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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65739	Reflections on a scandalous paper, entituled, The answer of the East-India-Company to two printed papers of Mr. Samuel White together with the true character of Francis Davenport the said Company's historyographer, detecting some of the villanies he has been guilty of in several parts of the world, and proving the pamphlet now publish'd by the foresaid company in his name to be a malicious forgery, under attestations of sundry credible persons, humbly presented to the Honourable the Knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliaments assembled / by George White.	White, George.; White, Samuel, ca. 1650-1689.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1770; ESTC R8845	16,088	16

to cover over the Trayterous Presumption of his new-made-General in ascribing to himself Despotic Power and Soveraign-Authority by saying my Brother do's in his Case play with those Expressions And 't is well if he can be so easily brought off from that Charge which my Counsel tells me is very little less than High Treason But I must confess our Author is bound to use all his Art and Cunning to Extricate his Creature out of that Snare because I believe 't will be prov'd he led him into 't and I see he is still so full of the Humour that he cannot forbear even in this Paper he presents to the Parliament for here he has got a new Phrase for the Company 's Servants and calls them the Company 's Subjects under the King which is another bold Stroke and indeed I cou'd wish he wou'd in time consider and refrain these Ambitious Exorbitancies lest the True Sovereign Authority shou'd be at length provok'd to Convince him of his Error as King Edward the Fourth did the Citizen that Liv'd at the Crown in Cheapside for much such another Crime And then alas what wou'd become of Our East-India-Company if he were so Tyed up from Managing their Affairs He next tells us He believes the Company have in Seven or Eight Years past done more for the Publick Good and Honour of the Nation than all their Predecessors since Queen Elizabeth's time and he gives One or Two Instances to prove it which are worthy Examination The first is their Faithful Defence of the English Interest in the Case of Bantam against Eminent Dutch Civilians and he refers to the Arguments on that Occasion that are extant in Print which I have read and if I may be so bold to give my Opinion of that little Book I must say That the AUTHOR has in the three or four first Lines and some other places discharg'd whole Volleys of Verbosity upon the Batavian's but did no more Execution than the BOUNCE OF A CHILDISH POP-GUN And the Truth is that instead of Meriting by their Endeavours to defend Our Company are much to be blam'd for their gross Neglects and Mismanagements which gave the Dutch an opportunity to accomplish that Design Another Good Work he attributes to the Company is what he calls the Reducing the Rebels at Bombay and St. Helena As to the first of those Places I am a stranger to the Merits of the Cause but at St. Helena the business was briefly and truly thus Robert Holden the Deputy-Governor had been order'd by SOME-BODY to begin the setting up a New Sovereignty there in the Name of the Company telling the Inhabitants they were no more the King 's but the Company 's Subjects which they apprehending to be Dangerous and Treasonable Words one of them complain'd of Him to Major Blackmore the Governor who being in the same Interests took part with Holden and Imprisoned the Accuser at which all the People there were much concern'd and made Application to him to secure the said Holden and set the other at Liberty who was so causelesly Confin'd whereto he gave Answer by causing two great Guns to be fir'd which kill'd Three and wounded Fourteen and Three Months after he did by his Own Authority Judge Condemn and Hang Two more sending an Account of his Proceedings to His Masters here and ONE of them who had great Influences at Court procur'd a Commission from the late King to Try several others by a Court-Marshal whereby five more lost their Lives AND ALL THIS FOR THE PUBLICK GOOD AND HONOUR OF THE NATION Another of our Company 's Famous Actions he reckons to be the Wars they have made with the Great Mogul and King of Siam of the latter whereof I have promis'd an Account shall suddenly be made Publick and will only here by the way Charge the Author with a direct Falsity in affirming his Ingenious Capt. Andrews had his Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England to War against that Prince And as to the Violences they have acted on the Great Mogul's Subjects I confess I cou'd never yet hear what pretences they have for 't but I know their Proceedings therein do more deserve to be term'd Fellonious than Hostile For besides the vast Sums they were indebted to the Merchants at Surrat when they left that place they did also make use of another Stratagem to assist the Success of their intended Force by a Base Fraud For their New-Made-General gave the foresaid Merchants Encouragement to Adventure their Ships and Estates to to Sea on the Security of the Company 's Passes and afterwards took the opportunity to make Prize of those very Effects Which was such a Breach of Faith that a Barbarian wou'd blush at it And because I may therefore suppose the Report of so Black an Action will not readily be Credited I declare that I can and will if it be needful produce a Gentleman of unquestion'd Credit to Testifie That he had the Account of it from ONE that do's not only know as much of those Affairs as our AUTHOR can pretend to but if I am not very much mistaken is in all respects as like him as any thing can possibly be to its own Self And when he told my Friend the Pleasant Story He cou'd not but Applaud the Policy and declare the great Satisfaction he had in the Success thereof as he now in this Paper calls it GOD's WONDERFUL BLESSING TO THEIR JUST ARMS Our AUTHOR has two or three very strenous Arguments to Insinuate That 't is indispensably requisite the Company shou'd have an Alsolute Power over the Lives and Estates of their Fellow-Subjects in the Indies And first he says For that they have so many Towns Forts and Garrisons which many Towns besides the little Island of Bombay is no more than One that I ever yet knew or heard of and that is call'd Madrass in the Kingdom of Golcondah which yet is not altogether their own neither for they pay an Annual Rent to the King of that Country for it Next he reckons the infinite Charge they are at in sundry Particulars and amongst them he mentions the Demorage of Ships which by the way I must tell him wou'd be very inconsiderable if our Trade were Prudently and Regularly Manag'd But however they have lately found out an Expedient to alleviate that Charge by keeping the Ships so long abroad that renders them incapable to return and so both Freight and Demorage are discharg'd without paying a Farthing as they have already done to three or four Ships and several more that are now in India are much doubted to be in the same Condition whereby a very great Injury and Injustice is done to the Nation in general as well as to the particular Proprietors But all this is easily wip'd off by an Ingenious Contrivance as was lately done at the Arrival of the Modena in putting a piece of News into the Gazette and Dating it from the Downs to tell us THE