a long debate of some words which the Protector Cromwell would have added thereunto thereby not only to oblige single Ships but entire Fleets of the States to the said Salute in case of méeting with any of the Ships of War belonging to England which words afterwards upon the earnest instance of the Ministers of this State were left out of the said Article so that the aforesaid Nineteenth Article drawn on t of the tenth Article of the Peace in the year 1662. which tenth Article on the Kings side was delivered in out of the thirteenth Article of the year 1654. must not be so understood that an entire Fleet of the States by vertue of the said Article shall be obliged to give the said Salute to one single Ship of the English but the said Article must be taken for a Regulation according to which single Ships and Vessels of this State in point of saluting the Ships of England are to govern themselves Now to apply the said Article according to the true sense to the late accident of the Lord of Ghent it is in the first place to be observed that the King of England's Pleasure-Boat suppose in respect of her Equippage it must pass for a Ship of War which we will not dispute not having met with any single Ships or Vessels of the States but coming in amongst a Fleet then riding at Anchor undoubtedly with a wicked design to séek matter of Complaint it with no fundamental reasons can be maintained that the Lord of Ghent by vertue of the said Article was obliged to strike Secondly It is likewise considerable that the aforesaid Article speaking of meeting cannot be applied to a formed design to cause a Quarrel by requiring in the uncivillest manner in the world an act of Civility and Respect And lastly It is notorious that the said accident happened in the North Sea not far from our own Coast as likewise it is well known that the North Sea is not the British Sea not only because in all Sea-plats yea in the English Map it self it is distinguished from all other but also and especially which in this case is an invincible Argument by reason the same in the seventh Article of the Treaty of Breda are distinctly mentioned one from the other where it is expresly said that All Ships and Merchandizes which within twelve days after the Peace are taken in the British Sea and the North Sea shall continue in propriety to the Seizer out of which it plainly appears that even according to the King of England's sense the North Sea differs in reallity from the British Sea but vice versâ that the North Sea is made the British Sea and consequently that distinct things are confounded together where there is a design to raise commotions and disturbances in the world And though their High and Mighties might have kept to the Nineteenth Article of the said Treaty according to the true original interpretation yet they declared to the King of Great Britain that upon the foundation and condition of a firm friendship assurance of a real and sincere performance thereof upon the fifth Article of the Triple Alliance in case France should fall upon this State they would willingly cause the entire Fleet when they should at any time méet with any Ship or Ships of War carrying his Majesties Standard to strike the Flag and lowr the Top-sail in testimony of their Respect and Honour which they upon all occasions will publickly shew to so faithful a Friend and so great a Monarch Provided that from thence no occasion either now or hereafter should be taken or the least inducements given to hinder or molest the Inhabitants and Subjects of the United Provinces of the Netherlands in their Free use of the Seas which Declaration the King of England wrongly interprets because that the same is joyned with the true performance of the Triple League that is with his Honour and Word as also with the assurance that no prejudice should be offered in regard of the Free use of the Seas being an infallible argument that The King of England is as little inclined to leave us an undisturbed use of the Seas as He is to kéep and perform his word I have already demonstrated the Iustice and Honour of his Majesties Arms. This Discourse gives me occasion to manifest the Necessity thereof All that is recited here was alledged by the Dutch Ambassadours to our King and if it appear hence that His Majesty could not continue his Alliance any longer with the Dutch unless He would abandon the Soveraignty of the Sea exchange his proper Rights into meer Civilities and those not to be enforced and put Himself and his Dominions into the Power of the Dutch there is none then can doubt but That the King was unavoidably engaged into this War by the insolence and arrogance of the treacherous and usurping Hollanders and that He did not seek or feign pretensions to quarrel with them The Nineteenth Article of the Treaty at Breda doth run thus That the Ships and Vessels of the said United Provinces as well Men of War as others meeting any Men of War of the said King of Great Britain's in the British Seas shall strike the Flag and lowre the Top-sail in such manner as the same hath béen formerly observed in any times whatsoever This Article was transcribed out of a former Treaty made betwixt O. P. and the States General and he was the first that ever inserted any such Article into any Treaty our Right and Dominion over the British Seas having never been disputed before but by an immemorial prescription and possession transmitted unto us and supposed as unquestionable by all Princes these ungrateful Dutch are the first that controverted it disowning it in the time of the late Wars when our Civil distractions rendred our Prince unable to attend unto the Maritime Dominion and to curb their growing pride yet was the long Parliament so concerned to preserve the Rights of this Nation that they made an Ordinance April 5. 