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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

the Praeliminaries and Cases incident it was thought meet that all things should be handled in Writing and the State of the Case so written to be made by Demand Answer Reply and Duplick or double Reply even to a Triplick and Quadruplick And besides all this there were delivered up such pieces Probatory as might serve to fortifie and maintain the Case on the one hand with the Confutation of the same on the other hand they of the Netherlandish Company also making their Demand against the Demand of the English and delivering the same over by way of Reconvention or contrary Demand for the fraighting of four Ships wherewith the Netherlandish Company upon the earnest Request of the English Company had accommodated them amounting to thirteen thousand nine hundred pounds Sterling Insomuch that the aforesaid Pieces being delivered to the said Committees to do Right therein the English Commissaries in their Vote declared that it was their Opinion and Sentence that instead of all what was demanded by the English East-Indie Company to wit not only the recalling of the Netherlandish Troops out of Bantam and the Territories thereof but moreover and above to deliver up the Castle and City of Bantam The Netherlandish Company was only bound to re-establish the said English Company in Bantam so and in such wise as was demanded by Monsieur Chardin in the Hague and to settle all things in state as it was before the War and the Damages and Reconvention or contrary Demands should be reserved But the Committees of this State delivering in their Advice every one of them in order did understand and declare that forasmuch as the decision of the Case which must be judicially determined did depend upon the Verity of Fact which the English Company had charged the Netherlandish Company with and in special that the said English Company were by them driven out of Bantam of which they could not produce the least Proof that therefore the said English Company ought to have their Demand and Conclusion made and taken up against the Netherlandish Company denied them and the said English Company to be condemned to satisfie the Netherlandish Company for the Fraighting of the four Ships which they demand by reconvention By which because of the cessation of Voices the Case being fallen into the Terms which they were in according to the convention of Agreement of the Year 1673-74 must come into the hands of an Arbitrator or Compromissarius to the choosing of whom by the aforesaid Agreement the time of a Mouth was prescribed But the said Committees for the Decision on both sides not agreeing for although the English Company were Plantiff in Convention yet the English Commissaries did not propose a Super-Arbitrator so hereby the whole Case according to an Act passed and subscribed on both sides was left in the Hands of his said Majesty and your Highnesses to be determined by you according to the Contents of the aforesaid Agreement And this is the Reason why the said Mr. Skelton Envoy Extraordinary made the aforesaid Memorial and Address to your Puissant Highnesses to do Justice in the Case to the Subjects of England Whereupon it must needs fall under Examination whether the Complaints which the English Company have and still do make of the Business happened at Bantam be grounded on such solid Reasons as to oblige the Netherlandish Company so to Re-settle them at Bantam as they were before the War for more than this was before denied to be due to them by the English Commissaries themselves and that with reparation of Damages and Interests which they pretend to have sustained by the Netherlands Company Now to make this Case to appear more ●early forasmuch as since it was first presented to your Puissant Highnesses by Mr. Chudlie Extraordinary Envoy and afterward more amply pressed by Sir John C●ardin is now wholly altered and quite of another Face As also that the Netherlandish Company hath recovered further Proofs for the confutation of what the English Company did bring in and maintain therefore it will be necessary to dive somewhat deeper into the matter The Case is this Sultan Agon formerly King of ●●tam and Father of the present King now reigning having Resolutions both in respect of his Age and other Considerations to disinvest himself of the Government and lead a still and private Life he made over his Kingdom to his Eldest Son retiring himself to T●●rtiassa a place of Pleasure about six Miles from Ba●tam and seated a Mile from the Sea there to spend the Residue of his Days free from Publick Affairs His Son seated on the Throne and having the Government of the Kingdom in his hands forthwith s●nt Ambassadors to Batavia accompanied for the further Splendor with a Train of about 300 persons to give notice to the Government there of his Access to the Crown and also to Renew their Ancient Alliance Sending also Ambassadors to England where they were in such manner received as that those of the East-India Company by their Letters to the said King of Bantam in July 1682 written about two Years after the Young King was come unto the Crown say That such Honour was given to his Ambassadors as if they had been sent from the Greatest King or Potentate of the World Adding in the said Letter that they did with Joy understand that God Almighty had brought and invested him on the Throne of his Kingdom of Sourosoan that is the Kingdom of Bantam with the good Will of his Father And furthermore His Majesty of Great Brittain sent away the said Ambassadors with Presents to the Young King their Master accompanied with an Honourable Letter to him all which in the Process is produced and in which he is stiled the Famous and Illustrious Sultan Abdul Cahar Aba Nasar King and Lord of the said Kingdom of Sourosoan that is of Bantam Adding moreover That his Majesty received the aforesaid Ambassadors with all due Respect according to their Character and with entire Affection as coming from a Prince whose Person and Amity his Majesty declared to have in very high Esteem and unto whom he judged it necessary to send over his Agent or Envoy furnished with power from his Majesty and order from the English Company for to make a stricter League with the King of Bantam which Testimony and Proffer of Alliance was yet further reiterated in another Letter writ by the aforesaid English Company from London the 17th July 1682 also produced in the Process By all which then it appeareth undeniably unto all that are Impartial that the present King now ruling was acknowledged both by the King of Great Brittain and by the English Company as well in England as in India for the Lawful Lord and King of the whole Kingdom of Bantam and as the Successor of his Father But forasmuch as the present King in the direction of the Affairs of the Kingdom did not as it seems answer the Expectation of his Father nor satisfie the

