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A40373	A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien with an answer to the Spanish memorial against it, and arguments to prove that it is the interest of England to join with the Scots and protect it : to which is added a description of the countrey, and a particular account of the Scots colony.	Philo-Caledon.; Ridpath, George, d. 1726.; Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.; Foyer, Archibald.	1699 (1699)	Wing F2047; ESTC R18505	46,261	66

Proclamations against having any Commerce or Trade with the Scots at Darien Tho they be settled there according to the Terms of his own Patent and an Act of Parliament in Scotland We are not insensible that the present Juncture of Affairs obliges the Kingdom of England to carry fair with Spain and may admit that in part as an Apology for some of that Opposition we have met wi●…h from them but the questioning our Act of Parliament at first and their hindering our Subscriptions at Hamburgh afterward before ever they knew what our design was make that excuse of little weight but allowing it all the Force they would have it to bear it may be worth their while to consider whether it be more their Interest to incourage the Spaniards in an unjust Opposition to our American Settlement or to support the Scots in maintaining their Right It is certain that the Spaniards are in no condition to break with England or if they should it 's in the power of the English to reduce them speedily to reason whereas if the Scots should miscarry in their Undertaking by the Discouragements from England before-mentioned which exposes our Ships to be taken and treated a Pirates by any Nation that pleases the infallible consequence of it will be that the Ruin and utter impov'rishment of Scotland which must necessarily follow such a miscarriage will immediatly affect England both in her Trade and Strength The City of London and the Northern Road will soon feel the Effects of it when the Money spent by our Gentry and Merchants continually for Cloaths Provisions and Goods ceases to circulate there England must unavoidably become an easier Prey to any forreign Enemy since it will not be only the loss of a Tribe but of an entire Sister-Nation Or supposing that Scotland should be able to bear up under the loss it will lay the Foundation of an irreconcilable Feud and perhaps issue in a War betwixt the two Nations which did never yet terminate at long run to the advantage of England and is as unlikely to do so now as ever For in such a case they would find us unanimous as one Man against them whereas we are sure that all those who wish well to the Protestant Interest and their present Constitution would never join in any such War against us and therefore those who are Enemies to the Peace of the Nations being aware of this labour to Effect their design by another Method and endeavour as much as they can to dash the Government against one another But they are mistaken in the People of Scotland we are so sensible of our obligations to K. William and know so well what is due to our Deliverer that it surpasses all their Art to create in us the least ill thought of him it is not in the temper of our Nation The World knows that however frequent and successful we have been in reducing our bad Kings to reason yet there never was any People under the Sun more Loyal and affectionate to good Princes than we have been and is when we have been forc'●… to oppose our Monarchs private Persons have sometimes carried ●…eir R●…tments too high yet the publick Justice of the Nation was alw●…e govern'd with Temper We could multiply instances to prove this but need go no higher than the three last Kings who tho a●… o●… them Enemies to our Constitution as appear'd by their Principles and Practices yet it 's very well known what we both did and suffer'd for them and particularly for K C●…arles I. tho the Malice of a Faction in our Neighbouring Nation six'd a ●…ous Reproach upon us as if w●… had sold ●…im 〈◊〉 which Ref●…ection we are sufficiently vindicated by the Lord Hollis's Memoirs before-mentioned wherein that exc●…llent P●…rson makes it Evident that tho our War against that Prince was just yet we had all possible respect for his Person made the 〈◊〉 Conditions ●…e could for his Safe●…y and Honour and to avoid greater Misch●…fs and the playing of our Enemies Came to the 〈◊〉 of our s●…lves and his Majesty we were 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 him in England Memoirs p. 68. Then since we carried it so to a Prince that had been no 〈◊〉 kind to us it will be impossible to create a Breach 〈◊〉 ●…s an●… a Prince to whom under God we owe all that we 〈◊〉 as Me●… and 〈◊〉 But at the same time our Neighbours w●…o 〈◊〉 ●…o dri●…e 〈◊〉 N●…il as far as it will go would do well to 〈◊〉 ●…hat ●…e never b●…liev d that Doctrine in Scotland that it is 〈◊〉 to resist a King or 〈◊〉 that has a Commission under him upon any pretence whatsoever we 〈◊〉 that Doctrine in Scythia 〈◊〉 wh●…ce s●…me A●…ors derive our Origin and think it o●…ly fit to be ●…nt back