1643. commanding their Admiral and Commanders at Sea to inforce all persons to pay the usual and due submissions unto the Men of War appertaining to this Kingdom And the pretended Republick here did vigorously and by a dreadful War assert the said Soveraignty of the Seas So that it ought to be deemed the concurring sentiment of All parties in England that These submissions by striking the Flag and lowring the Top-sail are not meer Civilities and unnecessary Punctilioes of Honour and vain-glory but a fundamental point whereon the Being of the King and Kingdom is in great part suspended and it hath been so studiously insisted on by our Princes that for above Four hundred years it hath been a Clause in the Instructions of the Admiral and the Commanders under him tha◠in case they met any Ships whatsoever upon the British Seas that refused to strike Sail at the Command of the Kings Admiral or his Lieutenants that
reâ—rove and if at any time it should happen that this their amicable intention should meet with a wrong interpretation and by chance an untimely revenge of War by any of the said Parties or any others on their behalf should be offered to any of them Confederated that in such case they should faithfully assist one another This is the substance of the Triple Alliance After which he adds That the King the King of England is sensible in his own Conscience though with words he dissembles and disowns the knowledge thereof that by reason of the Triple Alliance the Dutch are menaced with a War from France and that whatsoever the most Christian King pretends this is the true reason of his designs and which he hath plainly discovered in all Courts and is no more than He threatned them with at first in case they ratified the Triple League And therefore by vertue of this Triple League the King of England owes the Dutch an unconfined aid As also limited succours of forty Ships of War six thousand Foot and four hundred Horse by verâ—ue of the Defensive Articles concluded in 16â—8 To which his Majesty is ebâ—iged If their High and Mighties be attaqued by any Prince or State on what pretext soever The King of England being under these obligations and being or imulated by Ambition Avarice and an insatiable thirst after blood determined to take the opportunity of this juncture wherein the most potent King of France did threaten the Dutch with a terrible War to pursue his unchristian designs and to dis-engage himself the better from all obligations of Aid to the Dutch doth of himself previously begin a War and with a specious Declaration palliates and dissembles his foul and malicious designs This is the entire substance of what the Considerer tediously doth insist upon and is the sole foundation whereupon he proceeds to justifie the Dutch and with all possible aggravations of Language bespatters the King of England as if no Chronicles ever produced such a precedent of violated Faith as his Majesty doth now give an Example of I do confess that nothing ought to be more sacred than the word and faith of Princes That War is the last of remedies whereunto they ought to have recourse and which ought not to be commenced but upon just honourable and necessary grounds I do acknowledge the tenor of the Triple League and the Defensive Alliance But I do avow that his Majesty is no way concerned in the violation of them Nor is the Allegation of them pertinent to the present quarrel and of all the futile pretexts which I have read of in History this is the worst whereon the Dutch do bottom themselves The Triple League doth no way interest his Majesty in their defence For it doth not appear that the most Christian King doth invade them â—or entring into it There is no Authentick Declaration or Testiâ—ony that this is the motive which prevails with Him to undertake this Enterprise The Secrets of his mind are known only to himself and to the searcher of all hearts It is not for Men to proceed upon conjectures and surmises which oft-times prove vain and false as if they were certain Truths nor can any Prince be obliged indeterminately and such is the present unreasonable plea of these Hollanders where the condition of the aid to be given is particularly specified viz. If it should happen that this their Amicable intention should meet with a wrong interpretation and by chance an untimely revenge of War by any of the said Parties or any others on their behalf should be offered to any of them confederated that in such case they should faithfully assist one another Can there be any thing more clear than that the aid to be given is suspended upon this one circumstance that the Triple Alliance should fall under a wrong interpretation and that thereupon the party demanding the Aid should be attacqued by a revengeful War How doth it appear that the entring into the Triple Alliance is mis-interpreted since it doth not appear that his Christian Majesty did ever debate it much less declare himself therein How doth it appear that He plainly discovered this sentiment by his Ministers in all Courts since it doth not appear that He gave them private or publick instructions to say so Must a Prince answer for every expression or every particular action of his Ambassadour Can there be no other cause but this found out why the King of France should attacque the Dutch Cannot we imagine that the French retain a secret and inveterate desire