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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

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 Printed in the Year M. DC XC IX TO THE KING'S Most Excellent Majesty SIR THE Interest you have in the flourishing of Your Antient Kingdom of Scotland whose Crown is transmitted to You by an Hundred and eleven of your Ancestors without ever having been on the Head of a Forraigner emboldens the Author to lay the following Sheets at your Majesties Feet The design of them is to vindicate the Settlement of the Scots in Darien and Your Majesties Justice in protecting them against the Oblique Aspersions which are cast upon it in the Spanish Memorial The Soveraignty of the Crown of Scotland hath alwise been held Sacred by our Ancestors who never were sparing of their Blood to defend it either from the Invasion of Foreigners or the mean Compliance of some few of our Princes that were unworthie to wear it and therefore were either totally excluded from it as the Family of Baliol or oblig'd to reassert its Right when rescu'd out of the Hands of their Enemies as happen'd to our William I. and James I. Providence having now plac'd it on the Head of Your Majesty whose Heroic Courage is known to all the World our Nation should be unjust to Your Character to expect any thing less than that our Crown which You receiv'd free and independent from Your Ancestors should be transmitted by You with greater Advantages than ever to Your Successors Therefore it is Great Sir that a privat Subject of your Antient Kingdom takes the holdness to vindicate the Soveraignty and Dignity of Your Crown as Kings of Scots and to put such as are Enemies to it in mind that when Edward I and II. of England invaded it the Scotish Nation did gallantly defend it advanced Robert Bruce to the Exclusion of Baliol the nearest Heir and acquainted the Princes of Christendom that they did so in defence of their Independency adding that they would expel Robert Bruce if he offered to betray their Liberty and would never subject their Crown to that of England whilst there were 100 Scots men alive This being the fundamental Constitution of our Government and the Condition on which that Prince and his Successors were admitted to Our Crown they can in no wise be look'd upon as Friends to your Majesties Dignitie as King of Scots who call in question what You enact in the Parliament of that Kingdom or that offer to traverse it by contrary Proclamations We are Your Majesties Subjects as well as our Neighbours and have an equal Right to share your Protection which its hop'd they will at last be convinc'd it is their Interest to agree to in relation to our American Settlement Your Majesty's Paternal Affection to the Kingdom of Scorland hath discover'd it self in many Instances nor is it to be desired or expected by our Nation that it should any way interfere with the like Care and Affection which is owing to our Brethren of England but there is no reason that they should enjoy a Freedom of Trade throughout the World and that we should be denied it ●…our Majesty in yo●…r Gracious Proposals os an Union gave sufficient Evidence of a Fatherly Concern for both Nations Thereforo as it hath pleased GOD to make You the Glorious Instrument of our Common Deliverance that He would also make you the happy Instrument of our Inseparable Union and after a long Reign here Crown You with Everlasting Glory hereafter is the sincere and ardent Prayer of Your Majesty's Loyal and Affectionate Subject Philo Caledon A DEFENCE of the Settlement of the SCOTS on the Isthmus of DARIEN in America With Arguments to prove That it is the Interest of England to join with them and to protect them in that Colony THE Heads propos'd to be insisted upon in the following Sheers ar●… The Legality of the SCOTS Establishment The Advantage or Disadvantage that may redound from it to England Whether the Scots without the Assistance of the English may be able to maintain their footing in America and what may probably be the Consequences if the Scots should be oppos'd therein by the English and miscarry in the Undertaking The chief Objections against the Legality of their Establishment ari●…e from the Memorial delivered in against it to the King by the Ambassad or Extraordinary of Spain May 3 1699. O S as follows THE Under-Subscriber Ambassador Extraordinary from his Catholick Majestie finds himself oblig'd by express Orders to represent to your Majesty that the King his Master having receiv'd Information from different places and last of all from the Governor of Havana of the In●…ult and Attempt of some Scots Ships equip'd with Men and other things requisit who design to settle themselves in his Majestres Soveraign Demains in America and particularly the Province of Darien His Majesty receiv'd those Advices with very much difcontent and looks upon the same as a Token of small Friendship and as a Rupture of the Alliance betwixt the two Crowns which his Majesty