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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

be a People that seldom or never mistake their Interest They are sensible how useful the Alliance of Scotland may be to them both in regard of their Liberty to fish in our Seas without controul and of being a Curb upon England in case the old Roman Maxim of delenda est Carthago should come any more to be applied by the English to that Republick as in the Reign of K. Charles II. They are likewise sensible of the Advantage it would be to their trade to be partners with the Scots at Darien and how effectual it may be to disable the Fre●…ch to p●…sue thei●… Cl●…im to Sp●…in ●…nd by 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 t●…e old Title of th●…t ●…own upon their own Seven as well as to swallow up th●… other t●…n Provinces Th●…se things together w●…●… lon●… con●…inu'd Amity and Trade be●…xt Scotl●…nd and Holland and their Union in Religion and Ecclesiastical Disciplin●… are sufficient to evince that th●… Dutch would become ou●… 〈◊〉 in America with little 〈◊〉 Th●…t they ●…re able to as●… us in that Case with a 〈◊〉 Force suffici●… is be●…ond contradiction and that they would soon be convinc'd it is th●… 〈◊〉 to do it to prevent that mo●…strous I●…crease of the Fren●… M●…chy is obvious enough from the part they acted in the l●… W●… But admitting th●…t none of those 〈◊〉 should pre●…il with the Dutch a●…d that they should likewis●… abandon us it is not impo●…ble for us to obtain a●… Alliance a●…d Naval Force 〈◊〉 t●…e Norther●… Cro●…ns It 's well en●…gh k●… t●…at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abound ●…ith Me●… and Shippi●…g and that they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a●… their hearts to m●…ke an Exchange of 〈◊〉 for the Gold 〈◊〉 Silver of America which they might ea●…ily carry from To●… to To●… 〈◊〉 from Market to Market 〈◊〉 the trouble of a W●…l-barr●… as they are now obliged to do ●…ith their ●…per Fr●… all ●…ich it is evident 〈◊〉 that it is not imp●…ble ●…or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maintain themselves i●… Darien wi●…out the A●…ance of England The next thing to be discours'd of is what the 〈◊〉 may probably be if the E●…glish should oppose us in this Settlement We could h●…ily wish the●…●…d ●…ever been any ground for this suggestion and that the Opposition we have met with from England had been les●… National ●…han that which we h●…d from both their Hous●…s of Parliament af●… the p●…ssing an Act for an African Company c. in ou●…s a●… it 〈◊〉 to be wish d 〈◊〉 so many of the English had not given us such proofs of an alienated mind and 〈◊〉 to our Welfare as they h●…ve don●… sinc●… by their Resident at Hamborough and thei●… late Proclamations in their West India Plantations and we could have wish'd above all that his Majesty of England had not in the least concu●…'d or given his Countenance to that Opposition for as King of Scots it is ●…ain he could not do it he ha h confirm d what we have done by the Touch of his Scepter which no private Order or 〈◊〉 can revoke And we could wish that his English Counsellors who put ●…m upon those things would remember that Strafford and Laud lost their ●…eads ●…or giving K Charles the First that fatal Advice in oppressing and opposing the Scots We di●… verily think that the suffering of our Crown to be uni●…ed with that of England in the person of K James their first and our Sixth our seasonable coming to the rescue of ●…heir expi●…ing Libe●…es in the Reign of K. Charles I. our being so instrumental to rescue them from Anarchy and Confusion by the Restoration o●… K. Charles II. and above all our Generous and Frank Concurrence with them in the late happy Revolu●…ion and Advancement of K. William III. We did verily think that all these things deserv'd a better Treatment and to evince that they did we shall begg leave to ●…nsist a little upon the first and last The English have no cause to think that we were ignorant of the Reason why their Politick Henry VII Chose rather to match his Eldest Daughter with the King of Scots than with the King of France because he foresaw that if the King of Scots should by that means come to the Crown of England he would remove the Seat of his Government thither which would add to the Grandeur and Riches of England Whereas if the King of France did by that means fall Heir to the English Crown he would certa●…nly draw the C●…t of England to Paris ●…his the Scots were so 〈◊〉 from being ignorant of that many of