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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

Protection We do therefore in all humility and earnestness beg of your Majesty's fartherly Care of our said Company in particular and of the Nation in general That your Majesty would be graciously pleased to take off the force and effect of these Proclamations which have been so prejudicial to us and to signify your Royal Pleasure to the Governours of these your Plantations that we may be supply'd in the common and ordinary way of Commerce As also That your Majesty may allow your Parliament to meet at the day appointed in November next or as soon as possibly can be that your Majesty may have the Advice and Assistance of the Great Council of this Nation in such a weighty and general Concern which we hope God will bless with an happy issue to his Glory the Honour of your Majesty the Credit of your Parliament the Interest of the Nation and the Good of our Company and Colony Sign'd at Edinburgh the 19th day of October 1699. 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 Belhaven I. P. C. G. To which his Majesty was pleased to give the following Answer WILLIAM R. RIght Trusty and Well-beloved We greet you well Your Petition has been presented to us by our Secretaries and we do very much regret the Loss which that our antient Kingdom and the Company has lately sustained We will upon all Occasions protect and encourage the Trade of the Nation And we will also take care that the Subjects of our Kingdom shall have the same freedom of Trade and Commerce with our English Plantations as ever they had formerly Our current Parliament is adjourn'd to the 5th day of March next and we will order that the Parliament shall meet when we judge that the Good of the Nation does require it And so we bid you heartily farewel Given at our Court at Kensington the 2d day of November 1699. and of our Reign the 11th Year By his Majesty's Command Sic Subscribitur Seafield To our Right Trusty and well-beloved The Council General of the Company of our Antient Kingdom of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor and remanent Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council The humble Address of the Conncil-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please your Lordships WE think it needless to trouble your Lordships with a repetition of the many Steps Difficulties and Discouragements that we met with all along both abroad and at home since the beginning of this Undertaking the most considerable of them being already particularly known to your Lordships But maugre all those Difficulties we have with a great deal of Trouble and vast Expences settled a Plantation in one of the most valuable and impregnable Places in all America situated on the North-side of the Isthmus of Darien called by us Caledonia As no Nation in Europe ever begun any such Settlement with so considerable a Strength of Men Ships and other Necessaries as we did so no instance can be given of any Settlement ever heretofore made that had so hopeful an Aspect in so short a time as our Plantation aforesaid But to our and the Nation 's inestimable Loss we have very surprizing Advices of our Peoples having deserted the said Settlement by reason of Proclamations issued forth in all his Majesty's Plantations of America strictly forbidding all his Majesty's Subjects to hold any manner of Correspondence with our said Colony and that no manner of Provisions Arms Ammunition or other necessaries whatsoever should be transported or carried to them either in their own Vessels or any other Ship or Vessel for their use and that under the utmost Pains Penalties and Forfeitures mentioned in the said Proclamations The certain Nature whereof could not but have put them in a desperate Condition especially none of our Advices having come to their hands tho we wrote to them at several times by the several ways of Jamaica Barbadoes Antegoa New-England c. And sent them likewise an illimited Credit for buying of Provisions till our own Ships and Recruits should come up to them We have taken such further measures as seem'd most reasonable to us upon this unexpected Emergency but have too good ground to fear that not only what we have already done but even all that we are able to do must prove ineffectual if the King and his Parliament of this Kingdom do not give some encouraging Mark of their Favour and Protection to our said Company and Colony Wherefore we have in all humble Duty petitioned his Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to take off the Force of the said Proclamations and allow his said Parliament to meet at the day appointed in November next or as soon as possibly may be to give their Advice and Assistance in such a weighty and general Concern Your Lordships very well know the great Losses both of Men and Treasure that we have already suffered by the unaccountable Proceedings of the Enemies of our Company and Colony Nor can gainst us unless his Majesty and the Great Council of the Nation fall upon proper and effectual Measures for supporting so valuable an Undertaking May it therefore please your Lordships to take the whole Premises into your most serious consideration and do us all the good Offices with his Majesty that in your profound Wisdoms you shall think most expedient for supporting our Company and Colony's Interest and give him an account of our present hard Circumstances and how much the Honour and Interest of Nation stands concern'd Sign'd at Edinburgh the 20th day of October 1699 in Name Presence and by Order of the said Council-General By > May it please your Lordships Your Lordships most humble Servant Sic subscribitur Basil Hamilton J. P. C. G. FINIS

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

