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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57287	Scotland's grievances relating to Darien &c., humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1464; ESTC R1580	53,913	60

none but Scotsmen be Consulted in our Affairs it 's also requisite that our Parliament should have the Chusing and Swearing of the Privy Councillors as our Ancestors had and a Power to call them to an Account and punish them for Male-administration The present Calamities our Nation groans under makes the necessity of this more evident than ever which if obtained we might then have hopes that the Addresses of our Trading Companies should not be thrown over the Council Bar nor our American Settlement opposed as if our Privy Councillors were rather Chosen by a King of Spain than by a King of Scotland then might we hope that our Arcana Imperii should not be betray'd to our Enemies and that the Affairs of our Church and State should not be managed by the Capricio's of Favourites English Courtiers or Prelates who improving the opportunity they have to Debauch Covetous Necessi●ous or Weak Ministers that attend our Affairs sometimes at the Court of England make them the Instruments of ruining our Country That this is no groundless suggestion will appear but too plain if our Parliament think fit to enquire into the truth of that Report that a Spanish Consul at Iamaica should have generously told some of our Caledonians there that we were betray'd by one of our Country men that was entrusted with our Affairs at Court and perhaps it may yet appear more plain if they enquire whether any of our own Secretaries knew of the West India Proclamations against our Colony before they were issued as it 's confidently said the English Secretary V n hath given out that one of them did We have found by woful Experience that 't is not safe to trust the Management or Representation of our Affairs to one or two Men chosen for that end at the Discretion of the Court of England therefore it seems highly necessary that we should be reinvested with our Native Right of chusing our own Publick Officers our selves or at least that none be advanced to Posts either Civil or Military without the Advice of the Council of Scotland otherwise since our Kings can now no more be said to be Scotsmen it 's a parting with our Sovereignty and lays us open to have all our considerable Posts fill'd with such Men as will certainly fall in with the Measures of the English Court and Govern themselves wholly by the Dictates of Princes that must now of necessity be Educated in a Country who think it their Interest to keep us low and to thwart us in every thing that our own Parliament and People think most conducible to our Honour and Advantage Nay they are so jealous of us that they are unwilling any of our Country-men though unexceptionably well Qualified should be so much as concerned in the Education of those Princes in whom we have as great a Right as they Thus they removed a Scots Gentleman of the Name of Murray from having the Charge of Ch. the First 's Education learing he might have inclined him to Presbytery and thereupon made him such a Bigot the other way that he himself and the three Nations had occasion afterwards to bewail it in Tears of Blood It 's well enough known what attempts of the like Nature have lately been made upon the Duke of Glocester Because under the Conduct of a Scotsman though a Bishop whose Order we have thought fit to Abolish in our Nation If our Parliament should insist upon the having the Nomination of our Privy-Council as it 's no more than our Birth-right so it 's no more than what His Majesty in effect Granted to our Neighbours in England when he submitted the List of his first Councillors to the Judgment of their Convention Parliament The next thing we shall propose to Consideration is that a Restraint if possible might be laid upon the Creation of Lords As it 's only Vertue that can truly make Noble so Advancement to the Degree of Nobility ough only to be the Reward of Vertue It 's an unreasonable thing the Power of making Hereditary Law-givers to our Nation should be at the sole disposal of our Princes who are now Kings of England and by that means have an opportunity of strenthening an English Faction among us by conferring Peerage or the higher Degrees of it upon Ambitious Persons who devote themselves to their Interest and perhaps are Advanced for no other Merit sometimes but for having been Ministers to their impure Pleasures or Instruments of Tyranny What pity is it that the Illustrious Nobility of Scotland many of whom a●● Noble without a Patent as being the Heads of Ancient and Gre●t Families should be mixt with such a base Alloy It would certainly redound much to the Honour of the Nation and much inhance the value of the present Nobility if none were admitted into their Rank but with Consent of Parliament and on the account of true Merit What pity is it that the Freedom and Honour of a Country should be endangered by such an Hereditary Power of Legislation when Experience shews us but too often that Wisdom and Vertue is not Entail'd upon the Posterity of Nobles more than others We come next to propose the State of our Trade with France The loss of our Ancient Alliance with that Famous and Great Kingdom and of the Honourable and Advantagious Priviledges we enjoyed there is one of the great Dammages we sustained by the Union of the Crowns neither our Princes nor our Neighbours have thought fit to allow us any Compensation for this hitherto but have rather pleased themselves to see our Honours and Priviledges there gradually wrested out of our Hands so that now they are brought to a woful and final period instead of having the Preference there of all other Nations in point of Honour and Trade as formerly we had we are now because of our Union with England not only deprived of the same but are in a worse Condition than other People Thus our Salt Fish is discharged there and the Dutch have engrossed that part of our Trade and sell them dearer to the French than we offered them but could not be accepted though at the same time great Sums of Money are exported yearly from our Kingdom to France for Wine and other Commodities This is a thing that certainly deserves our Parliaments Consideration it ought to be a Subject of Enquiry whence it came to pass that the Honour and Interest of our Nation was so much neglected and despised as never once to be mentioned at the Treaty of Rijswick our Council and Ministers about the King ought to be examined as to this matter for we cannot think that His Majesty who took so much Care of the Honour and Interest of the Little Principality of Orange would had he been put in mind of it have so much neglected his Ancient Kingdom of Scotland since he owes all his present Grandeur to his Descent from our Royal Line and his Alliance with it This deserves the Thoughts of our