the Nobility and Gen●…ry did express their disl●…ke of the Union of the Crowns as well knowing that it would reduce our Kingdom into a Subjection and Dependance upon England and drain us of what Substance we had and theresore some of them express'd themselves on that occasion that Scotland was never Conquer'd till then Yet such was our Zeal for the common Wellfare of the Island the Interest of the Protestant Religion and of Europe in general which were then almost in as much danger by Spain as they have been since by France that we quietly and freely parted with our King and suffer'd him to accept the English Crown rather than the Nation should be involv'd in War and Confusion and the Protestant Religion indanger'd by another Successor as it must necessarily have been had the Infanta of Spain whose Title was then promoted by the Popish Interest Succeeded And all the reward we had for this Condescension and Kindness was a contemptuous and disdainful refusal on the part of England of an Union of the N●…tions when proposed tho the same would visibly have tended to the Benefit of the whole Island the general advantage o●… Europe and the security and increase of the Protestant Interest And our King was so little thankful on his part that tho he promis'd solemnly in the Great Church of Edinburgh before his departure that he would visit his Antient Kingdom once in three years he never saw it after but once and that not till 14 years after And by the influence of that same Faction in England who are still our Enemies he made Innovations both in Church and State contrary to the Laws of the Land and his own solemn Oath which laid the foundation of all those Disasters that ended in the fa●…al Exit of his Son and the subversion of the Government of both Nations These were the first Advantages we had by the Union of the Crowns His Son King Charles I had scarce ascended the Throne when we had new Proofs of the Disadvantages we labour'd under by that Union For he by the Advice of some Enemies to our Nation did in an Imperious and Arbitrary manner send for our Crown tho the only Monument almost left us of our Independency and Freedom but was generously answer'd by him that had it in keeping That if he would come and be Crown'd in Scotland he should have all the Honour done him that ever was

to the said Province either by Inheritance M●…rriage Donation Purchase Reversion Surrender or Conquest which being the only Titles by which they or any other People can claim a Right to those or any other Dominions if the Spaniards cannot make out their Right by those of any of those their Claim must of consequence be null and void It is evident that the Spaniards cannot pretend a Tittle to that Countrey by Inheritance Marti●… or the Donation of Prince and People and as to Conquest it would be ridiculous to alleadge it since the Dariens are in actual possession of their Liberty and were never subdued nor receiv'd ●…ny Spanish Governor or Garison amongst them Nay they were so far from it that Wafer Dampier and others that have wrote of that Countrey do all agree that they mortally hate the Spaniards were in War with them and that the Spaniards had no Commerce with those Indians nor command over them in all the North side of the Isthmus a little beyond Porto Bello Capt. Sharp in the Journal of his Expedition published in Cap●… Hacke's Collection of Voyages gives an account that in 1680 he landed at Golden Island with 330 Men and being joyn'd by one of the Darien Princes whom they call'd Emperor and another to whom they gave the Tittle of King Golden Cap with some hundreds of their Men took Sancta Maria attempted Panama and made prize of several Spanish Ships which is the more remarkable because Capt. Sharp was afterwards tryed in England for Robbery and piracy on this very Account but acquitted because of his Commission from those Darien Princes which is a plain Demonstration that the Government of England did then look upon Darein to be no way subject to Spain whateve●… some who are Enemies to the SCOTS do now say against the Legality of their Settlement in that Country This same Expedition against the Spaniards by assistance of the Darien Indians is confirm'd by Mr. Dampier in his Introduction to his New Voyage round the World And the ●…p of Chiapa a Prelate of their own in his Relation of the Spanish Voyages an●… Cruelties in the West-Indies p 217. owns that the Spaniards had no Title to the Americans as their Subjects by right of Inheritance Purchase o●… Conquest We have