A short and impartial view of the manner and occasion of the Scots colony's coming away from Darien in a letter to a person of quality.
         Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.
      
       
         
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             A short and impartial view of the manner and occasion of the Scots colony's coming away from Darien in a letter to a person of quality.
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           Darien Scots' Colony, 1698-1700.
           Scotland -- History -- 1689-1745.
           Panama -- Colonization.
           Panama -- Discovery and exploration.
        
      
    
     
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           A
           Short
           and
           Impartial
           VIEW
           OF
           The
           MANNER
           and
           OCCASION
           OF
           THE
           Scots
           Colony's
           Coming
           away
           from
           DARIEN
           IN
           A
           Letter
           to
           a
           Person
           of
           Quality
           .
        
         
           Quia
           Veritas
           ,
           propter
           Taciturnitatem
           ,
           non
           lucet
           ,
           Mendacio
           se
           ingerendi
           ,
           locus
           est
           .
           
             Tacit.
             
          
        
         
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           ,
           M.
           DC
           .
           XC
           .
           IX
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             My
             Lord
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Am
           so
           far
           from
           wondring
           at
           the
           extraordinary
           Concern
           which
           you
           are
           pleased
           to
           express
           for
           the
           late
           bad
           News
           of
           our
           Colony's
           having
           come
           away
           from
           so
           Valuable
           and
           Impregnable
           a
           Settlement
           ,
           as
           that
           of
           which
           they
           were
           Possess'd
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           Navel
           of
           the
           Trading
           World
           (
           if
           I
           may
           properly
           so
           call
           it
           )
           that
           I
           should
           much
           more
           Wonder
           ,
           if
           any
           Man
           who
           carries
           Scots
           ▪
           Blood
           in
           his
           Veins
           ,
           and
           pretends
           to
           have
           any
           regard
           either
           for
           the
           Honour
           ,
           Interest
           ,
           or
           Reputation
           of
           his
           Countrey
           ,
           should
           not
           ,
           upon
           so
           provoking
           an
           Occasion
           ,
           contribute
           as
           much
           as
           in
           him
           lies
           ,
           to
           retrieve
           so
           great
           a
           Loss
           at
           any
           Rate
           ,
           and
           have
           a
           just
           Resentment
           against
           the
           Authors
           of
           so
           Surprising
           and
           Unaccountable
           an
           Emergency
           .
        
         
           You
           tell
           me
           (
           which
           is
           true
           )
           that
           several
           People
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           different
           Interests
           and
           Affections
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           different
           Capacities
           to
           Penetrate
           into
           ,
           and
           judge
           of
           ,
           the
           true
           Grounds
           of
           so
           unexpected
           an
           Emergency
           ,
           do
           vent
           their
           Opinions
           and
           Reflections
           variously
           concerning
           it
           :
           Some
           attributing
           it
           to
           the
           want
           of
           due
           Care
           in
           the
           Directors
           at
           home
           ,
           to
           send
           Intelligence
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           needful
           Supplies
           of
           Men
           and
           Provisions
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           in
           due
           time
           ;
           some
           to
           the
           Temerity
           ,
           Imprudence
           and
           Incapacity
           ,
           of
           those
           who
           were
           intrusted
           abroad
           ,
           with
           the
           Management
           and
           Government
           of
           the
           Colony
           ;
           some
           (
           who
           you
           say
           are
           the
           far
           greater
           Number
           )
           to
           the
           effect
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Proclamations
           issued
           forth
           in
           all
           the
           English
           Plantations
           of
           America
           ,
           declaring
           the
           said
           Settlement
           illegal
           ,
           and
           strictly
           intercomuning
           all
           Persons
           thereunto
           belonging
           ;
           And
           you
           are
           pleased
           to
           desire
           my
           Sentiments
           of
           the
           whole
           Matter
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           possibly
           be
           reckon'd
           no
           small
           piece
           of
           Presumption
           in
           one
           of
           my
           weak
           Talent
           ,
           to
           venture
           upon
           setting
           Pen
           to
           Paper
           ,
           upon
           so
           Critical
           an
           Occasion
           as
           this
           is
           ;
           and
           how
           willing
           soever
           I
           might
           have
           been
           at
           any
           other
           time
           to
           gratify
           your
           Request
           that
           way
           ,
           I
           must
           Confess
           ,
           I
           am
           in
           so
           Splenetick
           a
           Mood
           ,
           at
           this
           Juncture
           ,
           that
           my
           Inclinations
           prompt
           me
           but
           very
           little
           to
           bestow
           my
           Time
           upon
           Scribbling
           :
           
           Yet
           your
           Commands
           being
           always
           Indisputeable
           with
           me
           ,
           I
           shall
           supercede
           my
           own
           Inclinations
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           and
           freely
           give
           you
           my
           Thoughts
           of
           the
           Matter
           ,
           with
           all
           imaginable
           Candour
           ,
           as
           succinctly
           as
           I
           can
           ,
           and
           commit
           the
           whole
           to
           your
           own
           Discretion
           ,
           being
           well
           assur'd
           that
           you
           'l
           Advise
           nothing
           thereupon
           ,
           but
           what
           you
           are
           fully
           convinc'd
           will
           be
           most
           Suteable
           to
           the
           Honour
           ,
           Interest
           ,
           and
           Reputation
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           which
           (
           by
           the
           by
           )
           was
           ,
           in
           my
           humble
           Opinion
           ,
           never
           at
           a
           lower
           Ebb
           than
           at
           present
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Directors
           of
           our
           Indian
           and
           African
           Company
           at
           home
           ,
           are
           no
           manner
           of
           way
           Chargeable
           with
           any
           Omission
           or
           want
           of
           due
           Care
           in
           making
           early
           Provisions
           for
           Supplies
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           or
           with
           any
           Mis-managements
           in
           taking
           wrong
           Measures
           ,
           upon
           some
           Occasion
           or
           other
           ,
           or
           with
           too
           much
           Easiness
           and
           Credulity
           (
           as
           some
           do
           alledge
           )
           in
           suffering
           themselves
           to
           be
           Over-perswaded
           ,
           or
           any
           otherways
           imposed
           upon
           by
           mercenary
           Pretenders
           ,
           who
           at
           the
           same
           time
           might
           possibly
           have
           been
           the
           Tools
           for
           driving
           on
           a
           Forreign
           Interest
           ,
           for
           selfish
           Ends
           ,
           is
           more
           than
           I
           shall
           take
           upon
           me
           to
           maintain
           too
           positively
           in
           their
           behalf
           :
           But
           sure
           I
           am
           ,
           the
           many
           Dis-appointments
           ,
           Difficulties
           and
           wicked
           Contrivances
           ,
           which
           they
           were
           all
           along
           oblig'd
           to
           grapple
           with
           ,
           both
           Abroad
           and
           at
           Home
           ,
           made
           their
           Part
           very
           uneasie
           ,
           and
           were
           enough
           to
           daunt
           the
           Resolutions
           of
           any
           privat
           Society
           whatsoever
           ;
           especially
           finding
           themselves
           so
           openly
           discountenanc'd
           by
           Authority
           ,
           that
           the
           Adventurers
           were
           thereby
           discourag'd
           from
           paying
           in
           their
           Shares
           ;
           yea
           in
           so
           much
           that
           the
           Directors
           were
           not
           only
           sheckled
           from
           pursuing
           many
           reasonable
           and
           convenient
           Measures
           that
           they
           had
           in
           View
           ,
           but
           were
           also
           often
           oblig'd
           to
           pawn
           their
           own
           privat
           Credit
           for
           carrying
           on
           ,
           and
           doing
           those
           things
           that
           were
           indispensibly
           necessary
           for
           supporting
           the
           common
           Interest
           ,
           and
           wait
           for
           their
           Relief
           till
           a
           better
           Opportunity
           should
           offer
           .
        
         
           But
           whatever
           Escapes
           they
           may
           be
           chargeable
           with
           ,
           I
           dare
           confidently
           averr
           in
           their
           behalf
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           Directed
           to
           the
           best
           of
           their
           Knowledge
           ;
           and
           I
           doubt
           very
           much
           ,
           whether
           the
           most
           part
           of
           
           all
           those
           ,
           who
           ever
           yet
           took
           the
           Liberty
           of
           Censuring
           their
           Actions
           ,
           would
           have
           taken
           half
           so
           Rational
           Measures
           ,
           had
           they
           had
           the
           same
           Game
           to
           play
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           Difficulties
           to
           encounter
           with
           :
           For
           ,
           as
           the
           Directors
           were
           Chosen
           by
           the
           Solemn
           Election
           and
           Suffrage
           of
           all
           the
           Adventurers
           in
           the
           Joint-Stock
           of
           the
           Company
           ,
           (
           wherein
           the
           most
           considerable
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           whole
           Body
           of
           the
           Royal
           Burrows
           are
           concerned
           )
           so
           it
           must
           be
           allowed
           ,
           that
           the
           Generality
           of
           those
           in
           the
           Direction
           ,
           are
           Persons
           of
           as
           much
           known
           Honour
           ,
           Probity
           and
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           of
           as
           much
           Knowledge
           too
           ,
           as
           can
           be
           found
           of
           any
           other
           Set
           of
           Men
           in
           the
           Nation
           :
           But
           the
           continued
           Thwartings
           that
           they
           met
           with
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ,
           did
           not
           only
           necessarly
           retard
           many
           of
           their
           Measures
           ,
           but
           made
           also
           some
           of
           those
           Measures
           prove
           altogether
           Abortive
           ,
           tho'
           ,
           never
           so
           rationally
           projected
           :
           And
           it
           's
           very
           observable
           ,
           that
           none
           have
           been
           more
           busie
           and
           meddling
           in
           Censuring
           their
           Conduct
           all
           along
           ,
           and
           even
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           than
           some
           who
           had
           little
           or
           no
           Concern
           in
           the
           Stock
           ,
           and
           others
           who
           were
           ready
           upon
           all
           Occasions
           to
           throw
           Stumbling
           Blocks
           in
           their
           Way
           .
           But
           't
           is
           very
           easy
           ,
           and
           no
           new
           Thing
           ,
           to
           either
           Credulous
           Fools
           ,
           or
           Designing
           Knaves
           ,
           (
           who
           ,
           alas
           !
           are
           by
           far
           ,
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           Mankind
           )
           to
           Censure
           the
           best
           of
           Mens
           Actions
           ,
           without
           ever
           considering
           the
           Reasonableness
           of
           the
           Measures
           they
           take
           ,
           or
           the
           Crossness
           of
           any
           Accidents
           they
           may
           meet
           with
           .
           And
           this
           brings
           into
           my
           Remembrance
           a
           Saying
           of
           the
           Renowned
           Sir
           
             Walter
             Raleigh
          
           ,
           in
           his
           Apology
           for
           his
           Voyage
           to
           
             Guiana
             :
             As
             good
             Success
             admits
             no
             Examination
             ,
             so
             the
             contrary
             allows
             of
             no
             Excuse
             ,
             how
             reasonable
             or
             just
             soever
             .
          
           And
           indeed
           the
           Poet
           is
           very
           just
           upon
           that
           Head
           :
           
             
               —
               Careat
               successibus
               opto
            
             
               Quisquis
               ab
               eventu
               facta
               notanda
               putat
               .
               
                 Ovid.
                 Epist
                 .
                 3.
                 
              
            
          
        
         
           It
           is
           very
           evident
           by
           the
           Strain
           of
           the
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           and
           Letters
           Patent
           ,
           establishing
           the
           said
           Company
           ,
           that
           these
           who
           projected
           that
           Scheme
           had
           in
           View
           ,
           sooner
           or
           later
           ,
           no
           less
           Des●gn
           than
           a
           Trade
           to
           both
           the
           Indies
           and
           to
           Africa
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           a
           more
           immediat
           
           and
           much
           quicker
           Communication
           than
           was
           ever
           before
           practised
           by
           any
           Society
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           In
           order
           whereunto
           ,
           those
           in
           the
           Management
           thought
           it
           was
           not
           only
           necessary
           ,
           to
           establish
           a
           Free
           and
           Staple-Port
           in
           some
           convenient
           Place
           or
           Places
           on
           that
           Isthmus
           or
           Nick
           of
           Land
           ,
           situated
           on
           the
           Height
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           between
           the
           North
           and
           South
           Seas
           ,
           formerly
           called
           Darien
           ,
           or
           in
           some
           such
           convenient
           Place
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           raise
           a
           Joynt-Stock
           suteable
           to
           the
           Greatness
           of
           such
           an
           Undertaking
           .
        
         
           And
           not
           imagining
           that
           privat
           Hands
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           could
           of
           themselves
           be
           able
           to
           raise
           a
           sufficient
           Stock
           for
           that
           Purpose
           ,
           the
           first
           Offer
           thereof
           was
           made
           to
           our
           Friends
           at
           London
           ,
           who
           in
           nine
           days
           time
           concluded
           a
           Subscription
           there
           ,
           of
           300000
           Pounds
           Sterling
           ,
           and
           paid
           in
           the
           first
           fourth
           Part
           thereof
           either
           in
           Money
           ,
           Bank-Bills
           ,
           or
           Notes
           payable
           on
           Demand
           ,
           and
           further
           declared
           their
           Willingness
           to
           Subscribe
           for
           as
           much
           more
           ,
           if
           allowed
           :
           But
           you
           know
           how
           that
           Subscription
           was
           quickly
           render'd
           void
           by
           the
           Measures
           taken
           in
           the
           Parliament
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Attempt
           (
           you
           know
           )
           that
           the
           Directors
           made
           for
           strengthning
           their
           Stock
           and
           Interest
           ,
           was
           to
           endeavour
           the
           procuring
           of
           Forreign
           Subscriptions
           for
           some
           considerable
           Sum
           ;
           And
           in
           Order
           thereunto
           ,
           upon
           repeated
           encouraging
           Advices
           from
           several
           Parts
           beyond
           Sea
           ,
           but
           more
           especially
           from
           Hamburgh
           ,
           they
           sent
           some
           of
           their
           own
           Number
           ,
           as
           Commissioners
           or
           Deputees
           thither
           ,
           with
           whom
           soon
           after
           their
           Arrival
           ,
           the
           Merchants
           of
           the
           said
           City
           of
           Hamburgh
           ,
           enter'd
           into
           Contract
           to
           joyn
           at
           least
           200000
           Pounds
           Sterling
           with
           the
           Company
           's
           Stock
           :
           But
           you
           know
           likewise
           ,
           how
           the
           English
           Ministers
           there
           ,
           did
           ,
           under
           Pretence
           of
           a
           special
           Warrant
           from
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           put
           a
           Stop
           thereunto
           ,
           by
           giving
           in
           a
           Memorial
           to
           the
           Senat
           of
           that
           City
           ,
           
             Not
             only
             ,
             disowning
             the
             Authority
             of
             the
             said
             Acts
             of
             Parliament
             and
             Letters
             Patent
             ,
             but
             also
             threatning
             both
             Senat
             and
             Inhabitants
             with
             the
             Kings
             outmost
             Displeasure
             ,
             if
             they
             should
             countenance
             or
             joyn
             with
             the
             Company
             's
             said
             Deputees
             ,
             in
             any
             Treaty
             of
             Trade
             or
             Commerce
             .
          
