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A45906	An Enquiry into the causes of the miscarriage of the Scots colony at Darien, or, An answer to a libel entituled, A defence of the Scots abdicating Darien submitted to the consideration of the good people of England.	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1700 (1700)	Wing I213; ESTC R12945	73,090	122

is such as our Ancestors if we may believe our Historians would have thought inconsistent with the Trust reposed in a King of Scots a manifest Reflection upon the Justice and Fidelity of the Nation and a discovery of their Arcana Imperii to those that were quarrelling with them We are not to suppose that his Majesty would give an Answer to an Address of this importance without Counsel If he consulted with our Dutch or English Opposers it was the same as if he had consulted our profess'd Enemies if he consulted with Scots-men and was advis'd to this Answer by any of them they are Traitors to their Country and have betray'd its Soveraignty for they ought to have advis'd him to answer that as King of Scots he was not to give an account to the English for any thing transacted in that Kingdom but if they found themselves any ways aggriev'd or thought their Trade endanger'd by the Scots Act he should be willing to have the matter debated and adjusted by Commissioners of both Nations as became the Common Father of both This could not justly have been look'd upon by the English as a refractory or stubborn Answer but must have been imputed to his braveness of Temper and fidelity to his Trust. But at once to give up the Soveraignty of Scotland without demurring upon it argues that his Majesty was advis'd to this Answer by Enemies to the Scotish Nation Our Parliaments have originally a greater Power than that of England for what the States of Scotland offer'd to the touch of the Scepter their Kings had no power to refuse or if they did the Resolves of the States had the force of a Law notwithstanding Thus our Reformation was established in 1560. by an Act of the States and tho our Queen Mary then in France and her Husband the Dauphin afterwards Francis I. refus'd to give their consent it remain'd a firm Law which Q. Mary when she return'd to Scotland was so far from offering to dispense with tho she was a great Asserter of her Prerogative that she was oblig'd to intreat of the States so far to dispense with it themselves as to suffer her to have Mass in her own Family We might go further back to the Reign of Robert II. who was check'd by the States for making a Truce with the English without their Consent it not being then in the power of our Kings either to make Peace or War without the States But the truth of that Maxim laid down by our Historian That the supreme Power of the Government of Scotland is in the States is so obvious to every one that reads our History that it cannot be denied and hence it is that our old Acts of Parliament are often call'd the Acts of the States and say The three States enact c. for by our original Constitution the King is none of the States but only Dux belli and Minister publicus which was well understood by our Viceroy the E. of Morton and the other Deputies from the States of Scotland when they acquainted Q. Elizabeth in their Memorial That the Scots created their Kings on that condition that they might when they saw cause divest them of that Power which they receiv'd from the People which we have now reasserted in making our Crown forfeitable by the Claim of Right at the last Revolution and perhaps that 's none of the least Causes why our Ruin is now endeavour'd by the Abettors of a growing Prerogative It were easy for us to enlarge on this and to shew from our Histories and Acts of Parliaments that our Kings according to our antient Constitution which those Rapes committed on our Liberties in some of the last Reigns can never overturn were inferior to their Parliaments who inthron'd and dethron'd them as they saw cause made them accountable for their Administration allow'd them no power of proroguing them without their own consent nor of hindering their meeting when the ardua Regni negotia requir'd it They could not make Peace or War without them nor so much as dispose of their Castles but by their consent Their Councils were chosen and sworn in Parliament and punishable by the States Nor had they any Revenue but what their Parliaments allow'd them These and many more were the native Liberties of the People of Scotland as may be seen in our Histories the Acts of all the Iames's the Protestation of the States of Scotland in 1638. and their Representation of their Proceedings against the Mistakes in the King's Declaration in 1640. And therefore his Majesty had no reason to say he was ill serv'd by the passing of an Act offer'd by the States of Scotland The Ignorance of those things hath often occasion'd our being misrepresented by the English Historians and other Writers as Rebels and what not when we really acted according to our own fundamental Laws And not only they but even our own Princes since the Union of the Crowns have either been kept ignorant of our Constitution or so incens'd against it by the Abettors of Tyranny that they have all of 'em his present Majesty excepted endeavour'd our Overthrow as well knowing it to be impossible to bring Arbitrary Government to perfection whilst a People who had always breath'd in a free Air and call'd their Princes to an account when they invaded their Properties were in any condition to defend themselves or assist others against such Princes as design'd an absolute Sway. But the Pill being too bitter to be swallowed by it self there was a necessity of taking Priestcraft into the Composition and to gild it over with the specious pretext of bringing the Scots to an Uniformity in Religion The Court knew that this would arm the Zealots against us and that it could never be effected without the ruin of our Kingdom whose Religion was so interwoven with our Civil Constitution that there was no overturning of the one without subverting the other This will appear plain to those that know that besides the Sanction of Acts of Parliament the Church of Scotland is defended by a full Representative of the Clergy and Laity of the Kingdom call'd a General Assembly which preserves us from being Priest-ridden as our Parliaments do from being Prince-ridden where the King by Law had no negative Voice no more than he formerly had in our Parliaments This in effect is the Representative of the Nation as Christians as the Parliaments are our Representatives as Men and as to the Laity many of them are the same individual persons that sit in Parliament So that those Assemblies being a second Barrier about our Liberties it was thought fit to run down the Constitution of our Church as not suted with Monarchy The Case being thus we dare refer it to the thoughts of our neighbouring Nation who have gallantly from time to time stood up for their own Liberties whether it were not more generous for them to unite with us than to suffer us to be oppress'd and