hath observed hitherto and alwayes observes very religiously and from which so many Advantages and profits hath resulted both to your Majesty and you●… Subjects as a Consequence of which good Correspondence his Majestie did not expect such sudden Insults and Attempts by your Majesties Subjects and that too in a time of Peace without pretext or any Cause in the very heart o●… his Demains All that the King desires is That this may be represented to your Majesty and that your Majesty may be acquainted that he is very sensible of such Hostilities and unjust Procedures against which his Majesty will take such Measures as he thinks convenient Given at London May ●… 1699. It were easie to make proper Remarks upon the Weakness Insolence and ingratitude of this Memorial but it is not worth while all the World knows what the Crown of Spain ows to his Majesty of Great Britain and therefore a more civil Application might reasonably have been expected to a Prince who hath not only saved the Netherlands but prevented his Catholick Majesty from being insulted on his Throne at Madrid But these things we pass over and come to the chief point in the Memorial which is That the Scots have posted themselves in the King of Spain ' s Demains in America contrary to the Allyance betwixt the two Crowns If this be proved to be ●…alse then the cause of the Complaint ceases and his Majesty of Great Britain hath reason to demand Satisfaction for the Affront offered thereby to his Justice and Soveraignty To prove the falshood of the Allegation That the Province of Darien is part of the King of Spains Demains It is positively denied by the SCOTS who challenge the Spaniards to prove their Right

been for the most part on the head of an Alien or Enemy yet it has iufluence enoug●… to divide us amongst our selves against the Interest of the Nation as in the Reign of K. Charles II. those that comply'd with the Court of England were brib'd with all the chief places in our Administration whilst those who were Patriots to their Country as for Honour sake to instance in the late Great Duke of Hamilton and our present Lord high Chancellor were exposed to all manner of Dangers and Vexations This we think sufficient to convince our Neighbours that we have no Reason to be fond of having the Union of the Crowns continu'd except the Interest of the Nations be more closely united then ever they have been hitherto And to let them see that it is their Interest as well as ours it should be so we shall only desire them to consider how fatal it may be to them if by any Emergency we should be forc'd to break off the Union of the Crowns and enter again into a F ●…ench Alliance It ●… in vain for them to object that in such a case we should betray o●…r Religion for we see the persecuted Hunga●…ans were protected in that ●…y the Tu●…ks tho sworn Enemies to it nor is it less impossible but there may be a Change as to that matter in France L. XIV is not immortal a●…d even Julian the Apostate himself found it his Interest for some time to protect the Orthodox Christians whom he mortally ●…ated But supposing as indeed there 's no great likelyhood of it that no such Allyance as this should ever happen yet howev●…r if these two Nations be not more closly united it may be of ill Consequencc to England if any of their Kings at any time should be so far disgusted with their Proceedings as to leave them and betake themselves to Us. What a Field of Blood and Slaughter must England have become had we carried off K. Charles I. when he came to our Army or if we had join a him against the Parliament of England What great Efforts did a Party of our Nation make to inthrone King Charles II when England was against him and how did our Concurrence afterwards with General Monk effect it How soon did our espousing the D. of York ' s Interest turn the Tables upon those that opposed him in England And if our Nation had likewise espoused his Cause before the Revolution the Viscount of Dundee gave a sufficient Proof what we could have done for him There 's a strong Party in England at present against allowing the King a standing Force for fear as they pretend of losing their Liberties but all their Opposition in that respect would signifie little if in case of a Rupture ou●… Nation should take part with the Court and bring in 22000 Men. with 6 Weeks Provisions and Pay as we are obliged to do by Act of Parliament for his Assistance This makes it evident that it is not the Interest of England to slight an Union with US so much as they have done so●… so long as we remain divided any King that is so minded may make use of us to inslave one another and any envious Neighbour whose Interest it is to keep this Island low will be sure to blow the Coals If they 'd but turn the Tables and make our Case their own they would quickly be satisfied of the truth of what we advance Supposing that the Government of Scotland should traverse the Actings of the Government of England in relation to their Trade c. as they