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A27176	The Emblem of ingratitude a true relation of the unjust, cruel, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherlandish governour & council there : also a farther account of the deceit, cruelty, and tyranny of the Dutch against the English, and several others, from their first to their present estate, with remarks upon the whole matter : faithfully collected from antient and modern records.	Beaumont, 17th cent.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1580; ESTC R17875	36,639	108

Spain without them Notwithstanding which they endeavoured a truce with Spain without either his advice or consent as appear'd by several passages of underhand dealings of the Dutch with the Spaniards in a complaint made by the French Embassador to the States Yea when another League Offensive and Defensive was concluded Feb. 8. 1635. between France and Holland and a War with Spain commenced thereupon the Dutch went so far underhand in promoting and procuring a Peace with the Spaniards that their Attorney General Musch was dispatch'd to Don Martine Axpe the King of Spain's Secretary about a Treaty though they deny'd it to the King of France who notwithstanding had intimation of it and thereupon told my Lord Paw their Embassador that these secret proceedings did contradict their solemn Treaty and differed much from the Justice he had shewed toward them The same League being continued from 1636. to 1642. in the year 1640 they treat again with the Spaniard contrary to the League with the French that intimated their Nonability to Treat with Spain without the Concurrence of his Majesty of France Yea a Peace was Negotiated and managed by several Letters intercepted to the Cond Pinneranda and shewed the States by the French Embassador at the Hague at the very same time when 12000 French ventured their Lives and Fortunes for them against Dunkirk and Flanders which Peace was concluded at Munster though confessed by Heer Van Nederhurst one of the Plenipotentiaries there to be contrary to the agreement between France and Them and so manifested by a Declaration of the King of France They that durst deal thus with the French think they may presume to deal worse with the Portugals with whom when they revolted from Spain as they had done before they entered into a firm League at Lisbon and the Hague 1640. with mutual clearness as to outward appearance on both sides But see the Craft of these People They insert in their Articles of Peace that it should not begin beyond the Line till a year after In the mean time advising their Men at Brazil and elsewhere to take all they could get from the Portugeze as they did Angola Malacca and Brazil Embassadors were sent from Portugal to demand these places The Hollanders produced the said clause of the Truce which was all the Portugeze could get of them for said they there is no wrong done in regard in that clause it is said That each side should hold and keep what he can take and in such a Time Whereupon The Portugal Embassador said to them very well That it must be understood Bona Fide Viz. That which should be taken without having any knowledg of the Truce Neither have they been more faithful to the Swedes when they engaged to assist them against the Danes and in the midst of their Service deserted them making Conditions of Peace for themselves and retiring And the King of Spain hath also had sufficient experience and proof of their perfidiousness from whose Government they first revolt and afterward unworthily Treat him There is yet another Testimony Their dealings with the King of Macassar which story whoever peruseth and censures with an unbyassed judgment must from thence necessarily gather their huge ingratitude and injustice Their perfidious dealing with the King of Macassar THe Dutch by vertue of their late success against the K. of Macassar in the Isle of Chaelebes made the said King to sign an Article suddenly for banishing all the Portugezes and English out of his Territories and never from thence forward to admit them or any of their Adherents to drive any Negotiations or Trade under the Government of the Macassars The occasion of the War and the sum of the story is as followeth The East-India Company who for divers years have had in design the ingrossing the whole Trade of Spice c. into their own hands did in order thereunto engage one of the Princes of Macassar that hath vast quantities of Cloves growing on Islands in his own Territories and in places unknown to the Dutch to Trade onely with the Merchants belonging to the East-India Company of the Netherlands which the said Prince who is Brother in-law to the King of Macassar and is himself King of Ternate did consent to on Conditions following Viz. That the General of India Governing the said Company or his Successors or some person or persons by him or them deputed shall well and truly pay unto the said King of Ternate his Heirs or Assignes every year the just sum of 25 thousand Crowns for prohibiting his Subjects Trading with any other Nation particularly are mentioned the English and Portugezes This contract was for some years strictly observed on both sides but Anno 1658 1659 and 1660. The Governour General of India for the said