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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39785	A short and impartial view of the manner and occasion of the Scots colony's coming away from Darien in a letter to a person of quality.	Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1297; ESTC R6209	27,049	42

must not the Consideration of all these together have distracted and confounded the Thoughts Resolutions and Measures of any Sett of Men that could have been in the Colony unless they had unanimously resolved to have turn'd Pyrates indeed and to have cast off all manner of Loyalty and Obedience to his Majesty And in that same case they must have resolved to have been dis-own'd by Scotland as well as by England And if so pray from whom then must they have expected Protection And here I cannot suffer my self to pass by without taking notice of some Persons who would pretend to palliat or skin over any thing that may relate to those Proclamations upon a Suggestion as if they had been forsooth necessarly emitted in compliance with and in prosecution of an alledged English Act of Parliament and that therefore any particular Person or Persons cannot well be quarrelled for the same Which being a Suggestion that cannot well be obviated without having recourse to the English Acts of Parliament and but few People here having occasion to be acquainted with them I reckon it may not be thought much amiss to touch such of them as can any ways relate to the Matter in hand and shall therefore do it as succinctly as I can Every Body knows that by the English Act of Navigation 12. Car. 2. Cap. 18. It is Enacted that no Goods shall be imported into or exported out of any of the English Plantations in America in other Vessels than such as belong only to the People of England or Ireland or Wales or Town of Berwick or any of the said Plantations and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners shall be English under the Pains and Penalties mention'd in the said Act. Since which time neither we nor the People of any other Nation can pretend to any Right or Freedom of Trade and Commerce with the said Plantations except in Ships qualified as above So that the having of any such Freedom is what the Company never contended for By the very same Act It is likewise specially Enacted that no Sugars Tobacco Cotton-Wool Indicoes Ginger Fustick or any other Dying Wood of the Growth of any English Plantations in America shall be transported to any Place other than to some English Plantation or to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick on pain to forfeit both Ship and Cargo And this being a particular Enumeration of the several Commodities which are prohibited by the said Act to be transported into any Place or Plantation belonging to Forreigners it follows of Consequence That all manner of Provisions and other Necessaries whatsoever which were not prohibited by the said Act might be transported from the English Plantations in Ships qualified as aforesaid whethersoever the Master should think fitt And that it has been all along the constant Practice of such Masters as Sail commonly from new-New-England new-New-York and the other Northernmost Plantations of America to do so is what I suppose none that knows any thing of that Trade will deny And tho' upon Complaints made in the Year 1695 to the Parliament of England of some Frauds and Abuses committed in the Plantation-Trade contrary to the Act above-recited they thought fit to superinduce some new Act with very strict Clauses to inforce and put in Practice the true Intent and Meaning of the said first Act yet I dare adventure to say that no Man can let me see an Act of the Parliament of England laying any such Restraint on the Inhabitants of the English Plantations in America as that they cannot carry or sell Provisions to any Forreign Place or Plantation whatsoever Which makes the Hardships of these Proclamations still the greater in this that we who are His Majesty's own Subjects should be denyed the common Benefit of having our Colony supplied with Provisions from the English Plantations by English Vessels in the ordinary way of Commerce while at the same time it is most certain that neither the Dutch at Curacao the Danes at St. Thomas the French at St. Christophers Martinico Petitguavis or Hispaniola nor the Portuguise at the Maderas or Tessera-Islands were ever to this Hour denyed the Benefit thereof except in the Case of declared War And even then too the selling them Provisions and perhaps some other Merchandise likewise is often wink 't at as is at this time the carrying of Provisions Negro's and other Commodities from the English Plantations to several parts of the Spanish Dominions in the West-Indies So that to our Comfort we are the only Nation under Heaven that I could ever yet hear of against whom any such Proclamations have been published by the English in their American Plantations Nor was it thought enough that upon the first Orders sent from England dated as I am informed the second Day of January 1698 9 the said Proclamations against our Colony were published in Barbados and Jamaica in the Month of April and in all the other English Plantations in some short time thereafter But that upon second Orders a second Fleece of Proclamations should be likewise published by the same Persons and in the same Places to let the World see that the first were not grounded upon Mistake but that they were resolved to make their Putt good For upon the 5th day of September last a second Proclamation pretty near in Substance with the former was published in Barbados and some of those lately come from New-York in the Company 's Ship the Caledonia do Report That three or four Days before they set sail from thence there were fresh Orders arriv'd at New-England for emitting and publishing second Proclamations in those parts against our Colony which gives us sufficient ground to believe that like Orders were sent to all the other Plantations Yet such as have a Mind to be Talking will always find something to Amuse the Multitude withal be it never so little to the purpose And thus we find some People still urging that notwithstanding of those Proclamations some Inhabitants in the English Plantations who are Zealous Well-Wishers to this Undertaking have since the Publication of those Proclamations sent some Sloops and Brigantines to the Colony and that therefore the Proclamations were not the Occasion of the Colony's coming away from Darien but that the same proceeded from other Causes and that if the Colony had staid still and maintain'd their Settlement more Sloops and Brigantines would beyond all peradventure be sent to them from time to time till the Company 's own Ships should arrive there Well! All this is very plausible and I think our Nation as well as the Company is very much beholden to the Generous and Kind Inclinations of those Gentlemen who ventured any part of their own Interest so frankly to support that of the Company or Colony But as it happen'd Pray what was the Colony the better for it Did any of those Sloops or Brigantins arrive at Darien before the Colony's Departure thence Or had the Colony so much

