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A52837	The letter sent by the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to His Majesty, by their Trumpeter together with His Majesties answer to the said letter / translated out of French into English.; Lettre des Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas envoyee a sa majeste le Roy de La Grande Bretagne par un trompette. English	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). His Majesties answer to the letter sent from the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys by their trumpeter.	1673 (1673)	Wing N486; ESTC R43477	9,318	14

time of Our Surrendring that place into your hands till the beginning of this present War and is there not yet the greater part of them remaining there Are they there detained your Slaves at Our desire Did We send Our Ships thither onely for a colour with intention to subject them to your Tyranny more entirely and with the greater decency and not to deliver them from it Was not the Officer We sent thither Major Banister confined presently upon his arrival and not suffered to speak with his Countrey men or acquaint them with the care We had of them Did he not protest against the Governour for having broken the Capitulation in Eighteen several points And will you say all this was done according to what We desired Had you been so tender of the bloud of both Nations as in your Paper you pretend you would not so long and with so much obstinacy have persisted in oppressing those Our Subjects whom you detain in that Colony And it is manifest that if you could cast all the blame hereof upon Us you have a mind to do it All We can say therefore to this your assertion is That you have indeed granted Us in words all We asked but that We have never obtained any thing of you in deeds What followed was the pretended Satisfaction you say you offered at all times to make Us in relation to the Trade of Our Subjects in the East-Indies It was solemnly promised by the Treaty of Breda that things should be adjusted by Commissioners to be sent hither by you when there should be more leisure for it But you well know that Our Ambassador whom We sent after the said Treaty to reside with you could obtain nothing in that matter by all his instances that could in any wise satisfie Our East India Company Nor did the Sieur Van Beuningen who seemed to have come hither expresly upon that account offer any more in all his Conferences with Our Commissioners upon that subject It is true the Ambassador Boreel produced here a full Power from you to treat and conclude an Offensive and Defensive League with Us but We could not accept the Proposition because the conditions of it were not sufficiently equitable and that instead of giving Us satisfaction in Our complaints he would never so much as admit of their being mentioned On the contrary his whole discourse tended to nothing else but to perswade Us that the States-General offered Us this League as a mark of their Friendship and for Our security alone seeming indifferent whether it were accepted or not and magnifying continually the greatness of your Forces by Land and Sea as sufficient to defend you against the formidable power of France and often threatning Us that you could make such a League whensoever you pleased with France and even against Us if We accepted not what his Masters offered Us. The sum of these two points is That the Sieur Van Beuningen was pleased to discourse concerning the Satisfaction demanded by Us in point of Trade in the East-Indies but departed without offering any thing and the Sieur Boreel offered Us a League Offensive and Defensive without giving Us Satisfaction for the past Injuries or security against future And all this to the end the Injuries We had complained of that till then were peculiarly your Acts might by a solemn Treaty be declar'd Our own The next matter of offence given Us was as you well observe in your Letter the affront committed against Our Flagg in the moneth of August 1671. Complaint was made thereof to your Ambassador residing here and he assured Us he would procure Us a fair satisfaction thereupon but three or four moneths time passing without the least notice being taken thereof by you We held Our Self obliged to send our Extraordinary Ambassador to demand Satisfaction of you in more earnest terms then We had done before To which not receiving any satisfactory Answer he had order to return Soon after he was followed by an Extraordinary Ambassador from you who affirmed that he had no Powers to make reparation for this affront or any other of those things We had so often complained of but to agree upon terms of Regulation in the business of the Flagg for the future yet saying withall that of himself and without consulting you again he could not put any thing in writing concerning it The arrival of the said Ambassador Extraordinary was about the time We were ready to make open Declaration of War against your State which We could no longer delay because the Spring was coming on and the said Ambassador persisted that his Instructions permitted him not to do any thing upon Our Demands neither was he able to produce any thing to justifie his delay but the offering Us to write to his Masters for larger Powers and Instructions The War following upon this In the heat of it Three Deputies arrived here from you without any Passports from Us or giving Us notice of their coming according to the Customs and Usages of War Whereupon We might well have confined them as you say We did but We contented Our Self with warning them to abstain from coming to lodge in this Our City appointing them instead thereof Lodgings in Our Palace of Hampton Court with all other conveniences suitable to their Character and dissembling what We knew passed between them and persons they practised upon to cause tumults and disorders in Our City or to disturb the progress of the War Notwithstanding which We forbore not to send to them some of the Principal persons of Our Council to conferre with them and hear their Proposals To whom they made this only Answer and persisted therein to the time of their departure that they had no Authority or Instructions to make any Propositions but were content to hearken to those that should be made to them and to transmit them to their Masters hoping that while they amused Us with this appearance the Deputies you had sent at the same time to the Most Christian King might have concluded a separate Treaty with him And can you flatter your selves with the opinion that the World should look upon this proceeding as a convincing proof of your ardent desires for Peace Did ever Prince or state send an Ambassador with design to obtain that which the Ambassador was not empowered either to conclude or sign especially to a Prince with whom they had War It is much more rational to believe what you did was to gain time whilst you endeavoured to put in execution those threats in relation to France that the Sieur Boreel had before given us The Minister of Brandenburgh never declared that he came hither to make Us any overtures of Peace or that he had any other Commission then to incline Us at the recommendation of His Master to hearken to those that should be made Us. He came hither at the time that the Ambassador Extraordinary of His most Serene Majesty the King of Sweden arrived in