Company John Maetsuycker and his Counsel sent not the sum of Money to the said King of Ternate agreed upon and yet demanded the excluding of all others but themselves of trading with his Subjects but instead thereof presented the said Prince with several rarities of Europe upon which the King of Ternate Complains to his Brother the King of Macassar advising with him what was the most prudent course for him to take in that affair Adding that if the Dutch performed their Contract he had not half the Advantage he could have by permitting a free Trade to all Nations Negotiating into those parts The King declared that his Brother had no reason to take any notice of the said Contract with the Netherlandish East India Company and adviseth him to publish a free Commerce with the English Portugezes or any other not excluding the Netherlanders promising the King of Ternate that if the said East-India Company should be unreasonable to resent it so as to make a War upon a point wherein themselves were onely to blame he would assist his Brother in the just defence of his rights to the utmost of his power For prevention of this free-Market the General and his Council in the year 1660. abetted a Prince by name Radia Palacca in the Kingdome of Macassar against his Soveraign and backed the pretensions of the said Prince with an Army under the Command of John Van Dam afterwards Governor of Amboyna and Banda and possessed themselves of many Towns and Villages and one strong Castle but this small Conquest was soon vanquished by the powerful Arms of the King of Macassar The Prince fled out of his Countrey and soon after the Dutch East-India Company quitted their Castle and other Holds they had possessed themselves of in the name and right of the said Prince on Conditions following First That the Netherlanders should never aid abet or assist any the Subjects of the King of Macassar or his lawful Successors against their Soveraign Secondly That the 25000 Dollars or Crowns formerly Covenanted to be yearly paid to the King of Ternate by the General for the East-India Company should be paid Bona Fide without fraud or covin As also

The Emblem of Ingratitude A TRUE RELATION OF THE UNJUST CRUEL AND Barbarous Proceedings against the ENGLISH at AMBOYNA in the East Indies By the NETHERLANDISH Governour Council there ALSO A farther Account of the Deceit Cruelty and Tyranny of the Dutch against the English and several others from their first to their present Estate With Remarks upon the whole matter Faithfully collected from Antient and Modern Records Published by Authority LONDON Printed for William Hope at the North Entrance into the Royal Exchange 1672. To the Reader It is not intended to detain the Reader with any Prefatory Discourse as to the Additions in this Book the faithful Author of the Relation of the Barbarous Cruelty c. having said so much in his Epistle to the Reader which is directly as followeth GEntle Reader thou mayest perhaps wonder why this Relation of the business of Amboyna so many Months since taken upon the Oaths and depositions of our people that came thence and presented to his Majesty and the Lords of his Privy Councel cometh now at last to the Press and was not either sooner published or altogether suppressed The truth is the English East India Company have ever been very tender of the antient amity and good correspondence held between this Realm and the Netherlands and have been very loath by divulging of the private Injuries done them by the Netherlands East India Company to give the least occasion of any distaste or disaffection which might happily grow between these two Nations for the sake and on the behalf the two Companies respectively For which cause although the wrongs and injuries or rather contumelies done unto the English by the Dutch in the Indies have been as intolerable as manifold as to say nothing of those great heaps of them buried in the Amnesty of the Treaty of the year 1619. and only to point at the general heads of those committed since that Treaty and grossly contrary to the main intent and express words and disposition of the same First in the point of Hostility the invasion of the Islands of Lantore and Polaroon then and before in the quiet possession of the English in the name of the Crown of England the taking of the same Islands by force the razing and demolishing of the English Forts the binding of the English that had not so much as resisted them to stakes with ropes about their necks throttling them with the same and flourishing their naked Swords about them as if they would presently have dispatched them then taking them so amazed and bound and tumbling them down the rocks and after carrying their crushed and bruised carcasses away in Irons Secondly in the point of their usurped Sovereignty their taking upon them the Conusance of controversies between the English and the Indians for matters passed far without the compass of the Netherlands pretended jurisdidiction and executing their sentences thereupon by plain force seizing of the English Companies goods fining imprisoning stocking yea whipping our people at a post in the open Market-place and after washing them with Vinegar and Salt Thirdly in point of Partnership with the English their