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A89905	A declaration or manifest of the high and mighty lords the States Generall of the Vnited Netherland Provinces: comprehending a true relation of their sincere intention, and lawfull proceedings in the treaty with the extraordinary embassadors, and the commissionaries of the present goverment [sic] of England, so as the same hath been held here in the Hague, as also at London. And likewise of the unjust and violent proceedings of those of the said government, which have forced the said States Generall by way of retortion, to defend their state and subjects against their oppressions.; Declaratie ofte manifest. 1652-08-02. English.	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.	1652 (1652)	Wing N480; Thomason E674_22; ESTC R203042	11,369	16

have with all speed approved our selfs so that the said Lords Embassadors upon the said neerer Propositions which themselfs declared to be of greatest concernment and of such consequence that when once we should come to be of one resolution concerning the same there would be little difficulty in the other have received from us such reflection that in the substance there remained no difference or if any but very small and we of our parts moreover revealed all that we found conducing further to the good of both Nations that might be agreed upon with maintenance of the alliances we have with other Kings Republiques Princes and States and so all that was needfull for the consummating of the said treaty whereunto expecting the neerer Declaration of the said Lords Embassadors they declined the same by their suddain departure intimating that the time granted unto them for their staying was expired and consequently that they could not possibly proceed to an answer unto that which was propounded by us to the end aforesaid And although the said manner of proceeding might afford matter of severall suspitions concerning the intention of the said Government in relation to the said treaty because the intercurrence of a short time which had made no alteration in the cause it selfe ought not to have altered the good inteutions and consequently ought not to have made any such interruption in the progress of the treaty we notwithstanding on our parts preferring the dignity and acceptablenesse of the cause it self before all outward ceremonies and considering the protestation made by their said Lords Embassadors at their departure from hence of the sincere inclination of the said Government towards peace and of their confidence that although their endeavours had not been so successive as to attain to a happy period the same notwithstanding might not prove unfruitfull when time should come that we with a contra-visit should please to resort unto them have not omitted to decree a considerable Embassage to the said Government and accordingly in December last year sent thither the Lords Jacob Cats Gerard Schaep and Paulus van de Par our Embassadors Extraordinary with full power and instructions for a Treaty Although since the departure from hence of the said Lords S. Iohn and Strickland by a certain discourteous and unneighbourly Act published by the said Government whereby the usuall liberty of Trade was manifestly restrained the good corresdondency between both Nations whereby true friendship and fidelity were wont best to increase and be confirmed was in that part evidently cut off and severall of our Ships surprised all which gave more and more suspitions that the intentions of the said Government was no way answerable to our unfained open-heartedness which afterward did most evidently appeare to be so For after that our said Embassadors Extraordinary were arrived in England and there had made an earnest and upright Declaration of our sincere affection towards the consummating of the afore-mentioned inchoated treaty with serious Requests that the same might speedily and happily be brought to a perfection and to that end all things might stand in the same posture wherein they were left at that time when the said Lords St. Iohn and Strickland departed from us at least till the event of that Treaty might be known and to that purpose the said Act by which the life and being of the said Treaty would be infringed might be repealed or at least the execution thereof suspended and the surprised Ships and goods restored The same hath not only not been taken into consideration by the said Government as was fitting it should according to reason and equity but contrarily during the said Treaty for the renewing and confirming of old Covenants and Amity and of the entrance into neerer confederacy and compliance of Love and Union the said Act was put in Execution and moreover under severall unreasonable pretenses as partly with Letters of Mart granted by the said Government without cause in respect we never denied or delaid Justice to any of their offended subjects being therefore contrary to the Laws and practises of all civilized Governments and to all former Covenancs erected betwixt both Nations partly with Commissions given against the French the Ships of our said Subjects have been assaulted at Sea entered surprised and brought up into their Havens in a most hostile manner the Goods plundered the Masters and Mariners roughly used as well by their publike Ministers as by those which were inabled by the said Letters or Commissions and thereby given occasion to all sorts of Robbers under the same pretences to exercise their piracy not giving