have done ours and supposing that a Parliament of Scotland when the King were there should question him for the Navigation Act and that for the Encouragement of Trade in England by King Charles the Second Which lays Us under such hard Circumstances and Restrictions the English would certainly very much resent it and speedily tell us we meddled with what did not belong to us Then why should they deny us the like Liberty in re●…erence to their 〈◊〉 against us seeing we are a free Nation as well they They cannot think that Scotland will look upon the English Proclamations in the West Indies against having any Commerce with our Colony at Darien to be the Act and D●…ed of a King of Scotland sinc●… it is not only contrary to his own Act o●… Pa●…liament there and his Patent under the Great Se●…l of that Kingdom but contra●…y to the Interest of that Nation but being the Act of a person who is really King of Scots we can look upon it to be no other than the esfect of a ●…orce put upon him by a Nation which in this matter thinks it their Interest he should do so Now suppose which GOD forbid our Colony should be starv'd by virtue of these Proclamations or that our Ships going and coming from Darien should by reason thereo●… be attack'd and treated as Pirates by the English French Dutch or any other Nation who may take the opportunity to do it and say ou●… King has d●…clared against us to whom should we make application sor redress in this matter The King of England he is our Enemy and e●…itted these Proclamations the King of Scots is detain'd in England and not Master of himsel●… but is forc'd to act thus contraty to the Interest of his own antient Crown and Kingdom as a former K. William John Baliol and James I. were 〈◊〉 ' d to do when in the power of the English ●…n such a 〈◊〉 if our in●…ant Colony should by this means bed stroy●…d ou●… 〈◊〉 must needs think that we should look ●…or a Compens●…tion 〈◊〉 resume the Government into our own hands and strengthen our selves by new Alliances which perhaps might be lit●…le ●…o their advantage This is not suggested as a thing that is ever likely to be practis'd or to which the Kingdom of Scotland is any way inclin'd Our whole Conduct since the Union is a continu'd evidence of the uprightness of Our Intentions towards England and the Offers we did make and do still continue to make of admitting 'em as Partners and Sharers in our Settlement are enough to stop the mouth of Calumny it self But if in return for our kindness we meet with Neglect and Contempt have our Soveraignty trampled under foot our Settlement in America by an Act of Parliament in Scotland reflected upon as unjust by Proclamations from England the World cannot blame us to complain of the Violence done to our Independency and Honour which is not to be salv'd by any politick Considerations whatever that our Neighbours pretend for this Treatment Nor can any thing less than joining with us and protecting that Settlement against all opposition in case of Attacks by the French or others sufficiently atone for what is already done or heal the Wound those Proclamations have giv'n to the common Interest and Honour of the Island WE Come in the next place to give a Description of the Isthmus of

to his Ancestors but if he d●…d not think it worth his while they might perhaps be inclin'd to make cho●…e of another Soveraign or to that effect as record●…d in the Con●…uation of S●…r Richard Baker's History Another 〈◊〉 we had by that Union of the Crown was this That that unfortunate Prince being inspir'd with an Aversion to the Constitution of our Country by his Education in the Court of England he made an unnatural War upon us to bring us to a Conformity with England in Church-Matters We shall not here offer to debate which of the Churches was best const●…uted or most agreeable to the Scripture-Pattern It suffices for our Argument that we were injur'd in having a Forreign Model offered to be obtruded upon us which was ●…he Cons●…quence of the Union of the Crowns and of having our King e●…ucated in another N●…tion but that was not all another mischievous effect of the Union was this that whatever K. Charles had deserv'd at our hands ●…et out of natural Af●…ection Conscience and Honour we were oblig'd to do what we could to prevent his illegal Trial and Death and to defend his Sons Title which threw us into Convulsions at home occasion'd us the loss of several Armies and expos●…d our Nation afterwards to Ruine and Deva●…tation by our implacable Enemy the Usurper which together with the Ungrateful Retributions made us by the Government after the Restoration were enough to have wearied any Nation under Heav●…n but our selves of the Union of the Crowns Yet such was our Z●…al for the Protestant Intrest the Welfare of the Isl●…nd and the Liberty of Europe that tho we had a 〈◊〉 oppor●…ity of providing otherwise for our 〈◊〉 and the Advancement of ou●… Trade and of forming our selves into a Common wealth or or bringing England to our own terms yet