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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89905	A declaration or manifest of the high and mighty lords the States Generall of the Vnited Netherland Provinces: comprehending a true relation of their sincere intention, and lawfull proceedings in the treaty with the extraordinary embassadors, and the commissionaries of the present goverment [sic] of England, so as the same hath been held here in the Hague, as also at London. And likewise of the unjust and violent proceedings of those of the said government, which have forced the said States Generall by way of retortion, to defend their state and subjects against their oppressions.; Declaratie ofte manifest. 1652-08-02. English.	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.	1652 (1652)	Wing N480; Thomason E674_22; ESTC R203042	11,369	16

have with all speed approved our selfs so that the said Lords Embassadors upon the said neerer Propositions which themselfs declared to be of greatest concernment and of such consequence that when once we should come to be of one resolution concerning the same there would be little difficulty in the other have received from us such reflection that in the substance there remained no difference or if any but very small and we of our parts moreover revealed all that we found conducing further to the good of both Nations that might be agreed upon with maintenance of the alliances we have with other Kings Republiques Princes and States and so all that was needfull for the consummating of the said treaty whereunto expecting the neerer Declaration of the said Lords Embassadors they declined the same by their suddain departure intimating that the time granted unto them for their staying was expired and consequently that they could not possibly proceed to an answer unto that which was propounded by us to the end aforesaid And although the said manner of proceeding might afford matter of severall suspitions concerning the intention of the said Government in relation to the said treaty because the intercurrence of a short time which had made no alteration in the cause it selfe ought not to have altered the good inteutions and consequently ought not to have made any such interruption in the progress of the treaty we notwithstanding on our parts preferring the dignity and acceptablenesse of the cause it self before all outward ceremonies and considering the protestation made by their said Lords Embassadors at their departure from hence of the sincere inclination of the said Government towards peace and of their confidence that although their endeavours had not been so successive as to attain to a happy period the same notwithstanding might not prove unfruitfull when time should come that we with a contra-visit should please to resort unto them have not omitted to decree a considerable Embassage to the said Government and accordingly in December last year sent thither the Lords Jacob Cats Gerard Schaep and Paulus van de Par our Embassadors Extraordinary with full power and instructions for a Treaty Although since the departure from hence of the said Lords S. Iohn and Strickland by a certain discourteous and unneighbourly Act published by the said Government whereby the usuall liberty of Trade was manifestly restrained the good corresdondency between both Nations whereby true friendship and fidelity were wont best to increase and be confirmed was in that part evidently cut off and severall of our Ships surprised all which gave more and more suspitions that the intentions of the said Government was no way answerable to our unfained open-heartedness which afterward did most evidently appeare to be so For after that our said Embassadors Extraordinary were arrived in England and there had made an earnest and upright Declaration of our sincere affection towards the consummating of the afore-mentioned inchoated treaty with serious Requests that the same might speedily and happily be brought to a perfection and to that end all things might stand in the same posture wherein they were left at that time when the said Lords St. Iohn and Strickland departed from us at least till the event of that Treaty might be known and to that purpose the said Act by which the life and being of the said Treaty would be infringed might be repealed or at least the execution thereof suspended and the surprised Ships and goods restored The same hath not only not been taken into consideration by the said Government as was fitting it should according to reason and equity but contrarily during the said Treaty for the renewing and confirming of old Covenants and Amity and of the entrance into neerer confederacy and compliance of Love and Union the said Act was put in Execution and moreover under severall unreasonable pretenses as partly with Letters of Mart granted by the said Government without cause in respect we never denied or delaid Justice to any of their offended subjects being therefore contrary to the Laws and practises of all civilized Governments and to all former Covenancs erected betwixt both Nations partly with Commissions given against the French the Ships of our said Subjects have been assaulted at Sea entered surprised and brought up into their Havens in a most hostile manner the Goods plundered the Masters and Mariners roughly used as well by their publike Ministers as by those which were inabled by the said Letters or Commissions and thereby given occasion to all sorts of Robbers under the same pretences to exercise their piracy not giving regard to the constant solicitings of our said Embassadors to the said Government that they would please to cause such actions to cease much lesse making restitution to our good Subjects of their surprised and plundered ships and goods And although by these unneighbourly actions we had just cause given us to manifest our resent and by retortion to seek repairation of the dammages which our Subjects susteined from and upon the ships and goods of the Subjects of that Government 〈◊〉 being thereunto highly provoked through an unsufferable outrage Neverthelesse hoping the said Government would once give place to reason and that by way of treaty according to justice and equity all differences might be composed we have absteined from all manner of fact yea though earnestly intreated have refused to give our Letters of Mart or Commissions to our wronged Subjects for reasons afore-mentioned and of our side through our Embassadors Extra-ordinary with all earnestnesse sought the accomplishing of the said treaty in generall and of the afore-mentioned surprised ships and goods in particular and on the other side to prevent all piracy and robbery for the future and to free our