of revenge for the notorious perfidy of the States General when they concluded a Peace with Spain without mentioning the Crown of France or having any regard to the French Interest Or is it not possible for the Christian King to make War upon them without a cause or meerly for enlargement of Empire Or for other concealed reasons or unknown indignities What pregnant proof or legal presumptions do the Dutch alledge then that This is the cause of the present War And with what impudence do they upbraid our King as if the thing were so and He knew it in his conscience to be so when as the Considerer himself in the Conclusion of his Treatise says it is not so viz. I shall hint at nothing else in the King of France's Declaration but that it appears visible therein that the War of that high renowned King procéeds from nothing else but a formed design to enlarge the limits of his Territories as far as his ambition is extended yet that we hope that God Almighty shall by the same hand by which he hath hitherto preserved us confound the designs of the King I doubt not but hereby it is manifest that His Majesty is no way concerned by the Triple League to assist the United Netherlands in this Iuncture and even so the Swedes by their indifference shew how much they approve of the Iudgment of his Majesty and no man can say otherwise but such as either regard not what they speak or else take the freedom to surmise and aver whatsoever is for their Interest I come now to the Defensive Alliance whereby his Majesty A. D. 1668. did oblige himself unto that State to give them an assistance if attacqued by any Prince or State on what pretense soever of forty ships of War six thousand foot and four hundred Horse upon promise three years after the expiration of the War to be re-imbursed of the charges of the said succour But neither is this Alliance of any more validity at present than the other It is the common opinion of the Civil Lawyers and Reason it self dictates it that In all Articles and Treaties for peace there is this exception to be supposed in the Contractors Vnless some new cause intervene Vnless it be by the default of him with whom the League and compact is made or Affairs continuing in the same posture and state in which they were
over with some Souldiers The Earl of Leicester followed as General of her Majesties Forces The Netherlanders received him with more honour and conferred on him more power than the Queen approved of They made him General of all their Forces State-Holder and Governour of all their Provinces invested him with all that power which Charles V. used to commission his Governours with The Queen reproved the Earl of Leicester for accepting of such power and the States for giving it to him But the Earl soon found himself deceived by these Netherlanders for notwithstanding that they had chosen him to be their Governour in so solemn a manner and sworn themselves and the Souldiers obedience to him yet they pretend to rule him model sometimes sometimes oppose his Orders and Constitutions Insomuch that the Earl found that he should have but a Titular Government being subject to the Commands and Authority of those pitiful States and ordinary Burgomasters whereupon he relinquished the Government proclaiming even in Medails the Ingratitude of those Fellows Let them make what complaints they please against his deportment there it is certain that All the Clergie adhered unto him and regretted his departure The Souldiers did mutiny in his behalf Vtrecht and Frizland besides other Provinces and Towns did solicite for his return and I find that all the clamour against that Earl did arise from the Province of Holland and some Zelanders only as they themselves boast in a Remonstrance against the other Provinces To invalidate that Power which they had so publickly given him Holland a Province always branded for Faction and Ingratitude having advantaged themselves much by the credit of the assistance more by the Auxiliaries of the English began to think it unfitting that according to the Articles the English should be privy to the secret transactions of the Council of State and by the advice of Oldenbarnvelt they found out an Evasion not daring openly to violate the Treaty nor to infuse jealousie into the Queen by holding Clandestine Cabals and 't was this that only ordinary matters and such as the English might know should be dispatched in the Council of State but that another Assembly should be formed termed the Convention of the States General unto which they should draw all matters of importance and which required secrecy under the pretence that the Council of State had so much business already as not to be able to dispatch the other Thus early did they abuse the favours of Queen Elizabeth and by this illusion did they lay the foundation of their Hâ—â—h and Mighâ—ies It is evident that during the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth they were never faithful to the League they treated with France and ayded that King without the Queens knowledge which was a breach of the League And whereas by the express words of the Articles The Queen was to conduct them to and settle them in a firm Peace and this being done by her meanâ— the money was to be repaid She never could prevail with them to come to a Treaty much less any accord but they had the impudence to solicite her to continue her aids to a War which they never purposed to end it proving so beneficial to them When the Queen urged that by the Treaty she was to be Arbitress of War and Peace they evaded it by saying those expressions were