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A45661 The defence of the Scots settlement at Darien answer'd paragraph by paragraph / by Philo-Britan. Harris, Walter, 17th/18th cent.; Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.; Foyer, Archibald. 1699 (1699) Wing H881; ESTC R9419 58,491 93

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in England gave the French a fair opportunity of ridding their Hands by degrees from the English but it was not so much for want of such an Union as he would make us believe but because they were glad of any opportunity to supply their Wants at Home by Plundering and Ravaging the Borders of England and because as he himself confesses the French paid them very well besides for their Pains so that we may well apply to Scotland what Jagurtha if I mistake not said of Rome O Romam venalem dummodo emptorem invenisset For the Scots were always for him that did bid most But let us hear his last Argument upon this Head DEFENCE 10. It will be of general Advantage to the Protestant Interest and contribute to the Advancement of pure Christianity without any of the Romish Sophistications Which certainly ought to weigh much with all true Protestants and so much the more that the Pope and the Conclave of Rome have espoused the Quarrel of the Spaniards in this Affair as a Cause of Religion Doubtless the poor Americans will be more in●linable to imbrace Christianity when they find the difference of the Morals and Doctrine betwixt Protestants and Papists and see that the former treat them with Humanity and seek their Welfare both in Body and Soul whereas the Spaniards have render'd themselves and the Religion they profess odious by the Inhumane Cruelties and Brutish Lusts which they have exercis'd upon so many Millions of the Natives This is so far from being a Calumny that an unexceptionable Author of their own Don Bartholomew de las Casas Bishop of Chiapa formerly mention'd who was an Eye-witness of their Cruelties gives an Account that they had in his Time destroyed above 40 Millions of the poor Indians tho' they receiv'd them with the greatest kindness imaginable were ready to do 'em all the Friendly Offices that one Man could desire of another and testified their great Inclination to have embrac'd the Christian Religion But the Spaniards aim'd at the Destruction and not at the Conversian of the Indians and are avowedly charg'd with it by the said Bishop who in many places of his Book declares That after they had sent for the Chiefs of the Countries to meet them in an amicable manner which the poor harmless Creatures did without suspicion of any Fraud these merciless Tyrants Murder'd them by wholesale on purpose to make themselves terrible to them This was a Practice so inconsistent with Humanity that all the People ●f the World ought to have resented it as having much more reason to declare the Spaniards to be Enemies to Mankind than ever the Roman Senate had to declare Nero to be such But this sort of Treatment compar'd with what they made others to suffer may well be call'd Mercy For tho' it was Death the Indians were hereby quickly deliver'd from their Misery whereas they put Multitudes of others to lingring Deaths that they might feel themselves die gradually and yet this is not so intolerable neither as the Condition of those poor People that had the Misfortune to survive that Cruelty for the whole time of their Lives under that miserable Servitude is but Death prolong'd or making his Attacks upon 'em by intolerable Labour and continual Hunger the most insupportable of all Plagues those poor Creatures that toil in the Mines and are imploy'd in Pearl-fishing c. having no more Sustenance allow'd them and that too of the coarsest sort than is just enough to keep Soul and Body together in order to prolong their Misery Then let any Man who has but the least remains of Humanity left him judge whether the Scots could be Criminal if they should have actually Landed upon a Spanish Settlement and have seiz'd the same in order to deliver their Brethren the Sons of Adam from such Hellish Servitude and Oppression as the above mention'd Bishop describes and if no Man that has any Bowels of Compassion within him can say they could what shadow of reason is there to blame the Scots for erecting a Colony where the Spaniards never had any footing ANSWER If this could be proved beyond Contradiction I must confess no Body could blame the Scots for settling themselves at Darien but till that be done we must ask our Author'● Pardon to suspend at least our Judgment as to the legality of their Title to it If I mistake not the matter he does not seem to build altogether upon that Foundation so much as upon their having forfeited their Title by their unheard of Cruelties for to what purpose else this tedious Repetition when he had enlarged himself sufficiently before upon that Theme Which indeed may serve to render the Spaniards odious but in my Opinion is but a slender Addition towards the strengthning of their Title upon Darien since with the same Right not only the Scots but any Nation whatsoever might lay claim to all America as far as it is in the Possession of the Spaniards We will therefore hear what he has to alledge for us Caledonians in the third Head DEFENCE The next thing to be consider'd is Whether the Scots without the assistance of England may probably maintain their footing there which there 's no doubt may very well be determin'd in the affirmative 1. Because the whole Kingdom of Scotland being more zealous for it and unanimous in it than they have been in any other thing for forty or fifty Years past it is not to be doubted but they will use their utmost Efforts to support themselves in it by their own strength or if that will not do by making Alliances with other Nations that are able to assist them with a Naval Force 2. If they meet with no other Opposition but what the Spaniards are able to make to them it will be easie for the Nobility and Gentry and Royal Burroughs of Scotland to raise Money upon their Lands c. to increase their Stock for the American Trade and buy Ships of Force to protect it Nay without that it 's but giving Commission to the Buccaneers to become an over-match for the Spaniards 3. Supposing the French should offer to join with the Spaniards and assist them to drive the Scots from Darien as some say they have already proffered we are not to imagine that the Spaniards will accept their Proffers in this case when they refused them as to the driving the Moors from before Ceuta The Reasons are obvious They declin'd the accepting their Proffers as to Ceuta because they would not thereby give the French an opportunity of possessing themselves of any of their Towns in Africa as it is but too common for Foreign Auxiliaries to do in such cases Then certainly they have much greater reason to refuse their Proffers as to Darien America being of infinitely more value to them than some African Towns And if once the French should get footing there it would be in vain for the Spanish Grandees any further to dispute the