to Turkey from whence it came We know very well how to distinguish betwixt a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the abuse of it And our Ancestors rightly understood how to obey the lawful Commands of their Princes when Masters of themselves and how to govern by their Authority and in their Name when ●…ey were not tho they did not think themselves obliged to o●…ey their personal Commands when the Fortune o●… War or other Accidents had put them into the hands of our Enemies Thus we refused Obedience to K. James I. when detain'd prisonet in England contrary to the Law of Nations and carried over into France to command his Subjects there not to bear Arms against the English Army where he was in person We told him we knew how to Extinguish betwixt the Commands of a King and those of a Captive And that most of the Kings of Scots have been such in Relation to us since the Union we could heartily wish were not too demonstrable To return to the point of what may probably be the Consequences if the English should proceed to any surther degree of of Opposition Or if the Scots should misearry in the Design It 's reasonable to believe that the English will be so wise as to forbear Hostilities tho we are very well satisfied there is a Party in that Nation who bear ours no Good-will but they being such as are either disaffected to the present Constitution or acted by a sordid principle of private Interest it 's to be hop'd they will never be able so far to leaven the sound part of the English Nation as to occasion a Rupture betwixt them and us Yet we must needs say that we look upon their way of treating us to be a very unaccountable thing and that it was no small surprise to us to find that an English Parliament should look on our taking Subscriptions in England in order to admit them Joint-Sharers with our selves in the benefit of the Act to encourage our Trade to be no less than a high Misdemeanour We have reason likewiwe to complain of their constant practice of pressing our Sea-men in time of War as if they were their own Subjects and that they should treat

General Monk ' s Undertaking for it cannot be denied that we had the Ballance of Europe in our hands at the time of the last Revolution and that we turned the Scale to the advantage of England in particular and of Europe in general which must be allowed to be as great a Service as that which was so thankfully rewarded by Edward and William the Conquero whence it is evident that those Englishmen who at present oppose our Settlement in America don't inherit the gratitude of their Ancestors when they not only will not allow us to trade in Conjunction with them but withstand our doing any thing that may advance a Trade by our selves If they object that what we did in all those cases was no more th●…n our duty and what we ow'd to our own preservation as well as to theirs it is easie to reply that admitting it to be so yet by the Laws of GOD and Men People are encouraged to perform their Duties by Rewards and their Ancestors were so sensible of this that tho they knew we were equally coneern'd to defend the Island against foreign Invaders as well as they yet they thought themselves obliged in Policy as well as Gratitude to reward us which they not only did by that Honorary Premium of allowing us to be Denisons of England as abovementioned but sometimes gave to us and at other times confirm'd to us the three Northern Counties of Northumberland Westmorland and Cumberland to be held in Fee of the Crown of England It is likewise very well known with how much honour the Parliament of England treated us when they courted onr Assistance against K. Charles I. and what large Promises that Prince made us if we would have but stood Neuter which tho we had reason to think many of those that opposed him had no great kindness neither for our Civil nor Ecclesiastical Constitution yet the sence that we had of the common danger that our Religion and Liberties were in at that time made us proof against all those Tentations so that after all Endeavours for a Reconciliation betwixt the King and Parliament of England proved unsuccessful we sent an Army which cast the Ballance on the side of the latter who before that time were reduced low enough by the Kings Army as is very well known to such as are acquainted with the History of those times and is own'd by my Lord Hollis in his Memoirs lately published But to return to the last Revolution Tho we must own that we owe our Deliverance to his present Majesty and were oblig'd in Conscience and Honour to concurr with him Tet who could have blam'd us to have stood upon Terms before we had fallen in with England Especially considering how ungratefully nay villanously we were treated by Cromwel and his Party after we had sav'd them and the Parliament of England from the Scorpions that the Cavaliers had prepar'd to chastise them with as is own'd by the said Lord Hollis Not could we have been any way Calpable if we had stood upon higher and surer Terms with his Majesty Considering how unthankfully we were abus'd and enslav'd by