because thereby they could not expect any Profit or Advantage or if they had it would have been mixt ●ith an uncertainty as to the Event And again the Son would then have endeavoured to have been afore●●d and the first Aggressor whereas on the con●●●y it was the Father who thereby got so great Advantage over the Son burning and ruinating the City and keeping his said Son besieged in his own 〈◊〉 So that had it not been for the Intervention ●●d Succours of them of Batavia the Father certain●● would have triumphed over the Son. And put 〈◊〉 case the War had ended according to the intention ●●d advantage of the Son what more could he have expected thereby who already sate on the Throne ●●d could be no greater than he was Would the Son 〈◊〉 listned to such Counsel and engaged in a War ●●●inst his Father whose Interest consisted in Govern●●g his Kingdom in Peace And doth it not hence ●●llow that all these Troubles did arise from them 〈◊〉 breathed after nothing more than Change who 〈◊〉 being able or willing to submit to the Government of the Young King revolted against him with ●●●ention to thrust him from his Throne and to set 〈◊〉 another more sutable to their liking and humour Which their Design also so far succeeded that the Young King was brought to the point of losing his Crown and Life Could the Government of Bantam at the begin●ng have with any reason imagined that the Young ●ing should finally have got the upper hand over his Enemies and Rebels Or that the English should have ●●termedled with that War and would have assisted the Rebels against their own Prince whom themselves owned as Lawful King of which hereafter shall be more largely spoken and he thereupon should have thrust the English out of his Kingdom Would they have stirred up the Son against the Father after that the Son by so many lamentable Letters had implored their Assistance and let it come to that Extremity that in case they had delayed but one day longer he must have given himself over t● his Rebels and undergone a cruel Death In case the Rebels before it was delivered by the Netherlandish Forces had taken the Castle and murthered the King could they have hindred that either the Old King or one of his Younger Sons should have obtained the Crown and so managed the Affair● of his Kingdom as to take Vengeance of them tha● had opposed themselves against his Designs And if so be that in cases of such nature place may be given to Conjectures and Presumptions is it no●● most probable that the English themselves have done that very thing which they falsly impute to the Netherlandish Company They publish for a certain Truth That the Young King while the Father as yet govern'd the Kingdom assassinated their Agent and Commises and that h● always carried himself as an Enemy to them wherea● on the contrary the Government of the Father wa● most Grateful unto them Doth it then seem to be such an ungrounded Presumption that they partly to revenge themselves o● that Massacre of which the King of Great Brittain i● his Letter to the now King of Bantam declareth him● self so sensible and partly that it was much for thei● Interest that the Son might be pull'd down from th● Throne and put to death and that the Father o● another Brother were set up they should labour to kindle the Fire and foment this War Especially hereunto concurring that they were so soon ready to joyn their Forces to the Assistance of the Father without which the Father could not have obtained those Advantages nor the Son be brought to such a Labyrinth Also it will clearly appear that all the Mischief which is come to the English Company in this business is wholly from the bad Management of Affairs by their own Men and Ministers in Bantam For the King of Great Brittain and the English Company acknowledg the Young King for the alone King and Soveraign But their Ministers declare him to be an Usurper and a Rebel of the Father Their Masters endeavour to establish a setled Peace with him They set themselves formally against him as their Enemy Their Masters endeavour to Oblige the Son by all means possible and send great quantity of all manner of Ammunition of War to him They do not only disoblige him in all things but even assist his Enemies with the Provision sent to his Assistance Their Masters in their fore-mentioned Letter pray that God the Creator of Heaven and Earth would bless and prosper him They endeavour to bereave him of his Throne and make him the most miserable of men So that having by these Unrighteous Courses brought upon themselves to be driven out of Bantam they now know not how to excuse the Matter And being disappointed in their Design as fallen into the Pit they digged for others they are at their Wits End and know not what to do some body must be found out upon whom to lay the Blame and the next that comes to hand is the Netherlandish Company Hic mihi turbat aquas But had they sate still or had as they would make the World believe kept themselves Neutral according to the Will and Footsteps of their Masters or had they instead of helping the Old assisted the Young King these difficulties nor questions had never happened And how can the English with any shew of reason dispute or call in question the Soveraignty of the Young King seeing it is a known case that the sending and admitting of Ambassadors and Agents together with the making of Treaties and Alliances are true Tokens of a Soveraign Power and therefore all such as admit and receive Ambassies do thereby acknowledg the Soveraignty of them that send the same which is also further owned by proffers of Alliances and Leagues which cannot be erected but between Soveraigns Now as to the Second Fact to wit That after the Netherlandish Company had got the Young King into their Snares and perfidiously brought him under their Yoke they then should have forced him to the Expulsion of the English This we have before manifested to be a false Fiction For first They ought not in a case of so great weight and tendency to make such odious and malicious Positions except they had clear and convincing Proofs at hand There is not any one of the Witnesses which the English Company have produced that mentions a Word thereof or that speaks of Snares into which they of Batavia caused the Young King to fall or of any Yoke under which against all fidelity they had brought him It is true they produce in the Process one Mr. Waite speaking of the departure of the English by Order of the King who relates only of an hard Contest between the said King and Major Sir Martin before that Order of causing them to depart could be obtained from him But being saith he altogether under the Power of the Hollanders he was