Spain without them Notwithstanding which they endeavoured a truce with Spain without either his advice or consent as appear'd by several passages of underhand dealings of the Dutch with the Spaniards in a complaint made by the French Embassador to the States Yea when another League Offensive and Defensive was concluded Feb. 8. 1635. between France and Holland and a War with Spain commenced thereupon the Dutch went so far underhand in promoting and procuring a Peace with the Spaniards that their Attorney General Musch was dispatch'd to Don Martine Axpe the King of Spain's Secretary about a Treaty though they deny'd it to the King of France who notwithstanding had intimation of it and thereupon told my Lord Paw their Embassador that these secret proceedings did contradict their solemn Treaty and differed much from the Justice he had shewed toward them The same League being continued from 1636. to 1642. in the year 1640 they treat again with the Spaniard contrary to the League with the French that intimated their Nonability to Treat with Spain without the Concurrence of his Majesty of France Yea a Peace was Negotiated and managed by several Letters intercepted to the Cond Pinneranda and shewed the States by the French Embassador at the Hague at the very same time when 12000 French ventured their Lives and Fortunes for them against Dunkirk and Flanders which Peace was concluded at Munster though confessed by Heer Van Nederhurst one of the Plenipotentiaries there to be contrary to the agreement between France and Them and so manifested by a Declaration of the King of France They that durst deal thus with the French think they may presume to deal worse with the Portugals with whom when they revolted from Spain as they had done before they entered into a firm League at Lisbon and the Hague 1640. with mutual clearness as to outward appearance on both sides But see the Craft of these People They insert in their Articles of Peace that it should not begin beyond the Line till a year after In the mean time advising their Men at Brazil and elsewhere to take all they could get from the Portugeze as they did Angola Malacca and Brazil Embassadors were sent from Portugal to demand these places The Hollanders produced the said clause of the Truce which was all the Portugeze could get of them for said they there is no wrong done in regard in that clause it is said That each side should hold and keep what he can take and in such a Time Whereupon The Portugal Embassador said to them very well That it must be understood Bona Fide Viz. That which should be taken without having any knowledg of the Truce Neither have they been more faithful to the Swedes when they engaged to assist them against the Danes and in the midst of their Service deserted them making Conditions of Peace for themselves and retiring And the King of Spain hath also had sufficient experience and proof of their perfidiousness from whose Government they first revolt and afterward unworthily Treat him There is yet another Testimony Their dealings with the King of Macassar which story whoever peruseth and censures with an unbyassed judgment must from thence necessarily gather their huge ingratitude and injustice Their perfidious dealing with the King of Macassar THe Dutch by vertue of their late success against the K. of Macassar in the Isle of Chaelebes made the said King to sign an Article suddenly for banishing all the Portugezes and English out of his Territories and never from thence forward to admit them or any of their Adherents to drive any Negotiations or Trade under the Government of the Macassars The occasion of the War and the sum of the story is as followeth The East-India Company who for divers years have had in design the ingrossing the whole Trade of Spice c. into their own hands did in order thereunto engage one of the Princes of Macassar that hath vast quantities of Cloves growing on Islands in his own Territories and in places unknown to the Dutch to Trade onely with the Merchants belonging to the East-India Company of the Netherlands which the said Prince who is Brother in-law to the King of Macassar and is himself King of Ternate did consent to on Conditions following Viz. That the General of India Governing the said Company or his Successors or some person or persons by him or them deputed shall well and truly pay unto the said King of Ternate his Heirs or Assignes every year the just sum of 25 thousand Crowns for prohibiting his Subjects Trading with any other Nation particularly are mentioned the English and Portugezes This contract was for some years strictly observed on both sides but Anno 1658 1659 and 1660. The Governour General of India for the said Company John Maetsuycker and his Counsel sent not the sum of Money to the said King of Ternate agreed upon and yet demanded the excluding of all others but themselves of trading with his Subjects but instead thereof presented the said Prince with several rarities of Europe upon which the King of Ternate Complains to his Brother the King of Macassar advising with him what was the most prudent course for him to take in that affair Adding that if the Dutch performed their Contract he had not half the Advantage he could have by permitting a free Trade to all Nations Negotiating into those parts The King declared that his Brother had no reason to take any notice of the said Contract with the Netherlandish East India Company and adviseth him to publish a free Commerce with the English Portugezes or any other not excluding the Netherlanders promising the King of Ternate that if the said East-India Company should be unreasonable to resent it so as to make a War upon a point