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A37097	The Dutch remonstrance concerning the proceedings and practices of John de Witt, pensionary, and Ruwaert van Putten, his brother, with others of that faction drawn up by a person of eminency there, and printed at the Hague ; and translated out of Dutch, August the 30th, 1672.		1672 (1672)	Wing D2904; ESTC R7327	14,476	38

the said ship should unlade there the Governor received an order signed by the Secretary that he should not only free the Vessel which he had stopt but also permit all ships that had such Pastports to pass freely and unmolested on their way which his excellency immediately condescended to Two dayes after past by another Ship that had twice as much Amunition aboard her as one of the former and from time to time several others of the same nature steering the same course Whilest the Governor from that time forward solicited the Counsel that the City Wesel being so considerable a Town and of such great consequence to the State ought to have 6000. men in Garrison and sufficient trenches and Amunition all which the Governor often times requested in his Letters to the Counsel of State who at last gave orders for the making of Trenches about the said City and furnishing the same with all manner of necessaries But instead of putting a Garrison of 6000 men into the same they drew immediately thirteen Troops of Horse and twelve Companies of Foot all stout and able men out of it and put a few Companies consisting the greatest part of unexperienced youths in the stead of which the Governor hath often complained and to secure this considerable City the more to the Enemy they under pretence that the Governor Jucchen should come and give their High and and Mighties an account in Person in the Hague put in another Governor and how honourably he hath carried himself in the defence of that City appears by the event Exitus acta probant The like pretence they had to turn out other Governors as appears chiefly by Colonel D'ossery an Irish man and a Roman Catholick whose Villanies and Traiterous actions have been manifested formerly in his ser vices under other Princes And one whose correspondence with the Enemy and notorious Treasons concerning the business of Rynberk are at large related in a certain paper delivered by the Captains Vytenbogaert and Clark to his Highness the Prince of Orange and the Counsel of State and also in a certain apology of the Governor Bassem and a Comment on the letter from Tondlemonde all extant in Print to which I refer you wherein also you have an account how that the Garrisons of the City Rynberk notwithstanding it was so considerable a fortress to this State were not sufficient to defend half the Countersharps and therefore might easily by the Treachery of D'ossery and the falsness of the Governor Bessem be conquered by the Enemies And indeed this D'ossery following forsooth the examples of the Honourable Lords and Overseers of this forementioned work in their counterfeit fatherly care behaved himself no doubt so honourably in the defence of this City that he well deserved a triumphant Gallows of a considerable height not only his own falsness but because so many Loyal Officers which undoubtedly were in Garrison there were deluded by his base designes and treacheries to their utter ruine And for the better carrying on of these Traiterous courses three Regiments more were sent to Mastricht after it was sufficiently provided so that in all probability the Enemy finding that place so fortifyed should pass by there and come first to Rynberk and Wesel At the same time when the newes came to an Assembly of a Province now in the Enemies possession that there were three Regiments more put into Mastricht it was said that his Highness the Prince of Orange had writ in a letter that he did much wonder that such an extraordinary care was taken for that City only when as it would be more necessary to look after other Towns which were of as great consequence to the State this I was informed by a person whose fortuneit was to be present at that Assembly I also heard at that time that a certain Governor being exceedingly troubled said what doth all this tend to I do not like the carriage of affairs for we are like to lose our Country for want of men having 25000 short of what is absolutely necessary And what was the Reason They made a great show of raising men but they acted all things contrary For notwithstanding the first levies were made with great trouble out of the country and we were assured that by the many men that were likewise raised there by others the Governors of those places had taken an occasion strictly to forbid the same insomuch that we knew there was not one place nay not one foot of Land out of our own Dominions left where we were permitted to levy any forces yet nevertheless under a pretence for the good of the Country it was strictly forbid by an Edict not to raise any men within our Dominions but in such places where we knew before there was not a man to be had Nay these Officers which for the most part were Roman Catholicks knowing the unwillingness of men to stay with them were forced to raise two or three times the men that otherwise would have served to the great exhausting of the publick Treasures and their own Estates and yet they could not keep so many of them together as to make up halfe a Company at their place of Randesvouz Whereupon the Captains making a complaint to the Governors that it was a common practise of the Soldiers to take their mony and afterwards to desert their Colours and desiring that these things might be remedied they shrunk up their shoulders saying it was not in their power to help it These disorders whereupon of beating of Drums within the Country was left off and the discourse amongst the Officers being that Holland had mony enough and consequently might have men at all times The other great Leavies and Treaties with the Forraign Princes viz. Brardenburgh Lunenburgh and others were appointed to be against that time when they hoped and judged that all things would be lost notwithstanding it might have been sooner accomplished and more effectually the Princes themselves having proffered their Assistance The Ratification of the Treaty being also kept close till the last hour deprived our Ambassadors from making a conclusion We may be informed from the Ambassadors that were sent to Brandenburgh and now Residing in the Hague that they received the Ratification at Hamborough not before the begining of July New Stile The same Lords Ambassadors declare to the whole World that the States themselves may justly be blamed for the so late coming down of the Auxillary Troops That at first his Highness the Duke of Brandenburgh was treated withall as if they would have bought a dish of Fish of him That afterwards his Highness instead of being prest on advised our Ambassador to stir up his Lords and Masters about the furthering of affairs saying moreover my Lord you have Traitors in your Country matters are very ill managed there I am also assured and it may likewise be heard from the forementioned Ambassadors that the Treaty with the Princes of Lunenburgh and Br●mswick was broke