regard to the constant solicitings of our said Embassadors to the said Government that they would please to cause such actions to cease much lesse making restitution to our good Subjects of their surprised and plundered ships and goods And although by these unneighbourly actions we had just cause given us to manifest our resent and by retortion to seek repairation of the dammages which our Subjects susteined from and upon the ships and goods of the Subjects of that Government 〈◊〉 being thereunto highly provoked through an unsufferable outrage Neverthelesse hoping the said Government would once give place to reason and that by way of treaty according to justice and equity all differences might be composed we have absteined from all manner of fact yea though earnestly intreated have refused to give our Letters of Mart or Commissions to our wronged Subjects for reasons afore-mentioned and of our side through our Embassadors Extra-ordinary with all earnestnesse sought the accomplishing of the said treaty in generall and of the afore-mentioned surprised ships and goods in particular and on the other side to prevent all piracy and robbery for the future and to free our Subjects from further losses and the generall commerce from a totall ruine and spoile we resolved to set out at sea a considerable fleet of ships and to prevent jealousies and that the said Government might not mis-apprehend of this our doing as we did like wise to other our friends and neighbouring countries by our Embassadors extra-ordinary we gave notice unto them in all sincerity of this our resolution with open and upright manifestations that the said ships should not at the least be imployed to inflict any hurt upon our friends and confederates and namely also not upon the Subjects of their Government but that we were of a setled resolution to maintain all good compliance and friendship with them in sincerity as was becoming two such neighbouring Nations And although we expected that this notice given ought also to have been accepted of by them as a token of our unfainednesse especially because the said Government a little time before had manifested their distaste that a small number of our ships not giving them timely notice aforehand had shewed themselfs neare unto some Islands which then our ships knew not to be under their command Notwithstanding we observed that the said Government daily

A DECLARATION OR MANIFEST OF The High and Mighty Lords THE STATES GENERALL OF THE United Netherland Provinces Comprehending A true Relation of their sincere intention and lawfull proceedings in the Treaty with the Extraordinary Embassadors and the Commissionaries of the present Goverment of England so as the same hath been held here in the Hague as also at London And likewise Of the unjust and violent proceedings of those of the said Government which have forced the said States Generall by way of retortion to defend their State and Subjects against their Oppressions At AMSTERDAM Translated out of the Originall Copy Printed in the Hague by the Widdow and Heires of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw 1652. THe States Generall of the United Netherlands unto all which may see or hear this read send greeting Whereas all lawfull Magistrates as being ordained by God Almighty to take care of the welfare of their subjects are bound not only to govern the same with discretion and to maintain them in good order and lawfull policy and further wisely and prudently to prevent and suppresse all outward occasions whereby the rest and tranquility of their said subjects might be disturbed or they undergo losses or oppression and to that end it be esteemed both honourable and profitable with good and due offices to have all especially their Neighbouring States and Countries obligued to them whereby they may retain a wel-grounded and assured confidence of each others fidelity and when any distemper is befalne may with the most easie and peaceable means compose the same in all love and friendship But moreover it be required of them when the cause is so exigent and no other means can prevail to use the power and strength given them of God Almighty and consequently their weapons and therewith manly and couragiously to oppose and suppresse all violence and injury done to their said dear subjects and cause them to obtain satisfaction and repairation for all wrongs and damages which unjustly were inflicted upon them And we with a compleat upright and good intention endeavouring alike the performance of both do thank God that he hath so blessed our rule love and care to and for the good of our subjects that they have requited the same with manifest expressions of their reall love and ready obedience tending both to their and our welfare strength and conservation And in respect of the English Nation have ever not only with all unfainedness and holiness on our parts maintained all friendship and good correspondency which of old used to be observed between them and us but moreover the said English Nation now of late being disturbed within her own bowells and rent in factions and the people highly exasperated one against the other we have not only with sorrow and sadnesse of heart beheld the same and abstained from all partiall actions whereby we might incur the just displeasure or dis●ffaction of either side and moreover as much as possibly we could prevented and stopped all succour from us to either of them whereby the fire which was kindled might be fomented the