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Supplement of original papers and letters relating to the Scots company Trading to Africa and the Indies
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Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
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what is Demanded and will give his Answer to the Company His Majesty doth not refuse to Receive the Petition tho' he will not allow my Lord Basil to be the presenter of it This is from To the Right Honourable The Court of Directors of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies Right Honorable Your very humble Servant Sic subscribitur Marchmont Chancellour A Letter from the Directors of the Company to the Secretaries for Scotland My Lord THE Council-General of our Company having lately at a very frequent Meeting thought fit to send up one of their own Number with an Address to His Majesty and with Instructions concerning the Contents of our Company 's former Petitions they thought that none could be more Capable to Discharge that Trust than Lord Basil Hamilton as being throughly Versed in the course of the Company 's Affairs nor more acceptable to His Majesty as having had no objection made against him when he was appointed several Lords of His Majesties Privy Council being then present And the Council-General having signified so much to your Lordship by a Letter wherein they entreated that you would be pleased to Introduce him to the King and give your Concurrence in procuring a Gracious Return to what he had in Commission and which he was to Communicate to from Lordship We are surpriz'd to find this day by a Letter to the Lord Chancellour that the King will not allow Lord Basil Hamilton to have Access because he did not wait upon His Majesty when he was formerly at London But his Lordship being sent by and having his Instructions from the Council-General We the Court of Directors can say nothing to it other than to entreat your Lordship that you 'd use your Interest with His Majesty to allow Lord Basil Hamilton to have Access to His Royal Person least the Refusal thereof be not only a great Discouragement to the Company and all its Wellwishers under its present Difficulties and repeated Misfortunes but give also ground to the World to believe that his not being allow'd Access to His Majesty is upon the Account of his carrying an Address from this Company which every Body knows stands in great need of and has a just Right to his Majesties Royal Favour and Protection And which being the General Concern of the whole Nation is confidently expected and signified to your Lordship by Order and in name of the Court of Directors by Edinbur the 9th day of January 1700. My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Sic Subscribiter Pat. Scot. I. P. C. D. From the Company to my Lord Basil Hamilton My Lord WE have your Lordships Letter of the 2d Instant by yesterdays Post in relation to the Contents of which we send you herewith the Copy of a Letter which we have written by this Night's Post to both the Secretaries of State and likewise the Copy of another Letter which we had this morning from the Lord Chancellour upon the same head As our Company cannot but have a just sense of your Lordships generous condescension to the Council-General's Request in undertaking a troublesome Journey to London this time of the Year to wait upon and Solicite his Majesty about our Company 's Affairs with no other view but frankly to serve the Interest of your Country to the manifest neglect of your own So we cannot but heartily regret that the carrying of the Company 's Commission should be the occasion of putting any such distinguishing Mark upon a person of your Lordships Quality and merit as to be denied access to His Majesties Person because you did not wait upon His Majesty when you were formerly at London No body can be so blind as not to see through this And whereas we never could hear that your Lordship did ever any thing unworthy of your Quality or inconsistent with the duty of a Loyal and Peaceable Subject So we are still hopeful that by your own prudent management His Majesty may be undeceived of any misrepresentation he might have had of you and that he will yet condesend to grant your Lordship access to his Royal Person with the Companies said Address and give you a gracious Answer to the Contents thereof and to the other particulars mention'd in your Instructions An account whereof would be very welcome News in the midst of our misfortunes to the Company in general and particularly to the Court of Directors in whose name and by whose order this is from My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Pat. Scot. I. P. C. D. Edinburgh the 9th day of January 1700. His Majesties Letter to His Council of Scotland William R. Sic suprascribiter RIght Trusty and Right well Beloved Cousin and Councellor Right Trusty and entirely beloved Cousin an Councellour Right Trusty and well Beloved Cousins and Councellours Right Trusty and well Beloved Councellours And Trusty and well Beloved Councellours We greet you well WHEREAS The Council-General of the Company of that our Kingdom Trading to Africa and the Indies By their Letter to our Secretaries of the Fourth day of December last did desire That they might give their concurrence to procure a Gracious Return from Us to the Petition which they had sent with Lord Basil Hamilton And the said Lord Basil having communicated to Our Secretaries both the foresaid Petition and His Instructions And they having Represented to Us what is desired in behalf of the said Company and We having refused the said Lord Basil Hamilton Access to present the foresaid Petition to Us for the Reasons We did Order Our Secretaries to Communicate to Our Chancellour Yet We being willing to give an Answer to what the said Company does desire You are therefore to call for some of the Council-General and acquaint them that We are Resolv'd in the terms of our Treaties to demand from the King of Spain that Captain _____ Pinkarton and these of his Crew who are detained Prisoners at Carthagena be Released and set at Liberty And you may also acquaint them That our Subjects of that our Kingdom shall be allowed the same Liberty of Trade that others enjoy with the English Plantations And in general You may signify to them Our Resolution to promote and advance the Trade of the Kingdom And the three Friggots they demand having been given by Parliament for guarding the Trade of the Coasts We are not resolved to dispose of them till We have the Advice of Our Parliament And so We bid you heartily Farewe Given at your Court at Kensington the Tenth day of January 1700 and of our Reign the Eleventh Year By His Majesties Command Sic. Sub. Seafield Directed thus To Our Right Trusty and Right well Beloved Cousin and Councellour Our Right Trusty and Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councellour Our Right Trusty and well Beloved Cousins and Councellours Our Right Trusty and well Beloved Councellours And to our Trusty and well Beloved Councellours Patrick Earl of Marchmont our Chancellour and the rest of the Lords and others of our Privy Council of our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland This is a true Copy taken from the Principal and Subscribed by Sic Subscribitur Gilb. Eliot Cls. Sti. Con. An other Letter from the Company to my Lord Basil Hamilton My Lord YOur Lordships Letters to the Court of Directors having been by them Communicated to us We cannot but acknowledge that as you have at our request Frankly undertaken a troublesome Journey and Task to serve the Interest of your Country and our Company So we are fully satisfied that you have acquitted your self with a great deal of Prudence and Discretion in the execution of that Charge for which we render you most hearty Thanks But finding by a Letter of the 10th instant from His Majesty to the Lords of His Privy Council and by a former from the Secretaries of State to the Lord Chancellour Copies of both which are herewith inclosed That His Majesty has determin'd not to allow your Lordship access to present our Address nor to impart to His Majesty what other things we gave you in charge by your Instructions We are heartily Sorry that your Lordships carrying of our Address should bring you under any such disagreeable circumstances with His Majesty But the matter being so we cannot think it just to detain your Lordship any Longer at London to the neglect of your own affairs at home and do therefore hereby signify that your Lordship may use your own Freedom to take Journey homeward as soon as you think fit and as may sute best with your conveniency This is in name presence and by order of the Council-General of our Company from My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant John Home P. Edinburgh the 29th of January 1700. FINIS