        
         
         
           Notwithstanding
           whereof
           ,
           tho'
           the
           Council-General
           and
           
             Court
             of
             Directors
          
           of
           the
           said
           Company
           have
           ,
           not
           only
           often
           Address'd
           and
           Petition'd
           the
           King
           and
           Privy
           Council
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           also
           His
           Majesty's
           High
           Commissioner
           ,
           and
           the
           Right
           Honourable
           Estates
           of
           Parliament
           at
           their
           last
           Session
           ;
           And
           likewise
           ,
           that
           the
           said
           Estates
           were
           thereupon
           pleased
           ,
           by
           their
           Unanimous
           Address
           of
           the
           5th
           .
           of
           August
           1698
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           
             To
             manifest
             not
             only
             their
             own
             ,
             and
             the
             whole
             Nation
             's
             Concern
             in
             that
             Matter
             ,
             earnestly
             entreating
             ,
             and
             most
             assuredly
             expecting
             ,
             that
             His
             Majesty
             would
             ,
             in
             His
             Royal
             Wisdom
             ,
             take
             such
             Measures
             as
             might
             effectually
             vindicat
             the
             Undoubted
             Rights
             and
             Privileges
             of
             the
             said
             Company
             ,
             and
             support
             the
             Credit
             and
             Interest
             thereof
          
           ;
           But
           were
           also
           pleased
           in
           the
           same
           Address
           ,
           
             To
             recommend
             the
             Concerns
             of
             the
             said
             Company
             to
             some
             special
             Marks
             of
             His
             Majesty's
             Royal
             Favour
             ,
             as
             being
             that
             Branch
             of
             the
             Trade
             of
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             in
             which
             They
             and
             the
             Nation
             they
             represent
             ,
             have
             a
             more
             peculiar
             Interest
             .
          
           Yet
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           His
           Majesty
           has
           been
           all
           along
           so
           taken
           up
           with
           the
           far
           greater
           and
           more
           general
           Concerns
           of
           Europe
           ,
           that
           ,
           to
           this
           Hour
           ,
           I
           have
           not
           heard
           of
           any
           manner
           of
           Redress
           that
           has
           been
           given
           in
           that
           Matter
           .
        
         
           There
           were
           likewise
           considerable
           Steps
           and
           Advances
           made
           by
           several
           Merchants
           in
           Holland
           ,
           particularly
           at
           Amsterdam
           and
           Rotterdam
           ,
           towards
           a
           Subscription
           there
           ;
           But
           upon
           notice
           had
           of
           their
           Meetings
           with
           the
           Company
           's
           Deputees
           above-mention'd
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Success
           their
           Negotiations
           were
           like
           to
           have
           had
           ,
           the
           most
           considerable
           and
           Leading
           Men
           of
           those
           Merchants
           ,
           who
           had
           shewed
           most
           Forwardness
           in
           that
           Matter
           ,
           were
           sent
           for
           by
           some
           of
           the
           States
           ,
           and
           threatned
           
             that
             Measures
             would
             be
             taken
             ,
             to
             make
             them
             repent
             their
             Doings
             ,
             if
             they
             persisted
             any
             further
             in
             Treating
             with
             the
             said
             Deputees
             ,
             or
             if
             they
             would
             joyn
             with
             the
          
           Scots
           Company
           .
        
         
           This
           ,
           I
           remember
           ,
           happen'd
           some
           Months
           before
           the
           Hamburgh-Memorial
           above-mention'd
           was
           presented
           ,
           which
           I
           confess
           makes
           it
           seem
           a
           Problem
           to
           me
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           many
           others
           that
           have
           heard
           of
           it
           ,
           
             Whether
             the
          
           English
           
             were
             influenc'd
             by
             the
          
           Dutch
           ,
           
             or
             the
          
           Dutch
           
             by
             the
          
           English
           ,
           
           
             to
             deal
             so
             unkindly
             by
             us
             :
          
           But
           in
           short
           I
           think
           we
           may
           truly
           say
           with
           the
           Prophet
           ,
           The
           Syrians
           
             before
             ,
             and
             the
          
           Philistines
           behind
           ,
           &c.
           Isaiah
           ,
           9.
           12.
           
        
         
           But
           to
           pass
           over
           all
           these
           previous
           Discouragements
           and
           Disappointments
           ,
           and
           to
           come
           closely
           to
           the
           Point
           in
           Hand
           ,
           The
           Colony
           that
           was
           first
           sent
           away
           in
           July
           1698
           ,
           for
           settling
           a
           Plantation
           in
           America
           ,
           pursuant
           to
           the
           Instructions
           then
           given
           ,
           carried
           along
           with
           them
           not
           only
           abundance
           of
           all
           Necessaries
           for
           such
           an
           Undertaking
           ▪
           but
           also
           such
           a
           Quantity
           of
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           was
           calculated
           for
           a
           whole
           Year
           ,
           and
           of
           some
           Particulars
           (
           namely
           Stock-Fish
           )
           what
           was
           computed
           might
           have
           served
           for
           near
           18
           Months
           :
           And
           for
           their
           further
           Security
           ,
           in
           case
           those
           Provisions
           should
           happen
           to
           fall
           short
           ,
           before
           Advice
           could
           be
           had
           of
           their
           Settlement
           ,
           and
           the
           fresh
           Supplies
           of
           Provisions
           sent
           after
           them
           ,
           there
           was
           likewise
           a
           Cargo
           of
           Sortable
           Goods
           ,
           to
           the
           Value
           of
           about
           16000
           Pounds
           Sterling
           prime
           Cost
           here
           ,
           sent
           along
           with
           them
           ,
           at
           the
           absolute
           Disposal
           of
           the
           Council
           ,
           for
           the
           Colony's
           Use
           ;
           which
           Goods
           were
           either
           to
           be
           Traded
           with
           upon
           the
           Coast
           and
           American
           Islands
           ,
           or
           Barter'd
           for
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           at
           the
           Council's
           Discretion
           ,
           as
           should
           best
           sute
           with
           their
           Circumstances
           for
           the
           time
           .
           Yet
           such
           was
           the
           Directors
           Care
           of
           their
           Welfare
           and
           Safety
           ,
           That
           ,
           immediatly
           after
           their
           Departure
           from
           Scotland
           ,
           the
           Directors
           did
           ,
           upon
           the
           Encouragement
           of
           the
           Parliaments
           Address
           above-recited
           ,
           apply
           themselves
           in
           a
           dutiful
           manner
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           by
           their
           humble
           Petition
           of
           the
           16th
           .
           of
           August
           1698
           ,
           
             To
             bestow
             upon
             them
             ,
             as
             a
             Gracious
             Mark
             of
             His
             Royal
             Favour
             ,
             the
             Use
             of
             the
             two
             small
             Friggots
             .
             then
          
           (
           and
           to
           this
           Hour
           )
           
             lying
             useless
             in
          
           Burnti●land
           Harbour
           ;
           with
           Design
           to
           ●it
           them
           out
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           possible
           ,
           with
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           for
           the
           Colony
           ;
           and
           appointed
           a
           particular
           Committee
           to
           wait
           upon
           the
           Chief-Men
           in
           the
           Government
           ,
           to
           desire
           their
           Assistance
           in
           Seconding
           the
           said
           Petition
           :
           But
           in
           a
           short
           time
           thereafter
           ,
           they
           found
           it
           necessary
           to
           call
           a
           Council-General
           of
           the
           Company
           ,
           which
           accordingly
           met
           on
           the
           5th
           .
           day
           of
           September
           following
           :
           And
           the
           Directors
           laying
           
           before
           them
           a
           Representation
           in
           Writing
           (
           which
           contained
           an
           Abstract
           of
           the
           then
           State
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           Affairs
           ,
           together
           also
           with
           their
           own
           Opinion
           ,
           what
           they
           thought
           necessary
           to
           be
           done
           by
           the
           Company
           at
           that
           Juncture
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           a
           Supply
           of
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           to
           be
           sent
           to
           the
           Company
           's
           Colony
           )
           they
           thereupon
           ordered
           a
           further
           Proportion
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           Joint-Stock
           to
           be
           call'd
           in
           ,
           from
           the
           respective
           Proprietors
           for
           that
           Purpose
           .
        
         
           And
           upon
           the
           9
           th
           day
           of
           November
           ,
           The
           
             Court
             of
             Directors
          
           did
           ,
           upon
           the
           Prospect
           of
           the
           Martinmass
           Payments
           ,
           come
           to
           a
           Resolution
           ,
           that
           a
           Ship
           of
           near
           about
           200
           Tuns
           burden
           ,
           should
           be
           bought
           forthwith
           for
           the
           Company
           's
           Use
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           buying
           and
           fitting
           thereof
           ,
           as
           also
           the
           buying
           of
           the
           needful
           Provisions
           for
           a
           Supply
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           should
           be
           referred
           to
           a
           Committee
           which
           was
           appointed
           for
           that
           End
           ;
           but
           after
           enquiry
           made
           in
           several
           Places
           about
           such
           a
           Vessel
           ,
           they
           could
           find
           none
           reported
           to
           be
           so
           fit
           for
           their
           Purpose
           ,
           as
           one
           that
           lay
           then
           in
           Leith-Harbour
           ,
           exposed
           to
           Sale
           ;
           which
           one
           of
           their
           Number
           bought
           ,
           with
           a
           special
           Condition
           to
           be
           free
           ,
           if
           upon
           Survey
           she
           should
           not
           be
           sound
           fit
           for
           the
           Company
           's
           Use
           :
           And
           upon
           the
           14
           th
           day
           of
           December
           (
           which
           was
           near
           about
           four
           Months
           before
           any
           Word
           came
           from
           the
           Colony
           )
           the
           Court
           of
           Directors
           gave
           Orders
           to
           conclude
           the
           Bargain
           for
           the
           said
           Ship
           ,
           according
           to
           former
           Agreement
           ,
           and
           to
           fit
           her
           out
           with
           Provisions
           for
           the
           Colony
           ,
           with
           all
           possible
           Expedition
           :
           But
           the
           Ship
           when
           bought
           (
           tho'
           a
           known
           prime
           Sailer
           ,
           and
           after
           all
           the
           necessary
           Precaution
           had
           in
           buying
           of
           her
           )
           happening
           not
           to
           be
           so
           Sound
           as
           was
           expected
           ,
           took
           a
           much
           longer
           time
           to
           be
           Repaired
           ,
           than
           could
           well
           have
           been
           imagined
           ,
           and
           could
           not
           therefore
           Sail
           as
           soon
           as
           was
           intended
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           the
           Directors
           being
           loath
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           to
           Trust
           to
           the
           said
           Ship
           only
           ,
           in
           case
           of
           Accidents
           ,
           made
           it
           their
           Business
           to
           find
           out
           ,
           and
           purchase
           a
           good
           Sailing
           Ship
           ,
           
           English-qualified
           ,
           to
           be
           dispatched
           from
           Clyde
           with
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           the
           needful
           Advices
           for
           the
           said
           Colony
           :
           And
           upon
           finding
           a
           Ship
           so
           qualified
           ,
           she
           was
           
           dispatched
           from
           Clyde
           upon
           the
           24
           of
           February
           last
           ;
           but
           to
           the
           Company
           's
           and
           Colony's
           inestimable
           Loss
           ,
           the
           said
           Vessel
           was
           cast
           away
           on
           one
           of
           the
           West
           Islands
           of
           Scotland
           :
           Of
           which
           Accident
           the
           
             Court
             of
             Directors
          
           had
           no
           Advice
           before
           the
           11th
           .
           Day
           of
           April
           :
           And
           the
           Loss
           was
           still
           the
           greater
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           she
           was
           bought
           so
           qualified
           ,
           with
           a
           View
           to
           be
           serviceable
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           not
           only
           in
           Trading
           upon
           the
           Coast
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           running
           backward
           and
           forward
           ,
           to
           and
           from
           any
           of
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           with
           Goods
           ,
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           Intelligence
           ;
           she
           being
           qualified
           to
           touch
           there
           in
           the
           strictest
           sense
           of
           the
           English
           Act
           of
           Navigation
           .
        
         
           You
           may
           remember
           likewise
           ,
           that
           the
           other
           Ship
           abovemention'd
           was
           just
           ready
           to
           Sail
           about
           the
           latter-end
           of
           March
           last
           ,
           being
           the
           time
           that
           the
           first
           Advices
           arrived
           here
           of
           the
           
           Colony's
           Settlement
           and
           good
           Condition
           :
           But
           the
           Directors
           having
           Intelligence
           of
           Three
           Spanish
           Ships
           of
           Force
           ,
           that
           were
           to
           Sail
           about
           that
           time
           from
           Cadiz
           to
           the
           West-Indies
           ,
           with
           a
           Re-inforcement
           of
           Men
           ,
           Arms
           and
           Ammunition
           ,
           for
           Carthagena
           ,
           under
           the
           Command
           of
           
             Don
             Piementel
          
           ,
           the
           present
           Governour
           of
           that
           City
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           particular
           Instructions
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           our
           Settlement
           ;
           they
           thought
           it
           not
           safe
           to
           let
           the
           Company
           's
           said
           Ship
           sail
           alone
           ;
           and
           therefore
           stopt
           her
           ,
           till
           another
           Ship
           of
           Force
           might
           be
           got
           ready
           with
           Men
           and
           Provisions
           ;
           which
           accordingly
           being
           got
           ,
           both
           the
           said
           Ships
           set
           sail
           from
           Leith-Road
           ,
           on
           the
           12th
           .
           of
           May
           last
           ,
           with
           a
           Recruit
           of
           300
           Men
           ,
           about
           900
           Bolls
           of
           Wheat
           made
           into
           Bisket
           and
           Flower
           ,
           as
           also
           a
           considerable
           Quantity
           of
           Pease
           ,
           Pork
           ,
           Oyl
           ,
           Brandy
           ,
           some
           Beef
           ,
           Arms
           ,
           Ammunition
           ,
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           ;
           carrying
           likewise
           along
           with
           them
           Advices
           ,
           that
           a
           much
           more
           considerable
           Recruit
           of
           Ships
           ,
           Men
           ,
           Provisions
           ,
           Arms
           ,
           Ammunition
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           ,
           were
           to
           follow
           with
           all
           convenient
           Dispatch
           ,
           under
           Convoy
           of
           the
           Rising-Sun
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Directors
           did
           accordingly
           dispatch
           the
           Rising-Sun
           ,
           and
           three
           other
           Ships
           of
           considerable
           Force
           and
           Burthen
           ,
           from
           Greenock
           ,
           the
           18
           th
           .
           Day
           of
           August
           last
           ;
           tho'
           by
           contrary
           Winds
           they
           were
           stopt
           ,
           
           so
           as
           that
           they
           could
           not
           sail
           further
           than
           the
           Isle
           of
           Bute
           ,
           till
           the
           24
           th
           of
           September
           following
           :
           They
           had
           1300
           Men
           on
           board
           ,
           with
           as
           many
           Ingineers
           ,
           Fire-Workers
           ,
           Bombardeers
           ,
           Battering
           Guns
           ,
           Mortars
           ,
           Bombs
           ,
           and
           other
           Warlike
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           (
           if
           safely
           arrived
           at
           the
           Colony
           in
           due
           time
           ,
           and
           considering
           the
           Situation
           and
           natural
           Strength
           of
           the
           Place
           )
           might
           reasonably
           be
           presumed
           to
           have
           made
           it
           impregnable
           .
        