we frankly and generously concurr'd with them to settl●… our G●…vernment on the same Persons and in the same manner as they did theirs and all the Reward we had from them is that an Union of the Nations tho twice propos'd by his Majesty in Parliament hath been 〈◊〉 rejected our King questioned by Parliament of England ●…or an Act of his Parliament in Scotland which is a manifest Impeachment of our Soveraignty a Compliance with which excluded Baliol and his Heirs for ever from our Crown and to this they have added an opposition to our receiving foreign Subscriptions at Hamburgh and elsewhere refus'd us a Supply of Corn for our Money to relieve us in our Distress and discourag'd our Settlement a●… Darien by forbidding their Subjects to Trade with us there If these continued Slights and Injuries be not enough to make us weary of the Union of the Crowns let any Man judge To discover a little of the unreasonableness of this sort of Treatment we dare appeal to the calm thoughts of such of our Neighbours in England as prefer the Interest of the Publick to private Animosities and foolish ill-grounded Piques either as to Church or State whether at the time of the Revolution and before we declar'd our selves they would not have been willing to have assur'd themselves of our Friendship at the rare of uniting with us as one Nation Had we but demurr'd upon for●…eiting the late K. James or made but a Proffer of renewing our antient League with France and joining with that Crown to keep that Prince upon rhe Throne of Great-Britain they know we might have made what Terms we pleas'd with the late King Louis XIV on that condition and might have been restor'd to all the Honours and Privileges that our Ancestors enjoy'd in France which were almost equal to those of the N●…tives and yet that gallant Nation thought it no disparagement to them however we be despis'd and u●…dervalued now by a certain Party in England Had we but seem'd to have made such Overtures the English must needs have foreseen that the natural Consequences of such a design i●… it had taken effect must have been these viz the late King's Adherents in England would certainly have join'd us and our Nation would have afforded them a safe retreat in case of any Disaster till they could have concerted Matters to the best advantage the late King would not have yielded himself such an easy Conquest nor disbanded his Army in such a manner as he did Ireland had certainly never revolted since every one knows that the Revolution was begun and in a great measure perfected there by the Scots of the North so that England must have become the Theatre of War been lyable to an Invasion ●…rom France on all occasions would only have strengthned her Fetters by struggling with them and expos'd all the Patriots of her Religion and Liberty to Butchery and Destruction These must certainly have been the Consequences os our adhering to the late King and the English would have thought they had had a very good Bargain if they could have bought us off in that Case with uniting both the Kingdoms into one and granting us a joint Trade to their own Plantations whereas now they will not allow us to settle a Forreign Colony of our own and treat us as Forreigners in theirs To shew that this is not a mere Conjecture that has no other ground but a Vision of the Brain they may be pleased to consider the honourable Privileges granted US by their Ancestors and some of the greatest Princes that ever swayed their Scepter viz King Edward and William the Conqueror who by the Consent of the States in Parliament assembled enacted That the Scots should be accounted Deniz●…ns of England and enjoy the same privileges with themselves because of their frequent Intermarriages with the English and that they did ever stand stoutly as one Man with them for the common Utility of the Crown and Kingdom against the Danes and Norwegians fought it most valiantly and unanimously against the common Enemy and bore the burden of most fierce Wars in the Kingdom This they will sind in a Book call'd Archaionomia translated from the Saxon by William Lambard and printed at London by Jo●…n Day in 1568. It must be granted that the Reasons of such a grateful Retribution are redoubled now Intermarriages betwixt the two Nations are more frequent than ever the Union of the Kingdoms under one Crown for almost 100 years the generous Concurrence of the Scots in the last Revolution their loss of so many gallant Officers and brave Soldiers in the common Cause during the late War and the preservation of Ireland which hath been twice owing to ou●… Countreymen might reasonably entitle us to the same Priviledges now that our Ancestors were formerly allow'd by K. Edward and William the Conqueror We need not insist on another sort of Obligati●…n that we have put upon England twice within this 60 years viz the delivering them from their Oppressions in the time of K. Charles I. the Anarchy of the Rump and several Models of Armies and Juntos by encouraging