breach made larger and the cure more difficult and perillous but also when the aforesaid destractions had in some parts of their Country occasioned wast desolation poverty want of food and we by both Houses of Parliament at that time being were earnestly intreated to admit of a publike collection in our Churches for the consolation and sustenance of many impoverished and needy people in the said parts the representation of the said calamities did so work upon our hearts and the hearts of our good subjects with tender pity and Christian compassion that upon the said intreaty a considerable sum of money to the value of certain Tonnes of gold was gathered in and to the said end exported out of this Country insomuch that the said Houses of Parliament did cause their Letters of Thanksgiving to be dispatched unto us and to be exhibited and confirmed by the mouth of their publique Minister with externall demonstrations of great affection With all which finding our selfs not fully satisfied but being deeply touched with a longing zeale and fervent desire to see an end put to all these said misunderstandings and thence arising troubles and to have a true upright and innerly reconciliation made between these two so much each against the other incensed and exasperated parties trusting we had given such manifest demonstrations of our true intentions herein that we had hoped we might prove acceptable and thereby also fitting instruments to help the furtherance of so good and great a work to that purpose did undertake to make a tryall thereof by sending to the King and both Houses of Parliament an Embassage Extraordinary imposed upon the Lords William Boreel and Johan van Rheede Lord of Renswoude c. But God Almighty in his incomprehensible judgement not seeing good to put an end to the said distractions by appeasing the same but by other means having setled the state of that Government upon another ground then formerly it was maintained by and the said Government offering unto us a treaty of mutuall Union and neerer Alliance we believing the same was presented in all sincerity and uprightness and considering that thereby might be obtained security of Navigation and Commerce not only for us but also for all Trading Kingdomes and Countries especially the Neighbouring which otherwise in regard of divers common Interests through misunderstandings arising between us and the said Government inevitably would be disturbed we have not only shewed our selfs most willing and ready to accept of the said motion but the said Government to that purpose having sent over unto us the Lords Oliver S. John and Walter Strickland their Embassadors Extraordinary we have also endeavoured in all manner to comply with them and to facilitate the means to bring the said treaty to a happy conclusion as far as the constitution of our present Government was able to suffer So that the said Lords Embassadors being entred into conference with our Lords the Committee ordained out of the midst of us to that purpose and having made unto them a generall and unlimited Proposition after that we had made manifest unto them our sincere inclination and true love to Peace and Unity they were in our behalf requested that the said generall Proposition by a neerer Exposition might be opened might be opened and distinguished in cleare and near points that thereby upon sure and firm grounds things might be brought to a good conclusion and although severall well-grounded reasons were alledged and by severall contra-propositions good way was made for an agreement Neverthelesse at that time we could advance nothing but that the said Lords Embassadors when a short time was expired after their first audience the substance it selfe not once yet being touched gave countenance that they were to depart But through sundry perswasions at last admitting of a willingness to prolong their time of staying and having since exhibited neerer Propositions we

aiming at nothing more then to gather pretences whereby to give a colour to the execution of their long threatened designes have also looked upon the said notification with the same glance insomuch that our Embassadors were necessitated in our behalf to bring more proofs whereby to make the truth thereof more apparent unto them And in the meane time that the said treaty was seriously followed by our said Embassadors who endeavoured to bring the same into such a posture that the said Government should be induced to declare themselves and no longer to conceale their secret designes tending to the destruction of our commerce and the disabling of the strength of our state under seeming pretenses of friendship and feeding us with the hopes and appearances of a treaty as we have most evident proofs of this their doing Our Lieutenant Admirall Tromp whom we made Generall of our said Navy was by them encountred with a full broad side in an hostile manner and severall of the men of his ship miserably wounded because he did not strike the flagge according to their fancy though neverthelesse according to divers unanimous Declarations and evidences taken of neutrall and unpartiall men he was busie with haling in of his Mars-sayle and causing of his boat to be haled on whereby to send one of his Officers aboard of the Admirall of the said Government to congratulate him with all due respects by which encounter our said Lieutenant Admirall and the rest of the ships under his commande were necessitated to defend themselves and did moderate their defence