         
           Nor
           was
           this
           all
           ,
           for
           immediatly
           after
           the
           first
           Advice
           that
           the
           Directors
           had
           of
           the
           Colony's
           Settlement
           ,
           they
           wrote
           back
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           by
           the
           several
           Ways
           of
           
             New-England
             ,
             Jamaica
             ,
             Barbados
             ,
             Antegoa
             ,
          
           and
           the
           other
           
             Leeward
             Islands
          
           ,
           that
           these
           Recruits
           above-mentioned
           were
           coming
           to
           them
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           sent
           them
           an
           Illimited
           and
           Discretionary
           Credit
           ,
           for
           buying
           of
           Provisions
           from
           any
           of
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           if
           they
           should
           happen
           to
           stand
           in
           need
           thereof
           ;
           Which
           Credit
           the
           Directors
           were
           induced
           to
           give
           ,
           from
           an
           Assurance
           that
           they
           had
           given
           them
           ,
           by
           several
           Persons
           at
           London
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           West-Indies
           ,
           of
           their
           good
           Inclinations
           to
           Supply
           the
           Colony
           with
           Provisions
           ,
           if
           such
           a
           Credit
           were
           given
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           end
           ,
           Printed
           Copies
           of
           the
           said
           Credit
           were
           sent
           by
           the
           Way
           of
           London
           ,
           to
           be
           dispersed
           over
           all
           the
           English
           Plantations
           in
           America
           .
           And
           upon
           the
           Faith
           thereof
           ,
           several
           Sloops
           and
           Brigantins
           ,
           freighted
           full
           of
           Provisions
           ,
           were
           dispatched
           from
           the
           English
           Plantations
           to
           our
           Colony
           ;
           particularly
           from
           
             New-England
             ,
             New-York
             ,
             Road-Island
          
           ,
           and
           Philadelphia
           ;
           tho'
           ,
           alas
           !
           they
           happen'd
           to
           be
           too
           late
           ,
           those
           of
           the
           Colony
           being
           unluckily
           come
           away
           from
           Darien
           ,
           some
           Weeks
           ,
           before
           these
           Sloops
           could
           well
           be
           arrived
           there
           :
           So
           that
           this
           was
           no
           such
           Imaginary
           Credit
           ,
           as
           some
           People
           would
           have
           us
           believe
           it
           to
           have
           been
           .
           Yea
           further
           ,
           even
           before
           the
           said
           Credit
           was
           known
           in
           America
           ,
           not
           only
           several
           Sloops
           went
           with
           Provisions
           from
           Jamaica
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           and
           Barter'd
           their
           Provisions
           for
           other
           Goods
           :
           But
           also
           ,
           a
           New-England
           Brigantin
           ,
           freighted
           full
           of
           Provisions
           ,
           sold
           her
           Cargo
           to
           the
           Council
           of
           the
           Colony
           ,
           for
           Bills
           drawn
           by
           them
           upon
           the
           Company
           's
           Cashier
           here
           ;
           Which
           Bills
           amounted
           
           to
           about
           700
           Pounds
           Sterling
           ,
           and
           were
           punctually
           paid
           accordingly
           .
           By
           which
           it
           may
           evidently
           appear
           ,
           that
           if
           no
           extraordinary
           Methods
           had
           been
           used
           to
           put
           a
           Barr
           to
           their
           begun
           Correspondence
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           little
           or
           no
           Occasion
           for
           any
           special
           Credit
           on
           particular
           Persons
           .
        
         
           And
           upon
           the
           Directors
           having
           received
           the
           said
           surprizing
           and
           unexpected
           News
           of
           their
           Colony's
           coming
           away
           from
           Darien
           ,
           they
           immediatly
           came
           to
           Resolutions
           of
           dispatching
           a
           particular
           Credit
           ,
           with
           proper
           Advices
           ,
           per
           Express
           to
           New-York
           ,
           by
           a
           Vessel
           then
           bound
           thither
           ,
           where
           they
           understood
           most
           of
           their
           Men
           were
           ,
           and
           to
           send
           other
           Expresses
           ,
           by
           several
           Ways
           ,
           in
           quest
           of
           both
           the
           first
           and
           last
           Recruits
           sent
           to
           the
           Colony
           ;
           with
           Orders
           to
           repossess
           themselves
           of
           their
           former
           Settlement
           ,
           and
           to
           fend
           Supplies
           of
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           after
           them
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           possible
           ;
           and
           to
           have
           from
           hence
           forward
           some
           small
           Vessels
           or
           Advice-Boats
           ,
           running
           continually
           ,
           backward
           and
           forward
           ,
           with
           certain
           Intelligence
           ,
           between
           this
           and
           the
           Colony
           ,
           their
           former
           way
           of
           Corresponding
           having
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           fail'd
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Proclamations
           above-mention'd
           ;
           as
           shall
           appear
           ,
           more
           particularly
           ,
           by
           and
           by
           .
        
         
           And
           because
           the
           Expediting
           of
           those
           several
           Expresses
           ,
           and
           sending
           a
           Credit
           for
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           ,
           could
           not
           admit
           of
           any
           Delay
           ,
           at
           so
           Critical
           a
           Juncture
           ,
           they
           frankly
           engag'd
           their
           own
           privat
           Credits
           ,
           for
           those
           several
           Purposes
           ,
           until
           the
           Company
           's
           own
           Money
           should
           come
           in
           to
           Answer
           the
           same
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           they
           called
           a
           Meeting
           of
           the
           Council-General
           ,
           who
           approved
           of
           those
           Resolutions
           :
           And
           several
           of
           the
           Councellours
           did
           likewise
           freely
           and
           generously
           joyn
           their
           own
           privat
           Credits
           with
           that
           of
           the
           Directors
           ,
           for
           the
           Purposes
           aforesaid
           .
        
         
           In
           Pursuance
           of
           which
           Resolutions
           ,
           the
           Directors
           sent
           a
           Credit
           of
           2000
           Pounds
           Sterling
           to
           New-York
           by
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           whom
           they
           sent
           Express
           from
           hence
           thither
           ,
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           October
           last
           ,
           with
           proper
           Instructions
           suteable
           to
           the
           Occasion
           .
        
         
         
           They
           sent
           likewise
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           by
           a
           Ship
           then
           bound
           from
           the
           Downs
           to
           the
           
             Leeward
             Islands
          
           ,
           and
           Jamaica
           ,
           a
           ●ew
           Councellour
           for
           the
           Colony
           ,
           fully
           instructed
           in
           relation
           to
           this
           Emergency
           ,
           with
           Orders
           to
           go
           with
           all
           possible
           Dispatch
           ,
           in
           quest
           of
           the
           Recruits
           lately
           sent
           to
           the
           Colony
           :
           And
           the
           better
           to
           enable
           him
           to
           execute
           effectually
           what
           was
           then
           given
           him
           in
           Commission
           ,
           he
           carried
           a
           Credit
           of
           1000
           Pounds
           Sterling
           along
           with
           him
           .
           Since
           which
           ,
           they
           have
           ,
           in
           the
           Month
           of
           November
           last
           ,
           dispatch'd
           one
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           own
           Ships
           ,
           full
           of
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           for
           the
           Colony
           ,
           from
           Clyde
           ;
           and
           sent
           another
           Councellour
           on
           board
           thereof
           ,
           with
           a
           Credit
           of
           500
           Pounds
           Sterling
           more
           :
           And
           about
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           they
           freighted
           another
           Ship
           ,
           which
           sail'd
           from
           Forth
           sometime
           ago
           ,
           to
           carry
           Provisions
           to
           the
           Colony
           :
           And
           (
           as
           I
           'm
           inform'd
           )
           are
           now
           upon
           dispatching
           forthwith
           two
           other
           Ships
           with
           more
           Provisions
           after
           them
           ;
           the
           one
           from
           Forth
           and
           the
           other
           from
           Clyde
           ;
           That
           from
           Forth
           being
           already
           agreed
           for
           ,
           and
           bound
           by
           Charter-Party
           to
           sail
           (
           God
           willing
           )
           on
           the
           20
           th
           .
           of
           January
           next
           .
        
         
           Now
           this
           ,
           being
           a
           short
           Abridgment
           of
           what
           I
           understand
           ,
           may
           be
           offered
           in
           Justification
           of
           the
           Directors
           Care
           and
           Conduct
           :
           I
           shall
           now
           proceed
           to
           give
           you
           a
           short
           View
           of
           what
           occurs
           to
           me
           at
           present
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           the
           Conduct
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           were
           intrusted
           Abroad
           with
           the
           Management
           and
           Government
           of
           the
           Colony
           ,
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           Councellours
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Equippage
           sent
           by
           the
           Company
           on
           their
           first
           Expedition
           ,
           for
           settling
           a
           Colony
           in
           America
           ,
           was
           ,
           in
           all
           Respects
           ,
           superior
           to
           any
           that
           was
           ever
           before
           sent
           on
           the
           like
           Account
           ,
           by
           any
           privat
           Society
           in
           Europe
           ,
           is
           what
           I
           never
           heard
           in
           the
           least
           contraverted
           :
           And
           as
           the
           Generality
           of
           the
           Men
           who
           went
           on
           that
           Expedition
           ,
           gave
           former
           Proofs
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           in
           their
           respective
           Stations
           ,
           during
           the
           last
           War
           ,
           of
           their
           Fitness
           for
           such
           an
           Undertaking
           ;
           so
           it
           has
           been
           agreed
           upon
           ,
           by
           all
           that
           ever
           saw
           them
           ,
           not
           only
           when
           they
           went
           away
           ,
           but
           also
           after
           their
           Arrival
           and
           Settlement
           in
           America
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           ,
           seemingly
           ,
           as
           hopeful
           and
           promising
           a
           Set
           of
           Men
           ,
           as
           
           ever
           were
           seen
           (
           to
           the
           Memory
           of
           Man
           )
           in
           those
           Parts
           ;
           had
           they
           been
           under
           the
           Government
           and
           Care
           of
           such
           Heads
           as
           were
           to
           be
           wish'd
           :
           But
           many
           People
           do
           say
           ,
           that
           the
           Council
           appointed
           for
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Colony
           ,
           was
           composed
           of
           an
           odd
           kind
           of
           Mixture
           of
           Persons
           ,
           of
           Heterogeneous
           Humours
           and
           Principles
           ,
           and
           that
           few
           of
           them
           were
           fit
           for
           that
           Station
           .
        
         
           The
           Truth
           is
           ,
           whatever
           may
           be
           in
           this
           ,
           I
           'm
           certain
           that
           the
           Directors
           were
           at
           no
           small
           Pains
           to
           invite
           such
           as
           they
           thought
           most
           capable
           for
           that
           Station
           ;
           but
           it
           not
           being
           publickly
           known
           ,
           where
           they
           were
           design'd
           to
           settle
           ,
           there
           were
           but
           very
           few
           Candidates
           ;
           and
           there
           's
           nothing
           I
           know
           better
           ,
           than
           that
           those
           of
           them
           who
           were
           most
           strongly
           recommended
           as
           Persons
           of
           Capacity
           ,
           Honour
           and
           Honesty
           ,
           prov'd
           to
           be
           the
           least
           deserving
           of
           that
           Character
           ,
           of
           all
           that
           went
           under
           the
           Denomination
           of
           Councellours
           .
        
         
           I
           was
           told
           ,
           indeed
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           too
           much
           Emulation
           ,
           Jealousy
           ,
           private
           Animosities
           ,
           and
           Pique
           among
           themselves
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           bad
           Example
           thereof
           gave
           too
           much
           ground
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           the
           like
           Animosities
           were
           diffused
           among
           the
           inferior
           Officers
           and
           others
           ,
           as
           they
           stood
           severally
           affected
           or
           engaged
           ,
           more
           or
           less
           ,
           to
           this
           or
           that
           Councellour
           :
           Yet
           ,
           by
           the
           Influence
           of
           some
           few
           of
           the
           discreetest
           of
           their
           number
           ,
           for
           above
           Eight
           Months
           time
           together
           ,
           they
           had
           so
           much
           Prudence
           ,
           as
           to
           stiffle
           those
           Divisions
           (
           as
           much
           as
           possible
           )
           in
           all
           publick
           Concerns
           ,
           for
           carrying
           on
           the
           common
           Interest
           ;
           as
           may
           evidently
           appear
           by
           the
           Unanimity
           and
           Discretion
           of
           all
           their
           Advices
           and
           Letters
           to
           the
           Directors
           at
           Home
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           their
           publick
           Transactions
           with
           such
           as
           had
           to
           do
           with
           them
           in
           America
           ;
           particularly
           in
           all
           their
           Transactions
           with
           the
           Indians
           ,
           the
           President
           of
           Panama
           ,
           the
           Governours
           of
           Carthagena
           and
           
             Sancta
             Maria
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Commander
           of
           a
           French
           Vessel
           ,
           which
           happen'd
           to
           be
           Shipwrack'd
           near
           their
           Settlement
           ;
           &
           their
           Diligence
           and
           Care
           in
           building
           of
           Houses
           ,
           clearing
           of
           the
           Ground
           ,
           and
           fortifying
           of
           their
           Settlement
           ,
           in
           such
           manner
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           look'd
           upon
           ,
           by
           all
           that
           saw
           it
           ,
           or
           had
           account
           of
           it
           ,
           to
           be
           almost
           Impregnable
           ;
           till
           that
           about
           the
           latter-end
           of
           
           March
           last
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Absence
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           Indisposition
           of
           others
           ,
           so
           few
           remain'd
           ,
           that
           for
           some
           Weeks
           together
           ,
           their
           Votes
           run
           generally
           split
           ,
           being
           only
           two
           of
           a
           side
           ,
           and
           consequently
           all
           Business
           almost
           at
           a
           stand
           .
        
         
           Yet
           such
           was
           the
           Excellence
           of
           the
           Constitutions
           by
           which
           they
           were
           to
           Govern
           ,
           that
           by
           means
           thereof
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Providential
           Recovery
           of
           one
           of
           their
           Number
           out
           of
           a
           desperate
           Sickness
           ,
           to
           cast
           the
           Ballance
           ,
           they
           quickly
           wrought
           their
           own
           Cure
           :
           For
           by
           the
           assumption
           of
           Three
           or
           Four
           New
           Councellours
           ,
           and
           the
           humorous
           withdrawing
           of
           two
           of
           the
           Old
           ,
           whose
           Places
           were
           thereupon
           deservedly
           declared
           Vacant
           ;
           the
           Council
           wrought
           it self
           so
           into
           one
           piece
           ,
           that
           their
           Actings
           look'd
           then
           ,
           like
           that
           of
           one
           Man
           :
           And
           tho
           the
           Season
           had
           ,
           all
           of
           a
           sudden
           ,
           (
           as
           is
           said
           )
           sowred
           some
           of
           their
           Provisions
           (
           which
           continued
           very
           Good
           till
           the
           Rains
           came
           on
           in
           April
           )
           and
           tho
           their
           Men
           turn'd
           afterwards
           very
           Sickly
           upon
           their
           Hands
           ;
           yet
           they
           were
           firmly
           resolved
           to
           maintain
           that
           Place
           and
           Interest
           to
           the
           last
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           the
           Letters
           which
           they
           dispatched
           Home
           upon
           that
           Occasion
           ,
           pressing
           that
           Supplies
           might
           be
           sent
           to
           them
           with
           all
           Expedition
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           they
           not
           only
           engaged
           one
           Captain
           
             Ephraim
             Pilkington
          
           of
           Port-Royal
           (
           who
           had
           been
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           sometime
           in
           their
           Service
           ,
           and
           was
           resolved
           to
           bring
           his
           whole
           Family
           to
           live
           in
           Caledonia
           )
           to
           return
           with
           his
           Shallop
           full
           of
           fresh
           Provisions
           and
           strong
           Liquors
           from
           Jamaica
           ;
           but
           sent
           also
           a
           Sloop
           of
           their
           own
           thither
           ,
           with
           Money
           and
           Goods
           to
           purchase
           Provisions
           ;
           yet
           neither
           the
           one
           ,
           nor
           the
           other
           ,
           could
           have
           any
           ,
           by
           Reason
           of
           the
           Proclamation
           that
           was
           published
           there
           sometime
           before
           :
           And
           it
           is
           very
           observable
           ,
           that
           the
           said
           Proclamation
           ,
           was
           ,
           for
           haste
           's
           sake
           ,
           published
           at
           Port-Royal
           in
           Jamaica
           ,
           upon
           a
           Sunday
           ,
           being
           the
           9
           th
           day
           of
           April
           ,
           to
           stop
           two
           other
           Sloops
           that
           were
           ready
           to
           sail
           from
           thence
           next
           Morning
           ,
           with
           Provisions
           and
           strong
           Liquors
           for
           Caledonia
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           unhappy
           News
           thereof
           arriving
           at
           Caledonia
           ,
           the
           18
           th
           ,
           day
           of
           May
           ,
           together
           with
           a
           Copy
           of
           the
           said
           Proclamation
           ,
           as
           also
           
           a
           wicked
           contrived
           Story
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Company
             at
             home
             had
             ,
             upon
             some
             Occasion
             or
             other
             ,
             Petition'd
             or
             Address'd
             the
             Parliament
             of
          