wherein themselves were onely to blame he would assist his Brother in the just defence of his rights to the utmost of his power For prevention of this free-Market the General and his Council in the year 1660. abetted a Prince by name Radia Palacca in the Kingdome of Macassar against his Soveraign and backed the pretensions of the said Prince with an Army under the Command of John Van Dam afterwards Governor of Amboyna and Banda and possessed themselves of many Towns and Villages and one strong Castle but this small Conquest was soon vanquished by the powerful Arms of the King of Macassar The Prince fled out of his Countrey and soon after the Dutch East-India Company quitted their Castle and other Holds they had possessed themselves of in the name and right of the said Prince on Conditions following First That the Netherlanders should never aid abet or assist any the Subjects of the King of Macassar or his lawful Successors against their Soveraign Secondly That the 25000 Dollars or Crowns formerly Covenanted to be yearly paid to the King of Ternate by the General for the East-India Company should be paid Bona Fide without fraud or covin As also
talk together nor mutually relate their miseries But because the Hollanders defend their own proceedings by the confessions of the parties executed acknowledging severally under their hands that they were guilty of the pretended crime it will not be amiss to recollect and recall unto this place as it were unto one sum and total certain circumstances dispersed in several parts of this Narration whereby as well the innocency of the English as the unlawful proceedings against them may be manifested First Therefore it is to be remembred that the Japons were apprehended examined and tortured three or four dayes before the English were attached and the same as well of their apprehension as torture was rise and notorious in the Town of Amboyna and the parts adjoyning Tomsom in this interim and the very first day of the examination of the Japon went to the Castle to ask leave of the Governour to land some Rice and brought back the news with him to the English house of the cruel handling of these poor Japons This had been Item enough to the English if they had been guilty to shift for themselves whereto also they had ready means by the Curricurries or small Boats of the Amboyners which lie along the Strand in great number wherewith they might easily have transported themselves to Seran to Bottom or to Maccasser out of the reach and Jurisdiction of the Dutch but in that they fled not in this case it is a very strong presumption that they were as little privy to any treason of their own as suspicious of any treacherous train laid for their bloods In the next place let it be considered how impossible it was for the English to atchieve this pretended enterprize The Castle of Amboyna is of a very great strength as is before declared the Garrison therein two or three hundred men besides as many more of their free Burgers in the Town What their care and circumspection in all their Forts is may appear not onely by the quick Alarm they now took at the foolish question of the poor Japon made to the Sentinel above recited but also by that which a little before happened at Jaccatra where one of their Soldiers was shot to death for sleeping in the Watch. Durst ten English men whereof not one a Soldier attempt any thing upon such a strength and vigilancy As for the assistance of the Japons they were but ten neither and all un-armed as well as the English For as at the seizure of the English house all the provision therein found was but three swords two Muskets and half a pound of powder so the Japons except when they are in service of the Castle and there armed by the Dutch are allowed to have no Arms but onely a Catan a kind of short sword and it is forbidden to all the Dutch upon great penalty to sell any hand-gun powder or bullets to the Japons or Amboyners But let it be imagined that these twenty persons English and Japons were so desperate as to adventure the exploit how should they be able to master the Dutch in the Castle or to keep possession when they had gotten it what second had they There was neither Ship nor Pinnace of the English in the Harbor All the rest of the Japons in the Island were not twenty persons and not one English more The nearest of the rest of the English were at Banda forty Leagues from Amboyna and those but nine persons all afterwards cleared by the Governour and Fiscal themselves from all suspition of this pretended crime as were also the rest of the English at Jaccatra On the other side besides the strength of the Castle and Town of Amboyna the Hollanders have three other strong Castles well furnished with Soldiers in the same Island and at Cambello near adjoining They had then also in the road of Amboyna eight Ships and Vessels namely the Rotterdam of 1200 Tun the Vnicorn of 300 Tun the Free-mans Vessel of 100 Tun the Calck of 60 Tun Captain Gamals Junek of 40 Tun the Flute of 300 Tun the Amsterstam of 1400 Tun and a small Pinnace of about 60 Tun and all these well furnished with Men and Ammunition It is true that the Stories do record sundry valiant and hardy enterprizes of the English Nation and Holland is witness of some of them yea hath reaped the fruit of the English resolution yet no Story no Legend scarcely reporteth any such hardiness either of the English or others That so few persons so naked of all provisions and supplies should undertake such an adventure upon a counter-party so well and abundantly fitted at all points But let it be further granted that they might possibly have overcome all these difficulties yet to what end