THE LETTER Sent by the States-General of the UNITED PROVINCES Of the Low Countreys TO HIS MAJESTY By their Trumpeter Together with His MAJESTIES ANSWER To the said Letter Translated out of French into English Published by His Majesties special Command C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT EDINBURGH Re-printed by His MAJESTIES Printers Anno DOM. 1673. THE LETTER Sent by the STATES-GENERAL Of the Vnited Provinces TO HIS MAJESTY By their Trumpeter SIRE AS we have never desired any thing more then to merit the good Will of Your Majesty and to cultivate a Friendship which had been heretofore Hereditary between Your Majesties Kingdom and this Republick so we were beyond measure troubled when we saw Your Majesty exasperated against us and that by the Artifices of evil minded persons Your Subjects and Ours have been overwhelmed with those miseries which are inseparable from War and brought to shed that bloud which hath been alwayes dear to either side The sad experience we had thereof on both parts in the preceeding War had given us cause to believe at the same time that after we were re-united the Peace would be a blessing which was no more to be ravished from us And we were the rather perswaded of it because the New Alliances we were entred into seemed able to make our Union eternal But seeing Divine Providence for the Chastisement of the two Nations hath permitted that things should not continue long in that happy estate we no sooner perceived a Mis-understanding arise but we thought our selves obliged to use all imaginable endeavours to stop the progress of it and to omit nothing that might contribute to the preventing so great an evil as that of a Rupture In order to which being certainly informed that Your Majesty was offended at a Medal which we had not suffered to be sold but that we thought it very innocent we immediatly suppressed it and caused the very Stamps to be broken for fear there might be some made secretly And to give Your Majesty essential proofs of the esteem we had of Your Friendship we yielded to Your Majesty whatever You were pleased to demand of us in behalf of the Inhabitants of Surinam how prejudicial soever the thing were to us and whatsoever reason we otherwise had not to consent to it At the same time we sent the Sieur Van Beuningen to Your Majesty for removing if it were possible the sinister impressions which some laboured to possess Your Majesty with and for perfecting a Regulation proposed by Your Majesties Ambassador between Your East-India Company and Ours Since that although the little success which the said Sieur Van Beuningens Negotiation had had gave us but too great cause to fear that we should not succeed better for the future yet we no sooner understood that there were some who would perswade Your Majesty as well against all likelyhood of truth as truth it self That we treated underhand with France to the prejudice of Your Majesties interests but we gave order without delay to our Ambassador with Your Majesty to declare to Your Majesty in our name That to shew the falsehood of those reports which were spread abroad to our disadvantage and to give Your Majesty essential and unquestionable marks of the sincerity of our intentions we were ready to enter into such an Alliance with You as You should think fit how strict soever it should be and to go far beyond any thing we had hitherto done for securing the Peace of Europe Then followed the affair of the Flagg wherein we think our conduct hath been with all imaginable respect towards Your Majesties Person And although the Answer we gave to Your Ambassadors Memorial be such as we shall alwayes be ready to submit to the judgement of all Europe Yet upon complaint that it was obscure and insufficient we sent an Ambassador extraordinary to Your Majesty and gave power to him as also to our ordinary Ambassador to clear what should be thought obscure and to add what should be necessary But in stead of entring into regular Conferences with them and letting them know what was defective in our Answer they were neglected and no Conference granted them upon the point which might have ended all our differences till an hour after Your Majesties Declaration of War had been read and approved in Your Council All this SIRE doth sufficiently evidence with what application and zeal we have laboured to satisfie Your Majesty and to extinguish in its beginning a Fire which is ready to consume all Christendom And as we have not entered into this War but from an indispensable necessity of defending and protecting our Subjects we have ever since the Rupture as much as we were able sought Your Majesties Friendship and never given over the making overtures of Peace Upon which account we sent our Deputies Extraordinary to Your Majesty the last year in the moneth of June in the year 1672. who were confined to Hampton-Court without having any Audience given them or being heard what they had to say on our part A Minister from the Elector of Brandenburgh passed also into England upon the same subject and charged himself at our request with the representing to Your Majesty the ardent desire we had to see Your Majesty entertain other sentiments and our disposition to do any thing in our power to acquire again the honour of Your Majesties good correspondence Since that upon the Proposition made by the Mediators of a general Truce for as much as according to our judgement we could not consent to it without hazarding the safety of our States yet to evidence to Your Majesty how great a desire we had to give you all possible marks of our Respect and to the end to procure to Your Subjects all the advantages which they could have received from a general Truce we offered one by Sea to Your Majesty for the term of a year or a longer time if Your Majesty thought convenient judging that in the condition things were then in we could not give a greater proof of the ardent passion we had to smooth the way to a happy Reconciliation then by putting all Your Majesties Subjects into a condition of tasting the sweetness of Peace while ours should suffer all the incommodities of War The Ministers of the King of Spain have represented the same things from time to time to Your Majesty and have often repeated their instances to encline Your Majesty to Peace But besides all these advances and the steps we have made in publick we have made use of other means which we judged more efficacious And his Highness the Prince of Orange as well of his own inclination as at the request we have several times reiterated to him hath used all imaginable wayes of regaining the honour of Your Majesties friendship for us and representing to You the advantage and glory Your Majesty might acquire by re-establishing the Quiet of Christendom and giving us a Peace