           Scotland
           ,
           
             and
             that
             their
             Petition
             was
             unanimously
             rejected
             ,
             and
             thrown
             with
             Disdain
             over
             the
             Bar
          
           ;
           the
           Council
           and
           Colony
           were
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           ,
           Thunder-struck
           all
           at
           once
           ,
           with
           those
           Accounts
           ,
           especially
           when
           they
           consider'd
           the
           Treatment
           which
           they
           knew
           the
           Company
           had
           met
           with
           at
           
             London
             ,
             Hamburgh
          
           ,
           and
           other
           Places
           ,
           and
           the
           malicious
           Rumors
           that
           were
           industriously
           spred
           here
           ,
           before
           they
           went
           away
           ,
           of
           what
           the
           Parliament
           might
           possibly
           be
           induced
           to
           do
           ;
           since
           it
           was
           whispered
           as
           if
           the
           Commissioner
           had
           had
           Instructions
           to
           lay
           an
           Embargo
           on
           the
           Company
           's
           Ships
           ;
           and
           not
           having
           received
           one
           single
           Line
           from
           Scotland
           since
           their
           Departure
           hence
           ,
           they
           were
           easily
           confirmed
           in
           the
           belief
           thereof
           ,
           and
           concluded
           ,
           That
           certainly
           the
           Company
           was
           quite
           defeat
           and
           crush'd
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           had
           not
           the
           liberty
           of
           sending
           so
           much
           as
           any
           Advice
           to
           them
           to
           shift
           for
           themselves
           .
           All
           which
           Suggestions
           were
           so
           successfully
           improved
           by
           the
           Person
           ,
           whom
           I
           have
           heard
           ,
           most
           blamed
           upon
           that
           Occasion
           ,
           that
           he
           found
           ,
           at
           last
           ,
           the
           said
           Proclamations
           gave
           him
           a
           Handle
           to
           say
           or
           propose
           any
           thing
           whatsoever
           ,
           tho
           never
           so
           villainous
           ;
           and
           particularly
           ,
           
             That
             as
             ,
             by
             the
             said
             Proclamations
             ,
             they
             were
             positively
             declared
             to
             have
             broken
             the
             Peace
             ,
             by
             settling
             at
          
           Darien
           ;
           
             so
             of
             consequence
             they
             were
             declared
             Pyrates
             ;
             and
             that
             ,
             as
             they
             could
             not
             think
             of
             staying
             there
             ,
             abandon'd
             by
             all
             the
             World
             ,
             so
             it
             would
             be
             dangerous
             for
             them
             to
             go
             to
             any
             of
             the
          
           British
           
             Dominions
             ,
             for
             fear
             of
             Hanging
             :
          
           And
           therefore
           proposed
           ,
           
             that
             they
             should
             sail
             directly
             to
          
           Hamburgh
           ,
           
             or
             some
             other
             Foreign
             Port
             ,
             and
             dispose
             of
             the
             Ships
             and
             Effects
             ;
             or
             at
             least
             to
             take
             up
             Money
             upon
             them
             ,
             to
             pay
             the
             Seamen
             their
             Wages
             .
          
           Which
           Pretence
           ,
           he
           thought
           ,
           might
           sufficiently
           baite
           many
           (
           at
           least
           the
           Seamen
           )
           to
           close
           with
           his
           Proposal
           :
           But
           the
           Proposal
           was
           so
           self-evidently
           Wicked
           ,
           Unnatural
           ,
           and
           Inconsistent
           with
           the
           Trust
           reposed
           in
           them
           by
           the
           Company
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           exploded
           with
           Reproach
           ,
           by
           all
           those
           who
           had
           any
           Honour
           or
           Honesty
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           fell
           to
           the
           Ground
           ;
           Tho'
           the
           〈◊〉
           away
           was
           what
           few
           or
           none
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           said
           any
           thing
           material
           
           against
           ,
           after
           having
           got
           those
           Accounts
           :
           Nor
           indeed
           can
           I
           see
           what
           could
           well
           be
           retorted
           to
           Captain
           
             P
             —
             k
          
           ,
           when
           he
           urged
           that
           all
           the
           Arguments
           made
           use
           of
           for
           staying
           ,
           were
           grounded
           at
           best
           but
           upon
           Suppositions
           ;
           whereas
           their
           Reasons
           for
           coming
           away
           ,
           were
           grounded
           upon
           real
           Things
           ,
           viz.
           the
           Proclamations
           ,
           want
           of
           Intelligence
           ,
           and
           scarcity
           of
           Provisions
           .
           And
           indeed
           it
           must
           be
           allowed
           ,
           that
           if
           no
           such
           Proclamation
           had
           been
           published
           ,
           he
           durst
           never
           have
           had
           the
           Impudence
           to
           have
           made
           such
           a
           wicked
           Proposal
           ,
           at
           least
           so
           openly
           ,
           as
           is
           above
           narrated
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           recapitulate
           the
           whole
           Matter
           ,
           you
           see
           the
           sum
           of
           what
           those
           in
           the
           Colony
           do
           offer
           in
           justification
           of
           their
           coming
           away
           ,
           is
           their
           being
           in
           such
           desperate
           Circumstances
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           crowd
           of
           confused
           and
           perplexed
           Thoughts
           ,
           they
           believed
           the
           longer
           they
           would
           stay
           there
           ,
           the
           worse
           it
           would
           be
           for
           them
           :
           Because
           several
           Species's
           of
           those
           few
           Provisions
           which
           they
           had
           left
           ,
           were
           rotting
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           upon
           their
           hands
           ;
           most
           of
           their
           Men
           fell
           sick
           and
           weakly
           ,
           with
           but
           slender
           Hopes
           of
           their
           Recovery
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           fresh
           Provisions
           ,
           strong
           Liquors
           ,
           and
           good
           Looking
           after
           ;
           and
           were
           out
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           Hopes
           of
           getting
           any
           Supplies
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Proclamations
           ,
           and
           the
           Story
           above-narrated
           ,
           especially
           having
           had
           no
           Word
           from
           Scotland
           all
           the
           time
           ;
           which
           fully
           determin'd
           them
           in
           that
           Fatal
           Resolution
           of
           coming
           away
           ,
           (
           Bag
           and
           Baggage
           )
           Steering
           their
           Course
           to
           New-York
           ,
           in
           Hopes
           to
           get
           some
           Provisions
           there
           ,
           in
           Barter
           for
           Goods
           ,
           which
           might
           carry
           them
           to
           Scotland
           :
           But
           how
           Inhumanely
           they
           were
           Treated
           by
           the
           Government
           there
           (
           tho'
           the
           Generality
           of
           the
           People
           were
           inclined
           to
           be
           kind
           to
           them
           )
           in
           their
           distress'd
           Condition
           ,
           is
           too
           well
           known
           ;
           as
           is
           also
           the
           Barbarous
           Treatment
           ,
           which
           those
           on
           board
           the
           Saint-Andrew
           met
           with
           ,
           from
           the
           Government
           of
           Jamaica
           ,
           upon
           her
           being
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           forced
           in
           there
           by
           Stress
           of
           Weather
           ,
           and
           to
           shun
           the
           Barlavento-Fleet
           ,
           which
           gave
           her
           Chace
           for
           some
           days
           .
        
         
           By
           all
           which
           ,
           (
           if
           true
           ,
           as
           is
           ,
           indeed
           ,
           generally
           said
           and
           believed
           )
           it
           seems
           to
           me
           naturally
           conclusive
           ,
           that
           ,
           tho'
           I
           'm
           far
           from
           setting
           
           up
           to
           justify
           any
           Escapes
           or
           Omissions
           ,
           that
           the
           Directors
           at
           Home
           may
           be
           truly
           chargeable
           with
           ,
           or
           to
           lessen
           any
           Imprudence
           ,
           Rashness
           or
           Divisions
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           heard
           the
           Council
           of
           the
           Colony
           blamed
           for
           ;
           yet
           the
           Burden
           of
           the
           Song
           still
           rests
           on
           the
           Effects
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ;
           because
           that
           ,
           if
           those
           Proclamations
           had
           not
           been
           published
           ,
           I
           am
           morally
           assured
           ,
           that
           even
           the
           grossest
           Mistakes
           in
           the
           Management
           ,
           either
           at
           Home
           or
           in
           the
           Colony
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           soon
           mended
           of
           Course
           ,
           from
           the
           Experience
           that
           must
           have
           been
           had
           of
           the
           Consequences
           of
           their
           own
           Omissions
           and
           Mistakes
           .
        
         
           And
           whoever
           would
           be
           at
           the
           pains
           ,
           but
           to
           examine
           the
           first
           Conduct
           and
           Management
           of
           the
           most
           Flourishing
           Trading-Companies
           this
           day
           in
           Europe
           ,
           might
           easily
           find
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           ,
           not
           only
           in
           their
           Infancy
           ,
           but
           even
           after
           a
           much
           longer
           standing
           ,
           been
           guilty
           of
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           as
           gross
           Mistakes
           and
           Omissions
           ,
           as
           any
           that
           I
           ever
           ,
           as
           yet
           ,
           heard
           the
           Directors
           of
           our
           Company
           justly
           charged
           with
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           no
           such
           thing
           to
           be
           precedented
           ,
           or
           ,
           indeed
           ,
           reasonably
           expected
           ,
           as
           Infallibility
           in
           any
           Humane
           Conduct
           ;
           especially
           in
           a
           Matter
           ,
           whereof
           the
           good
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           bad
           ,
           Success
           must
           necessarly
           depend
           on
           a
           great
           many
           unforeseen
           Accidents
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           the
           Truth
           is
           ,
           after
           all
           ,
           The
           most
           Plausible
           and
           Material
           Objections
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           heard
           suggested
           against
           the
           Foresight
           and
           Care
           of
           the
           Directors
           at
           Home
           ,
           are
           ,
           1
           st
           ,
           That
           they
           imployed
           Persons
           in
           Fitting
           out
           the
           Ships
           ,
           Goods
           ,
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           for
           their
           first
           Expedition
           ,
           as
           made
           no
           Conscience
           of
           the
           Trust
           reposed
           in
           them
           ;
           for
           that
           the
           Numbers
           ,
           Quantities
           and
           Qualities
           of
           those
           Goods
           and
           Provisions
           ,
           were
           far
           short
           of
           what
           they
           were
           given
           out
           for
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           rotten
           ,
           even
           before
           they
           went
           from
           hence
           .
           And
           ,
           2
           ly
           ,
           That
           they
           should
           Trust
           to
           the
           Uncertainty
           of
           a
           Correspondence
           ,
           by
           the
           Way
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           and
           not
           be
           at
           the
           Charges
           of
           sending
           Letters
           and
           Advices
           frequently
           by
           some
           Packet-Boats
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           directly
           from
           hence
           to
           the
           Colony
           ;
           which
           would
           undoubtedly
           have
           prevented
           their
           coming
           away
           in
           such
           Despair
           of
           being
           relieved
           from
           hence
           ,
           as
           they
           say
           they
           did
           .
        
         
         
           This
           seems
           indeed
           ,
           at
           first
           View
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           heavy
           Charge
           ,
           tho'
           it
           may
           be
           justly
           Answered
           for
           the
           
             Court
             of
             Directors
             ,
             First
          
           ,
           That
           those
           imployed
           by
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           Purposes
           aforesaid
           ,
           were
           not
           only
           of
           their
           own
           Number
           ,
           and
           chosen
           by
           the
           general
           Suffrage
           of
           the
           Adventurers
           in
           the
           Joint-Stock
           ;
           but
           were
           also
           reputed
           Merchants
           of
           considerable
           Substance
           and
           Dealing
           ,
           and
           might
           therefore
           be
           reasonably
           presum'd
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           have
           understood
           that
           Matter
           of
           buying
           and
           providing
           Goods
           ,
           Provisions
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           for
           a
           Sea-Voyage
           ,
           better
           than
           those
           Noblemen
           and
           other
           Gentlemen
           in
           the
           Direction
           ,
           who
           never
           had
           Occasion
           formerly
           to
           be
           concern'd
           in
           a
           Matter
           of
           that
           Nature
           ;
           but
           also
           ,
           that
           they
           themselves
           being
           considerably
           interested
           in
           the
           Joint-Stock
           ,
           and
           intrusted
           with
           the
           particular
           Stock
           ,
           of
           many
           of
           their
           own
           Friends
           ,
           Relations
           and
           Acquaintances
           ,
           and
           indeed
           with
           that
           which
           they
           must
           needs
           have
           known
           ,
           was
           of
           Universal
           Concern
           to
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ;
           That
           they
           would
           act
           at
           least
           as
           tenderly
           and
           conscientiously
           therein
           ,
           as
           any
           other
           Persons
           whatsoever
           ,
           who
           were
           not
           so
           immediatly
           concerned
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           these
           few
           Directors
           ,
           who
           were
           imployed
           for
           buying
           those
           Goods
           and
           Provisions
           ,
           I
           dare
           confidently
           affirm
           ,
           in
           favour
           of
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           not
           only
           understood
           ,
           and
           were
           pretty
           much
           accustomed
           with
           Dispatches
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           (
           tho'
           differing
           perhaps
           in
           the
           Degree
           )
           but
           that
           they
           acted
           also
           with
           as
           much
           Care
           ,
           Diligence
           ,
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           real
           Zeal
           for
           the
           Company
           's
           Interest
           ,
           as
           any
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           could
           have
           done
           ;
           so
           that
           I
           reckon
           ,
           whenever
           that
           Matter
           is
           fully
           inquired
           into
           ,
           and
           all
           Circumstances
           considered
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           found
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           no
           such
           great
           Abuse
           ,
           in
           either
           the
           Quantities
           or
           Qualities
           of
           those
           Goods
           and
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           some
           would
           have
           us
           believe
           there
           was
           :
           Tho'
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           (
           I
           must
           confess
           )
           I
           have
           ,
           from
           the
           beginning
           ,
           heard
           one
           or
           two
           of
           those
           Directors
           extremely
           blamed
           ,
           for
           making
           some
           Bargains
           for
           the
           Company
           ,
           with
           an
           alledged
           visible
           Advantage
           to
           themselves
           :
           And
           tho'
           it
           must
           be
           granted
           ,
           that
           it
           were
           much
           better
           for
           the
           Company
           's
           Interest
           ,
           they
           had
           never
           acted
           with
           any
           such
           Selfish
           View
           ;
           yet
           ,
           granting
           they
           did
           so
           ,
           (
           which
           I
           do
           not
           believe
           )
           it
           is
           very
           possible
           ,
           they
           might
           have
           contrived
           
           Matters
           so
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           some
           Advantage
           by
           those
           Bargains
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           Company
           be
           no
           great
           Losers
           thereby
           .
        