Conditions c. as the said Company shall by writing in and upon their Books c. appoint As to the Landmen whom he will also have to be impos'd upon they knew what they had to relie on and were very well satisfied with it and as to the Companys levying Souldiers under the Notion of Planters without asking leave of the Privy Council admitting it to be true they are not at all to be blam'd for it since they had no reason to think that the Faction at Court which had contraven'd Acts of Parliament by opposing their Subscriptions and denying them the Men of War built for the protection of our Trade would allow them to levy Souldiers under that Name But the truth of the matter is this they were really design'd for Planters and not at all for Military Business tho it was highly necessary the Colony should have as many Officers and disciplin'd Men as they could that they might be the more able to defend themselves in case of Attaque and therefore his railing against the Colony for offering to punish Deserters and other Criminals pag. 31. only discovers his own ignorance and malice for by the Act of Parliament they had the whole Power Civil and Military conferr'd upon them and accordingly might exercise their Power upon all Persons belonging to the Company as they saw cause so that this is again a libelling of the Act of Parliament thro the Company 's sides His Representation of the seven Men chosen for Counsellors page 34. is false and malicious to the highest degree The liberty given to add other six to those seven was not as he spitefully insinuates for English or French-men of Substance that should join them from the West-India Plantations but for such of their own number as they might think fit to assume afterwards It cannot once enter into the thoughts of any man of sense that the Colony should at first entrust Foreigners and especially French Papists in their Government or that the Company had any design they should do so but he and his Suborners think it their Interest to make us odious to the English and French by accusing us of a design to drain their Colonies As to Mr. Paterson whom he hath all along abus'd he happens now thro Inadvertency to vindicate him from his own Calumnies he formerly charg'd him as being Partner with Smith in cheating the Company of 8500 l. and now he tells us that Mr. Paterson was brought to this Dilemma either to go aboard the Fleet bound for Caledonia as a Volunteer or to go to Prison at Edinburgh for Debt which had he cheated the Company of so much Mony as this Libeller pretends there had been no occasion for he might have paid his Debts and gone where he would and besides the Scribler vindicates the Company at the same time from his former Charge of their being bewitch'd by Paterson's golden Dreams c. for had they relied so much upon him as the Libeller alledges they would never have shew'd that indifference for him which here he ridicules him with Such has been the hard Fate of the Suborners that their Tool has not the sense to make his Evidence consistent but every where cuts his own Throat by Self-contradictions To sum up the Matter according to the Libeller's own Evidence In the Council there were some Men of Quality that had been bred to the Sword and the Law others had been Officers both by Sea and Land and some that had gain'd Experience in Merchandizing and several Trades His Banter on the death of the Ministers and Blasphemous abuse of Scripture P. 37. smell so rank of the Atheist and Libertine and do so evidently prove that he hath lost all sense of Humanity and Religion that we are satisfied it will do his Masters and their Cause more hurt than Service and therefore we pass it over The next Proof we have of his Falshood and Malice is his long Story about Mr. Wafer from Page 38 to 45 wherein he does so blend Truth with Falshood as shews he had a mind at any rate to bespatter the Reputation of the Committee of the Company the said Committee knew nothing of those Gentlemens treating with Wafer at London till they acquainted them with it and it was only upon their Recommendation that they sent for him As to their Collecting any Guineas at Pontack's for Mr. Wafer it is altogether false The Articles were drawn by Mr. Iames Campbel the Merchant now in London and wrote by Mr. Fitz Gerald an Irish Merchant who both can testify that this Matter is foully misrepresented for Mr. Wafer had an Alternative propos'd to him which he agreed to viz. to have so much if the Company thought fit to imploy him and so much for his trouble and pains if they did not the Company was so far from standing in any need of his Book that they had a Manuscript of it before ever they saw him which was altogether unknown to the Gentlemen that treated with him at London this he himself knows to be true and that to his no small surprize they repeated several Passages out of it to him and indeed the Manuscript is more particular than his Book whatever Cause he hath since had to make any Alterations in it we know not The Company upon the whole finding that he could inform them of no thing considerable more than what was in the Manuscript and that he could do them no great Service left him at his Liberty to publish his Book when he pleas'd gave him about 100 l. first and last for his Pains and Expence with which he was very well satisfied and hath declared several times since that the Company dealt very honourably with him tho Mr. H s took a great deal of pains to make him publish a Memoire to the contrary which by his honest Friend Mr. Fitz Gerald's Advice he desisted from doing As to the Libeller's malicious Insinuation that they had no further Service for him when once he had discovered the place where the Nicaragua-Wood grew It is absolutely false for the Manuscript they had was very particular in that This Mr. Wafer knows to be true and if he have but a just resentment he is equally concern'd to vindicate himself for the Libeller reflects as much upon him as upon the Company when he charges him with putting a Cheat upon them as to their Nicaragua-Wood P. 44. which H s says he and others went in search of for several Miles along the Ceast but could find none and yet he magnifies Wafer's Freedom and being ingenious by informing them so particularly as to the place where the Nicaragua-Wood grew P. 41. So perpetually does this malicious Libeller contradict himself As to the other parts of his Story of Mr. Wafers being conceal'd near Haddington and afterwards at Edinburgh it was no more than what Prudence would have directed any Men to do in the like Circumstances the Company not knowing till after having