Subjects from further losses and the generall commerce from a totall ruine and spoile we resolved to set out at sea a considerable fleet of ships and to prevent jealousies and that the said Government might not mis-apprehend of this our doing as we did like wise to other our friends and neighbouring countries by our Embassadors extra-ordinary we gave notice unto them in all sincerity of this our resolution with open and upright manifestations that the said ships should not at the least be imployed to inflict any hurt upon our friends and confederates and namely also not upon the Subjects of their Government but that we were of a setled resolution to maintain all good compliance and friendship with them in sincerity as was becoming two such neighbouring Nations And although we expected that this notice given ought also to have been accepted of by them as a token of our unfainednesse especially because the said Government a little time before had manifested their distaste that a small number of our ships not giving them timely notice aforehand had shewed themselfs neare unto some Islands which then our ships knew not to be under their command Notwithstanding we observed that the said Government daily

demanded nor by us with honour and reputation granted and amongst the rest were so unreasonable as to require of us the charges and dammages which they pretend to have been put upon and to have suffered by reason of our afoersaid extraordinary preparation of ships to the value of such a sum as the same might be found to amount unto the same being paid or security for it given to their content then to have all acts of hostility to cease nor once minding that our aforesaid setting forth of ships was to no other end undertaken and effected then is heretofore declared and that as soon as the same was resolved upon and before it was put in action we gave true and publike intelligence thereof to the said Government especially seeing by the same fleet or any other ships belonging to these Provinces there hath not been given to the said Government or to any of the subjects thereof the least token of disaffection much less of injury but cantrarily that ours have beene assaulted by theirs and some sunk others amongst which a great number of merchants ships richly lodened pertaining to these Countries entred overmastred taken and carried up into their harbours whereby we our subjects have suffered loss of severall millions of gilders yea moreover during the said treaty and conference have sent their fleet to Sea in all rashness hurling on into the breach and dissolution of all friendship and amity between both nations with an insatiable lust of making the same incurable and therewith destroying and taking severall of our ships more enthralling our Government which by God Almighty for many years hath been preserved in a flourishing condition and hath given reputation and awsulness with their friends and enemies into a world of dishonour and losses All which intollerable and unlawfull enterprises and violent proceedings attempted and performed by the said Government do most perspicuously and palpably declare that their only design is wholy to infringe our strength at sea and to ruinate the commerce of these countries and thereby to set up their long pretended Soveraignty and dominion over the Sea which shortly they intend to exercise over us and in time over all other nations and if possibly they can to make us and others their tributaries And having with great patience and meeknesse but all in vaine improved all convenient meanes and rationall inductions whereby to move the said Government for the good and happinesse of both their owne and our subjects to stand off from the said resolutions that the risen distempers might be aswaged and composed the ships and goods with violence or otherwise taken and detained from our subjects restored the losses which they have innocently susteined made good and by an upright and strict binding treaty the old but now of late times by that Government enforced and violated friendship re-setled and by mutual confiding offices more and more confirmed but seeing no hope more of prevailing by such means We according to the law of nature finding our selves obliged to defend our good subjects against all injury oppression and violence to cause them obtain reparation for the losses they have suffered to re-establ●sh the former due liberty of commerce and to oppose the aforesaid pernitious designes of the said Government which being drunken with successes within their owne countries seem to know no measure of their further unsatiable appetites abroad as being hereunto by greatest extremity impelled with ripe deliberation of councell have at length resolved and thought good to use the power and meanes which God and nature hath given us and with our weapons by way of retorsion upon and against the aforesaid Government and the subjects thereof to endeavour the obtaining of that which with reason could not be recovered of them with a minde and intention not to lay downe the same as long as the said Government doth steere the course they now are in and till the aforesaid restitution of Ships and goods and reparation of inferred injuries be obtained Being confident that the whole world will approve of this our resolution forced from us with the utmost violence and that Almighty God will bless our just cause trusting also that all Kings Republikes Princes and States will take on this our manifest declaration for true lawfull and requisite and with us will help to oppose and subdue all such pernicious designes and in this our constrained and no lesse just and lawfull defence ever and in all places as occasion shall offer will lend their assistance to us and our good subjects Even as we hereby ordeine all our said subjects to the United Netherland Provinces to oppose themselves by way of retorsion as aforesaid against all the violence and oppressions which more and more are threatned against them and not to suffer themselves further to be deluded by any whatsoever shew of friendship or willingly to have recourse to any place where they must be used according to the appetite of the said Governmenti And so both we and our subjects confiding in the justness of our cause shall hope for the blessing upon the meanes assumed for our lawfull defence from God Almighty Thus concluded and arrested in the Gathering of the said Potent Lords the States Generall in the Hague the second of August sixteen hundreth and two and fifty Signed Johan van Reede tot Renswoude vt and understood By speciall command from the same signed N. Ruysch And in the further space bearing the impression of the great Seale of the said States Generall in red wax