         
           Just
           as
           I
           had
           done
           writing
           of
           the
           foregoing
           Paragraph
           ,
           I
           came
           to
           the
           Knowledge
           of
           a
           Declaration
           made
           by
           Captain
           
             Robert
             Drummond
             ▪
          
           Commander
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           Ship
           ,
           the
           Caledonia
           ,
           now
           lying
           in
           Clyde
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           the
           Premisses
           ;
           And
           because
           of
           the
           extraordinary
           Patness
           thereof
           ,
           I
           procured
           an
           exact
           Copy
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           I
           send
           you
           hereunto
           subjoyned
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 My
                 Lords
                 and
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
              
            
             
               WHereas
               I
               understand
               ,
               that
               some
               People
               take
               the
               Liberty
               to
               say
               and
               give
               out
               ,
               that
               our
               Provisions
               ,
               which
               we
               carried
               along
               with
               us
               from
               Scotland
               ,
               were
               ,
               for
               the
               most
               part
               ,
               rotten
               and
               damnified
               ,
               before
               we
               scarce
               got
               to
               our
               Voyage's
               end
               ,
               and
               that
               some
               of
               them
               were
               quite
               spoiled
               ,
               even
               before
               we
               went
               from
               hence
               :
               I
               think
               my self
               ,
               in
               Duty
               and
               Honour
               ,
               bound
               to
               declare
               ,
               That
               on
               board
               your
               Ship
               the
               Caledonia
               ,
               which
               I
               have
               the
               Honour
               to
               Command
               ,
               all
               the
               Flower
               and
               Oat-Meal
               kept
               good
               till
               the
               Month
               of
               April
               ,
               yea
               some
               part
               thereof
               until
               the
               latter-end
               of
               June
               ,
               as
               did
               also
               the
               Gray
               Pease
               ,
               till
               we
               had
               little
               or
               nothing
               of
               them
               left
               ,
               in
               the
               latter-end
               of
               April
               :
               And
               as
               for
               the
               Bread
               ,
               Beef
               and
               Pork
               ,
               they
               continued
               sound
               and
               good
               ,
               till
               the
               very
               last
               Pound
               Weight
               of
               them
               .
               It
               is
               true
               ,
               the
               Irish
               Beef
               (
               tho'
               very
               sound
               )
               was
               nothing
               near
               so
               good
               as
               the
               Scots
               Beef
               ;
               for
               which
               Cause
               we
               expended
               it
               first
               .
               And
               as
               a
               Proof
               of
               the
               Scots
               Beef's
               being
               extraordinary
               ,
               when
               I
               came
               from
               on
               board
               on
               Friday
               the
               15th
               .
               instant
               ,
               I
               left
               four
               Barrels
               of
               it
               on
               board
               as
               sound
               as
               ever
               it
               was
               ,
               and
               Dined
               on
               a
               piece
               of
               it
               very
               comfortably
               that
               same
               day
               ,
               as
               did
               also
               the
               whole
               Ships
               Crew
               ,
               and
               I
               doubt
               much
               ,
               whether
               it
               may
               not
               be
               all
               eaten
               up
               by
               the
               Seamen
               before
               now
               ,
               tho'
               they
               have
               other
               Provisions
               on
               board
               .
            
             
               I
               have
               sailed
               for
               the
               space
               of
               eight
               Years
               together
               in
               America
               ,
               and
               I
               must
               needs
               say
               ,
               I
               never
               in
               all
               that
               time
               had
               Provisions
               which
               held
               out
               so
               well
               ,
               which
               I
               have
               often
               signified
               to
               several
               Persons
               in
               our
               passage
               .
            
             
             
               All
               this
               is
               true
               ,
               as
               I
               shall
               answer
               to
               my
               Maker
               ,
               and
               (
               if
               required
               )
               shall
               be
               own'd
               by
               the
               whole
               Crew
               .
               Witness
               my
               Hand
               at
               Edinburgh
               the
               day
               of
               
                 December
                 1699.
              
               
               I
               am
               ▪
            
             
               
                 My
                 Lords
                 and
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
              
               To
               the
               Right
               Honourable
               ,
               The
               Court
               of
               Directors
               of
               the
               Company
               of
               Scotland
               ,
               Trading
               to
               Africa
               and
               the
               Indies
               .
               Your
               Lordships
               most
               Humble
               and
               most
               Obedient
               Servant
               ,
               
                 ROBERT
                 DRUMMOND
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Nor
           is
           this
           all
           ;
           for
           the
           said
           Captain
           
             Robert
             Drummond
          
           declared
           further
           to
           my
           own
           hearing
           at
           one
           time
           (
           several
           other
           Gentlemen
           being
           then
           present
           )
           and
           at
           an
           other
           time
           (
           as
           I
           am
           positively
           informed
           )
           before
           Mr.
           Mackenzie
           the
           Company
           's
           Secretary
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           Hamilton
           Clerk
           of
           the
           Canongate
           ,
           at
           the
           Ship
           Tavern
           ▪
           That
           he
           the
           said
           Captain
           
             Robert
             Drummond
          
           caused
           Over-haul
           all
           the
           Goods
           and
           Cargo
           that
           were
           on
           board
           the
           said
           Ship
           under
           his
           Command
           ,
           when
           they
           lay
           in
           
           Caledonia-Harbour
           ,
           and
           that
           ,
           upon
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           there
           was
           not
           one
           Cask
           ,
           Pack
           ,
           Bundle
           ,
           or
           Bale
           ,
           in
           the
           whole
           ,
           when
           he
           compared
           the
           Contents
           with
           the
           Invoyce
           ,
           but
           what
           contained
           full
           as
           much
           as
           was
           charged
           in
           the
           said
           Invoyce
           ;
           excepting
           only
           one
           Bundle
           of
           Twine
           ,
           which
           he
           said
           did
           not
           contain
           much
           above
           half
           of
           what
           it
           was
           charged
           for
           ;
           and
           some
           Hundreds
           of
           Sail-Needles
           too
           ,
           which
           he
           said
           was
           wanting
           out
           of
           a
           Bundle
           that
           was
           charged
           in
           the
           said
           Invoyce
           .
        
         
           He
           declared
           likewise
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           That
           all
           the
           time
           he
           was
           in
           Caledonia
           he
           never
           saw
           one
           Piece
           of
           Beef
           or
           Pork
           ,
           but
           what
           he
           himself
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Sea-faring
           Man
           ,
           might
           make
           a
           hearty
           Dinner
           on
           ;
           but
           that
           possibly
           such
           as
           were
           all
           their
           Days
           accustomed
           to
           nothing
           else
           but
           fresh
           Provisions
           ,
           could
           not
           think
           so
           well
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           after
           so
           positive
           and
           solemn
           Declarations
           made
           by
           the
           Person
           who
           ,
           of
           all
           Men
           living
           ,
           should
           (
           and
           I
           believe
           does
           )
           know
           best
           what
           was
           under
           his
           own
           immediat
           Care
           ,
           I
           must
           beg
           leave
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           it
           cannot
           but
           grate
           upon
           the
           Spirit
           of
           any
           good
           Man
           ,
           to
           find
           with
           what
           an
           intolerable
           Liberty
           
             Malice
             ,
             Envy
          
           and
           Ignorance
           have
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           ,
           
           combined
           together
           to
           derogat
           from
           the
           just
           Merit
           of
           those
           Noble
           and
           Worthy
           Persons
           ,
           who
           are
           concerned
           in
           the
           Management
           of
           the
           Company
           ,
           by
           endeavouring
           to
           asperse
           their
           Conduct
           ,
           as
           if
           (
           forsooth
           )
           they
           had
           acted
           like
           so
           many
           Fools
           or
           Knaves
           ,
           or
           both
           ;
           when
           ,
           indeed
           ,
           by
           what
           is
           already
           said
           ,
           it
           may
           evidently
           appear
           to
           any
           Unprejudiced
           and
           Impartial
           Judge
           :
           That
           (
           considering
           the
           Novelty
           of
           the
           Undertaking
           ,
           the
           many
           unexpected
           Difficulties
           they
           met
           with
           ,
           the
           Odness
           of
           the
           Tools
           they
           were
           oblig'd
           to
           make
           use
           of
           ,
           the
           Slowness
           of
           Payments
           from
           the
           Subscribers
           ,
           and
           the
           Faintness
           of
           any
           Countenance
           they
           had
           from
           Authority
           )
           they
           have
           acquitted
           themselves
           of
           their
           Trust
           ,
           far
           beyond
           what
           could
           be
           reasonably
           expected
           from
           (
           perhaps
           )
           any
           Sett
           of
           Men
           in
           the
           Nation
           :
           And
           I
           dare
           confidently
           averr
           ,
           That
           some
           of
           them
           have
           often
           neglected
           their
           own
           privat
           Affairs
           and
           Interest
           by
           their
           close
           Attendance
           and
           unwearied
           Endeavours
           to
           promote
           that
           of
           the
           Company
           ;
           without
           the
           least
           Prospect
           of
           having
           any
           Immediat
           or
           Particular
           Advantage
           thereby
           ,
           other
           than
           the
           Glory
           of
           being
           the
           Chief
           Instruments
           for
           laying
           the
           Foundation
           of
           ,
           and
           Carrying
           on
           ,
           so
           Great
           and
           Good
           a
           Work
           ,
           for
           the
           General
           advantage
           and
           Credit
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           for
           the
           Particular
           Benefit
           of
           the
           Adventurers
           .
           And
           the
           Matter
           being
           so
           ;
           I
           hope
           ,
           no
           Good
           Man
           will
           think
           it
           Presumptuous
           in
           me
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           ,
           perhaps
           ,
           be
           thought
           some
           kind
           of
           Reflection
           on
           the
           Justice
           of
           a
           Nation
           ,
           that
           the
           unbridled
           Licentiousness
           of
           some
           Peoples
           Tongues
           and
           Pens
           against
           them
           ,
           should
           pass
           so
           long
           unpunished
           ;
           when
           there
           's
           nothing
           more
           certain
           ,
           than
           that
           Impunity
           hardens
           and
           confirms
           Men
           in
           their
           Wickedness
           :
           For
           Proof
           whereof
           ,
           we
           see
           that
           some
           of
           those
           Persons
           who
           first
           begun
           to
           vent
           their
           Malice
           against
           the
           Company
           ,
           only
           by
           Whispers
           and
           slye
           Insinuations
           ,
           stick
           not
           now
           to
           break
           out
           into
           open
           Exclamations
           ;
           Magnifying
           their
           own
           Prophetick
           Spirits
           (
           forsooth
           )
           as
           if
           they
           had
           foreseen
           all
           the
           Misfortunes
           that
           must
           necessarly
           have
           attended
           the
           Affairs
           of
           a
           Company
           ,
           that
           was
           under
           such
           Management
           ;
           making
           even
           the
           very
           Wisest
           ,
           and
           most
           Considerat
           Actions
           of
           the
           Directors
           Conduct
           ,
           the
           Subject
           of
           their
           
           Buffoonry
           and
           Ridicule
           ;
           And
           that
           they
           may
           the
           better
           ,
           not
           only
           impose
           on
           the
           credulous
           and
           ignorant
           Multitude
           ;
           but
           also
           distract
           and
           confound
           the
           Judgement
           of
           even
           Discreet
           and
           Unbyass'd
           Persons
           ,
           they
           make
           it
           their
           daily
           Divertisement
           ,
           first
           to
           hatch
           ,
           and
           then
           give
           Wing
           ,
           to
           an
           indefinit
           Number
           of
           detracting
           and
           slanderous
           Stories
           ,
           that
           have
           as
           little
           of
           Truth
           in
           them
           ,
           as
           the
           Authors
           have
           of
           either
           Probity
           ,
           Honour
           or
           Honesty
           :
           And
           knowing
           that
           these
           spurious
           Brats
           of
           their
           own
           Invention
           ,
           cannot
           possibly
           be
           long
           Lif'd
           ,
           because
           a
           very
           short
           Period
           of
           Time
           must
           ,
           of
           Course
           ,
           necessarly
           demonstrat
           their
           Falsehood
           ,
           they
           providently
           take
           care
           to
           have
           whole
           Troops
           of
           them
           ready
           at
           Command
           ,
           to
           succeed
           one
           to
           another
           ,
           thereby
           to
           amuse
           the
           Brain-sick
           Multitude
           ,
           with
           continued
           false
           Alarms
           ;
           and
           having
           already
           ,
           by
           such
           Means
           ,
           declared
           themselves
           so
           openly
           Enemies
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           the
           Directors
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Undertaking
           in
           General
           ,
           they
           think
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           that
           since
           they
           cannot
           Reasonably
           expect
           to
           regain
           their
           lost
           Credit
           with
           the
           Company
           ,
           they
           had
           best
           (
           according
           to
           the
           common
           Course
           of
           the
           most
           Wicked
           of
           all
           Sinners
           )
           endeavour
           to
           justifie
           always
           one
           Crime
           by
           another
           greater
           than
           it self
           :
           And
           Juvenal
           aludes
           very
           concisely
           to
           such
           sort
           of
           Men
           ,
           in
           his
           6
           th
           Satyr
           .
           
             
               Fortem
               animum
               proestant
               rebus
               quas
               turpiter
               audent
               .
            
          
        
         
           But
           how
           agreeable
           soever
           the
           Poisonous
           Wit
           of
           such
           Envious
           and
           Designing
           Slanderers
           ,
           may
           possibly
           seem
           to
           many
           of
           the
           Heedless
           ,
           Unwary
           ,
           and
           Giddy-headed
           People
           of
           this
           Age
           ,
           yet
           what
           mean
           Opinion
           the
           Generous
           and
           Wise
           Romans
           entertained
           not
           only
           of
           them
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           such
           as
           gave
           them
           any
           Countenance
           ,
           may
           be
           seen
           in
           the
           few
           following
           Lines
           of
           Horace
           .
        
         
           
             —
             Absentem
             qui
             rodit
             Amicum
             ,
          
           
             Qui
             non
             defendit
             alio
             culpante
             solutos
          
           
             Qui
             captat
             risus
             Hominum
             ,
             famamque
             Dicacis
             ,
          
           
             Fingere
             qui
             non
             visa
             potest
             ,
             Commissa
             tacere
          
           
             Qui
             nequit
             ;
             hic
             Niger
             est
             ,
             hunc
             tu
             Romane
             caveto
             .
          
        
         
         
           But
           above
           all
           ,
           The
           grossness
           of
           these
           Mens
           Folly
           does
           manifestly
           appear
           by
           these
           Words
           of
           
             Solomon
             :
             He
             that
             hideth
             Hatred
             with
             Lying
             Lips
             ,
             and
             he
             that
             uttereth
             a
             Slander
             ,
             is
             a
             Fool
             ,
          
           Prov.
           10.
           18.
           
           Andho
           w
           secure
           soever
           these
           Fools
           ,
           Scoffers
           and
           Slanderers
           may
           imagine
           themselves
           to
           be
           at
           present
           ,
           we
           have
           Assurance
           from
           the
           Words
           of
           the
           Wisest
           of
           Men
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           not
           always
           escape
           unpunished
           :
           
             Judgements
             are
             prepared
             for
             Scorners
             ,
             and
             Stripes
             for
             the
             Backs
             of
             Fools
             .
          
           Prov.
           19.
           29.
           