our late Kings for whom we had acted and suffered so much And tho we must own that no less Present than that of ou●… Crown was sufficient to testify our Gratitude for what the Prince of Orange had done for us yet we were under no necessity of gratifying him in that manner since our Deliverance was effected before hand and that he himself in his Declaration expres'd it to be no part of his design to come for the Crown so that our Re ward was as frank and generous as his Service Then as to England we were under no manner of obligation to continue the Union with them We might have insisted upon having our King obliged to reside as much amongst us as amongst them that we should be govern'd without any Consideration or respect to their Interest any further than it fell in with our own We might have insisted upon an Act that we should not be oblig'd to attend his Majesty at any time at the Court of England about our Affairs but that he should either attend upon our Administration in person pro re nata as he does now upon the Affairs of Holland or lay down Methods to have his Pleasure signified to us at Home in such cases as it was requir'd which would save a vast deal of Money annually to the Kingdom of Scotland Then as to the Succession we were under no Necessity of settling it in the same manner as they did in England for since they had made a Breach in the Line they could not handsomely have blam'd us to have made an improvement of it and either to have limited the Reversion after his present Majesty's Death or otherwise as we should have thought best for the Security of our Civil and Religious Liberties or we might have settled it upon the Prince of Orange and his Issue by any other Wife there being cause enough then to conceive that he was never like to have any by his late excellent Princess Had we taken any of these Methods it must be own'd that England would have been considerably weakned and lessen'd in the Esteem of the World by it that we should have thereby had an opportunity of making such Forreign Alliances with France as formerly or with any other Nation as would have made England uneasy and perhaps unsafe on occasion and therefore it must be reckon'd highly impolitick as well as ungrateful in our Neighbours to treat us continually at such a rate as if they had a mind to bring us under Subjection since we have so many open Doors to get out at They must not think that we have so far degenerated from the Courage and Honour of our Ancestors as tamely to submit to become their Vassals when for 2000 years we have maintain'd our Freedom and therefore it is not their Interest to oppress us too much If they consult their Histories they will find that we alwayes broke their Yoke at long-run if at any time we were brought under it by force or Fraud The best way to assure themselves of us is to treat us in a Friendly manner Tho we be not so great and powerful as they it is not impossible for us to find such Allies as may enable us to defend our selves now as well as formerly None of these things are suggested with an ill design to raise Annimosity betwixt the Nations or to perswade to a Separation of the Crowns but meerly to shew those of our Neighbours who use us os unkindly that they are bound in Gratitude Duty and Interest to do otherwise and particularly to support us in our American Settlement and not to lay our King under a necessity by their froward Humours in Parliament or otherwise to discourage us in that Undertaking as they have hitherto done and continue still to do in their American Colonies by their

out ●…or other Allies by their Opposition and Neglect We shall conclude this matter with one or two more Arguments to prove That it is th●… Interest of England to join with us in this Affair by which also it will appear that there is nothing advanc'd in these Sh●…ets out of any ill Design against the English Nation or to perswade to a disu●…iting of the Crowns but on the 〈◊〉 that a stricter Union is absolutely necess●…rry ●…hat both Nations may have but one Interest which will render us less lyable to Convulsions and intestine Commotions at home and put us out of danger of being atrack'd by Enemies ●…rom abroad The first Argument is this That by Encou●…ging ou●… Settlement at Darien English Ships that have occasion to pass by those Coasts will there be certain of a plac●… of Retreat in case of attack either by Enemy or Tempest without danger of being Confiscated by the Spaniards and having their Men condemn'd to be perpetual Slaves in their Mines 2. I●… we be encou●…aged in ou●… American Colony it will Contribute much to heighten the Consumption of the English Product since what we have not of our own or wherein we are wanting either as to quality or quantity we shall suppl●… ou●… selves ●…or the use of our Plantation in England which may be of great benefit to the Northern Counties especially whence we may conveniently furnish our selves with B ●…eves ●…or Victualling our Ships ou●… own Cattle being for the most part too small for ●…hat use besides many other things that we shall have occasion ●…o