putting great Sums to the Common Account which were disbursed to the private and sole behoof of the Dutch giving great Presents for the glory of the Dutch without consent of the English and making War for the enlargement of their own Dominion yet bringing the Charge to the Common Account together with infinite other the like the particulars whereof would arise to a just and ample Volume Nevertheless the English Company from time to time contented themselves with informing His Majesty and His Honourable Privy Councel with their grievances privately in Writing to the end that necessary Relief and Reparation might be obtained without publishing any thing to the World in Print thereby to stir up or breed ill blood between these Nations which are otherwise tyed in so many reciprocal Obligations And the same course they have hitherto holden also in this Crying business of Amboyna only offering to the Manes of their murdered Country-men Factors Kinsfolks their effectual Endeavours in a dutiful course unto His Majesty for Justice for their Innocent Blood and Reparation of the Honour of the Nation herein interessed In which their wonted way they were so constant that they could not be driven out of the same by the contrary course of some of the other Party that not glutted nor mollified with the Blood of these Innocents nor with all the other Sufferings of the English in the Indies published a Pamphlet in Print in the Netherlands Language not only in Justification of this barbarous Butchery but withal in disgrace of the English Nation and the Laws and justice of the same But behold now further the same Pamphlet being called in by an Edict of the States General was yet afterwards translated and printed in English and dispersed even in this Realm it self to brave and disgrace us at our own doors and in our own Language This no English patience can bear The Blood of the Innocent cryes out against it the Honour of the Nation suffereth in it Wherefore the English East India Company is hereby enforced contrary to their desire and custom to have recourse to the Press to maintain the Reputation of those their Country-men and Servants that lost their Lives unjustly and to acquaint the World with the naked truth of this cause hitherto masked muffled and obscured in a Fog of Factions Concealments and crafty Conveyances of the Author of this Pamphlet and his clients the Governour and Councel so termed of Amboyna Having thus acquainted thee gentle Reader why this Business was no sooner published in Print it remaineth yet further that thou be satisfied in an Objection or two more which common Reason will suggest unto thee Without doubt reading this Discourse and being a true Patriot of thine own Country and a well-willer of the Netherlands as we presume and wish thee to be thou wilt wonder how it cometh to pass that our Nation which hath not been wont to receive such disgraces should now be so weak and unprovided in the Indies as to suffer such indignities and to be so grosly overtopped outraged and vilified there as also thou wilt no less admire that any of the Netherlands Nation which hath received such and so many favours and supports from hence and held so good and antient correspondence with our Nation should now offer and commit such odious contumelies on English men their Partners and Allies by special Treaty Herein thou wilt soon answer thy self if thou but consider the different end and design of the English and Dutch Companies trading in the Indies appearing by their several course and practice respectively The English being Subjects of a peaceable Prince that hath enough of his own and is therewith content without affecting of new acquests have aimed at nothing in their East India Trade but a Lawful and competent gain by Commerce and Traffick with

Orankeys instantly took a Prow or small Vessel of their own and imbarked themselves for Poloway As they were at Sea and yet out of the sight of the Dutch Castle they were met by a Fisher-boat of Bandanezes and told how all the rest were apprehended and that if they went to Poloway they were all but dead men Nevertheless the Priest and the rest although they had space and means to make their escape to Seran and other places safe enough from the Hollanders yet were so confident of their Innocency that they would needs go to Poloway to vindicate clear themselves Where as soon as they were arrived they were instantly carried Prisoners to the Castle and the Governour with a force of 200 Men went forthwith for Polaroon whence he brought all the rest of the Orankeys and made them Prisoners in the same Castle and presently brought them to the torture of water and fire even in the same sort as our People were afterwards at Amboyna only herein differing that of those at Poloway two were so tortured that they died in their tortures the rest being one hundred and sixty two persons were all upon their own forced Confessions Condemned and Executed The Priest when he came to the Place of Execution spake after this manner in the Mallaian tongue All ye great and small rich and poor black and white look to it we have committed no fault And when he would have spoken more he was taken by the hands and feet laid along and cut in two by the middle with a Sword