not out of any respect to us that the English allow that Importation but they find their own Account in it because they buy them cheap find them better meat when fed than their own and that they eat up the G●ass which their own Cattle will not touch and by consequence would be absolutely lost to them were it not for our C●●tle and ●esides they would not be able to provide their Fleets and Merchant Ships so well without ours which puts them in a Condition to disp●se o● their own larger Cattle for that end But that which is an answer once for all we do not in the least bou●t if those of our own Count●y be consulted who have most Cattle to dispose of but they will satisfie our Parliament that this O●jection is of no weight and we know the common Proverb That Interest will not lye Beside If the Parliament pleases to take effectual methods to encourage our Se●tlement in Caledonia and our Foreign Trade elsewhere we have reason to expect by the Blessing of God upon our Endeavours that we shall have every year less occasion than other to be obliged to our Neighbours for taking off our Cattle and so much the less since we know now by Experience that our own Beef will endure S●le so as to make it fit for Sea It likewise deserves the Enquiry of ●ur ●arliament Whether it be not pr●per to discharge the English from Fishing in our Seas Creeks and Harbours which their Company called by the Name of The Royal F●shery pretend a Right to by a ●atent from King Ch. II. who had no Power ●o Grant it without the Consent of our Parliaments The English themselves cannot justly find fault if we do this they know their Selden maintained a Mare Clausum against Grotius's Mare Liberum so that out of there own Mouth we judge them and we have so much the more Reason to do this because of their late insolence to come into our own Harbours and Roads where they search our Ships and take out what they think fit in defiance of the Laws of Nations to the great interruption of our Trade and the dishonour of our Country These things together with their pressing our Seamen out of our Merchant Ships in time of War as if they were their own Subjects are Grievances which we ought not to put up but insist upon an effectual Redress of them as being utterly inconsistent with our Liberty and Freedom If the Faction object that such proceedings may occ●sion a War with England we can soon answer them That it is not the English Nation but a Court-Faction supported by some hot headed Ecclesiasticks and their Superstitious Bigotted Adherents that is at the bottom of this unneighbourly Treatment of our Country England is a wise and clear-sighted Nation and will never make War against us upon such a Quarrel their present Conduct proves beyond contradiction that they have no such design they disarm instead of putting themselves in a Posture for War and are sensible of the danger they are in themselves from that very Faction that are now oppressing us and therefore will not intrust them with a Standing Army nor Mon●y sufficient to keep one on foot So that we have so litt●e Rea●on to fear a Rupture with the English Nation on that account that we rather have cause to expect their favour if we imitate ●●●ir Conduct ●nd take the same or the like measures that they do for securing our Liberty and Property from the Invasions of Court Parasites and pernicious Counsel●ors We hear every day what brave effor●s they make for advancement of their Trade and pulling Arbitrary Government up by the Roots they are no ways afraid of tel●ing their Kings freely when they are misled and act any thing con●rary to the Honour and Interest of the Nation They make no scruple of s●●pr●aching the Chief Ministers of State and Favourites when they find them guilty of any thing th●t may be p●ejudici●l to their Constitution They boldly order their Kings Speeches and Promises and their own Resolves upon them to be published to the Wor●d in justification of their Conduct and make Laws to disab●e those that have a dependence upon the Court from being Mem●ers of Parliament These and much greater are and were our B●rth Right as well as theirs and it 's evident to the World we have much more reason to assert and demand them which will demonstrably appear if we consider 1. That since the Union of the Crowns our Kings prefer their Interest to ours in all matters relating either to Church or State 2. That ever since that time we have nor been Governed by our own Councils but by theirs and with a prospect of advancing their Interest though utterly subversive of our own 3. That ever since then our Interest has been by turns either Sacrificed by our Kings to them or by them to our Kings Thus King Iames I. and the two Charles's made a Sacrifice of our Church to theirs and they in requiral did together with a mercen●ry Faction of our own make a Sacrifice of our Civil Liberty to them witness the great Army they furnish●d King Charles I. to carry on the Bellum Episcopale against us and the Treachery of our own mercenary Tools at home by procuring and agreeing to the 18 th Act of the Duke of York 's Parliament which Enac●ed that all I●●isdictions did so reside in His Majesty that by himself or his Commissioners he might take the Cognizance of any Cause and deci●e it as he pleased Thus King Charles II did a so make a Sacrifice o● our Interest in Trade to theirs by the Acts above-ment●oned and thus our Interest in Trade in this Reign has been also made a●rince to their● and their House of Lords in requ●●al with the concurrence no doubt of many of their Commons have again made a Sacrifice of us to the King by their Address approving his West India Proclamations c. against us Thus we are bandy'd about with the utmost disregard and contempt according as their different Interests and Humours require it These things demonstrate that we have more reason to insist upon those above-mentioned Priviledges than the Englsh have nor can we expect to have our present Grievances Redressed or future Grievances Prevented till we obtain if not all at least some of the most material of those things that that Parliament of England insist upon There ordering an Address to the King on the 10th of April last That none but Natives of his Dominions Prince George excepted be admitted to his Councils in England or Irelond is a Pattern fit for our Imitation and what we have as good a Right to demand as they None but Scotsmen ought to be consulted with in Scots Affairs for Experince teaches us that since we have had Secretaries of State who Consult English Ministers in every thing the Honour and Welfare of our Nation hath gone Retrograde Nor indeed is it enough that