so irreprehensibly in regard of the English Navy that whereas ours were farre stronger in number of ships and able to have wholly ruinated their invaders they refrained themselves and rested satisfied with their onely defence Which discretion notwithstanding by the adverse party was so little respected that comming up with a second Esquadron of ships they did likewise in their former hostile manner assault the hindermost of our ships which were seperated from the body of our fleete overcame two of them and tooke one away And to make this encounter serve them for a pretense to break the aforesaid treaty they gave out and published amongst their people and have endeavoured to make the whole world beleeve that the first assault in the said encounter was made by our side and thence pretend to be wronged and affronted in the highest degree and set themselves in a posture of open warre against us before they once made the least complaint thereof unto us much lesse damanding reparation for the said trespasse which they pretend to be committed which reason and respect to the treaty in hand if ever their intention towards the same had been reall might have perswaded them On the contrary we on our sides endeavouring with true and upright hearts and mindes to reduce into a due Frame and Order what might be displaced and out of order our aforesaid Embassadors Extraordinary no sooner had received intelligence of the said accident but with most seriousnesse protested and declared before the Councell of State of the said Government that if things had beene acted as they related the same that we were wholly ignorant thereof and to be done quite contrary to our exprrsse order which they confirmed by exhibiting the originall letter written unto them by the aforesaid our Admiral concerning the said subject comprehending a perfect relation of the commission we gave him and solemnly attesting of our intimate desires and hearty inclinations to have and maintaine peace and unity with the said Government by a firme alliance and indissoluble amity and with great zeale and earnest instances beseeched them that there might a nearer search be made into the truth of passages befallen in the said encounter and thereupon communicated unto them the evidences taken there to be sent over unto us and desired that in the meane time the treaty which they supposed was brought so far that in a short time it might receive its happy period might not be retarded by an unexpected casualty beyond and against will surely of us through inconsideratenesse and rashnesse of one of the two parties officers who were to give accompt of their actions and that the same might not put the cause in a farther distance And although this proposition was of great consequence highest importance for the common good of both nations the said government notwithstanding in a long time have not dained our Embassadors nor us in whose behalfe the same was propounded with their answer being however by our speciall command a second time put in minde thereof by our said Embassadors who again delivered over the said renewed proposition and afterwards reiterated it once more with further confirmations of our upright intention hearty displeasure against the said unexpected and unhappy encouneer of the said Fleets Yea on the contrary laid hold upon all Ships of traffick and men of warre which they could light on at Sea belonging to these Provinces taking or sinking some with violence misleading others under shew and sending them up into their harbours also plundring and misusing the Seamen and Souldiers and imprisoning divers as if we were in open warres with each other without a forgoing publick deniall of their Friendship towards us which hath occasioned the losse of much innocent blood and the utter undoing of severall of our subjects in their estates All which extreame provocations we have with patience undergone to justifie before the world our peaceable mindes and the uprightnesse and lawfulnesse of our proceedings as shewing that nothing is more deare unto us then the accomplishment preservation and augmentation of good union true confidence faithfulnesse and amity with our neighbours and contrarywise nothing more detestable then the horrible fruits of a consuming war and direfull wasting of innocent Christian blood And in consideration thereof besides our aforesaid three Embassadors which we had sent to the aforesaid Government for the making and establishing of the abovesaid alliance we have moreover resolved upon a second Embassage Extraordinary to be sent to the said Government and therefore dispatched unto them the Lord Adrian Pauw Lord of Heemstede our Pensionary Counsellor of Holland and Westfricsland especially upon the subject of the said late encounter and its influences and with more serious expressions of our upright meaning and desire to pacifie the matter And the said Government having in the meane time given out their answer to the aforesaid proposition and iterative representation of the same made unto them by our former Embassadors in which answer having bended their affections to imbrace a bad sinister impression which they wittily fitted and framed for a colour to their unjust and ungodly designes as if we had set out and managed our said fleete for to make war against them and to destroy their Navy or to shew other actions of hostility violence or oppression against their subjects without any regard to all former serious attestations and