but Complemental and argued their respects to her not their dependence on her judgment I find them upon their knees again and beseeching her mâ—st humbly that she would not conclude a Peace with Spain A. D. 1598. And this Grotius saith was done because it is the custom of the English Court to petition the King in that suppliant posture but certainly this usage extends not to the Ambassadours of their High and Mighties But in the same year when they thought that Queen Elizabeth might stand in some need of their friendship whether they bended their knees unto her Majesty I cannot find but I read that they dealt with Her not as formerly but with more arrogant language The English Court did then look upon the Hollanders as notorious Cheats who pretended poverty and had Collections here when the splendour and growing opulency of their Towns besides the vast Bribes which their Treasury could spare occasionally were demonstrations of their Riches that they declined to repay the Queen her monies not because they could not do it but that they might tye her unto their fortune and assistance by the hopes of a re-imbursement of those vast Sums which She had expended for them Her constant Charge being above one hundred and twenty thousand pounds each year and it is not to be doubted but that She would have reduced them by force to a better observance of Articles and punished them for their fraudulent dealings with Her but that She prudently foresaw that France to depress Her and Spain to ruine Her and disable France were ready to assist and protect them In fine the Histories I have read do seem to demonstrate this that the Dutch were a most ingrateful people towards Queen Elizabeth that they never rendred her any Service but when it was to their proper advantage all their pretensions to Religion contained little of reallity and their acknowledgments were but verbal and consisted principally in extraordinary submission and deference which prevailed much upon the spirit of Her who was a Woman and had much of Haugtiness When she first undertook publickly to aid them the chief inducement thereunto was not the Necessity of her Affairs not the concern for the Protestant Religion for She advised them to be very cautious how they changed their Religion but a Feminine Humâ—ur carried away by their flatteries and humble applications and delighting to see greater submissions paid to Her than to the King of France by the King of Spain's Subjects No sooner had She concluded upon an open amity with them but the Zelanders triumphing with joy and to honour Her did stamp money with the Arms of Zeland viz. a Lyon arising out of the waves and this inscription Luctor emergo that is I struggle and get above water and on the other side with the Arms of the Cities of Zeland and this Authore Dec savente Regina that is God being the Author and the Quéen Favourer and I find it to have been an usual form of speech amongst the Dutch in that Age which they applied to all discourses where it might be suitable By the Mercy of God and the Goodness of Quéen Elizabeth and by such Wheedles did they inveigle the Queen to take as the King of Sweden then said the Diadem from her head and set it upon the doubtful chance of War And it is an action not to be parallel'd out of the Annals of impudent and Ungrateful persons that the Dutch having been so effectually obliged by that Queen and having by such a continued series of protestations averred that they did
doings do give unto any rigours the face of Iustice and absolves from the usual solemnities of War I suppose it now manifest that our King might with a great deal of Iustice make War upon the Dutch mearly in vindication of his own honour and that without the usual form of declaring War But because this last circumstance is represented so tragically as if thereby the English Ships though acting by a Royal Commission were Pyrates and as bad as those of Algiers and Tunis I shall demonstrate that the solemn Declaration of War before it begin is not always necessary It is not any part of the Law of Nature that a Prince denounce War before he begin hostilities All that Nature directs Vs unto in this case is that we repel force with force and avenge our selves or take reparations for injuries committed against Vs. All that can be alledged for it out of Grotius is that 't is a fair and laudable course and not always practised by the Romans themselves For when the Carthaginians in two Wars had shewed themselves an ungenerous perfidious Enemy such as the Dutch are to all the world they did not denounce the third War against them but proceeded by surprise against that vexatious treacherous irreconcileable people and used them not as other Nations because that others were not like unto them And Xenophon in his Romance of Cyrus thought it no ill character of his Heroe that he should without denunciation make War upon the King of Armenia So did Pyrrhus so did Gustavus Adolphus As in the Civil Courts of Iudicature a formal Citation is not always necessary in like manner a Prince may sometimes omit the proclaiming of War before he practise hostilities But to evince the entire justice of that Encounter of ours with the Smyrna Fleet it may be convenient for us to consider that those Ships meeting with our Fleet did refuse to strike their Flags and lore their Topsails unto the Ships of War of his Majesty contrary to the 19. Article of Breda And that being refused it was not only lawful for our Ships to destroy or seise them and for his Majesty to confiscate them But it was the express Commission of the Ship-Captains