After which the Governour caused the Wives Children and Slaves of those of Polaroon to be all carried out of that and dispersed into other Islands subject to the Dutch by reason of which Banishment being deprived of the Natives assistance neither the English nor Hollanders themselves can carry on their trade so commodiously as they might have done which shews the vigour of their malice and the insatiableness of their cruelty was such that they had rather submit to some dammage and embrace their own loss than let their unreasonable and savage designs pass unaccomplished Some Injuries and Abuses done to the English in divers parts either by the Order or permission of the Dutch THey forced us to Trade at second hand 1. In Ternata under their Fort Tabuche 2. In Motir 3. In Tidore 4. In Balvan Hillo Amboyna 5. At Banda 6. Poloway 7. The Coast of Cormandel near the Arsenal at Jaccatra 8. Their chief places Bantham Japan Jamby though we advanced them to all these places They represented us as Pyrats and when they had done any mischief said they were English Men untill for our safety we were fain to distinguish our selves from them by the solemnity of November the 5 th and 17 th They contrived to blow up our Ware-houses Forbad us all Commerce upon Queen Elizabeth her Death made all Christians so odious that the first question in those parts was Are ye Flemmings They seized our Yards Wharffs c. giving order to kill every English Man that would not swear fealty to them upon the erecting of their Fort at Banna intending to put all English into an old Ship and blow it up They search and stop our Ships give out that they are under a King Making us pay a Custom at Bantham They seized our Ships at Poloway although the Island was given our King Leading our men about the Streets with Halters about their Necks and an hour glass before them intimating that after that ran out they should be hanged And though the Mogul would not look on them till Sir Thomas Roe assured them they were our friends they seized our Polaroon 1617. Suborning the slaves to burn our Ships loading our men with irons dismembring some setting others lamentably wounded in hard Grates wherein their leggs swelled so that they could go neither in or out without great misery Pissing over their heads in Dungeons every Morning and allowing them but a half-peny loaf and a pint of water a day It was proved at Jaccatra that the States were seven years plotting a War between the English and the Dutch at the Indies threatning likewise to land sixty thousand men in twenty four thousand flat-boats in England They carried us in Cages from Port to Port boasting that our King was their Vassal Though we assisted them between the years 1577. and 1625. in their Indian trade so that they got 1500 Tuns of Gold in private hands besides 400 in common How did they use us in Amboyna They disputed our Right to the Sea stopped our entrance to and Trade at Bantham Scanderoon Guinee Angola c. Burned our Factories at Jambee They surprized us at Guinee abused us in the restoring of the Island Polaroon which they have promised from time to time since 1622. They would needs forsooth give us Law in the New Neither Lands which is but a spot of ground they held of us by courtesie They put our men in nasty Dungeons in Castle-delmina to lie in their own Excrements having not bread and water enough to sustain Nature leaving the living and the dead after exquisite tortures to lie together These injuries with infinite more of the like nature to the value of 600000 l. in Goods being aggravated with their preparations for War to maintain them even when his Majesty solicited them to Justice and Peace will make it evident to the world that War which being defined the State of two parties contending by publick force about Right and Wrong is become necessary to us since equity is denied and we are so long eluded of due satisfaction for those many injuries we have so frequently sustained by them Their unworthiness and impiety is very hainous toward Heathens much more towards Christians and most of all towards the English who have been their chief promoters continual Patrons and greatest Agents under Heaven of raising them to that height and mightiness they are now arrived at And lastly I shall refer the Reader to his Majesties Royal Declaration from all which any competent judg may gather Reasons many and weighty enough why his offended Majesty of Great Britain no longer delays to vindicate his own Soveraignty and Peoples Rights whom God long preserve in honour and safety and give him victory over all his Enemies The Perfidy and Treacherousness of the Dutch with all Nations in general IF the Treachery of the Dutch had extended and spread it self no further than the English Nation they would at least pretend that we were partial and unjust in our accusations But to prevent that scandal a cloud of witnesses may be produced to back and second our Testimony for there 's scarce any Nation whom they have traded with but are in some measure sensible of their false dealings and can experimentally attest their perfidious transactions In the Year 1630. the Dutch enter'd into a league Offensive and Defensive with Lewis the 13 th of France upon condition he would make no Peace with