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           second
           Objection
           ,
           concerning
           Advice-Boats
           not
           being
           sent
           directly
           from
           hence
           to
           the
           Colony
           ;
           It
           is
           an
           easy
           Matter
           ,
           after
           an
           Accident
           is
           over
           ,
           to
           propose
           such
           a
           Remedy
           ,
           as
           might
           have
           prevented
           that
           Accident
           :
           But
           who
           could
           have
           dream'd
           of
           such
           Proclamations
           ,
           unless
           we
           had
           been
           at
           open
           and
           declared
           War
           with
           England
           ?
           And
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           Wonder
           !
           who
           could
           ever
           have
           imagined
           ,
           that
           such
           Rigorous
           Proclamations
           ,
           or
           indeed
           any
           at
           all
           ,
           should
           be
           issued
           forth
           against
           us
           ,
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           our
           own
           Sovereign
           ,
           who
           gave
           our
           Company
           first
           a
           Being
           ,
           and
           of
           whose
           Protection
           ,
           we
           had
           all
           possible
           Assurance
           ,
           not
           only
           ,
           in
           common
           ,
           with
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           we
           are
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           but
           in
           a
           very
           special
           manner
           ,
           by
           the
           Concessions
           of
           his
           Royal
           Grant
           ,
           by
           Letters
           Patent
           under
           the
           Great
           Seal
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           three
           several
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           in
           favours
           of
           our
           Company
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           first
           of
           which
           ,
           namely
           the
           32
           d.
           Act
           of
           the
           4
           th
           .
           Session
           of
           this
           current
           Parliament
           :
           
             It
             is
             specially
             provided
             for
             the
             Encouragement
             of
             such
             ,
             as
             should
             become
             Adventurers
             by
             Joint-Stock
             in
             carrying
             on
             of
             Trade
             to
             the
             East
             or
             West-Indies
             ,
             or
             to
             the
             Coast
             of
             Africa
             ,
             That
             if
             ,
             in
             their
             Endeavours
             for
             the
             Advancing
             and
             Promoting
             of
             Trade
             to
             any
             of
             the
             said
             Parts
             ,
             they
             should
             happen
             to
             be
             attack'd
             ,
             violently
             seized
             ,
             or
             otherways
             disturbed
             by
             Persons
             not
             in
             open
             War
             with
             Their
             Majesties
             ;
             That
             then
             ,
             and
             in
             that
             Case
             ,
             Their
             Majesties
             would
             be
             pleased
             to
             order
             ,
             that
             the
             Recovery
             of
             the
             Ships
             and
             Goods
             so
             seized
             ,
             or
             otherways
             molested
             and
             hindred
             ,
             be
             carried
             on
             and
             prosecuted
             by
             publick
             Means
             ,
             and
             at
             publick
             Expense
             .
          
        
         
         
           By
           the
           32
           d.
           Act
           of
           the
           4
           th
           .
           Session
           of
           this
           current
           Parliament
           ,
           
             The
             said
             Company
             is
             not
             only
             Impowered
             to
             Equip
             ,
             Fit
             ,
             Set
             out
             ,
             Freight
             and
             Navigat
             their
             own
             ,
             or
             hired
             Ships
             ,
             in
             Warlike
             or
             other
             manner
             ,
             as
             they
             shall
             think
             fit
             ,
             to
             any
             Lands
             ,
             Islands
             ,
             Countreys
             or
             Places
             in
             
               Asia
               ,
               Africa
            
             or
             America
             :
             and
             there
             to
             plant
             Colonies
             ,
             build
             Cities
             ,
             Towns
             ,
             or
             Forts
             in
             ,
             or
             upon
             ,
             any
             Place
             or
             Places
             not
             Inhabited
             ,
             or
             in
             ,
             or
             upon
             ,
             any
             other
             Place
             ,
             by
             Consent
             of
             the
             Natives
             and
             Inhabitants
             thereof
             ,
             the
             same
             not
             being
             posses'd
             by
             any
             European
             Sovereign
             ,
             Potentat
             ,
             Prince
             or
             State
             ;
             and
             by
             Force
             of
             Arms
             to
             defend
             their
             Trade
             and
             Navigation
             :
             As
             also
             to
             make
             Reprisals
             ,
             and
             to
             seek
             and
             take
             Reparation
             of
             Dammages
             done
             by
             Sea
             or
             by
             Land
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             and
             conclude
             Treaties
             of
             Peace
             and
             Commerce
             ,
             with
             the
             Sovereigns
             ,
             Princes
             ,
             States
             ,
             Rulers
             ,
             Governours
             or
             Proprietors
             of
             the
             aforesaid
             Lands
             ,
             Islands
             ,
             Countreys
             or
             Places
             ,
             in
             
               Asia
               ,
               Africa
            
             or
             America
             ;
          
           But
           also
           ,
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           amongst
           several
           other
           considerable
           Concessions
           ,
           is
           graciously
           pleased
           to
           promise
           ,
           
             that
             if
             contrary
             to
             the
             Rights
             ,
             Liberties
             ,
             Priviledges
             ,
             Exemptions
             or
             Agreements
             mentioned
             in
             the
             said
             Act
             ,
             or
             contrary
             to
             the
             general
             Treaties
             of
             Peace
             and
             Commerce
             between
             His
             Majesty
             and
             any
             Potentat
             ,
             Prince
             or
             State
             ,
             in
             Amity
             with
             His
             Majesty
             ,
             the
             Ships
             ,
             Goods
             ,
             Merchandise
             ,
             Persons
             or
             other
             Effects
             whatsoever
             belonging
             to
             the
             said
             Company
             ,
             should
             happen
             to
             be
             stopt
             ,
             detain'd
             ,
             embezel'd
             or
             away
             taken
             ,
             or
             in
             any
             sort
             prejudg'd
             or
             damnified
             ,
             that
             His
             Majesty
             would
             interpose
             his
             Royal
             Authority
             to
             have
             Restitution
             ,
             Reparation
             ,
             and
             Satisfaction
             made
             ,
             for
             the
             Dammage
             done
             ,
             and
             that
             upon
             the
             publick
             Charge
             .
          
        
         
           And
           by
           the
           3
           d.
           Act
           in
           favours
           of
           the
           Company
           ,
           namely
           the
           42
           d.
           Act
           of
           the
           5
           th
           .
           Session
           of
           this
           current
           Parliament
           ,
           
             It
             is
             specially
             statute
             and
             declared
             ,
             that
             ,
             for
             the
             Encouragement
             of
             
               the
               Company
               of
            
             Scotland
             
               Trading
               to
            
             Africa
             
               and
               the
            
             Indies
             ,
             it
             should
             be
             lawful
             to
             the
             Magistrats
             and
             others
             ,
             the
             Administrators
             of
             the
             common
             
             Good
             of
             Burrows
             ;
             as
             also
             ,
             to
             the
             Deacon
             ,
             Masters
             ,
             and
             other
             Administrators
             whatsoever
             of
             any
             Incorporation
             ,
             or
             Body
             ,
             or
             Company
             incorporat
             or
             Collegiat
             within
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             to
             adventure
             ,
             and
             put
             in
             ,
             Money
             belonging
             to
             their
             respective
             Administrations
             ,
             in
             the
             Stock
             of
             the
             said
             Company
             :
          
           Which
           they
           could
           not
           warrantably
           do
           without
           some
           such
           Act.
           
        
         
           And
           seing
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           the
           Royal-Burrows
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           considerable
           other
           Incorporations
           and
           Bodies
           Collegiat
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           many
           Noblemen
           ,
           Gentlemen
           ,
           and
           particular
           Burgesses
           did
           ,
           upon
           the
           Faith
           of
           those
           Acts
           ,
           become
           Adventurers
           in
           the
           Joint-Stock
           of
           this
           Company
           ,
           it
           were
           almost
           an
           absurd
           thing
           in
           the
           Directors
           ,
           (
           especially
           when
           perhaps
           all
           the
           Money
           they
           were
           then
           Masters
           of
           ,
           was
           not
           sufficient
           to
           answer
           the
           Company
           's
           pressing
           Occasions
           )
           to
           have
           been
           at
           the
           trouble
           &
           expense
           of
           setting
           up
           Packet-Boats
           ,
           as
           a
           Remedy
           against
           the
           Effects
           of
           Proclamations
           ,
           which
           ,
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           undutiful
           in
           them
           to
           have
           dreaded
           .
        
         
           But
           yet
           ,
           to
           let
           you
           see
           the
           Effects
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ,
           even
           in
           point
           of
           bare
           Correspondence
           ;
           I
           do
           assure
           you
           ,
           that
           several
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           Packets
           directed
           to
           the
           Council
           of
           their
           Colony
           ,
           under
           cover
           to
           particular
           Friends
           in
           the
           English
           Plantations
           of
           America
           ,
           are
           to
           this
           Hour
           lying
           in
           the
           Hands
           of
           those
           Friends
           ;
           who
           wrote
           back
           hither
           ,
           
             That
             by
             Reason
             of
             the
             Strictness
             and
             Severity
             of
             those
             Proclamations
             ,
             they
             durst
             not
             venture
             to
             foreward
             the
             said
             Packets
             to
             the
             Colony
             ;
             because
             ,
             if
             they
             should
             happen
             to
             be
             discovered
             in
             holding
             any
             such
             Correspondence
             (
             as
             Ten
             to
             One
             but
             they
             would
             )
             the
             least
             that
             they
             could
             expect
             ,
             was
             Confinement
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             afterwards
             sined
             at
             the
             next
             Grand
             Session
             ,
             by
             the
             Discretion
             of
             a
             Jury
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Discretion
             of
             that
             Jury
             would
             be
             directed
             by
             the
             degree
             of
             Love
             they
             bear
             our
             Country
             ,
             and
             the
             Wishes
             they
             have
             to
             the
             Prosperity
             of
             an
             Undertaking
             of
             this
             Nature
             .
          
           By
           which
           it
           is
           plain
           ,
           That
           the
           Proclamations
           have
           put
           a
           stop
           to
           the
           Colony's
           getting
           Intelligence
           from
           hence
           ,
           and
           that
           if
           no
           such
           Proclamations
           had
           been
           issued
           forth
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           no
           such
           indispensible
           
           Necessity
           for
           Packet-Boats
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           sent
           directly
           from
           hence
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           at
           least
           before
           the
           Directors
           had
           an
           account
           of
           their
           Settlement
           ,
           as
           some
           mighty
           Pretenders
           will
           tell
           us
           now
           there
           was
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           nevertheless
           ,
           it
           's
           evident
           by
           what
           has
           been
           already
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           Directors
           did
           positively
           intend
           to
           have
           dispatched
           a
           Vessel
           with
           Advice
           and
           Provisions
           to
           the
           Colony
           very
           soon
           after
           their
           Departure
           from
           Leith
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           end
           ,
           used
           all
           other
           endeavours
           by
           Petition
           ,
           and
           otherwise
           ,
           to
           have
           procured
           one
           or
           two
           of
           the
           small
           Friggots
           ,
           which
           are
           still
           lying
           useless
           in
           Bruntisland-Harbour
           ,
           as
           being
           the
           fittest
           they
           could
           think
           of
           ,
           for
           that
           Purpose
           ;
           and
           in
           regard
           that
           the
           Parliament
           was
           pleas'd
           to
           order
           the
           building
           of
           those
           Friggots
           for
           the
           Security
           and
           Advantage
           of
           the
           Trade
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Conclusion
           of
           the
           General
           Peace
           ,
           took
           away
           all
           manner
           of
           Occasion
           for
           them
           in
           the
           narrow
           Seas
           ,
           it
           was
           thought
           they
           could
           not
           be
           otherwise
           so
           well
           imploy'd
           ,
           as
           in
           carrying
           on
           and
           supporting
           the
           Designs
           and
           Interest
           of
           this
           Company
           ,
           especially
           since
           the
           Estates
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           by
           their
           Address
           ,
           formerly
           recited
           ,
           were
           pleased
           to
           express
           a
           singular
           Concern
           for
           it's
           Prosperity
           and
           Welfare
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Directors
           said
           Petition
           had
           been
           seconded
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           was
           expected
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           had
           got
           the
           Use
           of
           all
           or
           any
           of
           the
           said
           Friggots
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           ,
           in
           all
           probability
           ,
           no
           such
           occasion
           of
           Clamour
           against
           them
           ,
           as
           now
           there
           is
           ,
           for
           not
           having
           sent
           any
           Ships
           directly
           from
           hence
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           soon
           enough
           ,
           with
           Provisions
           and
           Intelligence
           .
        
         
           But
           nevertheless
           ,
           't
           is
           likewise
           evident
           ,
           by
           what
           has
           been
           already
           narrated
           ,
           that
           upon
           the
           Directors
           losing
           Hopes
           of
           procuring
           any
           of
           the
           said
           Friggots
           ,
           they
           came
           to
           a
           positive
           Resolution
           of
           dispatching
           a
           small
           Vessel
           ,
           directly
           from
           hence
           to
           the
           Colony
           ,
           with
           Advice
           and
           Provisions
           ,
           in
           the
           Month
           of
           January
           at
           furthest
           ;
           tho'
           ,
           as
           cross
           Fate
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           she
           happen'd
           to
           be
           such
           a
           Ship
           ,
           as
           could
           not
           well
           be
           fitted
           out
           for
           such
           a
           Voyage
           ,
           in
           some
           Months
           time
           thereafter
           :
           Upon
           discovery
           whereof
           ,
           they
           fitted
           another
           small
           Vessel
           ,
           which
           sail'd
           from
           Clyde
           in
           the
           Month
           of
           February
           ,
           but
           was
           unluckily
           Shipwrack'd
           
           by
           a
           violent
           Storm
           on
           the
           West-Coast
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           formerly
           narrated
           .
        
         
           Yet
           still
           there
           are
           some
           ,
           who
           (
           right
           or
           wrong
           )
           will
           have
           the
           Management
           bear
           the
           sole
           Blame
           of
           all
           the
           Mis-fortunes
           that
           have
           happen'd
           to
           the
           Company
           and
           Colony
           ,
           and
           stick
           not
           to
           say
           too
           ,
           that
           the
           Colony's
           coming
           away
           ,
           in
           the
           manner
           they
           did
           ,
           was
           not
           occasion'd
           so
           much
           by
           the
           Effects
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           Treachery
           and
           Villainy
           of
           some
           of
           their
           own
           Number
           .
        
         
           Well
           ,
           let
           us
           for
           once
           suppose
           there
           was
           Treachery
           in
           the
           Case
           ;
           does
           that
           lessen
           the
           Effects
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ?
           No
           certainly
           ,
           but
           rather
           aggravates
           :
           For
           if
           there
           was
           any
           Treachery
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           these
           Proclamations
           gave
           the
           Traitors
           a
           better
           Handle
           to
           work
           by
           ,
           than
           any
           other
           Pretence
           they
           could
           have
           made
           use
           of
           .
        
         
           I
           would
           gladly
           know
           further
           ,
           whether
           we
           can
           suppose
           there
           could
           be
           Treachery
           ,
           without
           supposing
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           that
           some
           Person
           or
           other
           must
           have
           brib'd
           the
           Traitor
           ?
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           it
           seems
           natural
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           none
           would
           be
           so
           ready
           to
           do
           that
           ,
           as
           some
           of
           those
           who
           were
           concerned
           in
           issuing
           forth
           those
           Proclamations
           :
           So
           that
           still
           we
           are
           cloven
           to
           pieces
           with
           a
           Wedge
           of
           the
           same
           Timber
           .
        
