Memoirs of Maximilian De Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minster to Henry the Great, Vol 6 of 6 Containing the History of the Life and Reign of That the French, to Which Is Added, the Tryal of

Excerpt from Memoirs of Maximilian De Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minster to Henry the Great, Vol. 6 of 6: Containing the History of the Life and Reign of That Monarch, and His Own Administration Under Him; Translated From the French, to Which Is Added, the Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great

Ontinuation of' the memoirs of 16m, The mice why the princes, grandees, and minifim, hated Sully t he oppsl'es the unjult proceedings of the council refufm to fign a eomptant at the queen's requel'c. (barrels in full courteil with the duke of Bouillon. Difputes in the court and council. Coronation of Lewis XIII. Sully goes to Montreal, and is taken ill theres lesions for the queen regent and the minifiers recalling him the se uptloh given him by this princel's, who afterwards takes past with Conchini and the minifiers againfi him. His nemlution in oppofing the naioti demands of the grandees, and the diliipation of the royal treatises: the uneafinefs he fufi'ers on this cation. He quarrels with Villeroi and d'a lincourt in full council. The princes, lords, and minillers, enter into a cemfederacy againfi him. He takes a refolution to retire for ever from court different o'pinions concerning his retreat. Sully refigns the fuperintendance o the finances, the government of the Bafiile, Bee. The prudent advice which he gives his fecretaries their obligations to him. He prevents the artifices of his enemies to ruin him 3 his letters to the queen-regent for this purpofe, in which he jultifies his condoa, and his sdminiflration the queen's anfwers. The king encreal'es his penfion. He gives a general account of his public and private condua; of his wealth; and of his domefiic affairs: his faithful performances of the pro nifes he made to Henry IV.

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