to render the Senate and Inhabitants of the said City of Hamburg and all others with whom we have occasion to enter in Commerce secure from the Threatnings and other false Suggestions mentioned in the said Memorial as well as to render us secure under Your Majesty's Protection in the free Enjoyment of our Lawful Rights and Privileges contained in Your Majesty's Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent above mentioned Sign'd at Edinburgh the 22d Day of Decemb. 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 Fran. Scott Pr. To the Right Houourable the Lord High Chancellor and remanent Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council The humble Representation of the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please your Lordships 'T Is not unknown to your Lordships how that in several successive Sessions of this current Parliament His Majesty's Instructions to His respective High Commissioners and their several Speeches pursuant thereunto have been full of repeated Assurances of His Majesty's good Inclinations for encouraging the Trade and Manufactures of this Nation And whereas accordingly by the 32d Act of the 4th Session and the 8th Act of the 5th Session of the said Parliament together with His Majesty's Letters Patent under the great Seal of this Kingdom our Company is establish'd with such ample Privileges and Immunities as were thought most proper for encouraging both Natives and Foreigners to joyn in the carrying on supporting and advancement of our Trade We have in pursuance and upon publick Faith thereof not only contributed at home a far more considerable Joint-Stock than ever was raised before in this Nation for any publick Undertaking or Project of Trade whatsoever but have also had all the promising Hopes and Prospect of Foreign Aid that our Hearts could wish till to our great surprize the English Ministers at Hamburgh have under pretence of Special Warrant from His Majesty put a stop thereto by giving in a Memorial to the Senate of that City threatning both Senate and Inhabitants with the King 's utmost Displeasure if they should countenance or joyn with us in any Treaty of Trade and Commerce As by the annexed Copy thereof may appear Upon due Consideration whereof we have in all Duty and Humility address'd His Majesty in June last for redress thereof In answer to which Address His Majesty was then graciously pleased to signifie by His Royal Letter That upon His return into England He would take into Consideration the Contents of our said Address And that in the mean time He would give Orders to His said Ministers at Hamburgh not to make use of His Royal Name or Authority for obstructing the Trade of our Company with the Inhabitants of that City In the full assurance of which we rested secure and took our Measures accordingly till to our further Surprize and unspeakable Prejudice we found by repeated Advices from Hamburgh that the said Resident continues still Contumacious and is so far from due Obedience to His Majesty's said Order that upon Application made to him by our Agent in that City with all the Respect due to his Character he declared That as yet he had got no such Order on our behalf Which by a further Address we are now to lay before His Majesty But whereas we humbly concelve your Lordships to be more immediately under His Majejesty the Guardians of the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom we think it our Duty to represent to Your Lordships the Consequences of the said Memorial both with relation to our Company in particular and the Privileges Interest Honour Dignity and Reputation of the Nation in general Your Lordships very well know of what Concern the Success of this Company is to the whole Kingdom and that scarce any particular Society or Corporation within the same can justly boast of so unanimous a Suffrage or Sanction as the Acts of Parliament by which this Company is established So that if effectual means be not taken for putting an early stop to such an open and violent Infringement of and Encroachment upon the Privileges of so solemn a Constitution 't is hard to guess how far it may in after Ages be made use of as a Precedent for invading and overturning even the very Fundamental Rights Natural Liberties and indisputable Independency of this Kingdom which by the now open and frequent Practises of our unkind Neighbours seem to be too shreudly pointed at And should this Company wherein the most considerable of the Nobility Gentry Merchants and whole Body of the Royal Boroughs are concern'd be so unhappy which God forbid as to have its Designs rendred unsuccessful through the unaccountable evil Treatments of our said Neighbours most certain it is that no Consideration whatever can thereafter induce this Nation to join in any such other Publick tho' never so advantageous Undertaking as not doubting but to meet with the like or greater Discouragements from those who give such frequent and manifest Indications of their Designs to wrest our Right and Freedom of Trade out of our Hands For which cause we humbly offer tbe Premises to your Lordship's Consideration not doubting but you will in your profound Wisdom and Prudence take such effectual Measures for redress thereof at present and to prevent the like Encroachments for the future as may be capable to remove those Apprehensions and Jealousies which the bare-faced and avowed Methods of the English do now suggest not only to our Company in particular but even to the whole Body of this Nation in general Sign'd at Edinburgh the 22d Day of December 1697 in Name Presence and by Order of the said Council-General by May it please Your Lordships Your Lordship 's most Obedient and most humble Servant Sic Subscribitur Fran. Scott Pr. The Answer by the two Secretaries of State to the President of the Company Kensington Jan. 17. 1697 8. SIR WE presented this Day to the King the Address of the African Company We could not have Opportunity to do it sooner His Majesty being so much taken up at this time The King said That he had already given Orders to his Resident at Hamburg in that Matter conform to his Letter he wrote from Flanders in July last which was Communicated to the Company We are SIR Your Humble Servants Sic subscribitur Tullibardin Ja. Ogilvie To Sir FRANCIS SCOTT of Thirlestane To his Grace His Majesty's High Commissioner and the Right Honourable the States of Parliament The Humble Petition of the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies Sheweth THat whereas the Wisdom of the King and this present Parliament has thought fit by two several solemn Acts and Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Kingdom to establish our Company with such Powers Privileges and Immunities as were thought needful