likewise a large Account and a full Confirmation of the War and perpetual Enmity betwixt the Dariens and the Spaniards in the History of the Buccaneers of America Vol. 2. Part 4. wrote by Basil Ringrose who was one of their Company There he in●…orms us that the Indians of Darien and the Spaniards are commonly at War with one another and that the Buccaneers were invited into that Countrey and join'd by the Darien Princes Capt. Andrea●… Captain Antonio and the King of Darien who assisted th●…m in the taking of Sancta Maria au●… their Attempt upon ●…anama and the King whose Daughter the Spaniards had stole away promised to join the Buccaneers with 50000 Men. This is the more remarkable because those very Princes or their Successors are now in League with the Scots and have joyfully receiv'd them into their Countrey So that it is the strangest Imposition that can be put upon any Nation and one of the most audacious affronts that ever was put upon so Great a Prince as K William for the Spaniards to pretend a Right to Darien and accuse him of a B●…each of the Peace because a Colony of his Subjects have settled themselves there when it is so well known to the World that the Crown of Spain has no manner of Title to that Province Then as to any Claim by virtue of Possession the Spaniards have no●… the least gr●…und of Plea All they can alledge on this head is that they were once admitted by the consent of Capt. Diego another of the Darien Princes to work on some Golden Mines within 15 Leagues or thereabouts of the SCOTS Settlement But it is plain that this makes nothing for their purpose That Prince admitted them only as Labourers but not as Proprietors and when they broke the Con●…itions on which they were admitted viz to allow the Dariens such and such Shares of the Product they were expell'd again by forc●… and ever since that time the Dariens refuse to have any further dealings with the Spaniards who made themselves odious to them by their Treachery and Insolence So that Mr. Wafer tells us pag. 133. they allow a distinguishing Mark of Honour to him who has kill'd ●… Spaniard and pag. 179. that Lacenta one of the chief of the Darien Princes did in his converse with him express his Sense and Resentment of the havock made by the Spaniards in the West of America at their first coming thither It remains then that the Spaniards can lay no other claim to Darien but what they plead from the Pope's general Grant of America its being bounded by their Dominions and the Treaties with England which shall be considered in their Order To urge the Pope's Grant amongst Protestants is ridicolous and amongst Papists themselves but precarious but adm●…tting it were sufficient to justifie their Title it is easie to prove that the Spaniards have forf●…ited all the Right that they can claim by virtue of that Grant The Church o●… Rome will not publickly own her power to grant a Right of Conquest but in order to propagate the Faith and not that neither except the Infidel Prince or People be guilty of a breach of Treaty So that the Pope's Grant with these Restrictions is so far from establishing the Title of the Spaniards that it plainly overth●…ows it That the Indians were committed to the Spaniards by Pope Alexander the VI. on condition that they should teach them the Christian Religion is proved by Don Bartholomew de las Casas Bishop of Chi●…pa iu his Account of the first Voyages and Discoveries made by the Spaniards in America and the Relation of their unparallel a Cruelties p. 165. and there he likewise owns that their acquitting themselves so ill of that Commission they ought to make Restitution of all they have taken from them under this pret●…xt And pag. 200 he charges them with breach of the Terms prescrib'd by the Apostolical Brief tho Queen Isabella to whom it was granted earnestly entreated them to keep exactly to it P. 218. he says that the Title of the King of Spain to the Indians is ●…ounded only on the Obligation he h●…d taken upo●… himsel●… to instruct them in the true Faith as appears by the Apostolick B●…ief which they w●…re so far from performing that instead of converting their Sou●…s they destroyed their Bodies having in those early dayes viz In the time o●… the Emperor Cha●…les V. mu●…dered above 40 Millions of them and ●…ook so little care to 〈◊〉 them in the Christian Religion that they perfectly obst●…ucted their Conversion and sold those very Idol●… that some of the poor people had 〈◊〉 away with abhorrence to o●…her of the Indians ibid p 194. which