         
           Nay
           further
           ,
           what
           if
           (
           notwithstanding
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           )
           the
           Colony
           had
           never
           budged
           ,
           but
           remained
           still
           in
           their
           Settlement
           ,
           in
           a
           flourishing
           Condition
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           had
           been
           in
           such
           Circumstances
           ,
           that
           the
           Proclamations
           could
           have
           done
           them
           no
           Harm
           ?
           Shall
           any
           Man
           therefore
           mantain
           ,
           that
           the
           issuing
           forth
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           was
           a
           good
           and
           harmless
           Thing
           ?
           Sure
           no
           Man
           has
           Face
           enough
           to
           say
           so
           :
           For
           ,
           their
           having
           ,
           or
           not
           having
           ,
           the
           design'd
           Effect
           ,
           could
           not
           at
           all
           alter
           the
           Nature
           or
           Intention
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           really
           ,
           for
           my
           part
           ,
           I
           cannot
           conceive
           how
           it
           could
           be
           possible
           ,
           for
           a
           Colony
           ,
           consisting
           of
           the
           King
           of
           
           Britain's
           Subjects
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           in
           any
           such
           good
           circumstances
           ,
           but
           that
           those
           Proclamations
           must
           necessarly
           have
           done
           them
           a
           vast
           prejudice
           ,
           if
           not
           ruin'd
           them
           :
           For
           ,
           suppose
           that
           in
           the
           Month
           of
           May
           last
           ,
           when
           they
           got
           the
           first
           Copy
           of
           the
           
           Jamaica-Proclamation
           ,
           they
           had
           been
           all
           in
           perfect
           
           Health
           and
           Vigour
           ,
           and
           had
           had
           plenty
           of
           fresh
           Provisions
           ,
           strong
           Liquors
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Necessaries
           whatsoever
           ,
           lying
           by
           them
           in
           store
           ;
           What
           then
           ?
           Must
           they
           not
           have
           seen
           at
           first
           view
           ,
           and
           considered
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           said
           Proclamation
           
             they
             were
             declared
             to
             have
             actually
             broken
             the
             Peace
             entred
             into
             with
             his
             Majesty's
             Allies
             ,
             by
             settling
             at
          
           Darien
           ;
           and
           that
           therefore
           they
           must
           expect
           to
           have
           been
           treated
           as
           Pyrates
           ?
           Must
           they
           not
           have
           considered
           ,
           that
           tho'
           the
           said
           Proclamation
           was
           emitted
           against
           them
           in
           the
           King
           of
           
           England's
           Name
           only
           ,
           that
           yet
           the
           same
           person
           was
           King
           of
           Scotland
           also
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Matter
           being
           so
           ,
           they
           could
           have
           but
           small
           Hopes
           of
           being
           vigorously
           protected
           by
           the
           King
           of
           Scotland
           against
           the
           King
           of
           
           England's
           Proclamations
           ?
           Must
           they
           not
           have
           considered
           ,
           that
           their
           then
           declared
           Enemies
           ,
           the
           Spaniards
           ,
           would
           undoubtedly
           be
           thereby
           encouraged
           to
           pursue
           their
           Ends
           against
           them
           with
           greater
           Assurance
           and
           much
           more
           Vigor
           ,
           than
           perhaps
           otherways
           they
           durst
           have
           done
           ?
           Must
           they
           not
           have
           considered
           ,
           that
           upon
           every
           the
           least
           Discontent
           or
           capricious
           Humor
           of
           any
           of
           their
           own
           People
           ,
           this
           Proclamation
           would
           be
           made
           use
           of
           as
           a
           Handle
           to
           be
           very
           troublesome
           and
           uneasy
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Colony
           ?
           (
           as
           indeed
           it
           has
           been
           to
           their
           sad
           Experience
           )
           Must
           they
           not
           think
           ,
           that
           since
           the
           said
           Proclamation
           was
           published
           in
           his
           Majesty's
           Name
           ,
           that
           undoubtedly
           it
           must
           needs
           have
           been
           legally
           founded
           upon
           some
           positive
           Law
           ,
           tho'
           they
           knew
           nothing
           of
           it
           ?
           And
           must
           not
           the
           Consideration
           of
           all
           these
           together
           ,
           have
           distracted
           and
           confounded
           the
           Thoughts
           ,
           Resolutions
           ,
           and
           Measures
           of
           any
           Sett
           of
           Men
           that
           could
           have
           been
           in
           the
           Colony
           ?
           unless
           they
           had
           unanimously
           resolved
           to
           have
           turn'd
           Pyrates
           indeed
           ;
           and
           to
           have
           cast
           off
           all
           manner
           of
           Loyalty
           and
           Obedience
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ;
           And
           in
           that
           same
           case
           ,
           they
           must
           have
           resolved
           to
           have
           been
           dis-own'd
           by
           Scotland
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           England
           :
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           pray
           from
           whom
           then
           must
           they
           have
           expected
           Protection
           ?
        
         
           And
           here
           I
           cannot
           suffer
           my self
           to
           pass
           by
           ,
           without
           taking
           notice
           of
           some
           Persons
           ,
           who
           would
           pretend
           to
           palliat
           or
           skin
           over
           
           any
           thing
           that
           may
           relate
           to
           those
           Proclamations
           ,
           upon
           a
           Suggestion
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           (
           forsooth
           )
           necessarly
           emitted
           in
           compliance
           with
           ,
           and
           in
           prosecution
           of
           ,
           an
           alledged
           English
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           that
           therefore
           any
           particular
           Person
           or
           Persons
           ,
           cannot
           well
           be
           quarrelled
           for
           the
           same
           :
           Which
           being
           a
           Suggestion
           that
           cannot
           well
           be
           obviated
           ,
           without
           having
           recourse
           to
           the
           English
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           but
           few
           People
           here
           having
           occasion
           to
           be
           acquainted
           with
           them
           ,
           I
           reckon
           it
           may
           not
           be
           thought
           much
           amiss
           to
           touch
           such
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           can
           any
           ways
           relate
           to
           the
           Matter
           in
           hand
           ,
           and
           shall
           therefore
           do
           it
           as
           succinctly
           as
           I
           can
           .
        
         
           
             Every
             Body
             knows
             ,
             that
             by
             the
          
           English
           
             Act
             of
             Navigation
             ,
             12.
          
           
           Car.
           2.
           
           Cap.
           18.
           
           It
           is
           Enacted
           ,
           that
           no
           Goods
           shall
           be
           imported
           into
           ,
           or
           exported
           out
           of
           ,
           any
           of
           the
           English
           Plantations
           in
           America
           ,
           in
           other
           Vessels
           than
           such
           as
           belong
           only
           to
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           or
           Ireland
           ,
           or
           Wales
           ,
           or
           Town
           of
           Berwick
           ,
           or
           any
           of
           the
           said
           Plantations
           ;
           and
           whereof
           the
           Master
           and
           three
           Fourths
           of
           the
           Mariners
           shall
           be
           English
           ,
           under
           the
           Pains
           and
           Penalties
           mention'd
           in
           the
           said
           Act.
           
             Since
             which
             time
             ,
             neither
             we
             ,
             nor
             the
             People
             of
             any
             other
             Nation
             ,
             can
             pretend
             to
             any
             Right
             ,
             or
             Freedom
             of
             Trade
             and
             Commerce
             ,
             with
             the
             said
             Plantations
             ,
             except
             in
             Ships
             qualified
             as
             above
             :
             So
             that
             the
             having
             of
             any
             such
             Freedom
             ,
             is
             what
             the
             Company
             never
             contended
             for
             .
          
        
         
           By
           the
           very
           same
           Act
           ,
           
             It
             is
             likewise
             specially
             Enacted
             ,
             that
             no
             Sugars
             ,
             Tobacco
             ,
             Cotton-Wool
             ,
             Indicoes
             ,
             Ginger
             ,
             Fustick
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             Dying
             Wood
             ,
             of
             the
             Growth
             of
             any
          
           English
           
             Plantations
             in
          
           America
           ,
           
             shall
             be
             transported
             to
             any
             Place
             ,
             other
             than
             to
             some
          
           English
           
             Plantation
             ,
             or
             to
          
           England
           ,
           Ireland
           ,
           Wales
           ,
           
             or
             Town
             of
          
           Berwick
           ,
           
             on
             pain
             to
             forfeit
             both
             Ship
             and
             Cargo
             .
          
           And
           this
           being
           a
           particular
           Enumeration
           of
           the
           several
           Commodities
           ,
           which
           are
           prohibited
           by
           the
           said
           Act
           to
           be
           transported
           into
           any
           Place
           or
           Plantation
           belonging
           to
           Forreigners
           ;
           it
           follows
           of
           Consequence
           ,
           That
           all
           manner
           of
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           other
           Necessaries
           whatsoever
           ,
           which
           were
           not
           prohibited
           by
           the
           said
           Act
           ,
           might
           be
           transported
           from
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           in
           Ships
           qualified
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           whethersoever
           the
           Master
           should
           think
           fitt
           .
        
         
         
           And
           that
           it
           has
           been
           ,
           all
           along
           ,
           the
           constant
           Practice
           of
           such
           Masters
           ,
           as
           Sail
           commonly
           from
           
             New-England
             ,
             New-York
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Northernmost
           Plantations
           of
           America
           ,
           to
           do
           so
           ,
           is
           what
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           none
           that
           knows
           any
           thing
           of
           that
           Trade
           will
           deny
           :
           And
           tho'
           ,
           upon
           Complaints
           made
           ,
           in
           the
           Year
           1695
           ,
           to
           the
           Parliament
           of
           England
           ,
           of
           some
           Frauds
           and
           Abuses
           committed
           in
           the
           Plantation-Trade
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           Act
           above-recited
           ,
           they
           thought
           fit
           to
           superinduce
           some
           new
           Act
           ,
           with
           very
           strict
           Clauses
           ,
           to
           inforce
           ,
           and
           put
           in
           Practice
           ,
           the
           true
           Intent
           and
           Meaning
           of
           the
           said
           first
           Act
           ;
           yet
           I
           dare
           adventure
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           no
           Man
           can
           let
           me
           see
           an
           Act
           of
           the
           Parliament
           of
           England
           ,
           laying
           any
           such
           Restraint
           on
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           the
           English
           Plantations
           in
           America
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           cannot
           carry
           or
           sell
           Provisions
           to
           any
           Forreign
           Place
           or
           Plantation
           whatsoever
           :
           Which
           makes
           the
           Hardships
           of
           these
           Proclamations
           still
           the
           greater
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           we
           ,
           who
           are
           His
           Majesty's
           own
           Subjects
           ,
           should
           be
           denyed
           the
           common
           Benefit
           of
           having
           our
           Colony
           supplied
           with
           Provisions
           ,
           from
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           by
           English
           Vessels
           ,
           in
           the
           ordinary
           way
           of
           Commerce
           ;
           while
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           it
           is
           most
           certain
           ,
           that
           neither
           the
           Dutch
           at
           Curacao
           ,
           the
           Danes
           at
           
             St.
             Thomas
          
           ,
           the
           French
           at
           
             St.
             Christophers
             ,
             Martinico
             ,
             Petitguavis
             ,
          
           or
           Hispaniola
           ,
           nor
           the
           Portuguise
           at
           the
           Maderas
           ,
           or
           Tessera-Islands
           ,
           were
           ,
           ever
           to
           this
           Hour
           ,
           denyed
           the
           Benefit
           thereof
           ,
           except
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           declared
           War
           :
           And
           even
           then
           too
           ,
           the
           selling
           them
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           some
           other
           Merchandise
           likewise
           ,
           is
           often
           wink
           't
           at
           ;
           as
           is
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           the
           carrying
           of
           Provisions
           ,
           Negro's
           and
           other
           Commodities
           ,
           from
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           to
           several
           parts
           of
           the
           Spanish
           Dominions
           in
           the
           West-Indies
           :
           So
           that
           ,
           to
           our
           Comfort
           ,
           we
           are
           the
           only
           Nation
           under
           Heaven
           ,
           (
           that
           I
           could
           ever
           yet
           hear
           of
           )
           against
           whom
           any
           such
           Proclamations
           have
           been
           published
           by
           the
           English
           ,
           in
           their
           American
           Plantations
           .
        
         
           Nor
           was
           it
           thought
           enough
           ,
           that
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           Orders
           sent
           from
           England
           ,
           dated
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           informed
           ,
           the
           second
           Day
           of
           January
           1698
           /
           9
           ,
           the
           said
           Proclamations
           ,
           against
           our
           Colony
           ,
           were
           published
           
           in
           Barbados
           and
           Jamaica
           in
           the
           Month
           of
           April
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           the
           other
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           in
           some
           short
           time
           thereafter
           ;
           But
           that
           ,
           upon
           second
           Orders
           ,
           a
           second
           Fleece
           of
           Proclamations
           should
           be
           likewise
           published
           by
           the
           same
           Persons
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           same
           Places
           ,
           to
           let
           the
           World
           see
           that
           the
           first
           were
           not
           grounded
           upon
           Mistake
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           were
           resolved
           to
           make
           their
           Putt
           good
           :
           For
           upon
           the
           5th
           day
           of
           September
           last
           ,
           a
           second
           Proclamation
           ,
           pretty
           near
           in
           Substance
           with
           the
           former
           ,
           was
           published
           in
           Barbados
           ;
           and
           some
           of
           those
           lately
           come
           from
           New-York
           ,
           in
           the
           Company
           's
           Ship
           the
           Caledonia
           ,
           do
           Report
           ,
           That
           three
           or
           four
           Days
           before
           they
           set
           sail
           from
           thence
           ,
           there
           were
           fresh
           Orders
           arriv'd
           at
           New-England
           ,
           for
           emitting
           and
           publishing
           second
           Proclamations
           in
           those
           parts
           ,
           against
           our
           Colony
           ;
           which
           gives
           us
           sufficient
           ground
           to
           believe
           that
           like
           Orders
           were
           sent
           to
           all
           the
           other
           Plantations
           .
        
         
           Yet
           such
           as
           have
           a
           Mind
           to
           be
           Talking
           ,
           will
           always
           find
           something
           to
           Amuse
           the
           Multitude
           withal
           ,
           be
           it
           never
           so
           little
           to
           the
           purpose
           :
           And
           thus
           we
           find
           some
           People
           still
           urging
           ,
           that
           notwithstanding
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ,
           some
           Inhabitants
           in
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           who
           are
           Zealous
           Well-Wishers
           to
           this
           Undertaking
           ,
           have
           ,
           since
           the
           Publication
           of
           those
           Proclamations
           ,
           sent
           some
           Sloops
           and
           Brigantines
           to
           the
           Colony
           ;
           and
           that
           therefore
           the
           Proclamations
           were
           not
           the
           Occasion
           of
           the
           Colony's
           coming
           away
           from
           Darien
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           same
           proceeded
           from
           other
           Causes
           ;
           and
           that
           if
           the
           Colony
           had
           staid
           still
           ,
           and
           maintain'd
           their
           Settlement
           ,
           more
           Sloops
           and
           Brigantines
           would
           ,
           beyond
           all
           peradventure
           ,
           be
           sent
           to
           them
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ,
           till
           the
           Company
           's
           own
           Ships
           should
           arrive
           there
           .
        
         
           Well!
           All
           this
           is
           very
           plausible
           ;
           and
           I
           think
           our
           Nation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Company
           ,
           is
           very
           much
           beholden
           to
           the
           Generous
           and
           Kind
           Inclinations
           of
           those
           Gentlemen
           ,
           who
           ventured
           any
           part
           of
           their
           own
           Interest
           so
           frankly
           ,
           to
           support
           that
           of
           the
           Company
           or
           Colony
           :
           But
           ,
           as
           it
           happen'd
           ,
           Pray
           what
           was
           the
           Colony
           the
           better
           for
           it
           ?
           Did
           any
           of
           those
           Sloops
           or
           Brigantins
           arrive
           at
           Darien
           ,
           before
           the
           
           Colony's
           Departure
           thence
           ?
           Or
           had
           the
           Colony
           so
           much
           as
           the
           least
           Advice
           ,
           that
           any
           such
           Vessels
           were
           a-coming
           to
           them
           ?
           No
           certainly
           ,
           I
           suppose
           no
           Man
           can
           or
           will
           say
           so
           ;
           And
           without
           that
           ,
           they
           say
           nothing
           at
           all
           :
           For
           ,
           how
           mean
           soever
           my
           Opin
           on
           may
           perhaps
           be
           of
           the
           Colony's
           Conduct
           and
           Resolution
           ,
           not
           only
           upon
           that
           unlucky
           Occasion
           ,
           but
           in
           other
           Respects
           too
           :
           Yet
           I
           have
           so
           much
           Charity
           ,
           as
           to
           believe
           sincerely
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           had
           expected
           any
           such
           Vessels
           to
           have
           come
           to
           them
           with
           Provisions
           ,
           in
           any
           reasonable
           time
           ,
           or
           if
           they
           had
           known
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           any
           such
           real
           Friends
           and
           Well-Wishers
           in
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           as
           it
           seems
           they
           had
           ,
           or
           that
           Supplies
           and
           Recruits
           were
           so
           near
           them
           coming
           from
           Scotland
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           not
           have
           come
           away
           from
           Darien
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           before
           they
           had
           had
           some
           certain
           and
           positive
           Orders
           from
           the
           Company
           ,
           how
           to
           behave
           with
           relation
           to
           those
           Proclamations
           :
           But
           so
           it
           is
           ,
           to
           their
           own
           and
           the
           Company
           's
           Sorrow
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Nations
           Disgrace
           ,
           whatever
           may
           be
           the
           Occasion
           of
           it
           ,
           away
           ,
           you
           see
           ,
           they
           are
           come
           ,
           as
           ill
           Luck
           would
           have
           it
           :
           
             
               Quae
               volunt
               Fata
               ,
               non
               tollunt
               Vota
               .
            
