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A80373 Considerations upon the present state of the United Netherlands, composed by a lover of his countrey, for the encouragement of his countreymen, in this troublesom [sic] time. Exactly translated out of Nether-dutch into English, by a most cordiall lover of both the nations. 1672 (1672) Wing C5925A; ESTC R174169 19,670 29

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of it than what was don by the Canon We shall also not speak of the successes of that Warr over which the King of England so highly vaunts on his side but concerning that we shall onely say that we should have matter enough to give thanks to God Almighty for if the conclusion of the present Warr should not be unhappyer for us then was the end of that in the time aforesaid Proceeding then to the examination of the substance of the Declaration itself if there can be any substance in sensible untruths evil-minded surmisings and gross impertinencies we shall briefly run over all the points over which the King of Great Britain shows or at least feigns his discontents and for the satisfaction not onely of our inhabitants and all unbyassed persons but of those of his own nation also we shall demonstrate that the foresaid pretended reasons have not been the moving cause of this Warr but onely pretexts and ill cemented covers of an intention which is older than the invention of the pretended motives which are no causes but contraryly are effects and products of the design of making warr upon us First the King complains to wit feignedly as we have formerly said that the States Generall by force of one of the Articles of the Breda's treaty as he holds it forth being obliged to send Commissioners to London there to regulate the trading in East-India should so farr have failed therein that they could not by a three years urgency of his Ambassadour be prevailed upon to acquit themselves of their word and promise given on that behalf and further to give the King satisfaction for the injurie which those of his nation in East-India should have suffered from ours Whereunto we shall not otherwise answer than shortly thus That we most exceedingly wonder that the pennner of the manifesto who doubtless is no small perswader of the Warr should set forth a Declaration which must come under the eyes of all the World having not once beforehand taken the pains to look over the treaty in which there is not found one article that obligeth the States General to send Commissioners to London for the end aforesaid but an article indeed there is viz the third of the appendix of the said treaty mentioning the commerce and navigation whereby it is set down that the King of England and the States General should with all speed by Commissioners on both sides form an expedient for regulating the navigation and Commerce and that mean while and by provision they should be ruled by that which was agreed on by the King of France and the States General on that behalf the Maritin treaty between the King of England and this State being principally since that concluded in the Year 1669. Hence now can the World see haw farr the desire of Warr an affection of all other the most irregular the most inhuman the most accursed darkeneth and destroyeth the understanding but praised be God Almighty who through his All-wise direction confoundeth and ashameth the wickedness and clearly discovers that the Authors of this Warr are inspired and blown up by the Spirit of him who is a Liar and a Murtherer of mankind from the beginning That which is said of the wrong that the English nation should have suffered by ours in the East-Indies is of the same nature that is untrue and Calumnious and should there also be made a specifical and particular expression of the said unjust things as they call them 't would make the dictatour of the manifesto ashamed who makes his complaint in General terms to deceiv the World which the English Courtiers I speak of those who are councellours of the Warr judge to be as sottish as themselvs are both sottish and wicked Touching the work of Syrinam Which is the second pretended grievance in the foresaid declaration 't is in the first place very remarkable on that behalf that the said work concerns the King wholly not at all but is onely taken up by him to stretch out a matter of quarrell which that the Reader may so much the aptlier apprehend be pleased this to know that the foresaid Colonie of Syrinam having been in March in the Year 1667. overmasterd by one Abraham Crijnsen of Zeeland with the Weapons of the State and in this manner by a certain capitulation brought under the subjection of the same was by the English in the month of May next following retaken but that it was by vertue of the 6th article of the treaty of Breda requiring that all Lands Cities strong holds and Colonies taken by one of the contesting parties from another during the Warr and retaken after the 10 20 of May 1667. should be restored to the first taker again put into the power of the State After the said restitution complaint was made by the King of England that the effect of the capitulation made with the forenamed Crijnsen was not made good to the inhabitants of Syrinam for that the in-dwellers of the said Colonie as they gave it out were denyed permission to depart with their persons and transportable effects otherwhere Now what right was the King of England ever born to to capacitate him with any reason to further the accomplishment of the capitulation made with the inhabitants of the said Colonie who by the right of the Warr are become subjects of the State What doth the foresaid Capitulation concern the King of England more than the King of Spain Do the inhabitants of Syrinam even after the conquest of the said place by vertue of the capitulation continue subjects of the King of England Hath any man ever heard that by a capitulation the jus imperii and the old right of the first Lord is continued over those who are conquered by Weapons onely because they capitulate and make conditions upon their giving over it is certainly notorious and beyond all controversie that conquering is a lawfull title which altereth the places and goods from the owner and the subjects from the Soveraign which right is especially established by the 3d. article of the Breda's Treaty whereby it is agreed that each party should with an absolute right of lordship propriety and possession continue to hold all the Lands Islands Cities Colonies and other places by them taken in and mastered during the Warr. 'T is indeed true that through the capitulation the right of the absolute disposition of the conquerour is circumscribed but no ●ound reason can be brought that the jurisdiction of the former ●ord should thereby be preserved over the capitulating subjects Is ●t ever com'd into the thoughts of the King of Spain that the inhabitants of Mastricht the Bosch and Breda who with their Cities by the right of Arms were renderd upon capitulation to the States General should by that capitulation continue to be his subjects Or pretends the King of England the right aforesaid in reference to those of English Colonies because of the nation and their birth as
