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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

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

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

Senate of that City against our Company But after some reasoning thereupon and considering how far your Lordship 's frank Undertaking when last in Scotland as well as the Station you are in doth engage your best Endeavours to procure the Company Justice and vindicate the Kingdom 's Rights in this matter They have ordered us the Court of Directors to transmit the said Copies to your Lordship and expect your Lordship's Answer to this our late Petition to his Majesty before they remonstrate any further with relation thereunto This is in presence and by Warrant of the said Court of Directors from My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Sic Subscribitur John Shaw P. To the Right Honourable the Viscount of Seafield Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland The Secretary's Answer Whitehall Decemb. 13. 1698. SIR I Received a Letter from you as President of a Committee of the East-India Company which relates to Accounts they have had from their Correspondent at Hamburgh with the Copys of two Letters they have received I shall take the first convenient Opportunity I can have to represent this Matter to the King But I cannot as yet expect to have it for his Majesty is very much imploy'd in the Affairs of his Parliament here This is all the Answer I can give at present and which you may signify to those concerned I am SIR Your most faithful and humble Servant Sic Subscribitur SEAFIELD To Sir John Shaw of Greenock c. A Letter from the President of the Court of Directors in answer to the Secretary Edinburgh Jan. 13. 1699. My Lord SIR John Shaw of Greenock having some time ago signified to the Court of Directors of our Company the Contents of a Letter which he received from your Lordship bearing date at Whitehall the 13th of December last intimating that your Lordship would take the first convenient opportunity of representing to his Majesty the Company 's Petition with relation to the Parliament's Address as also the Contents of the Company 's Letter to your Lordship bearing date the 24th of November last But in respect we have not all this time heard any further from your Lordship concerning that Matter this is by order of the said Court of Directors to put your Lordship in mind of the Premisses not doubting but you have had before this time a convenient opportunity to represent the same to his Majesty and in expectation of your Lordship's speedy and satisfactory Answer I remain My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Sic Subscribitur Archibald Mure. To the Right Honourable the Viscount of Seafield Secretary of State The Secretary's Answer Whitehall Febr. 7. 1699. SIR I Have presented to his Majesty the Petition of the African Company and I am commanded by him to let you know That there being accounts that the Ships belonging to the Company are arriv'd upon the Coast of America And the particular Design not being communicated to his Majesty he therefore does delay to give any Answer until he receive certain Information of their Settlement This you may signify to the Council or Directors of the Company as being by his Majesty's Command I am To Sir Archibald Mure of Thornton c. SIR Your most humble Servant Sic subscribitur Seafield A Letter from the Company to his Majesty giving an Account of their Colony's arrival at Darien May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects the Council General of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies having by express receiv'd an Account from the Council of our Company 's Colony in America that they arriv'd safe at their intended Port within a League of Golden Island on the Coast of Darien and after having treated on board of our Ships with the Natives who were always own'd to be the only Proprietors of that part of the Coast our Men did at the request and with the consent of the said Natives land on the 4 th of November last and take possession of an uninhabited Place never before possess'd by any European whatsoever and that in pursuance of the said Treaty the chief Men and Leaders of the said Natives have join'd with and taken Commission from the said Council We thought it our Duty at our very first Meeting to give your Majesty an account thereof and likewise that by Letters from our said Council bearing date at New Edinburgh in Caledonia being the Name given to our present Settlement the 28th day of December last we are positively informed that the French have a Design upon all that Coast or at least to make a Settlement somewhere thereabouts And we humbly conceive that the firm Settlement of our Colony in those Parts may be the means of preventing or at least lessening the evil Consequences that may arise to your Majesty's Kingdoms and Dominions every where by the Settlement of any powerful foreign Neighbour in upon or near any part of that Coast. And we are always bound thankfully to acknowledg your Majesty's Goodness for granting us these Privileges mentioned in the Acts of Parliament and your Majesty's Letters Patent by which our said Company is established So we do now in all humility confidently expect your Majesty's Royal Favour and Protection as having in all the Steps of our Conduct through the whole Course of this Affair strictly observed the Conditions required by the said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent And referring this together with the Contents of our last Petition to your Majesty's Royal Consideration to give such Directions therein as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet and expedient This is in Name Presence and by Warrant of the said Council-General Signed by May it please Your Majesty Your Majesty's most faithful most dutiful most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant Sic-Subscribitur Tweeddale Edinburgh the 31st day of March 1699. The Company 's Letter to the Lord Carmichael Secretary of State My Lord THIS being the first Opportunity that we have had to address your Lordship since your Advancement to that eminent Station and Place of Trust wherein you are We must account it a Happiness that upon Receipt of the late welcome News from our Colony's Company in America we can transmit an Account thereof to his Majesty by the hands of one so much devoted to the Honour and Interest of our Country and Company as your Lordship has upon all Occasions shewn your self and who being often Witness to our Company 's Proceedings from time to time can give a juster Account thereof than any other that has no Interest in our Stock nor has ever been amongst us Inclosed you have our Council-General's seal'd Letter to his Majesty which we doubt not your Lordship will carefully deliver together with an exact Copy thereof for your Lordship 's better Information to which we refer but shall for your further Information enlarge a little upon the several Heads therein mention'd As to our place of Settlement it is so