of December which was near about four Months before any Word came from the Colony the Court of Directors gave Orders to conclude the Bargain for the said Ship according to former Agreement and to fit her out with Provisions for the Colony with all possible Expedition But the Ship when bought tho' a known prime Sailer and after all the necessary Precaution had in buying of her happening not to be so Sound as was expected took a much longer time to be Repaired than could well have been imagined and could not therefore Sail as soon as was intended But in the mean time the Directors being loath it seems to Trust to the said Ship only in case of Accidents made it their Business to find out and purchase a good Sailing Ship English-qualified to be dispatched from Clyde with Provisions and the needful Advices for the said Colony And upon finding a Ship so qualified she was dispatched from Clyde upon the 24 of February last but to the Company 's and Colony's inestimable Loss the said Vessel was cast away on one of the West Islands of Scotland Of which Accident the Court of Directors had no Advice before the 11th Day of April And the Loss was still the greater in this that she was bought so qualified with a View to be serviceable to the Colony not only in Trading upon the Coast but also in running backward and forward to and from any of the English Plantations with Goods Provisions and Intelligence she being qualified to touch there in the strictest sense of the English Act of Navigation You may remember likewise that the other Ship abovemention'd was just ready to Sail about the latter-end of March last being the time that the first Advices arrived here of the Colony's Settlement and good Condition But the Directors having Intelligence of Three Spanish Ships of Force that were to Sail about that time from Cadiz to the West-Indies with a Re-inforcement of Men Arms and Ammunition for Carthagena under the Command of Don Piementel the present Governour of that City and that he had particular Instructions with relation to our Settlement they thought it not safe to let the Company 's said Ship sail alone and therefore stopt her till another Ship of Force might be got ready with Men and Provisions which accordingly being got both the said Ships set sail from Leith-Road on the 12th of May last with a Recruit of 300 Men about 900 Bolls of Wheat made into Bisket and Flower as also a considerable Quantity of Pease Pork Oyl Brandy some Beef Arms Ammunition and other Necessaries carrying likewise along with them Advices that a much more considerable Recruit of Ships Men Provisions Arms Ammunition and other Necessaries were to follow with all convenient Dispatch under Convoy of the Rising-Sun And the Directors did accordingly dispatch the Rising-Sun and three other Ships of considerable Force and Burthen from Greenock the 18 th Day of August last tho' by contrary Winds they were stopt so as that they could not sail further than the Isle of Bute till the 24 th of September following They had 1300 Men on board with as many Ingineers Fire-Workers Bombardeers Battering Guns Mortars Bombs and other Warlike Provisions as if safely arrived at the Colony in due time and considering the Situation and natural Strength of the Place might reasonably be presumed to have made it impregnable Nor was this all for immediatly after the first Advice that the Directors had of the Colony's Settlement they wrote back to the Colony by the several Ways of New-England Jamaica Barbados Antegoa and the other Leeward Islands that these Recruits above-mentioned were coming to them and in the mean time sent them an Illimited and Discretionary Credit for buying of Provisions from any of the English Plantations if they should happen to stand in need thereof Which Credit the Directors were induced to give from an Assurance that they had given them by several Persons at London and in the West-Indies of their good Inclinations to Supply the Colony with Provisions if such a Credit were given and for that end Printed Copies of the said Credit were sent by the Way of London to be dispersed over all the English Plantations in America And upon the Faith thereof several Sloops and Brigantins freighted full of Provisions were dispatched from the English Plantations to our Colony particularly from new-New-England new-New-York Road-Island and Philadelphia tho' alas they happen'd to be too late those of the Colony being unluckily come away from Darien some Weeks before these Sloops could well be arrived there So that this was no such Imaginary Credit as some People would have us believe it to have been Yea further even before the said Credit was known in America not only several Sloops went with Provisions from Jamaica to the Colony and Barter'd their Provisions for other Goods But also a New-England Brigantin freighted full of Provisions sold her Cargo to the Council of the Colony for Bills drawn by them upon the Company 's Cashier here Which Bills amounted to about 700 Pounds Sterling and were punctually paid accordingly By which it may evidently appear that if no extraordinary Methods had been used to put a Barr to their begun Correspondence there had been little or no Occasion for any special Credit on particular Persons And upon the Directors having received the said surprizing and unexpected News of their Colony's coming away from Darien they immediatly came to Resolutions of dispatching a particular Credit with proper Advices per Express to New-York by a Vessel then bound thither where they understood most of their Men were and to send other Expresses by several Ways in quest of both the first and last Recruits sent to the Colony with Orders to repossess themselves of their former Settlement and to fend Supplies of Provisions and other Necessaries after them as soon as possible and to have from hence forward some small Vessels or Advice-Boats running continually backward and forward with certain Intelligence between this and the Colony their former way of Corresponding having it seems fail'd by reason of the Proclamations above-mention'd as shall appear more particularly by and by And because the Expediting of those several Expresses and sending a Credit for Provisions and other Necessaries could not admit of any Delay at so Critical a Juncture they frankly engag'd their own privat Credits for those several Purposes until the Company 's own Money should come in to Answer the same and in the mean time they called a Meeting of the Council-General who approved of those Resolutions And several of the Councellours did likewise freely and generously joyn their own privat Credits with that of the Directors for the Purposes aforesaid In Pursuance of which Resolutions the Directors sent a Credit of 2000 Pounds Sterling to New-York by a Gentleman whom they sent Express from hence thither in the beginning of October last with proper Instructions suteable to the Occasion They sent likewise at the