if for that they did remain his Subjects after their being conquered Who will say that the birth and language can produce such effects contradicting the received and by all people acknowledged effects of the Warr whereby the conquered is subjected to the conquerour without consideration of birth or language Are then the inhabitants of Syrinam notwithstanding the foresaid capitulation become subjects of the State and hath the King of England by the right of the Warr lost his imperium dominion over them so that after the conquering of them they remain no more his subjects and his people as he terms them in the foresaid Declaration whence hath he the right of complaining that we have not permitted the inhabitants of Syrinam as his subjects to obtain the effect of the forenamed capitulation Is it not beyond dispute and all imagination that the foresaid inhabitants should thereupon have addressed themselvs to this State and not to the King of England as to their lawfull Soveraign that not meriting any consideration on the contrary which hath formerly by or on the behalf of the King of England been objected against the substance of what hath been before produced in the case of Syrinam and is again not obscurely stirred up in the foresaid Manifesto to wit that the words in such sort as they had possessed the same on the 10 20 of May standing in the end of the 3d. article of the Treaty at Breda should limit the power of the States General in favour of the King and for the preservation of his old dominion over the inhabitants of Syrinam observing the connexion and the true sense of the forementioned article 't is easy to apprehend that the foresaid words in such sort do not limit the dominion over that which is taken but onely the further extending of the possession so that the meaning was not by those words to express that each party should continue to hold what they possessed no otherwise than with such a limitation of dominion as they had got it by capitulation but onely that the right of the conquerour should not be extended wider that is over no more Land than was in his occupation the 10 20 of May besides that if yet from those words there should be any reflection upon the limitation of the dominion and that upon the foresaid capitulation of Which we say absolutely no it cannot at the highest be otherwise construed then that the thing by which the imperium ruledom of the conquerour should be snubbed must be left in his keeping and that for those who should have acquired any right by the said limitation that is for the inhabitants who made the capitulation and in no wise for their old Lord. Though this defence Was indeed of that force that the King of England might thereby be taken off yet have the States Generall further out of a singular esteem of his said Majesty in whose friendship they always accounted themselvs highly interessed debated with the Lord Ambassadour Temple upon the execution of the 15 and 19 Articles of the foresaid capitulation touching the point of the departure of the inhabitants of the said Colonie with their goods and in consequence thereof by an expresse missive enjoined the Commander of the forementioned Colonie fully to execute that which was agreed upon without ever having countermanded that command as in the foresaid Declaration is calumniously said by any secret orders which also hath never hitherto been don in the case of Pouleron We could here in particulars shew the faithfullness performed by the Commander in the effectuall execution of the said charge in Syrinam and withall the perverseness of the Commissioners of the King of England about those cases but we shall that we may not be too long in this short discourse with the Readers permission dispense therewith and delay the giving satisfaction in the curiosity thereof till the contra-manifesto of the State shall come abroad which undoutedly will contain a circumstantiall declaration of this case with documents and demonstrations adjoined The King proceeds from complaining of the work of Syrinam to a complaint touching pretended affronts and small things which he gives out to have suffered from the State both in making and showing as he saith of Pictures Medalls and pillars and also in refusing to strike the Flagge declaring that the first alone to wit the making and showing of some Pictures and Medalls were a sufficient cause of his displeasure and of the resentment of all his subjects that is in a word of the Warr. God preserve the World from such Christian Princes who for a Picture and a Medall will not stick to bring Christendom into uproars and to shed so much innocent bloud and I pray for what Pictures and What sort of medalls for a Picture made for the honour of a Burgermaster or Alderman of a City Who out of a generous mind hazarding himself for his Countrey acquired the honour of an heroicall and vertuous exploit and for a Medall wherein the Warr is pourtrayed with the annexion of a Pious Wish that that Beast viz the Warr might be farr from all Kingdoms Is it then so offensove in the time of Peace to make a token of remembrance of a successfull action in a foregoing Warr which was therefore the happyer because it was crowned with peace Are there not in all Lands and Cities pourtraitures of victories and painted Tables of triumphant atchievments Are there not in our land many memorials of renowned conquests Of prosperous field-battels and very successfull beleaguerings Are not all such badges of honour pricks and spurrs to generous actions What noble-minded Prince can attract to himself an occasion of Warr from that which every one so easyly passeth by We can well permit that the King cause such a Picture to be made of the burning of our unarmed merchant-Ships in the Flie and of the Houses of the poor Fishers on the Schelling for the renown of those who projected that illustrious design and an everlasting honour of them who effected it That which is said of columns and pillars is either falsy feigned by the inditer of the Manifesto or at least lightly taken up for that such pillars are nowhere save in the forging of his brains or in the gazets of the English court In reference to the right of the Flagge in the first place it is to be observed that out of the foresaid Declaration it appears and that not obscurely that the King by the same understands the dominion over the Sea For that speaking of the ancientness of the foresaid right he therewith adds that it is an unthankfull insolency that we will contend with him about the Dominium lordship of the Sea Whence it is clearly evident that the right of the Flagge and the dominion of the Sea are indeed words of a different sound but according to the Kings meaning of one and the same signification So that it is from thence now easy to apprehend that the