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A34145	The original papers and letters, relating to the Scots Company, trading to Africa and the Indies from the memorial given in against their taking subscriptions at Hamburgh, by Paul Ricaut, His Majesty's resident there, to their last address sent up to His Majesty in December, 1699 : faithfully extracted from the Companies books.	Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5598A; ESTC R4714	23,387	56

Company in particular do make our most humble and earnest Request to Your Majesty That You would be graciously pleased to grant us such a Declaration as in Your Royal Wisdom You shall think fit to render the Senate and Inhabitants of the said City of Hamburg and all others that are or may be concerned secure from the Treatnings and other Suggestions contained in the said Memorial as well as to render us secure under Your Majesty's Protection in the full prosecution of our Trade and free enjoyment of our Lawful Rights Privileges and Immunities contained in Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent above-mention'd Sign'd at Edinburgh the 28th Day of June 1697 in Name Presence and by Order of the said Council General by May it please Your Majesty Your Majesty's most Faithful most Dutiful most Humble and most Obedient Subject and Servant Sic subscribitur Yester P. His Majesty's Answer to the said Address By the Right Honourable John Earl of Tullibardin c. and Sir James Ogilvie Knight Secretaries of State My Lords and Gentlemen WE are impowered by the King to signifie unto you That as soon as His Majesty shall return to England he will take into Consideration what you have presented unto him And that in the mean time His Majesty will give Orders to the Envoy at the Courts of Lunenburg and his Resident at Hamburg not to make use of His Majesty's Name or Authority for obstructing your Company in the Prosecution of your Trade with the Inhabitants of that City Sign'd at Edinburgh the Second Day of August 1697. Sic subscribitur Tullibardine Ja. Ogilvie To the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies THE Company 's Letter TO THE Right Honourable the Earl of Tullibardin Secretary of State Edinburgh Sept. 28. 1697. May it please your Lordship IT is not unknown to Your Lordship in what Humour the Council General of our Company and most Part of the Nation were in with Relation to the Memorial given in to the Senate of Hamburg against our Company by the English Ministers there upon which ensued the Council-Generals late Address transmitted to His Majesty by your Lordship And your Lordship very well knows that at your Request and Desire only upon Premises of using your best Endeavours to procure a speedy and satisfactory Answer from his Majesty the said Council-General was prevail'd upon to suspend representing that Matter further to the Government till the second Day of August last past On which Day your Lordship did signifie his Majesty's Answer to the said Address Upon Receipt whereof the said Council General did resolve to supersede any further Proceeding therein till His Majesty's arrival in England as not in the least doubting but His Majesty would have in the mean time pursuant to his Answer given Orders to His Resident at Hamburg with Relation to the Subject Matter of the said Memorial But we are extreamly surprized to find by Letters of the 31st ultimo from our Company 's Agent in that City that he had according to our Order been to wait on the English Resident there and with all the Respect due to his Character intimated to him the Contents of the said Address and Answer Upon which the Resident declared That he was ready and willing to obey His Master's Orders but that as yet he had got none in that Matter We cannot imagine what should be the Occasion of this new Disappointment since we cannot suffer our selves to believe but that His Majesty has according to his Letter to your Lordship given Orders as aforesaid which makes us admire the more where the Neglect of that Matter doth now stand Yet we must needs say We are in some Measure afraid to acquaint the said Council-General with it lest they be more uneasie thereupon than we would wish till first we have your Lordship's Answer For which Cause we the several under-subscribing Directors of the said Company who are now in Town have thought fit in as quiet a Manner as possible to give your Lordship an Account thereof to the end you may in your Wisdom and Prudence advise His Majesty with Relation thereunto and doubt not but your Lordship will take such Care herein as may prevent our Calling another Council-General with Relation to the Premises which we are bound un avoidably to do if we have not your Lordship's timely Answer We are May it please Your Lordship Your Lordships most Obedient Humble Servants Sic Subscribitur Ad. Cockburn Fran. Montgomery Archb. Mure Geo. Clark Robert Blackwood James Balfour William Paterson To the Right Honourable the Earl of Tullibardin Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland Memorandum The Duplicate hereof was likewise sent at the same time to the Right Honourrable Sir James Ogilvie Knight c. To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please Your Majesty BY a former Address of the 28th of June last we have humbly represented to Your Majesty how that Your Majesty's Envoy to the Courts of Lunenburg and Resident at Hamburgh did under Pretence of Special Warrant from Your Majesty give in a Memorial to the Senate of the said City of Humburgh contrary to the Law of Nations and expresly invading the Privileges contained in the Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent by which our Company is established Copies of which Address and Memorial we have for Your Majesty's better Information hereto annexed In answer to which Your MAJESTY was then graciously pleased to signifie by Your Royal Letter That upon Your MAJESTY's arrival in England You would take the Contents of our said Address into Consideration And that in the mean time You would give Orders to Your said Ministers not to make use of your Majesty's Name or Authority for obstructing our Company in the Prosecution of our Trade with the InhaDitants of the said City of Humburg In the full Assurance of which we rested secure and took our Measures accordingly till to our further Surprize and great Disappointment we find by repeated Advices from Hamburg That Your Majesty 's said Resident continues still Contumacious and is so far from giving due Obedience to Your Majesty's said Order that upon Application made to him for that Effect with all the Respect due to his Character he pretended that he had never as yet got any such Order on our Behalf which we thought fit in all Duty and Humility to lay before Your Majesty renewing withal our most humble and earnest Request That Your Majesty would be now graciously pleased to take the Contents of This and our said former Address into Consideration and in your Royal Wisdom order some speedy and effectual Redress of our Grievances therein mentioned and a just Reparation of the manifest Damages which our Company has already sustained by reason of the said Memorial And grant us a Declaration under Your Royal Hand