and hath been so to all Men of War for above 400 years and an inseparable Regality of the King of England which authorise and authenticate that action in full It is no new Doctrine in England to say no Ship can be protected in point of Amity which should in any wise presume not to strike sail Q. Elizabeth gave the same form of Commissions and Instructions to her Admirals and if there never happened any rancounters in her times like unto this it was because no Prince disputed the thing with her and the Dutch were then the Distressed States This Regality of having the Flag struck to the Navy Royal or any part of it is paramount to all Treaties so far is it from being limited and restrained by the Treaty at Breda and whatsoever contravenes it is not to be construed so as the breach of inferiour Articles The Right of the Flag is not demanded by virtue of the Treaty from the Dutch though they cannot refuse it without annulling that treaty but recognized there as a fundamental of the Crown and dignity of the K. of England Such points are not the subject of Treaties and no concessions were valid against them In such cases we say plus in talibus valere quod in recessu mentis occultatur quà m quod verborum fermulà concipitur It is therefore evident that nothing was acted on our side contrary to the said League in reference to the Smyrna Ships And the ensuing War notwithstanding the 23. Article is to be imputed to the perfidiousness of the States General not that the private act and obstinacy of the Smyrna Ships did make it to be so but the States General had justified Van Ghent in the like case and by that solemn and notorious violation of the Nineteenth Article of Breda in effect declared War against Vs and we needed not to declare any thing on our side it not being judged necessary but a superfluous Ceremony for both parties to denounce War And if the one party as here the Dutch do rescind a Treaty Leagues are individual acts and the violation of one Article doth annul the obligation of the whole then are we ipso facto in a condition of War nor is it requisite the King declare himself They that violate their Faith render themselves incapable of wrong and 't is a vanity to multiply demonstrations of what the Dutch had already made publick In fine the Laws of War inform us that the War is sufficiently declared when all applications and Embassies become fruitless And Divines tell us that there are some cases when a man is absolved from the obligation of fraternal correption and admonition viz. when the person offending is notoriously known to be so perverse and obstinate that all reproofs and warnings would be fruitless for say they He that ploweth ought to plow in hope 1 Cor. 9.10 and where there is no hope of any good success by friendly applications there no man is bound in conscience or prudence to pursue them Though this relate to private persons yet the condition is the same in reference to Princes seeing that the chief ground of Embassies and such like Remonstrances amongst Christian Potentates is Fraternal Dilection and therefore if the inutility and fruitlesness of a Negotiation absolve us justly from it there it will also do the same here Wherefore since his Majesty was convinced by the ill event of all his amicable applications to the Dutch and understood so well the resolutions of the Hague that they would not strike sail he might justly omit all such formalities and immediately proceed to carve out his own satisfaction by an advanced War Concerning the right of the Flag it is in the first place to be remarked that it is clâ—arly intimated in the said Declaration that â—hat King by tâ—e said Right understands the Soveraignty of the Seas since speaking of the Antiquity of the said Right he adâ—s thereunto that it is an ungrateful insolence that We should offer to contend with Him about the said Soveraignty Whereby it plainly appâ—ars that the Flag and Soveraignty of the Seas â—re words of different sounds but according to the Kings meaning of the same signification so that We may easily conjecture that the difference betwixt the King of England and this State about the said Pretended Right of the Flag which is insinuated to that Nation as the most important Grievance wherein the Peoples Honour is concerned is not at present a Controversie about Saluting and Striking of the Flag and consequently no dispute in relation to the sense of the Nineteenth Article of the Treaty at Breda but only a Contest about the Soveraignty of the Sea which This State attributes to God
from being invincible that they are null and altogether invalid For the Argument from popular Mapps and vulgar Sea-plats imports nothing at all Those being made for common instruction in such cases as they are usually made for but not to decide Cases at Law There are several Counties in England which are not specified in the Mapps which yet the Laws do exempt from those in which the Mapps do include them The distinction in the Article at Breda betwixt the Brittish and North Sea is popular and mentioned only to prevent future quarrels about Prizes taken not to decide the King's Rights unto that Sea as one of the four Seas and that taking place 't is not an invincible argument but an affected ignorance in this Hollander to urge it here In the Treaty at Torstrop betwixt the Dane and Swede I read that Schonen and Wien were distinctly named and consented unto by the Dane to be transferred unto the Swede and in a subsequent Agreement at Roskild the Swede hath only Schoneâ— transferred by name hereupon He claims also Wien the Danes deny the rendition