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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70213	A Short vindication of Phil. Scot's Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien being in answer to the challenge of the author of the defence of that settlement, to prove the Spanish title to Darien, by inheritance, marriage, donation, purchase, reversion, surrender, or conquest : with a prefatory reply, to the false and scurrillous aspersions of the new author of the Just and modest vindication, &c., and some animadversions on the material part of it, relating to the title of Darien.	Harris, Walter, 17th/18th cent.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1600; Wing H2299A; ESTC R12300	24,940	48

A SHORT VINDICATION OF Phil. Scot's Defence OF THE Scots Abdicating DARIEN BEING In Answer to the Challenge of the Author of the Defence of that Settlement to prove the Spanish Title to Darien by Inheritance Marriage Donation Purchase Reversion Surrender or Conquest WITH A Prefatory Reply to the False and Scurrillous Aspersions of the New Author of The Just and Modest Vindication c. And some Animadversions on the material Part of it relating to the Title of DARIEN Non qui multa sed qui multum dicit bene dicit LONDON Printed in the Year 1700. THE PREFACE THE most genuine and best meant Designs of Man being lyable not only to Misconstruction but Reproach 't is the less surprising to meet with either of these in the present Case considering the small Proportion I bear to a numerous Party who are so far dipt in a Project that notwithstanding a great many of them by this Time begin to perceive the Errour they have been led unto yet they will not disintangle themselves and if any Person should take upon him to unblind them he must expect to have his Throat cut As my first Attempt in this Nature is not only censur'd Bold but Impudent by the Managers of the Caledonian Project so it has been attended with Menaces enough that I should not eat my Christmas Dinner The friendly Advices I have received of my sudden Fate don't in the least make my Pen stagger from Vindicating what I have already offer'd to show the Impracticability of that Project for which altho' I am at present basely censur'd by a resolute and headstrong Party yet I doubt not of receiving the Approbation of the moderate and judicious Part of that Nation before the Jubilee be over my Theme being both just and well design'd to the Proprietors of that Stock I could have wish'd that this gentle Author who Effects so much Modesty Sense and good Manners had stood by his Text and had taken more convincing Ways of confuting what I have written on the Darien Subject For however necessary h● thinks it for his Argument to treat it and me with Reproach yet he will gain thereby but few Proselytes to his Opinion And if he had employ'd his Mathematical Head in disproving what I have offer'd in Defence of the Abdication with some of those Euclid Demonstrations wherewith he would let us know that he abounds his slanderous and personal Reflections might be the better credited But as he has advanc'd nothing either to justifie the Conduct of the Directors of that Company or to disprove one Syllable of what 's offer'd against the Darien Project except the Instance of Mr. Wafer which he would have the World take for granted to be a Lye and make use of that to overthrow my Faith I hope that if the whole Discourse does not carry Demonstration enough along with it it may stand firm till such Time as it is repeal'd by Dint of Argument And as for this Passage velating to Mr. Wafer I shall justifie it before I proceed any further In the first Place I desire that it may be taken as a Preliminary that if Mr. Wafer had met with so egregious a Romance and so nearly relating to him publickly in Print he ought in Justice both to the Company and himself to have instantly detected it's Falshoods But altho ' he lives very near the Royal-Exchange and had the Perusal of the same Book the first Day it was published which is above Two Months ago yet he hath been so far from offering to disprove it that he hath since exprest himself to Persons of unquestionable Credit that if he had known of my Intention or had not thereby been anticipated from Publishing his own Sentiments he would have said a great Deal more on that Subject I must needs own that he was ignorant of my Design of Publishing that or any Thing else but I must tell you that about the same Time he thought to have oblig'd the Company to recompense him for his Disappointment or to have expos'd them to the Publick And to confirm what I herein assert 't is very well known to a great many in Town that about Four Months agoe he presented a Memorial to a certain Scots Person of Quality containing every Syllable of what I have wrote as likewise some more which I design'dly left out because it particulariz'd some Persons whom I had no Inclination to mention He was kept in Hopes of some Gratification and I believe he might have been easily compounded with but what I have wrote from his own Mouth and Memorial I am so far from distrusting he will retract or can be brib'd to deny that I firmly believe he gave no Occasion to this Author to make use of his Name to impose thus upon the World And to confirm me the more in this Belief it is not above Three Days since he came to my Lodging to acquaint me that a Book was newly publish'd in Vindication of the Darien Settlement but he had not seen it on which I ask'd If any Persons had been with him from the Company to oblige him to pass from what he had said and wrote to which he answer'd No. I show'd him the Book and Passage in it relating to him which having perus'd he told me That he was so far from passing from it that he wonder'd how that Author should be so confident as to rely on what he should answer If this is not enough to justifie that Passage relating to Wafer by which our Author submits the Truth of the Whole to be try'd I shall prove it Viva voce if need be and shall say no more to it here but only show you the Evasion which our Author makes use of in the 18 th Page of his Preface to clear his Party of that Imputation To wit Nor can any without the Renouncing of common Sensë believe that the Gentlemen employ'd by the Company to confer and transact with Mr. Wafer could be guilty of such Weakness and Folly as to reveal and detect to him their Design upon Darien in that the whole Success of that Undertaking depended entirely upon it's being kept and preserv'd a Secret If our learned Author would not impute it to brutal Ignorance to differ in any Point from his Conception of Things I might be allow'd to detect the Weakness or Innocence of this strong Argument and would ask him if at the Conference between the same Gentlemen and Mr. Wafer at Pontaks's the Subject was not Darien I would likewise know whether the Collection of Guineas for him at that Meeting was not to keep him from Disposing of himself till they acquainted the Company with his Qualifications to serve them As also whether that Article in the Contract whereby he receiv'd 20 Guineas was not towards Stopping the Publishing of this Book for the Space of a Month till the Company and he should come to Terms for Suppressing it altogether 'T is evident enough that the