and purpose should they put themselves into such a jeopardy They knew well enough that it was agreed between both Companies at home That the Forts in the Indies should remain respectively in the hands of such as had possession of them at the date of the Treaty Anno 1619. and that the same was ratified by the Kings Majesty and the Lords States General They knew likewise and all the world takes knowledge of his Majesties Religious observation of Peace and Treaty with all his Neighbours yea with all the world what reward then could these English hope for of this their valour and danger Certainly none other than that which is expresly provided by the Treaty it self that is To be punished as the disturbers of the Common Peace and Amity of both Nations But let these English men have been as foolish in this Plot as the Hollanders will have them is it also to be imagined that they were so graceless as when they were condemned and seriously admonished by the Ministers to discharge their consciences yet then to persist in their dissimulation being otherwise of such godly behaviour as to spend the time in Prayer singing of Psalms and spiritual comforting one another which the Dutch would have had them bestow in drinking to drive away their sorrow Let Colsons question to the Minister be considered his and the rests offer and desire to receive the Sacrament in sign and token of their innocency their mutual asking forgiveness for their like false accusations of one another forced by the Torture Tomsons last farewell to Beomont Colsons prayer and his writing in his Prayer-book Fardo's farewell to Powl also his conjuring exhortation to his fellows to discharge their consciences and all their answers thereunto craving Gods mercy or judgment according to their innocency in this cause their general and Religious profession of their innocency as to their Countreymen at their last parting with them and finally the sealing of this profession with their last breath and blood even in the very Article of death and in the stroke of the Executioner What horrible and unexampled dissimulation were this If some one or more of them had been so fearfully desperate yet would not there one amongst ten be found to
that the King of Macassar should receive a considerable sum of Money well and truly paid to him for the charge he had been at in levying an Army by the said East-India Companies Officers residing at Batavia the certain sum is not known besides a yearly Pension Upon these Conditions The King of Macassar and King of Ternate engaged they would Trade in the Spicery of Cloves onely with the East-India Company of the Netherlands But the aforesaid revolted Prince which is called Radia Palacca the King of Bougeroons or Bougis was not to enjoy any of his Territories or Dominions but it was consented to by the King of Macassar that he might reside in Batavia or other the Holds of the Netherlandish East-India Company And in the process of the story he kept his Court at Batavia receiving an honorable allowance from the said Companies General and had respect according to his Quality Soon after the Conclusion of this Peace The East-India Company received in all points the former priviledges they had enjoyed from the King of Ternate having intirely the Trade of the Cloves the utmost of their Compact But the Dutch in the year 1663 sent the Kings instead of the yearly sum agreed upon the third part of the value in Presents which the Kings of Macassar and Ternate perceiving resolved to make the best Market of their Spice they could with the English and Portugezes The Netherlanders having now a second time broke their Contract with them and resenting the Injustice of the Dutch so high that they threattned to cut off all the Netherland Merchants in the Territory of Macassar the Consul or chief of whom was Abraham Verspreet The News of this arriving at Batavia the General Maetsuycker dispatched the Ship Nightingale under the Command of one Jart Backer with a great present but to stand upon his Guard In order hereunto he departed in the latter end of Octob. 1666 from Batavia and arrived at Macassar the 12 th of Decemb. following but went in with his fighting Sails onely abroad but yet pretended all peace and satisfaction imagineable earnestly desiring a free trade or liberty to bring off the Netherlanders The King of Macassar refused all trade but not the peoples departure unless he would deliver to his Officer the Rudder of his Ship for his assurance that they should trade for nothing without his consent and paying such duties as belonged to him To this the Merchants on Shore consented but the Commander of the Ship utterly refused to send the Rudder answering he would keep the Rudder fast to his Ship as long as he could with much adoe at length they fixed a present upon the King of Macassar which he accepting the Netherlanders began to expect an accommodation of all things and the Nightingale and Lioness proceeded on their Voyage the Nightingale for Amboyna and Banda the Lioness for Amboyna onely who was shipwrack'd in her Voyage on an Island belonging to the King of Macassar The Macassars saved abundance of goods which they restored to the owners onely detained such small part as in right according to the custom of the place belonged to their King and that would upon reasonable termes satisfie them for their labour in preserving the goods Upon this the Netherlanders begin to threaten the Macassars which the King resented very high upon which the Chief of the Company in that place fled with his wife and Children but Cornelius Knight of Alemar second man of the Company who staid to execute his charge was put to the sword with all