order to the offering Us the Mediation of their Master which We readily embraced as likewise a Proposition made by them to Us for a Suspension of Arms. But a little after when they proposed the same thing to you you thought fit absolutely to reject the Suspension and were so long bargaining upon the choice of a place for treating the Peace that many moneths passed without producing any other effect then your gaining your point in naming the City of Cologne for the Congress Which being agreed to and Our Fleet ready to put to Sea you sent Us word you would then accept a Cessation of Arms by Sea To which We found Our Self obliged to make answer That a Peace might be made in much less time then the terms of a Partial Suspension be agreed upon although it appeared to Us a meer artifice invented only to charm the Common Peoples ears and make Us consume unprofitably all Our preparations for equipping Our Fleet. In a word when Our Merchants might really have received benefit by a Suspension you absolutely refused it and would then only yeild to it when you saw your Provinces like to suffer by the progress of the War The Ministers of Spain never offered Us any Conditions nor performed any other Office then in general terms to incline Us to the thoughts of Peace which We ever accepted kindly from them Neither did Our Nephew the Prince of Orange ever make Us any Overtures for Peace We must needs avow That the manner of your comportment towards him till the year last past was no very good Argument to perswade Us that your intentions of living in a good correspondence with Us were real and sincere And although We were unwilling to shew Our resentment of his usage publickly lest We should give occasion to his enemies to do him more harm yet so soon as the good will of the people prevailing against the Louvestein Party had conferred upon him that Power and Authority in the Government which his Ancestors had so well merited We applyed Our self with more zeal and efficacy to make the Peace being further encited thereunto by the unexpected success of the Arms by Land of the most Christian King We forthwith sent Ambassadors extraordinary to him to be present at the Treaty which the Louvestein Party would have managed to the excluding of Us if the Virtue and Generosity of that Prince would have permitted him to admit it But so soon as Our Ambassadors were seen upon the place the Deputies withdrew themselves and never after appeared following that fundamental Maxim you had laid from the beginning of this War to divide Us by any kind of Artifices thereof to make your own advantage As to your insinuation of Our intention to ruine Our Nephew the Prince of Orange ye know your selves sufficiently the injustice of that reproach And whilst at Cologne you openly complain to the Mediators that We are too zealous in advancing his Interests you would have our Subjects believe We are guilty of ill nature towards him And the better to improve this abuse you add without giving or having any the least ground for it that Our demands at Cologne tend to the subversion of the Protestant Religion and the ruine of Our Nephews family We cannot conclude Our remarks upon this Letter or Manifest framed by you with design to abuse your people and Ours and involved in terms of respect for Our Person and fair words about a Peace without adding what ought to be convincing to the most obstinate amongst you At the same time you would perswade Us to break Our Word and Faith given to Our Allies not to Treat separately you establish it for a fundamental point that you cannot break the word you have given yours without wronging your honour as if your honour ought alwayes to be dear to you but Ours of little or no value with Us. In the mean time you make the proceedings of your Deputies at Cologne to pass for the fairest and most ingenuous that may be reproaching that of Our Plenipotentiaries as rude and insincere saying That notwithstanding all your endeavours We would never yet abate of Our first rigour Herein we appeal to the Mediators themselves who will not be wanting to do Us justice in letting the World know that Our said Plenipotentiaries have retrenched at least one half of their first demands whilst yours have continually excused themselves from giving an answer upon any one of them except that of the Flagg with which they seem inclined to gratifie Us for the future but in terms very equivocal and which shall not take notice of any right We ever had to it for the time past And this is the only thing you have shewn the least disposition to yield to Us during the whole course of this Negotiation And having made no further advance in the overtures of Peace which you say you made Us by Our Nephew the Prince of Orange the Ministers of Spain and Brandenburgh and by those of the Mediators themselves you do not so much as mention one word of it in your said Letter handling the matter of the Peace in general terms to acquire to your selves the reputation of it and not making Us one Proposition but that of dividing Us from Our Allies an Action which you esteem too low for a Common-wealth but suitable enough to a King If you have a desire to promote the Peace in good Earnest instead of specious expressions send Powers without further delay to your Deputies at Cologne to draw up Just and Equal Articles with Ours and the World shall see how ready We shall be to Comply with them and to resume those sentiments of Friendship and esteem which the Kings Our Predecessors have always had for your State And to manifest to you that we are truly From Whitehall the 7th of November 1673. Your good Friend CHARLES R. FINIS