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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36496	A discourse vindicating His Royal Master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel printed under the title of (An extract out of the register of the States General of the United Provinces, upon the memorial of Sir George Downing envoye͡e &c.) and delivered by the agent de Heyde for such to several publick ministers, wheras no such resolution was ever communicated to the same envoye͡e, nor any answer at all returned by Their Lordships to the said memorial / written by Sr George Downing.	Downing, George, Sir, 1623?-1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2106; ESTC R27308	8,942	19

A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY Sr George Downing The KING of Britain's Envoyee Extraordinary to the States of the vnited-Vnited-Provinces VINDICATING His Royal Master from the Insolencies of a Scandalous Libel Printed under the Title of An Extract out of the Register of the States General of the United Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoyée c. And delivered by the Agent de Heyde for such to several Publick Ministers WHEREAS No such Resolution was ever Communicated to the same Envoyée nor any Answer at all Returned by Their Lordships to the said Memorial LONDON Printed by J. M. Anno Domini 1664. A DISCOURSE Written by Sir George Downing the King of Great Britains Envoyée Extraordinary to the States of the Vnited Provinces c. THE Envoyée Extraordinary of His most Sacred Majesty of Great Britain c. having lately seen a certain Paper intituled An Extract out of the Register of the Resolutions of the High and Mighty Lords Estates General of the Vnited Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain did not at all think it fit for him to take any notice thereof but to pass it by as a Pamphlet of which sort there come out too many here every day in regard that no such Resolution had been communicated to Him by their Lordships nor any one word given him in Answer to his said Memorial And he had accordingly past it by without taking any notice thereof had he not since by accident been informed by several Publick Ministers residing here that the said pretended Resolution had been brought to them by the Agent de Heyde Whereupon he now holds Himself obliged to Complain in most serious terms to their Lordships the Estates General of the Vnited Provinces of this strange and irregular way of proceeding That while he is Residing here on the behalf of the King his Master Papers in form of Answers to his Memorials should be given to other Publick Ministers here and elsewhere and sent all over the World and yet concealed from Him and thereby neither opportunity of being convinced if any thing of reason should have been said therein nor on the contrary of vindicating the Honour and Justice of the King his Master in what he is therein unjustly charged and defamed withall Suppose that he the said Envoy Extraordinary should have proceeded in that manner and have given the Memorial to which the said Paper is a Reply to all Publick Ministers residing here and have sent it to all Courts abroad and should have Printed and exposed it to the view of the World without giving it to their Lordships what would they have thought thereof and what might have been expected that they would have said to it Can their Lordships imagine that this way of acting doth tend any way to the Justifying of their Cause as to the working of better impressions concerning the same in the minds of those Publick Ministers or their Masters Or rather that they must be exceedingly scandalized thereat as looking more like a Surprize of them and their Judgments then otherwise and considering that they may to morrow be dealt with in like manner in relation to any Paper they may give in and see the Affairs of their Masters traduced and defamed without any opportunity or possibility of clearing the same And as to the Matter of the said Paper Is it enough to say in general terms That the said Memorial was ill grounded or abusively informed without particularizing at all how or wherein or so much as excepting against any one word thereof much less disproving the same And again If the things wherewith they are charged therein be true as they both are and must now be taken by all men to be since nothing is made out by their Lordships to the contrary To what purpose is the whole sequel of the said Paper If it be true as it is That the Royal Master of the said Envoy was no sooner returned to His Kingdoms but that he was immediately and from day to day troubled and importuned with a Crowd of Complaints of His Subjects against those of this Country all which notwithstanding His Majesty did not grant any one Letter of Marque nor betake himself to any way of force for the obtaining of their reparation and satisfaction But in stead thereof for an Everlasting memorial of his great kindness and good will towards this Country and for the facilitating of the bringing to a Conclusion the late Treaty with them finding the Complaints and Pretensions of his Subjects to be so numerous and great was pleased after all to suffer very many of them and those to a vast value to be utterly mortified and extinguished and the rest except the business of the Ships Bonadventure and Bon-Esperanza after so much mony and time had been already expended in the pursuit thereof and many of them ready for a determination to be put in a LIST and proceeded upon anew according to the fifteenth Article thereof no ways doubting but that all possible speed would have thereupon been used in bringing the matter to an issue and that for the future better order would have been observed towards His Subjects But having waited now above 27 months since the Conclusion of the said Treaty and in that time their Lordships being continually call'd upon by His Said Majesties Envoy Extraordinary yea by His Majesty himself in several Audiences to their Embassador Yet so it is that those matters are still so far from being ended that in truth they seem to be now rather further from it then at the day of the signing of the said Treaty and on the other side new injuries daily heaped and the same designs of the East and West-Indie-Companies carried on for the utter overthrow of all the Trade of His Majesties Subjects in those parts of the world as appeared by the business of the Ships Hopewell Leopard and other Ships in the East-Indies and by the business of the Charles James Mary Sampson Hopeful Adventurer Speedwell c. upon the Coast of Africa All which are matters hapned since the Conclusion of the said Treaty And after all this and notwithstanding His Parliaments application to Him upon the account of His aggrieved Subjects in so solemn and extraordinary a manner His Majesty was yet so far from being inclined to any other then ways of accommodation as that he did by a publick Writing or Declaration declare That he would yet try what could be done by amicable endeavours at the Hague before he would make use of any other means the which was also very well known to their Lordships and did thereupon accordingly give orders to his Envoy Extraordinary to press them afresh And further to make out his peaceable and moderate intentions and to take off all umbrage from their Lordships to let them know as accordingly he did in publick Conferences with their Deputies That His Majesty would not in any kind trouble