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england_n	france_n	king_n	time_n	18,531	5	4.0048	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31295	Min Heer T. van C's answer to Min Heer H. van L's letter of the 15th of March, 1689 representing the true interests of Holland, and what they have already gained by our losses.	T. van C.; H. van L.	1690 (1690)	Wing C138; ESTC R4107	5,073	4

destruction of Seamen is of mighty importance to us how many Men of War have been lost How the Merchant-men have had their Seamen Press'd from their Ships and by that and Embargoes and Storms this year have lost above two Millions And desire them to consider that he who has been brought up amongst us is not a stranger to what belongs to a Fleet and Trade so that the miscarriages of both these cannot be attributed to his want of Judgment or Application but to a further design of weakning that Kingdom and advancing us I tell them how he was once going to remove all or most of the English Captains of Ships and put ours in their places which had certainly been done but that it would too soon have made the secret known to the Nation I also shew them that notwithstanding the vast stock he has in Bank amongst us he has been so cautious both for his own concern and ours as not to touch one penny of it but has made the people of England furnish him even beyond their powers and yet runs daily in debt there for Stores and Provisions nay even for his Souldiers pay by which means if he increase not his own stock of which I have at present no positive account he at least impoverishes them to our wish so that hereafter they will be able to do nothing without our assistance 'T is true he has given out there that the E of Portland is to draw 200000 l. out of his stock in the East-India Trade but we know when that money was sent from England and what Plate was melted down to help to make up the summ and that this at least shall be hereafter added to his Bank is more than probable These things I demonstrate to them as done for us and then shew what benefit we have already reaped by these proceedings That we have as I said before established our Interest upon a firm and lasting foundation by their utter ruine being now Masters of the whole Trade of the Inhabitable World That whilest he has denied Convoys to their Merchant Ships press'd their Seamen and after promises to the contrary clapped Embargoes upon all their outward bound Ships we have sent out ours with all freedom and have by that means got the choice of all Foreign Commodities at easie rates if not the sole emption of them and vended our own at our own price That by these means and his permitting us to carry all sort of Commodities into England in our own bottoms our Country is enriched by this years War treble to what we expended for the Expedition besides the prospect of a perpetual enjoyment of a free Sea and Traffick Nay we may hope in time as I shall show here-after to ride Masters of the Brittish Sea and make them lour their Topsails to us II. In the second place to shew what he is now doing to our advantage I tell them that I need only mention these Actions by which 't is manifest he has our Interest in his eye and uses all means to give us a lasting ensurance of all these good things he has procured for us but besides all these has he not moreover sent the E. of Portland amongst us with fresh proposals if we will further lend him our assistance Are not these proposals so advantageous to our Interest that our States who know them are more than willing to assist him with greater numbers of Men and Ships this Summer than they did the last Again Does he countenance their Merchants or hearken to their proposals for the advancement of Trade any more now than he did the last year Is he not raising fresh Recruits and daily sending them hither in exchange for ours And does he not pay both the one and the other or at least engage for the payment by which a good part of our Army is maintained for us Has he not all the last Summer been at two thirds of the charges for maintaining the War by Sea notwithstanding that it was principally entred into upon our Accounts and that we are likely to be the only gainers Has he not of late Prorogued and Dissolved their Parliament that he may espouse the Church of England's Interest by which means the Liberty of Conscience we so much dread can never be establish'd and by which means all conscientious Dissenters will with the Jews be again forced to take their retreat amongst us Are not these and many more which he does for us and permits us to do for our selves such things as no Kings of England would ever have suffered and such as would have caused a War betwixt our States and them And yet these things he does for us and has done and we are not satisfied Let us therefore see III. Thirdly and lastly what good we may hope he will do for us if we obstruct not his designs This depends much upon future contingencies and measures are taken to fit all occasions If he find it possible to maintain his ground against the late King James and the power of France he knows it cannot be without our help and our Confederates assistance and we know upon what Terms we will lend him such as will be Efficacious We have as I have already mention'd long wish'd for a Mare liberum and could not endure the Kings of England should be Kings at Sea and make us Lour our Topsails to them or be subject to such Laws as they prescribed And will we think you lose so happy an opportunity of stripping them of that prerogative or if we can of making use of it our selves We know he is of a changeable humour but yet we know also his Ambition and he cannot gratifie his Pride without being kind to us and no kindness can endear us so much as to give us up that Prerogative by which we may have a free Sea and a plentiful Trade above our Competitors For this it is our States are now labouring and I hope all the opposition some of them seem to make is but to facilitate this and the other concessions we would have But if he find it impossible for him to keep the Throne as it is most likely his designs we now know are what you formerly told me To fleece that proud and pamper'd Nation and leave them neither Men nor Money nor Ammunition nor Ships nor any thing to enable them to make War against us or carry on a Trade Indeed by all appearances we may conjecture that he gives up the Crown as lost and that this is the reason why he has already emptied the Forts of Arms and Ammunition the Exchequer of Money and his Palace of Plate Furniture and Jewels He has borrowed immense summs of the Merchants and is still borrowing more and yet pays no body scarce his own Guards because 't is supposed he reserves a City plunder for their recompence He has prepared 500 Waggons under pretence to go for Ireland but we know that measures are already laid how if K. James should Land and the Nation return to their Allegiance he may carry off all the Booty with the remainder of our Army and a considerable part of the Fleet and return to his dear Native Country which will then receive him with open Arms notwithstanding all jealousies that are now cast amongst us I am Min Heer Yours T. Van C. The Hague Feb. 15. 16●●