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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46403	A justification of the directors of the Netherlands East-India Company as it was delivered over unto the high and mighty lords the States General of the United Provinces, the 22d of July, 1686 : upon the subject and complaint of Mr. Skelton, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Brittain, touching the affair of Bantam, and other controversies at Macassar, and on the coast of Mallabar and at Gamron, in the Gulf of Persia : likewise a justification in answer to the several memorials lately given unto the States General by the Marquess of Albeville, touching Meslepatam and other places in the Indies / translated out of Dutch by a good friend for the satisfaction of all such as are impartial judges of the matters now in dispute between the two companies.	Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; Good friend.; Dam, Pieter van, 1621-1706.	1688 (1688)	Wing J1259; ESTC R12898	44,960	84

justification of their Complaints made had nothing to sh●w in way of Proof Indeed had the English Company at that time rested satisfied the Dutch Company should have been obliged to perform the same how prejudicial soever it might afterward have been to them But forasmuch as the English Company was then pleased wholly to reject and break off those Transactions whereas we so desirously longed that they might be brought to a good End in England and for which it is said the Lord Ambassador Citters was fully authorised all the time that Business of Bantam was in the Terms as they were during the Negotiations and Treaty with Mr. Chudlie and Sir John Chardin in the Hague and which the English Company also caused to be broken off Whereupon it falls now to be enquired into Whether the Dutch Company since the case of things be wholly changed and of another nature be still obliged to the same It is evident that at that time the State of the Affairs of Bantam was not known namely Whether the War between the Father and the Son were yet remaining or ended If it were determined whether by an Accommodation or by the Sword If by the Sword who of the two the Father or Son remained Conqueror and thereby became Master of the Kingdom During which uncertainty it cannot be judged Imprudency that the Netherlandish Fast-Indie Company by whose Forces the Son was delivered from his inevitable Ruin and by whom he further was to be assisted so as not to fall under the oppression of his Rebellious Subjects should interpose their Credit and Authority by the said King for the setling of the English in Bantam if he were Conqueror and with condition the English should yield no further Assistance to the Father and in case the Father were Victor that then the English should employ all their Credit by the Father that the Dutch Company might enjoy a good Neighbourhood with them And these Proffers of the Dutch Company while things stood thus at an uncertainty were the m●re excusable by the King of Bantam because they endeavoured thereby to prevent the Succors which the English Company pretended to send the Father and also because at that time it was not yet known how far the English had made themselves irreconcilable to him During this uncertainty of things the Dutch Company made these Proffers yea Sir John Chardin himself projected an Accommodation between both the Companies in which mention was made of the withdrawing of the Dutch Troops out of Bantam and what each Company should be obliged unto in those occasional Accidents as are thereby specified But as it pleased the said Mr. Chudlie and Sir John Chardin very unexpectedly to break off those Treaties which already were so far advanced and they also of the English Company on their part did reject the Proffers which not only your Puissant Highnesses in their foresaid Answer to the Memorial of Sir John Chardin had made but those also which the Ambassador Citters afterwards did make in the name and upon the account of the Netherlandish Company after that the foresaid Sir John Chardin was returned into England and the English began again to bring in new Demands after they had very disdainfully rejected the former hereupon the Netherlandish Company judged that they stood no longer bound to theirs especially when as some while after by tidings on both sides in Letters from the Indies it was signified that the War at Bantam was ended to the advantage of the young King who reobtained the Kingdom as possessor had taken the Father Prisoner and subdued his Rebels so that consequently the Netherlandish Company had now no longer any ground nor pretext either to treat with the English about their resetling in Bantam as being Territorium plane alienum much less to promise the same and the rather because the now reigning King having considered the Conspiracies of the English with his Father and rebellious Subjects hath declared them his pernicious Enemies Seeing then from all what hath been said it clearly appeareth that the English Company did rather chuse to expect the uncertain Lot of War than to agree with the Dutch Company while it was time about their Settlement it is therefore reasonable that they now acquiesce and leave the Netherlandish Company unmolested as to their re-establishment It followeth therefore that it is wholly besides the purpose at present to make use or apply to their advantage the foresaid answer of your Puissant Highnesses to the foresaid Memorial after they had rejected the foresaid Proffer and had determined not only to re-establish themselves by force of Arms but wholly to become the Masters of Bantam and to that end to set out a formidable Power of Ships and Men at Sea though their Enterprize as they themselves depose in their foresaid reply was stopt by his Majesty of happy Memory and not suffered to put forth to Sea now this was the reason that they having formed and being busie about this design that the Charges thereof might not be fruitless did not only reject the Proffers aforesaid of the Dutch Company but made such Excessive Extravagant Demands as the delivering up of the whole City of Bantam with the Castle although they well knew that it neither would nor could be accepted of us or in case they were accepted that then they had attain'd to what they aimed So long then as the state of things was at an uncertainty and it might be in doubt who of the twain Father or Son should have the upper-hand though the Son seemed by far more likely to prevail nevertheless the Netherlands Company judged that in such a Constitution of things it could not be ill taken that they entred with the English Company into a Treaty how they might after the best way procure a Peace between the two Kings by interposing their Credit and Service of Love and obtain the re-establishment of the English Company but all this being rejected by the English with disdain and that Uncertainty which then was being brought to a Certainty so as the whole business is become of quite another nature that the Netherlandish Company should yet be bound to perform what they in the uncertain state of things did shew themselves willing unto the Netherlandish Company apprehendeth that it in justice cannot be required For first thereby besides other considerations they should certainly be made losers of the Sum of Six times hundred thousand Ryxdollers which the King of Bantam by evening Accounts is found indebted to the Dutch Company and of which a Contract is made with him in particular in which he grants to their Company the Traffick in his Kingdom so long and until he shall come to be in a condition to repay the same to the Dutch Company But that which besides this deserves to be reflected upon is That the King of Bantam hearing a rumour that the English Company persisted in their pretence of resettlement in Bantam with the calling back of our