THE Original Papers AND LETTERS Relating to the Scots COMPANY Trading to Africa and the Indies From the Memorial given in against their taking Subscriptions at Hamburgh by Sir Paul Ricaut His Majesty's Resident there to Their last Address sent up to His Majesty in December 1699. Faithfully extracted from the Companies-Books Printed Anno 1700. The Original PAPERS and LETTERS c. THere having been a great deal printed and said of late concerning the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies and their Colony of Darien In order to obviate all Misrepresentations that may happen on either side in the Heat of Debate it is thought sit to publish the following Originals without any Reflection which will set that Matter in a true Light give the Publick full Information as to the Principal Matters of Fact and cannot justly be taken ill by any Person or Party whatever A MEMORIAL Given in to the Senate of the City of Hamburg in French Faithfully translated into English To their Magnificences the Burgo-Masters and to the Gentlemen Counsellors of this City of Hamburg WE the Under-Subscribers Ministers of His Majesty the King of Great Britain have upon the arrival of Commissioners from an Indian Company in Scotland represented at two several times to Your Magnificences and Lordships from the King our Master That His Majesty understanding that the said Commissioners endeavoured to open to themselves a Commerce and Trade in these Parts by making some Convention or Treaty with this City had commanded us most expresly to notifie to Your Magnificences and Lordships That if you enter into such Conventions with private Men his Subjects who have neither Credential Letters nor are any otherwise authoriz'd by His Majesty That His Majesty would regard such Proceedings as an Affront to his Royal Authority and that he would not fail to resent it Your Magnificences and Lordships had the Goodness to Answer us thereto by Your Deputy That you would no way enter into Commerce with the afore mentioned Commissioners nor encourage them in any Sort. Notwithstanding whereof we the Subscribers do see with Displeasure That without any regard to the Remonstrances made by us in the Name of His Majesty the Inhabitants of this City forbear not to make Conventions and Treaties with the said Commissioners who dare even erect a Publick Office to receive Subscribers as appears by the annexed Print And it is not very credible That Strangers could so openly enterprize Matters of such Importance without being supported by this Government Wherefore we make our just Complaints thereof to Your Magnificences and Lordships beseeching You in the Name of the King our Master to remedy in time that which is begun and to do it so effectually as to prevent any Consequences it may have capable to disturb the Friendship and good Correspondence which we would cultivate between England and the City of Hamburg We wait Your Magnificences and Lordships Answer in Writing to be transmitted to His Majesty our Master and we are Your Magnificences and Lordships most Humble Servants Paul Rycaut Resident for His Majesty the King of Great Britain in the City of Hamburg Cressett His Britannick Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Courts of Lunnenburgh and Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Pinenberg Done at Hamburg April 7. 1697. To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please Your Majesty WHereas by the XXXII Act of the Fourth Session and by the VIII Act of the Fifth Session of Your Majesty's Currant Parliament as well as by Your Majesty's Patent under the Great Seal of this Kingdom This Company is establish'd with such Ample Priviledges as were thought most proper for encouraging both Natives and Foreigners to join in the Carrying on Supporting and Advancement of our Trade The most Considerable of the Nobility Gentry Merchants and whole Body of the Royal Borroughs have upon the Inducement and Publick Faith of Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent contributed as Adventurers in raising a far more Considerable Joint-Stock than any was ever before raised in this Kingdom for any Publick Undertaking or Project of Trade what soever which makes it now of so much the more Universal a Concern to the Nation And for the better enabling us to accomplish the Ends of Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patents we have in pursuance thereunto appointed certain Deputies of our own Number to transact and negotiate our necessary Affairs beyound Sea And at the same time to treat with such Foreigners of any Nation in amity with Your Majesty as may be inclinable to join with us for the Purposes aforesaid In the Prosecution of which Commission to our said Deputies vested with full Power and Authority according to Law we are a little surpriz'd to find to the great Hinderance and Obstruction of our Affairs that Your Majesty's Envoy to the Courts of Lunenburg and Resident at Hamburg have under Pretence of special Warrant from Your Majesty given in a Joint-subscrib'd Memorial to the Senate of Humburg expresly invading the Privileges granted to our Company by Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent as by the herewith transmitted Copy may appear By the which Memorial we sustain great and manifest Prejudices since both the Senate and Inhabitants of the said City of Hamburg are thereby contrary to the Law of Nations expresly threatned with Your Majesty's high Displeasure if they or either of them should countenance or joyn with us in any Treaty of Trade or Commerce whatsoever which deprives us of the Assistance which we had reason to expect from several Inhabitants of that City For Redress whereof we do in all Duty and Humility apply to Your Majesty not only for the Protection and Maintenance of our Privileges and Freedom of Trade but also for Reparation of Damages conform to Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent And do further beg Leave humbly to represent to Your Majesty that tho' by the said Act of Parliament and Letters Patent we conceive our selves legally and sufficiently authorized to treat even with any Sovereign Potentate or Estate in Unity with Your Majesty for the Support and Advancement of our Trade yet we by our said Deputies have only treated with particular and private Merchants of the said City of Hamburg without ever making any the least Proposal to the Senate thereof And this we humbly conceive to be the natural Right and Privilege of all Merchants whatsoever even tho' we had wanted the Sanction of so solemn Laws And without some speedy Redress be had therein not only this Company but also all other individual Merchants of this Kingdom must from henceforward conclude that all our Rights and Freedom of Trade are and may be further by our Neighbours violently wrested out of our Hands We therefore to prevent the further evil Consequences of the said Memorial to our