where there 's neither any mention made of the English Proclamations much less of the English Government 's forbidding to assist or supply the Scots in any Part of America to wit Defence of the Scots Abdicating Pag. 4. Epist Ded. If you were thus perswaded directing it to the Managers of the Company to run headlong on a blind Project at which the Trading Part of the World stands amaz'd the India Companies of England and Holland laugh at in their Sleeve and the rest of Mankind admire that People in their right Senses should be guilty of and if the same should miscarry by your own ill Management to say no worse on 't 't is not fair you should snarle at your Neighbours who have no other Hand in your Misfortune than that they would not be accessary to any Act which the World might judge Felonious and wherein they could not join without engaging themselves in an unreasonable War and in the End to assist you with Weapons to break their own Heads But that I may likewise rehearse the Paragraph where I had Occasion to mention the English Proclamation or Prohibition See the Page 156. Laying aside the Spanish Complaint and admit the Scotch Company to have a Legal Title to their Settlement was it not reasonable that the Goverment of England having met with the clandestine Declarations which the Scotch Collony had spread all over the West-Indies inviting them over to Darien should take suitable Measures to prevent the ill Consequences of the same and retain their own Subjects The Declarations are notorious and must be penn'd by some Person belonging to the Company or Collony and I presume the Opposite Proclamation or Prohibition was penn'd by some English Man who had some Interest in the English Plantations Now whether our Author usbers in his just and modest Vindication fairly and honestly I submit it to Judgment or whether I mayn't justly retort upon himself again that slanderous Aspersion relation to Wafer in the 18th Page of his Preface viz. That through the Fellows appearing a Lyar or uncandid in one Case his Testimony should not be receiv'd in any other whatsoever Nay in the same Breath he backs it with such another Perversion altho' not quite so malicious and vents his Choller thus citing the 7th Page of the Epistle Dedicatory That I should have taken the Boldness to add in Terms that are most slanderous as well as defamatory that their Attempt of Planting on the Isthmus was their Settling a Colony in another Man's Dominions unless by Virtue of their Presbyterian Tenet of Dominions being founded in Grace the Scots who are the Presumptive Elect pretend a Divine Right to the Goods of the Wicked and so take upon them to cloath the Seven Councellors of their Colony with such another Commission as God gave the Hebrews when they departed out of Egypt The Injustice which this Gentleman does me and the little Servicoe he does his Cause is very apparent for I don't say that the Scots are the Presumptive Elect there being no such Word mention'd nor do I think it Some Species of Men indeed in that Nation are conceited with that Opinion of themselves but there are several Persons of Worth who will not assume that Title neither do I direct that Dedication to them but to Directors of the Scots Affrican Company of whom that Sept who were the Occasion of the chief Mismanagement are of this vain Kidney As for Harris whom our Author cites irreverently in the same Paragraph I know him but D l is such a Stranger to me that I protest there 's none of my Acquaintance I can think of whose Name begins and ends with those Letters But that must be plac'd to the other false Notions he runs on Our Author thinks fit to cite only one Passage more of The Defence of the Scots Abd. pag. 16. That just as the Scots Companies Books were open'd at Amsterdam for receiving Subscriptions to their Capital Stock the Dutch East and West-India Companies run open-mouth'd to the Lords of Amsterdam shewing what was hatching by the Scotch Commissioners in their City to ruine the Trade of theVnited Provinces The Gentleman thinks fit to own this to be true designing to make Two necessary Vses of it the first is calculated for the Proprietors of the Scots Affrican Stock as the Printing and Reprinting of the House of Commons Address to the King of the Year 1696 at Edinburgh was to insinuate the Vastness of the Project and the Riches that were to be acquir'd by it when such Foreign People oppos'd it But that none of those may be deceiv'd by the Vse he makes of that Paragraph I must acquaint them in short that if those Dutch Men had known the Scotch Companies Project to be on Darien I dare say they would not have taken such Mensures to oppose them The other Vse our Author makes of this is to sow some malicious Seeds of distrust among the People of England and to calumniate His Majesty and his Councils as if those were altogether calculated for a Dutch Interest This Mathematical Politician both here and every where else when he has occasion to discharge his Gall on His Majesty and his Government shreuds his Aspersions under a Religious and Well-meaning Cant as if they were the Apprehensions and Designs of other People and not of himself This modest Author excuses himself from replying any Thing to the Argument-part of what has been offer'd against the Darien Project it being fully obviated and anticipated by this Book of his which he says was antecedently written on that Subject How far this is true let any Man who will have the Patience or punish himself to read it determine 'T is pity that it should have lain so long in Embrio and not seen the Light till now most People are confirm'd of an adverse Opinion of the Project not because it is like to enrich that Company and Nation but because there 's a great Deal of good Money squander'd away which might have been better employ'd Neither can that Judicious part of Mankind to whom he recommends his Book find any more in it of Substance than what is already and less barbarously express'd in the Original which this eternal Parentheser has only Paraphras'd upon with a Pedantick Accumulation of Synonimous Words and Repetitions and has no ways mended it unless he thinks it a strong Way of Arguing to brawl a Man out of his Reason which in my Opinion suits better with Billingsgate than the Aula But to proceed on the Vindication of my defending the Scots Abdicating Darien I must tell you that the Motives which push'd me on to it were quite different from those of this modest Author or some more particular Persons who besides the Noise themselves make may rather encourage than endeavour to crush the Clamours of others it being a Topick warranted by Precedents whereby Money has been got and may still if it be well manag'd altho' perhaps little of