the Netherlanders that stay'd with him this happened in the year 1665. The Company to be avenged of this affront set out the Heer Cornelius Speelman with what Land and Sea sorces they thought necessary and with them went the Malecontented Prince Radia Palacca King of Bougis and his Allies who have very much contributed to the Victory mentioned in this following brief Narrative In November 1666. Admiral Cornelius Speelman sailed out of the Bay of Batavia with 13 Ships extraordinarily manned and about the 20 th of December arrived before the City of Macassar putting out the red flag afterwards he Steered into the Bay of Turnate and on the 23d of December burnt 10 Villages with much Paddy and Rice and a new man of War and brought off 14 Prisoners and 14 Heads On the 24 th he arrived before Bonteyn landed 10 Companies burnt 30 Towns 100 Ships and 3000 Last of Rice and Paddy and this hapned in the Macassars Magazine December 31. He sailed towards Bouton a place belonging to Radia Palacca and found it besieged by the Macassars with an Army of 10000 men and about 450 great and small Ships here he landed and burnt 60 of their Vessels and many of the People running away into Radia Palacca The Macassars seeing their power weakened broke up in the night and set the place of their Camp on fire January 3. Three Principal Commanders of the Macassars Army with 5500 able men submitted themselves to the East India Company and being disarm'd were set upon in an Island between Boughton and Pontisiana whereof 400 were made Slaves In the interim 5000 Bougis were run over from the Macassar to Radia Palacca with 86 Prows so that with some stragglers there fell 11000 into the hands of the Company and 4000 Last of Rice With this success the Admiral sailed to the Eastern Provinces and having setled things there returned the 8th of June from Amboyna with 16. Ships and 14 Shallops whereof 4 were from the King of Ternate The Admiral afterwards coming near to Bontoin found it strongly fortified and guarded with 6000 Macassars and after several hot encounters burnt all with little dammage After this their Admiral set sail to Macassar where on the 19 th of July they shot Briskly from the Kings Fort. Afterwards hapned divers hot skirmishes and then the Bonnese Army which came from Turata consisting of 6000 men landed with the Dutch before Glisson besides these there were about 7000 Bougis and 3000 Ternatanes and the King of Macassars Forces were about 20000. With which Army they fell upon Glisson and after many desperate encounters it was taken by Radia Palacca and the Admirals party by casting many hand Granado's and Fire-pots into their Forts Afterwards the Enemy fled and after several Encounters where the Macassars had the worst the City of Sambouca was besieged and on the 24 th of June the Wall thereof blown up which made the King of Macassar retire into the Land and keep his Principal Residence at Goa Where being in want of all things was forced to desire a Peace with the Dutch which they granted upon such terms as they pleased themselves Whereby all Forts towards the Sea but such as the Dutch please to possess shall be demolished The most considerable and best part of the Land made theirs to Plant and themselves freed from all Customs for the future with several sums and fealties to be paid to them for the present Peace
I shall now onely add one instance or two which will declare the demeanor of the Dutch in Japan and then conclude with a brief rehearsal and bare recapitulation of some injuries and abuses they have done to the English In the Year 1640. The Dutch make their addresses to Caesar the chief Governour of the Japonians and with all possible acknowledgments submissively petition him to grant them the priviledge of building a house wherein they pretended to dispose of and lay up their Merchandize and also to have the Governour and Members of their Society inhabit which being once obtained they not onely raise up a sumptuous and beautiful building for habitation but so strongly fortifie it and in so convenient a Situation that they seem to out brave and threaten the Japonians and will they nill they to maintain their Residence there so that now they have confidence enough to monopolize all Wares and put them off to the Japonians at what rate they list But their subtle contrivances being brought under suspicion were quickly discovered and their towring ambition unexpectedly laid in the dust for the Governour forthwith sent to them a great Band of Soldiers with a Command that they should either demolish their new petty Babel or be immediately put all to the Sword but self-interest soon prompted them what they should do therefore though unwillingly yet with a seeming chearfulness they obey the Governors gracious command and most busily ply them to their new imposed task laying wast that which they did so much pride themselves in and were at so great charge to get accomplished And ever after their actions were more narrowly observed and the Japonians claim'd the priviledge of paying them in their own Coyn to wit monopolizing all merchandize and imposing it on them at their own price Thus you see the just recompense of ingratitude But further The Dutch seem to be a people wholly addicted to secular Interest choosing rather to enjoy their lives and profits than hazard either in propagating the Christian Religion for the Laws of the Japonian Kingdome being very strict and severe against Christians whereby they are frequently persecuted and meet with grievous and lamentable tortures to the end they may deny their Faith the Dutch have not been observed at all to endeavour the promoting the Gospels publication