demanded nor by us with honour and reputation granted and amongst the rest were so unreasonable as to require of us the charges and dammages which they pretend to have been put upon and to have suffered by reason of our afoersaid extraordinary preparation of ships to the value of such a sum as the same might be found to amount unto the same being paid or security for it given to their content then to have all acts of hostility to cease nor once minding that our aforesaid setting forth of ships was to no other end undertaken and effected then is heretofore declared and that as soon as the same was resolved upon and before it was put in action we gave true and publike intelligence thereof to the said Government especially seeing by the same fleet or any other ships belonging to these Provinces there hath not been given to the said Government or to any of the subjects thereof the least token of disaffection much less of injury but cantrarily that ours have beene assaulted by theirs and some sunk others amongst which a great number of merchants ships richly lodened pertaining to these Countries entred overmastred taken and carried up into their harbours whereby we our subjects have suffered loss of severall millions of gilders yea moreover during the said treaty and conference have sent their fleet to Sea in all rashness hurling on into the breach and dissolution of all friendship and amity between both nations with an insatiable lust of making the same incurable and therewith destroying and taking severall of our ships more enthralling our Government which by God Almighty for many years hath been preserved in a flourishing condition and hath given reputation and awsulness with their friends and enemies into a world of dishonour and losses All which intollerable and unlawfull enterprises and violent proceedings attempted and performed by the said Government do most perspicuously and palpably declare that their only design is wholy to infringe our strength at sea and to ruinate the commerce of these countries and thereby to set up their long pretended Soveraignty and dominion over the Sea which shortly they intend to exercise over us and in time over all other nations and if possibly they can to make us and others their tributaries And having with great patience and meeknesse but all in vaine improved all convenient meanes and rationall inductions whereby to move the said Government for the good and happinesse of both their owne and our subjects to stand off from the said resolutions that the risen distempers might be aswaged and composed the ships and goods with violence or otherwise taken and detained from our subjects restored the losses which they have innocently susteined made good and by an upright and strict binding treaty the old but now of late times by that Government enforced and violated friendship re-setled and by mutual confiding offices more and more confirmed but seeing no hope more of prevailing by such means We according to the law of nature finding our selves obliged to defend our good subjects against all injury oppression and violence to cause them obtain reparation for the losses they have suffered to re-establ●sh the former due liberty of commerce and to oppose the aforesaid pernitious designes of the said Government which being drunken with successes within their owne countries seem to know no measure of their further unsatiable appetites abroad as being hereunto by greatest extremity impelled with ripe deliberation of councell have at length resolved and thought good to use the power and meanes which God and nature hath given us and with our weapons by way of retorsion upon and against the aforesaid Government and the subjects thereof to endeavour the obtaining of that which with reason could not be recovered of them with a minde and intention not to lay downe the same as long as the said Government doth steere the course they now are in and till the aforesaid restitution of Ships and goods and reparation of inferred injuries be obtained Being confident that the whole world will approve of this our resolution forced from us with the utmost violence and that Almighty God will bless our just cause trusting also that all Kings Republikes Princes and States will take on this our manifest declaration for true lawfull and requisite and with us will help to oppose and subdue all such pernicious designes and in this our constrained and no lesse just and lawfull defence ever and in all places as occasion shall offer will lend their assistance to us and our good subjects Even as we hereby ordeine all our said subjects to the United Netherland Provinces to oppose themselves by way of retorsion as aforesaid against all the violence and oppressions which more and more are threatned against them and not to suffer themselves further to be deluded by any whatsoever shew of friendship or willingly to have recourse to any place where they must be used according to the appetite of the said Governmenti And so both we and our subjects confiding in the justness of our cause shall hope for the blessing upon the meanes assumed for our lawfull defence from God Almighty Thus concluded and arrested in the Gathering of the said Potent Lords the States Generall in the Hague the second of August sixteen hundreth and two and fifty Signed Johan van Reede tot Renswoude vt and understood By speciall command from the same signed N. Ruysch And in the further space bearing the impression of the great Seale of the said States Generall in red wax