export to England for the use of the Plantation and to maintain a Commerce with the Na●…ives 3. By joining with us in this Colony and securing a Post on the South-Sea which the Princes of Darien will no doubt very readily ag●…ee to they may shorten their Voyages to the East-Indies and by that means be able to Outdo all their Rivals in that Trade But if they will be so far wanting to themselves as to suffer those advantages to fall into the hands of others who are Enemies to our Religion and common Country They cannot blame the Scots who have made them such fair Offers And if ou●… Nation should miscarry in the Attempt they themselves cannot expect to stand long but must be buried in the common Ruines and fall unpitied 4. If after all the English should continue obstinate in their Opposition to us as their late Proclamations in America and other Passages would seem to imply they have a mind to the World cannot blame the Scots to provide for themselves by such other Alliances as they shall think meet since the English are so unkind and have been constantly growing upon us especially since the Restoration of King Charles II. to which we did so much contribute that without our Concurrence it could never have been effected This will appear to be incont●…overtibly true i●… we consider that in the time of K. ●…ames I. we were u●…der no Restrictions as to matters of Trade more than they except as to the Exportation of Wool and a few other things of English Product and so we continu'd till the Restoration when King Charles II. and the English did very ungratefu●…ly lay su●…h Prec●…usions and Restrictions upon us contrary to the Laws relating to the Postnati by the 12th of Car 2. for the incouraging and increasing Shipping and Navigation and the 15 Car 2. for the encouraging of Trade by which we are put in the same Circumstances ●…s to Trasfick with France and Holland and in a worse C●…ndition than Ireland that is a Conquest which is so much the more unreasonable since we are always invol'd and ingag'd in the Wars betwixt England and other Countries And those with whom they have most frequent Wars being Holland and France the only two Nations with whom the Scots have almost any Commerce our Trade must of necessity sink during such Wa●…s whereas England hath still a great Trade to other parts of the World and by this means we are forc'd to be sharers in their Troubles tho they will not allow us to partake of their Profits nor suffer us to take any measures to procure such as we may call our own It is plain from the Instance of Darien and the Proclamations in the English American Colonies against their Subjects Entertaining any Commerce with our Settlement there that by the Union of the Crowns upon the present footing we are in a worse Condition than ever For when any thing happens wherein the Interest of England seems to be contrary to Ours it is certainly carried against us and we are left without Remedy So that in this respect we are in a worse Condition than any Forreigners with relation to England ●…or if a Foreign People discover any thing that may be of advantage to them they are at Liberty to pursue it by themselves or to take in the Assistance of others And if they find themselves aggriev'd by England they have their Respective Governments to make application to for Redress But we are the most unhappy People in the World For if Endl●…nd should oppose us we have no King to appeal to but one that is e●…ther an Alien and Enemy to us as being King o●… a great●…r People who are such or if he be inclinable to protect and do us Justice as King of Scots he is a Prisoner in England and cannot do it If they Question him in the Parliament of England for any thing relating to his Government of Scotland as in the case of our late Act for an East India and African Trade his Interest as King of England obliges him to submit himself as King of Scotland By which means our Crown which we desended so gallantly for so many Ages and which the English could never make subject to theirs by force is now intirely subjected by a false step of our own in suffering our King to take their Crown upon him without making better Terms for our selves So that instead of having a King to fight our Battels we h●…ve made a Surrender of our Prince to the Enemy who arm him again●…t us and which is worst of all we have satisfied our own Proverb as to our selves That Scots men are wise behind hand For tho we sufficiently sma●…ed for it in the four last Reigns yet we had not so much foresight or Care of our selves as to prevent the Consequences of it in this Reign when it was in our power to have done it Then if we make Application to our antient Allies or any other foreign Power for our Assistance when we groan under Opp●…ession then we are treated as Rebels Thus our whole Nation was proclaim'd such for but offering to make Application to the King of France as our ancient Friend and Ally when a certain Party in England had arm'd our natural Sovereign K. Charles I. against us And that which is still worse tho our Crown from the time of the Uni●…n has