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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59469	Delenda Carthago, or, The true interest of England in relation to France and Holland	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2890; ESTC R12938	6,529	10

Excrements not being permitted to go forth to ease themselves Lawrence Ryall the Dutch General caused Grates and Cages to be made and carried the English therein fettered and shewed them triumphantly to the Indians at every Port saying Behold and see here is the People of that Nation whose King you care so much for no● you may see ho● kindly we use his Subjects They have robbed the Indians under English Colours thereby to incense them against us and to destroy our Trade there They have counterfeited the Coin of other Nations and then def●med the English for it The Tr●fftick of Ch●na and P●rfi●● c was ruined by their seizing and destroying the ●●p● of Sir Wm. Court●●n and his Partners We did by our Ambassador S 〈…〉 Johns dem●nd ●atisfaction for all these Damages and charged them with the Bloud of the English that had ●een slaughtered by them in the K●tharin● and Dragon in these words Though ●e cannot p●si●●vely prove yet by good Circumstances we can make it appear that you did d●stroy the Ships Dragon and Katherine though the Ships and M●n were never heard of yet the Guns and Goods of those Ships have been found in your Countrey which does give us some confidence to believe you did destroy the Men and Ships And we are informed that some of your own Countreymen when they lay on their Death Beds did make Confession of the Cruel Murthers and Seisures How that they met them going to the Cape of Good Hope and and after a friendly Salutation the Dutch invited the English Commanders aboard and after they had been feasted they told them that it was sitting They should drink Lustick as well as eat Lustick and causing them to be tied back to back they were cast into the Sea And in the Evening when the English expected the Return of their Commanders and their Crews the Dutch with their own and English Boats went aboard the English Ships and served every Man in the same manner and having taken out what Goods and Guns they thought fit the Ships were sunk by them the which were worth according to the Invoice had they come to the Port of London 170000 l. In Guiney and Brasile we have been treated with the same Usage And the Dutch have been always either acting Open Hostilities or which is worse destroying the Honour and Renown of our Nation in Spain Italy Russia and all places whither a Dutch-man trades Therefore we were then convinced That the true way to advance the English Trade was to reduce the Hollanders to greater Moderation Much more to the same Purpose you will find in the abovesaid Author and in many others of the English Nation But above all things the most astonishing and down right Diabolical exceeding even the Treacherous and Bloudy Massacre of the English at Ambiyna being done in time of Peace and the chief Actors thereof justified and preferred by the States when Complaint was made against them and Justice demanded But it exceeds all this and all that ever was heard of any Nation which bore the name of Christian the Wickedness of all Nations is exceeded by what the Dutch did and still continue to do at Japan They incensed th● Government there against the Christians who traded thither representing them as People of dangerous Principles as to ●overnment and plotting of Insurrections Whereby they procured the miserable Slaughter with horrible Tortures and Torments of above 400000 Christians in that Kingdom and denying themselves to be Christians wherein some think they told no Lie they by that means ingross the Trade of that wealthy Island to themselves And if they can dispense even with their Christianity to promote their Trade what Obligations can we but upon them that will make them false to their Supream God Interest But we need not go so far as the Indies to find Instances of the Designs of Holland to ruine England There is a surprising Passage in the London-Gaz●tte 30 th of April 1666 which is verbatim as follows At the Sessions in the Old Baily John Rathbone an old Army Collonel William Saunders H●nry Youcker Thomas Flint Thomas Evans John Myls William Wascot and John Colé formerly Officers and Souldiers in the late Rebellion were Indicted for conspiring the Death of his Majesty and the Overthrow of the Government having laid their Plot and Contrivance for the Surprisal of the Tower the killing of his Grace the Ld. General Sir John Robinson Lieutenant of his Majesty's Tower of London and Sir Richard Brown and then to have declared for an equal Division of Lands c. The better to ●ffect this Hellish Design the City was to have been fired and the Portcullis to have been let down to keep out all the Assist●nce the Horse-Guards to have been surprised in the Inns where they were Quartered several others having been gained for that purpose The Tower was accordingly viewed and its Surprise ordered by Boats over the Moat and from thence to scale the Wall one Alexander who is not yet taken had likewise distributed Sums of Money to these Conspirators and for the carrying on of the Design more effectually they were told of a Council of the Great ones that far frequently in London from whom issued all Orders which Council received their Directions from another in Holland who fate with the States and that the 3 d of September was pitched on for the Attempt as being found by Lilly's Almanack and a Scheme erected for that purpose to be a Lucky Day a Planet then ruling which Prognosticated the downfal of Monarchy The Evidence against these Persons was very full and clear and they accordingly found guilty of High Treason These are the Words of that Gazette and let me only mind the Reader That the City was fired the very Day which was there mentioned that is the Fire began about 12 at Night the 2 d of September 66 or early on the 3 d which was the first Day of the Fire This makes it a Demonstration that the DutSh Plot mentioned in that Gazette could be no Contrivance of the Government in Odium to the Dutch if that could be so much as suggested or so base an Imputation laid not only upon the Court but the City it self which in her Sessions should take away the Lives of Men for any such Sham Plot I say nothing of this can be possible unless you will suppose that the Government and the City both designed the burning of the City upon that Day and if so they would not have told it or otherwise that they had the Spirit of Prophesy to foretel the burning of the City five Months before it came to pass But these Conspirators had laid their Design and would not slip that Lucky Day the 3d of September on which Oliver conquered first Scotland at the Battle of Dunbar and after the Loyal Party in England at Worcester Fight both which happened to be upon the 3d of September which Oliver reckoned to be his