and evade it as the Dutch do now the King of Sweden rejoyns thus and any man may accommodate the passage to our Case Though the Danes do grant there hath ever been a Joynt Alienation of the said Isle with Schonen nevertheless they would fain wave this by an odd Exception pretending that Wien could not really be alienated as a member of Schonen because in the Treaty Wien is expresly named as well as Schonen which they alledge need not have been had it been inclusive in Schonen But this poor plea is of little importance if it be observed that in the Charter of Alienation where Wien is separately named with Schonen there also Lister is separately named with the Province of Blekingen which however the Danes do unanimously acknowledge to be a part of Blekingen it being distinctly named rather for prevention of further disputes than out of necessity Nam câ—ausula abundans non nocet ut nec ejus absentia obest I shall conclude with two brief observations upon the remaining part of this Paragraph not yet replied unto 1. The Considerer saith that the striking of the Flag is but a Civility to his Majesties Ships and consequently not to be enforced but must proceed from a free willingness and an unconstrained mind in those that shew such respect They that will not learn manners must be taught them yet 't is a difficult task to teach the Boores of Holland But where did He learn that the striking of the Flag in the Brittish Seas was meerly an Act of respect Or How can he say that the Dutch or others might not be constrained to strike considering the Instructions of our Admiral and the usage of England Whosoever refuseth to strike is to be prosecuted as a Rebell not as an uncivill person And I find that the Crown of France where it pretends to any Soveraignty of the Sea doth enforce the striking of the Sail and Flag in an uncivil manner since those that refuse to do it are to be attaqued with Cannon-shot and if taken their Ships confiscated The same is done by the State of Venice and universally The World is coming to a fine pass when these Butter-boxes presume to teach all Europe Civility 2. The Considerer saith that since the Yatcht did not meet with any single Ships or Vessels of the States but run in amongst a Fleâ—t riding at Anchor It cannot be maintained with any fundamental reasons that the Lord Van Ghenâ— by vertue of the said Article was obliged to strike I answer that the Article doth make it Fundamental to the Peace and the Admirals Instructions and the Usage of England do expound the same sufficiently to the prejudice of Van Ghent Is this the sincerity the bona fides with which they observe the Treaty Our Laws and Customs of the Admiralty know no distinction betwixt a Ship or Fleet found riding at Anchour or met under sail Nor do they distinguish betwixt a casual meeting and a voluntary seeking of Foreign Ships oâ— Fleets nor whether our Ships be at Anchor and the Foreigner under sail or both be Navigating And it is the duty of our Men of War in case they discover or hear of any foreign Ships or Fleets upon our Seas to make up to them and to see whither they come in a peaceable or hostile manner by demanding them to strike their Sails and Flags I need not add any thing to this point every one may sufficiently comprehend the Case but these Hollanders that will not understand it The conclusion of this Paragraph doth manifest the Integrity of his Majesty in the penning of His Declaration seeing that the Considerer acknowledgeth That the States General did offer to strike the Flag and Sail unto his Ships of the Navy Royal upon condition He would assist thâ—m in this juncture for that they mean by his observing the Triple Alliance and provided no construction thence should be made to prejudice them in the free use of the Seas viz. in reference to Fishing as well as Sailing It is hence evident that His Majesty did not represent the arrogance of the Dutch in so hainous a manner as He might have done without injuring them The Considerer hath done it and I refer it to the consideration of all English-men Thus I have exactly replied unto all that the Considerer hath alledged against the Declaration of his Majesty and what else He hath written in reference to the present Quarrel and I think I have made it evident to the meanest capacity that the present War is authorized by all those circumstances which make it Iust and Honourable and Necessary I intend in a Second part to address my self to my fellow-subjects as the Considerer doth to his and excite them to do no less to avert injuries and defend their Honour and the Rights of His Majesty than He exhorteth the Dutch to do contrary to all right to our detriment and dishonour I will therein shew those that were concerned for the War against the Dutch under the pretended Common-wealth that the Quarrel is fundamentally the same now that it was then and that they cannot have any tenderness for the Hollanders at this timeâ— who did so hainously complain of their Oppressions and Usurpations then The Hollanders are the self-same People still As much Hollanders in Europe as they are at Iapan or ever were at Amboyna I know not why we should not demonstrate our selves all to be as trueâ— English men And to convince such persons I will Print the Speech of Mr. St. Iohns their Embassadour to the States at the Hague during the pretended Commonwealth FINIS Domin Baudius de induciis belli Belgici l. 3. Grotius Apologet. c. 19. Terris fretis portubus per Indiam Orient Hispaniarum atque Lusitaniae regem atque ut auguramur etiam Anglos exuere M. Schoockins de imper maâ—it c. 21.