far from having ever been possess'd by any European whatsoever that by all the Accounts that we could ever yet get not only at this time from the Council of our Colony but even by such Letters as we have seen and heard of from Curacao and other American Islands no European did before our Settlement so much as once set a foot upon that Plot of Ground wherein our Colony is now fix'd And tho the same was altogether uninhabited when our People came there the chief Men and Leaders of the said Natives of that part of the Coast nearest adjoining to Golden Island Eastward and Westward have not only treated with the Council of our Colony before Landing but have also in pursuance of that Treaty in a most kind and friendly manner admitted our said Colony into such Places of their Neighbourhood as are not yet possess'd and taken Commissions from the said Council in a very solemn manner and joined with our People and that in consideration of our Colony's admitting them and their Followers to participate of the Liberties and Privileges granted to our Company by his Majesty of Great Britain OUR SOVERAIGN LORD with Advice and Consent of his Parliament of Scotland entreating to be protected accordingly We repeat these Words as being the express Words of the first Commission which the said Council granted As to the French Designs of setling thereabouts it is a Point not to be doubted of For in order thereunto they have already been tampering with several of the Natives some of whom they endeavour'd to have carried into France and we have very good reason to believe that a further Progress had been made in that matter before now were it not the daily Expectaions which that Court had of the King of Spain's Death which we humbly conceive is a Matter worthy of his Majesty's Consideration and of no small Concern to the Interest of his whole Dominions tho this Nation and our Company may seem to be more immediately interested at present Your Lordship sees we have in the inclosed Letter to the King made mention of our last Petition and hope your Lordship will take a convenient Opportunity to back the same For as your Lordship knows we have already suffered considerably by encroaching upon our Privileges so we ought to be very careful as much as in us lies not to admit of any dangerous Precedents And really we must say We were very much surpriz'd the other day when we understood by Letters from the Council of our Colony that Capt. Long Commander of the Rupert Prize who carries his Majesty's Commission for sinding out and fishing of Wrecks should under the colour of that Commission wherever he went traduce our Undertaking and Colony to all sorts of People upon that Coast whether Natives or others declaring that our said Colony was no other than a pack of Rogues Vagabonds Robbers and broken Officers without any Commission and that the King would not own them nay further he himself came into our Harbour wherehe was very courteously and respecfully treated by all our People there in recompence of which he very ingratefully made it his study all the while to seduce our Men and did carry off one of our chief carpenters which is a very considerable Loss in that part of the World and in the Infancy of our Settlement considering how necessary a Man he was and the Difficulty of supplying his place so quickly as they may have occasion for him This kind of Usage is really so provoking that we cannot suppose but that the King may be graciously pleased to interpose his Royal Authority for preventing the like usage in time to come if his Majesty were duly informed thereof So in the confidence of his Majesty's gracious Countenance and Protection and your Lordship 's hearty endeavours to procure the same this is by Order of the Council-General and in Name Presence and by Warrant of the Court of Directors of our Company Signed by My Lord Your Lorship 's most obedient and most humble Servant Sic-Subscribitur J. Haldane P. To the Right Honourable the Lord Carmichael Secretary of State c. Memorandum There was another Letter to the same purpose written to the Viscount of Seafield with an inclosed Copy of the said Letter to the King The Colonies Address To the King 's most Excellent Majesty Most Gracious Sovereign WE your Loyal and obedient Subjects the Council of your Colony of Caledonia being here settled pursuant to the Powers and Immunities proceeding from your Royal Favour and Goodness where upon our arrival the Natives on all hands in complyance with former Agreements received and entertained us with all possible demonstrations of joy and satisfaction there being no possession nor so much as pretended possession for any Prince or State in Europe upon this whole Coast extending it self considerably more than one hundred Leagues together We found the Indians on all sides in open War with the Spaniards their nearest Neighbours against whom they besought our Assistance which we could by no means comply with by reason of the present Peace and good Understanding between your Majesty and the King of Spain Yet notwithstanding this our just and peaceable deportment and inclination and our certifying the same by Letters to the two neighbouring Governours of Panama and Carthagena We have to our no small surprize received certain Information that several great and warlike Designs and Preparations are on foot and carrying on by the Spaniards against this Colony and that contrary to all Justice and Humanity as well as the Treaties of Peace between your Majesty and the Catholick King they now unjustly detain and refuse to deliver up the Persons and Goods that were saved of a Ship belonging to this Colony called the Dolphin which by misfortune of springing a Leak was not long since oblig'd to run ashore and suffer Shipwreck near the City of Carthagena All which have been no small inducement for us to have improved the frequent Opportunities we have had of taking Measures greatly disadvantagious to the Crown of Spain Yet in order to avoid as much as possible any thing that might look like a publick Breach until the same were laid before your Majesty and your Royal Pleasure known therein We have hitherto proceeded no further than of granting of Letters of Reprisals for the People and Effects unjustly detained from us Great Sir The Indies as well as Europe do at this time implore your Protection and as the effectual opening the Door of Commerce to the trading World and of more easy access to and correspondence with the ends of the Earth hath been hitherto hidden and reserved by the Divine Hand for one of the singular Glories of your Majesty's Reign So it 's with no small fatisfaction to be any way concern'd in so hopeful an Accession to the Dominions and Greatness of your Majesty and Wealth of your People That we presume to lay our selves our Case and this valuable Opportunity at your