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A25616 An Ansvver to the question vvhy may not the English assist the Svvede, as well as the Dutch do the Dane 1658 (1658) Wing A3439; ESTC R13281 3,271 10

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AN ANSVVER TO THE QUESTION VVhy may not The ENGLISH ASSIST The SVVEDE As well as the DUTCH do The DANE London Printed in the Year 1658. AN ANSVVER TO THE QUESTION VVhy may not the ENGLISH ASSIST the SWEDE as well as the DUTCH doe the DANE SIR YOU were pleased to ask me lately Why England might not as well Assist the King of Sweden as the United Netherland Provinces did send Succour to the King of Denmark Believing that it will be acceptable to your self and other Noble Gentlemen and all impartiall lovers of the English Nation that the same Question be Answered I do first offer it to your Consideration Whether it be not requisite to examine the divers State and Condition of the Parties who are Distressed and stand in need of Succour and who do suffer Wrong and of those who are the Wrong doers For Nature Humanity Reason and the Lawes of all Nations do clearly dictare that Affliction is not to be added to the Afflicted And that no Succour ought to be given to the Oppresiour against the Oppressed Upon which ground I intreat you Secondly to Consider There being besides the Swedish Navy no Ships of Warre in the Sound or Baltick Sea but some of Denmark and the United Provinces Whether the English Succour in those Parts could be employed or made use of with Honour and a good Conscience against Denmark or against the said United Provinces 1. Considering that the whole Kingdome of Denmark was surprized and invaded and almost totally subdued under the power of the King of Sweden except onely the City of Coppenhagen which was not onely closely beseged by a Roial Swedish Army by Land but also by a potent Navy of that King by Sea and daily assaulted and no meanes of fire and other destructive instruments and engines omitted to force that City and to oppresse in the same the King of Denmark with his Royall Family and the Councell of the Kingdome Whereby it appears that the said King of Denmark was in a sad and distressed condition having surrendred upon the Treaty of Raskild mediated by a publick Minister of England betwixt the two Kings in February last 1657. A great part of the Kingdome of Denmark together with all the strongest and most considerable Castles and Places of Norway And being in Person with his Queen and Children so extreamly oppressed in the said City of Coppenhagen and with all sorts of violence by Sea and Land assaulted having not so much as one Company of Souldiers in the Field nor one Ship of Warre at Sea in all his Kingdome of Denmark When on the other side the King of Sweden bad severall Armies round about the Baltick Sea in Livonia and Curland in Prussia in Pomerania in the Dukedome of Br … and in his Conquered Provinces and strong Places in Jutland Skonen B●ekingen and Halland besides his Army in Zealand before the said City The said King had also a numerous and strong Navy more considerable then ever any King of Sweden had brought to Sea before Wherewith he had made himselfe Master of the Sound and all the other passages out of the Western Seas to the East Countries and exacted there Tolls of all Nations So you see that the King of Sweden was in a Conquering formidable condition assaulting and oppressing the King of Denmark a Protestant Prince In amity and Alliance with England And that King you perceive was in a broken distressed and pittifull Estate The first the invador and oppressor The last the surprized invaded and oppressed and almost past relief So that it seems strange to more that understand the true State of those affaires how it can enter into the thoughts of an honest man to strengthen and succour the King of Sweden against the King or Kingdome of Denmark 2. And to the end that you may know the grounds whereon the Lords the States Generall of the united Provinces have sent a fleet of ships to assist the said King of Denmark in this his distressed Condition It is known and notorious that it is the interest of the said United Provinces if not of all the Christian Prince that the Kingdomes and Territories round about the Baltick Sea be preserved in Peace and tranquillity the Warres and differences having alwaies been very prejudiciall to the Trade and Commerce especially of the Netherlanders in the East Countries and to maintain the respective Northern Kings in their own Kingdomes and Territories Therefore they have first contracted and established a defensive League and Alliance with Sweden in the year 1640. To defend each others Dominions and Territories as also the Freedome and liberty of Commerce and Navigation in the said Baltick Sea And have to the same end and purpose since with the Communication and approbation of Sweden made a defensive Alliance with the King and Kingdome of Denmark in the year 1649. Whereby both were obliged to Succour and assist that confaederate who should be assaulted and invaded or otherwise oppressed Which Treaty hath likewise been Communicated to the Government of England And since that the Queen Christian had resigned the Crown to the present most potent King Charles Gustave the said Lords the States Generall have used all possible Endeavours to renew it with his High Renowned Majestie And did assure themselves that with the Concurrence and Co-operation of his Late Most Serene Highnesse the said Alliance should have been confirmed and fully established But to their great griefe his Majesty was pleased to wave or to delay it upon pretence that some preliminary Declarations were to be first made and assurances given And in the mean time did on the ninth of August last past Stilo veteri invade with his Royall Army and Navy the Isle of Zealand and assaulted at the same time the Places and Dominions of the King of Denmark in Holstein under the Roman Empire At which unhappy accident the said Lords the States Generall were very much troubled And being summoned by the King of Denmark in performance of the said defensive Alliance to succour him in his oppression and extremity They were bound in honour and conscience to accomplish and to keep honestly the said solemn Treaty As by the Laws of all Nations yea of the Heathen themselves it is resolved without any controversie that publick Treaties are to be kept and Nationall ingagements to be Religiously performed And Ambrose Tullius Cicero and others have taught Qui non repellit ininriam a socio cum potest tamest in vitio quam ille qui facit That is he that doth not repell and hinder an injurie to he done to his friend or associate when it is in his power is as much in the fault as if he did commit it himself Plato saith that he is to be punished who doth not interpose when he seeth that wrong is done to another And the wise King in the Proverbs teacheth as much And although the said Lords the States Generall were obliged by all the Laws of God and men and by the said special Treaty to succour the said King of Denmarke as they must and would have done the King of Sweden in case of like necessity yet they did it not precipitately nor inconsiderately by themselves alone but did Communicate and Conferre about it with the Supream Authority of England or the publique Ministers of the same desiring very instantly that they might know how the said Invasion was apprehended on the behalf of England and what was thought fit in England should be done thereupon by or on the behalf of the said United Provinces And they did likewise Communicate sincerely what Succours and Assistance they were preparing and sending to his oppressed Majesty of Denmarke And they not being disswaded to send it and conceiving that it was as much Englands Interest as their own that the Kingdom of Denmarke and the whole Dominion of the Baltick Sea should not be subdued and brought under the Power of the King of Sweden have sent a part of their Fleet to Convoy a supply of some two thousand Souldiers to Coppenhagen And their Admiral finding that the Swedes did oppose and obstruct his passage was forced to make it Which being the true state of the Case it is hoped that no Christian will think that there is any the least Ground Reason Justice or Equity to send any Succour to the King of Sweden against Denmarke or the United Provinces or their Ships of Warre in the Sound or Baltick Sea But that it will be thought fit to Co-operate by fair means to re-establish a firm Peace and Tranquility betwixt the said two Kings and the other States and Potentates in the said East Countries and to preserve inviolably a true Amity Union and Confederation between England and the United Provinces and to secure a Free Trade and Commerce for all their Subjects indifferently within the said Sound or Baltick Sea under the Ancient Reasonable Customs and Duties only and equally to defend and succour the said two Kings and all other Princes and Dominions of those adjacent Countries against all Invasions and Oppressions of each other thereby to strengthen and support the Protestant Interest as well as that of Trade and Profit and to lay a good Foundation of Peace and Honour for themselves their Subjects and Posterities and to weaken and discourage the designes of all their Enemies and Religiously to hope for a blessing from the God of Truth and Peace upon such their Just and Pious Proceedings