that they Nota bene justly suspected this contrary way of acting and that it gave them an apprehension that the Enemy would thereby be encouraged to propose such conditions to such Deputy which never can nor must be treated of viz. their Religion Freedom and the lawful Government of these Countreys And how the forementioned three points would have been maintained by such a Deputy who is a notorious Atheist a Slave to the Enemy bought to the destruction of our whole Government every one may easily judg Just at the time when this Commission was finished and de Groot yet in the Hague ready on his departure I had the honor to speak with one of my very good friends and a member of the High and Mighty States of Holland who on my curious question of What News changing his countenance as if things did not go according to his mind was pleased to say We shall in short have a Peace but I fear a sorrowful one De Groot goeth to the King of France and hath plien pouvoir When asking amazedly How will it be then His Excellency replied There is a lank Charter to be laid before the King and His Majesty is to write On which I answer'd Then de Groot is a Great Prophet for this morning a certain Lord informed me as indeed it was true that the forementioned de Groot about three Months before discoursing with him the said Lord saying that our Native Countrey was threatned with a great and terrible War De Groot answering said Pish pish I do not see any such great difficulty therein I do believe that the King of France will at the first take some of our Cities which we cannot hinder him from but Nota I I de Groot striking on his breast will make Peace with the King of France in the field about three Months hence And observe the time wherein he received his forementioned Commission was about so long after The Lord hereupon discoursing liberally with me said That he believed the same because de Groot was a person who was exceedingly self-opinionated and that not long ago not naming the time which I guest at by his words he had told his Excellency himself that he should certainly conclude a Peace adding moreover that though we should lose and add a pearl to his Crown by this Peace yet if we examined the prerogatives and benefits which Holland should reap from it we would not account our loss so great Though this Lord would not favour me with an explanation of the aforesaid prerogative yet I suppose in all likelihood that his chiefest aim was that Holland should then be separated from the other United Provinces and freed as it were from that heavy burthen as they are pleased to call it And besides that then they would be freed from all fears that His Highness the Prince of Orange at any time should be made Stadtholder of that Province One would think it strange how it is possible that any men should be transported to such imaginations But Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacra fames He was always more for the French than the Princes Interest This was the reason why the Council Pensionary in the time of the War with Munster durst propose in a full Assembly to make the Duke of Turenne Captain General over our Militia Ambitious is our Enemy and full of ambition are also those Subjects rather desiring to be governed by a King than a Prince But see how miraculous is the providence of the Almighty Just when our State was in greatest danger and tottering ready to fall down the appearance of our deliverance was nearest at hand for it pleased God just at that time to throw down that Great and subtil Designer which had thus long usurped more authority than ever was aimed at by any of our Princes and immediately caused the Prince of Orange unanimously by all the Inhabitants of those Countreys to be proclaimed S●adtholder of Holland Zealand and West-Fri●sland and to restore to him all those Dignities which his Predecessors of Glorious Memory ever enjoyed That Great God grant also that as by means of His Predecessors with the expense of their estates and effusion of blood the Body of the United Provinces was framed and as long as they reigned kept in a good order the disjoyned Members may by his valour and conduct wherein we beseech God to assist him and to free him from evil counsel and bless him more and more daily be united again I do certainly believe that many of our Inhabitants and also all good Patriots will judg it convenient to find out all those Governors which are guilty of betraying our Native Countrey and by some severe punishment inflicted on them and their Instruments as Momba D'Ossery and other Governors Commanders Captains and other Officers and make them an example to others But as to the later part I do not altogether approve of their opinion nevertheless with submission to better judgments my sentiment onely is that it would be convenient to make a strict enquiry into the Camp proceeding of the Governors and such as bore the chiefest commands and had the charge of defending Cities and Fortresses as Momba Van Zanten Bassem D'ossery and the like as also those persons whether Officers or others that have been assisting to the Governors in executing of their treacheries and had daily correspondence with the Enemy And by punishing all such persons severely according to their demerits make them examples to others But there ought not so particular a regard to be taken of other Captains and meaner Officers who cannot be said to have had the lest knowledg of their unfaithful Governors designs and would have undoubtedly behaved themselves most loyal had they been encouraged thereto by their Governors and not been deluded to act those things which they were made believe would be for the benefit of the countrey but proved prejudicial for which if any should be punished most of all the Captains and other Officers in what Garrison soever would be lyable thereto And those Captains which should be punished more than others would be unjustly dealt withall or the State constrained to an execution of so many honest people which heretofore have behaved themselves like loyal Souldiers for the defense of their countrey and now onely brought thereto by the trecherous though seeming fair pretences and delusions of their base Governors We have also oftentimes seen that Military persons and other inferior Officers being accused of some committed abuses and freed from their punishments out of a particular favour have taken an occasion in all future opportunities to use more than ordinary endeavours for the good and benefit of the State Of which there are many examples whereof one is manifested at this time in Captain Buket I should also judg that some means might be found out who amongst the Regents is guilty of this High Treason and consequently deserving of punishment Especially if