but rather submitted to Heathenish dictates so that they may live without trouble and molestation than quit their Trade and be deprived of their so sweet and delicious worldly gains And thus you have a brief account of the deportment of the Dutch in Forreign Parts which sufficiently demonstrates their ingratitude and injustice to those they have had Commerce with But their indignities to the English exceed all in number and quality which the time would fail to recapitulate how they solicited our Queen and yet covertly applyed themselves to the French King How they promised us Free Trade yet stopp'd our Ships How they borrowed our Money to buy a Peace with Spain How they admitted our Embassadors to their supreme Senat yet because they should not understand all debates they presently set up a secret Council How they intreated the Queen to send over the Earl of Leicester yet abused him so far that he quitted their unworthy Country and left behind him a Medal whereon there was engraven a Dog and a Flock of Sheep with this Motto Non oves sed Ingratos How they depended on our Field-Officers and yet raised jealousies amongst them one against another How they delivered us the Caution Towns we had taken yet were never quiet till we had trucked for them How they owned King James their Protector yet set up a blasphemous Reader I mean Vorstius in Competition with him What earnestness they used to disswade him from Alliance with Spain when they had a Correspondent there How they complemented King Charles the First of blessed Memory when they disputed his right to his own Seas How they protest their obligations to him yet cheat us of the Impost upon their Herring-Fishing and presume to fight with Oquendo the Spanish Admiral in our very Havens How they had their Agents here during our Civil War under pretence of Mediating our Peace observing the Advantages they could make of our War How affectionately they there embraced the King's Interest and yet how suspiciously their Embassadors faulter'd about his Death How zealously they espoused his Majesties Interest that now is while hopeful 1649 1650 1651 1652. for a pretence to hide their design of quitting the Homage they owed to England and ingrossing its Trade and when that was done how cunningly they deserted it from 1653 to 1660. How eager they were to entertain his Majesty though not till they had assurance of his Restauration and yet how kind to his excellent Sister and her Son How instant for Peace at White-Hall and yet how unreasonable in their Usurpations Pyracies Depredations and Surprizes in Africa and America How ready to deliver the Pepper Islands and what pretence from year to year to keep them How earnest in solliciting a War with the Turks in Algiers yet how treacherous in deserting it For having gotten the Royal assurance for their Aid Sir John Lawson was appointed to attend their Service and the Interest of Christendome but then they most perfidiously fell off without any notice of their departure and made as fast as they could for Guiny to fight against his Majesties Subjects there whilst his Subjects assisted them in the Streights How importunate in their Addresses for Peace yet how diligent in their Preparations for War How ready to make satisfaction for Old Injuries when in the mean time they offer New Ones How respectful to his Majesty in their Embassies yet how abusive of his Person Government and Relations in their Licensed Libels and Pictures what Civility what Kindness pretended yet how barbarous to our Prisoners at home how severe to our Merchants abroad Thus you have had some hints of the base and unworthy actings of the Dutch whose several branches would admit their respective aggravations but that is left to the impartial and judicious examiner of each cause for I never intended to cloth the Relation with Burlesque or Railery but rather chose to publish the truth in its most becoming attire brevity and perspicuity Thus have I given you an exiguous draught of our ignoble and ill natured Neighbours the Netherlanders of whom an ingenious Jocalist gives this description That they rob God of his Honour The King of his due The Fishes of their Quarters and burn up the earth before the day of Judgment The Learned sort of Readers who would be further satisfied may peruse these Pages in Varenius his History where they may find these Passages In the Island of Japan The Dutch having leave to build a Ware house made it a strong Castle against the King p. 194. Of 400000 Christians there massacred the Dutch were the Occasion p. 212. And for obtaining of Trade do dissemble all shew of Christianity p. 208. This Varenius was a Physician of their own Country An excellent Geographer who walking out in Holland to take the Air never returned again perchance being made away for discovering the iniquity of his Countrymen The next Royal Author I refer ye to is the King in His Majesties Declaration published in 1672. Where If you can peruse it with unbyassed Judgment you will find Provocations and Indignities too great too manifest and too manifold for a Prince to pardon with respect to his own Soveraignty and his Peoples safety Whom the God of Hosts prosper in these his hostile designes both by Sea and Land and Crown all his Royal undertakings with Honor and Victory Finis Abel Price examined Emanuel Tomson examined Robert Brown examined Edward Collins examined Samuel Colson examined John Clark examined William Griggs examined John Fardo examined John Beomont examined George Sharrock examined William Webber examined Gabriel Towerson examined John Wetheral examined John Powl examined Thomas Ladbrook examined Ephraim Ramsey examined John Sadler examined