as he so many times before, over the confervanon ofa tottering throne, and a religion wholly forfaken. She recalled to his recollection thaf ancient con dud; which had procured him so much glory, in oppolino- the aggrandizement of grangers, biie flared him that he would not fufFer two women, one all Italian, the other of Navarre, to ruin t »e principal foundations of the French Monarchy, that is to fay, religion and piety ; to remember that the regent was the fame Catharine, whole conduct he had always censured, and whose cha racter he detested ; that the Hugonots werethofe fame feftaries, whom he h'ad so eagerly perfect ed under Henry lid j that neither the persons nor the nature of things were changed ; whole world would believe, that enfeebled by age, he let himfelf be guided, either by the ambi tion or caprice of others, since he appeared so different from what he had been. Such was the language of Diana, and who so propel" as an har lot, tp prostitute religion to the purposes of am "■bition, avarice, and faction. The only wonder is, that these discourses of the Dutchefs, which ftie took care frequently to repeat, began to make an impreflion on the Constable. Sometimes an indignation against his nephews, sometimes the apprehensions oflofing his fortune,and sometimes his hatred against Calvinism, so disposed him to listen to the Dutchefs, that at length her insinu ations, together with those of Magdalen of Savoy, his wife, succeeded to detach him from the party of the Queen. This Magdalen saw with vexation the unbounded favors granted to the Goligiiiss, which ihe wished might he confered on her bro ther Honore, of Savoy, Marquis of Villars. Thus her jealonfy negletfied nothing to serve the latter, and to hurt the nephews of her husband. Diana also, engaged the Marfhaldc Saint Andre to second her in this negotiation. The fear of losing his fortune, the violent hatred which he conceived against the Colignies, and the plausible pretext of prefervingtlie Catholic faith, urged him to em ploy his influence with the Constable in favor of the Crutfcs ; who, as soon as they were informed of it, omitted neither artifices, fubmiflions nor in trigues, to compleat the conquest ; hoping by this means to re-establish their power, or at least to recover a great part of it. The Marshal of Mont morenci was theonly one who could croft this ne gotiation. But Diana, his wife, having fallen sick at Chantilly, he was obliged to leave his fa ther, to attend her. The Guift.<, difembarrafled of this obftaclt, put tbe last hand to their agree ment with the Constable, for the preservation of the Catholic religion and the mutual defence of their fortunes. (To be continued.) TREASURY DEPARTMENT, *) Oiiobcr 14, I 790. 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