          
        
         
           Upon
           the
           Directors
           having
           received
           certain
           Intelligence
           of
           this
           Tragical
           and
           Unexpected
           Emergency
           ,
           they
           laid
           the
           whole
           Matter
           in
           Writing
           before
           the
           Council-General
           of
           the
           Company
           ;
           who
           thereupon
           thought
           fit
           ,
           in
           most
           Dutiful
           and
           Humble
           Manner
           ,
           to
           represent
           the
           same
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           by
           their
           Petition
           of
           the
           29
           th
           .
           of
           October
           last
           ,
           wherein
           they
           seem
           to
           intimat
           ,
           that
           without
           some
           special
           Testimonies
           and
           Evidence
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Gracious
           Favour
           ,
           and
           Royal
           Protection
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Assistance
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           well
           expect
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           best
           of
           their
           Endeavours
           ,
           for
           carrying
           on
           and
           supporting
           an
           Undertaking
           of
           this
           Nature
           ,
           must
           prove
           altogether
           vain
           :
           And
           therefore
           ,
           their
           Petition
           consisted
           briefly
           of
           two
           Articles
           ,
           1st
           .
           
             That
             His
             Majesty
             would
             be
             graciously
             pleased
             to
             take
             off
             the
             Force
             and
             Effects
             of
             these
             Proclamations
             ;
             And
             ,
          
           2dly
           ,
           
             That
             His
             Majesty
             would
             allow
             the
             Parliament
             to
             meet
             in
          
           November
           last
           ,
           it
           being
           adjourn'd
           till
           that
           time
           .
        
         
         
           They
           at
           the
           same
           time
           Address'd
           His
           Majesty's
           most
           Honourable
           Privy
           Council
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           the
           Contents
           of
           their
           said
           Petition
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ;
           But
           what
           the
           Privy
           Council
           did
           therein
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           :
           And
           as
           for
           His
           Majesty's
           Answer
           to
           the
           said
           Petition
           ,
           you
           have
           already
           seen
           it
           ,
           so
           I
           shall
           not
           presume
           to
           make
           any
           Comments
           upon
           it
           .
        
         
           However
           the
           Council-General
           of
           the
           Company
           having
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           about
           the
           beginning
           of
           this
           Month
           ,
           resolved
           to
           Address
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           in
           a
           most
           Dutiful
           Manner
           ,
           upon
           an
           other
           Head
           ;
           And
           considering
           ,
           that
           none
           of
           their
           former
           Addresses
           or
           Petitions
           had
           such
           Success
           ,
           as
           they
           could
           have
           wish'd
           for
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           were
           all
           transmitted
           ,
           in
           the
           ordinary
           way
           ,
           to
           the
           Secretary
           of
           State
           ,
           in
           waiting
           for
           the
           time
           ;
           they
           resolved
           to
           send
           this
           Address
           by
           one
           of
           their
           own
           Number
           ,
           who
           should
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           have
           particular
           Instructions
           with
           relation
           to
           the
           Contents
           of
           their
           former
           Petitions
           ,
           and
           should
           carry
           along
           with
           him
           Letters
           to
           the
           Secretaries
           of
           State
           ,
           intimating
           his
           Business
           and
           entreating
           their
           Concurrence
           .
        
         
           Whether
           this
           Method
           may
           produce
           better
           Effects
           than
           their
           former
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           ;
           but
           some
           People
           are
           pleased
           to
           prognosticat
           ,
           that
           if
           in
           this
           as
           well
           as
           in
           former
           Ages
           ,
           there
           should
           happen
           to
           be
           any
           such
           Favourites
           or
           Courtiers
           near
           his
           Majesties
           Person
           ,
           as
           may
           perhaps
           endeavour
           to
           make
           a
           Monopoly
           of
           the
           King's
           Ear
           ,
           that
           it
           will
           never
           be
           pleasing
           to
           such
           to
           see
           any
           Corn
           pass
           by
           their
           own
           Mills
           ;
           and
           that
           therefore
           they
           may
           readily
           endeavour
           to
           give
           it
           a
           State-Turn
           :
           But
           until
           I
           see
           it
           ,
           I
           shall
           never
           suffer
           my self
           to
           believe
           any
           such
           thing
           ;
           for
           as
           the
           King
           is
           a
           Gracious
           Prince
           ,
           so
           his
           Ears
           will
           be
           equally
           open
           to
           all
           his
           People
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           informed
           ,
           That
           the
           
             West
             India
          
           Merchants
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           their
           Agents
           at
           London
           ,
           are
           now
           preparing
           a
           Representation
           to
           be
           made
           (
           if
           not
           already
           done
           )
           complaining
           that
           the
           Proclamations
           which
           were
           published
           in
           the
           Plantations
           ,
           strictly
           forbidding
           them
           to
           carry
           or
           sell
           Provisions
           or
           other
           Necessaries
           to
           the
           Scots
           Colony
           ,
           are
           contrary
           to
           their
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           prejudicial
           to
           their
           Interests
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Friends
           of
           the
           several
           Governours
           ,
           who
           publish'd
           those
           
           Proclamations
           happening
           to
           hear
           thereof
           ,
           are
           endeavouring
           to
           stiffle
           these
           Complaints
           as
           much
           as
           they
           can
           :
           But
           what
           Truth
           there
           may
           be
           in
           this
           ,
           a
           little
           time
           must
           shew
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           likewise
           just
           now
           told
           ,
           that
           his
           Majesty
           has
           been
           graciously
           pleased
           to
           declare
           that
           he
           knew
           nothing
           of
           those
           West-India
           Proclamations
           ,
           till
           he
           had
           seen
           Copies
           of
           them
           come
           from
           thence
           :
           And
           if
           indeed
           it
           be
           true
           ,
           that
           his
           Majesty
           has
           said
           so
           (
           as
           I
           hope
           it
           is
           )
           I
           reckon
           it
           would
           be
           no
           very
           hard
           Matter
           to
           name
           some
           few
           Persons
           who
           have
           a
           great
           deal
           to
           answer
           for
           .
        
         
           I
           remember
           the
           judicious
           Montaigne
           ,
           in
           his
           political
           Essays
           ,
           observes
           it
           ,
           as
           a
           Misfortune
           commonly
           incident
           to
           a
           Nation
           that
           is
           under
           the
           Government
           of
           a
           Prince
           living
           in
           another
           Country
           ,
           That
           any
           Nation
           so
           stated
           ,
           is
           seldom
           or
           never
           Govern'd
           according
           to
           the
           real
           Inclination
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           or
           the
           true
           Interest
           of
           the
           People
           ;
           so
           much
           as
           according
           to
           the
           Humors
           ,
           Affections
           ,
           and
           Designs
           of
           his
           Ministers
           :
           For
           that
           he
           seeing
           only
           with
           their
           Eyes
           ,
           and
           hearing
           but
           withtheir
           Ears
           ,
           cannot
           possibly
           know
           the
           true
           State
           ,
           Condition
           and
           Interest
           of
           a
           Distant
           Nation
           ,
           nor
           the
           Humors
           and
           Inclinations
           of
           its
           Inhabitants
           ,
           any
           thing
           near
           so
           well
           as
           if
           he
           lived
           amongst
           them
           .
        
         
           Seneca
           in
           his
           Treatise
           of
           Benefits
           ,
           puts
           the
           Question
           ,
           
             Quid
             omnia
             possidentibus
             deest
          
           ?
           What
           can
           a
           Man
           want
           that
           has
           every
           thing
           ?
           And
           he
           answers
           himself
           ,
           
             Ille
             qui
             verum
             dicat
          
           .
           One
           that
           will
           tell
           him
           the
           Truth
           .
           And
           really
           of
           all
           Men
           living
           ,
           I
           think
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           stand
           most
           in
           need
           of
           having
           such
           Men
           near
           their
           Persons
           .
        
         
           And
           I
           wish
           ,
           from
           my
           Heart
           ,
           That
           all
           those
           who
           ,
           at
           any
           time
           ,
           have
           occasion
           to
           be
           at
           the
           Helm
           of
           publick
           Affairs
           in
           any
           Kingdom
           or
           State
           whatsoever
           ,
           would
           seriously
           consider
           what
           the
           Learned
           and
           wise
           Statesman
           ;
           
             Sir
             Francis
             Bacon
          
           observes
           by
           way
           of
           Precaution
           ,
           in
           his
           Judicious
           and
           Celebrated
           Essays
           .
           
             As
             for
             Discontentments
             (
             says
             he
             )
             they
             are
             in
             the
             politick
             Body
             like
             to
             Humors
             in
             the
             Natural
             ,
             which
             are
             apt
             to
             gather
             preter-natural
             Heat
             ,
             and
             to
             enflame
             .
             And
             let
             no
             Prince
             measure
             the
             Danger
             of
             them
             by
             this
             ,
             whether
             they
             be
             Just
             or
             Unjust
             :
             For
             that
             were
             to
             imagine
             People
             
             to
             be
             too
             Reasonable
             ,
             who
             do
             often
             Spurn
             at
             their
             own
             Good
             :
             Nor
             yet
             by
             this
             ,
             whether
             the
             Griefs
             whereupon
             they
             rise
             ,
             be
             in
             Fact
             great
             or
             small
             ;
             for
             they
             are
             the
             most
             dangerous
             Discontentments
             ,
             where
             the
             Fear
             is
             greater
             than
             the
             Feeling
             .
             
               Dolendi
               modus
               ,
               Timendi
               non
               item
               .
            
             Besides
             ,
             in
             great
             Oppressions
             ,
             the
             same
             things
             that
             provoke
             the
             Patience
             ,
             do
             withal
             mate
             the
             Courage
             ;
             but
             in
             Fears
             it
             is
             not
             so
             .
             Neither
             let
             any
             Prince
             or
             State
             be
             secure
             concerning
             Discontentments
             ,
             because
             they
             have
             been
             often
             ,
             or
             have
             been
             long
             ;
             and
             yet
             no
             Peril
             hath
             ensued
             :
             For
             as
             it
             is
             true
             ,
             that
             every
             Vapour
             or
             Fume
             doth
             not
             turn
             into
             a
             Storm
             ;
             so
             it
             is
             nevertheless
             true
             ,
             that
             Storms
             ,
             tho'
             they
             blow
             over
             divers
             times
             ,
             yet
             may
             fall
             at
             last
             :
             And
             as
             the
             Spanish
             Proverb
             noteth
             well
             ,
             
               The
               Cord
               breaketh
               at
               the
               last
               ,
               by
               the
               weakest
               Pull
               .
            
          
        
         
           One
           Material
           Passage
           I
           had
           almost
           forgot
           :
           Upon
           the
           first
           Advice
           that
           the
           Council-General
           of
           the
           Company
           had
           of
           the
           Colony's
           safe
           Arrival
           and
           Settlement
           in
           Darien
           ,
           they
           gave
           His
           Majesty
           an
           Account
           thereof
           ,
           by
           a
           very
           Dutiful
           Letter
           ,
           bearing
           Date
           at
           Edinburgh
           ,
           the
           31
           st
           .
           Day
           of
           March
           last
           ,
           wherein
           they
           particularly
           condescended
           upon
           its
           being
           
             a
             Place
             Uninhabited
             ,
             and
             never
             before
             possess'd
             by
             any
             European
             Prince
             or
             State
             whatsoever
             ,
             and
             that
             upon
             the
             Request
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             Consent
             of
             the
             Neighbouring
             Natives
             ,
             they
             Landed
             and
             Settled
             there
             ,
          
           (
           which
           consequently
           made
           it
           a
           Place
           precisely
           in
           the
           Terms
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           and
           Letters
           Patent
           )
           
             And
             withal
             ,
             that
             they
             were
             positively
             informed
             ,
             that
             the
             French
             had
             a
             Design
             upon
             all
             that
             Coast
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             to
             make
             a
             Settlement
             some
             where
             thereabouts
             ;
             And
             therefore
             humbly
             offered
             to
             His
             Majesty's
             Consideration
             ,
             how
             that
             the
             firm
             Settlement
             of
             the
             Scots
             Colony
             there
             ,
             might
             be
             a
             Means
             of
             preventing
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             ,
             lessening
             the
             evil
             Consequences
             that
             might
             arise
             to
             His
             Majesty's
             Kingdoms
             and
             Dominions
             every
             where
             ,
             by
             the
             Settlement
             of
             any
             powerful
             Forreign
             Neighbour
             in
             ,
             upon
             ,
             or
             near
             any
             part
             of
             that
             Coast
             ;
             And
             therefore
             confidently
             expected
             His
             Majesty's
             Royal
             Favour
             and
             Protection
             ,
             in
             the
             Maintainanee
             
             of
             such
             an
             Important
             Settlement
             ,
             as
             having
             ,
             in
             all
             the
             Steps
             of
             their
             Conduct
             ,
             through
             the
             whole
             Course
             of
             this
             Affair
             ,
             strictly
             observed
             the
             Conditions
             required
             by
             the
             said
             Acts
             of
             Parliament
             ,
             and
             Letters
             Patent
             .
          
        
         
           And
           in
           another
           Letter
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           to
           both
           the
           Secretaries
           of
           State
           ,
           they
           have
           ,
           amongst
           several
           other
           Particulars
           ,
           the
           following
           Paragraph
           :
           
             As
             to
             the
             French
             Designs
             of
             settling
             thereabouts
             ,
             (
             meaning
             on
             the
             Coast
             of
             Darien
             )
             "
             it
             is
             a
             Point
             not
             to
             be
             doubted
             of
             ;
             for
             ,
             in
             order
             thereunto
             ,
             they
             have
             already
             been
             Tampering
             with
             several
             of
             the
             Natives
             ,
             some
             of
             whom
             they
             have
             endeavoured
             to
             have
             carried
             into
             France
             ;
             and
             we
             have
             very
             good
             reason
             to
             believe
             ,
             that
             a
             further
             Progress
             had
             been
             made
             in
             that
             Matter
             before
             now
             ,
             were
             it
             not
             the
             dayly
             Expectations
             which
             that
             Court
             had
             of
             the
             King
             of
             
             Spain's
             Death
             .
             Which
             ,
             we
             humbly
             conceive
             ,
             is
             a
             Matter
             worthy
             of
             His
             Majesty's
             Consideration
             ,
             and
             of
             no
             small
             Concern
             to
             the
             Interest
             of
             his
             whole
             Dominions
             ,
             tho'
             this
             Nation
             ,
             and
             our
             Company
             ,
             may
             seem
             to
             be
             more
             immediatly
             interested
             at
             present
             .
          
        
         
           And
           to
           certifie
           further
           ,
           That
           the
           French
           designs
           upon
           that
           Coast
           did
           not
           consist
           in
           Imagination
           only
           ;
           Mr.
           Paterson
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Councellours
           of
           the
           Colony
           ,
           and
           
             Captain
             Robert
             Drummond
          
           ,
           Commander
           of
           one
           of
           the
           Company
           's
           Ships
           the
           Caledonia
           ,
           have
           ,
           by
           Declaration
           under
           their
           Hands
           ,
           signified
           to
           the
           Directors
           ,
           the
           Contents
           of
           a
           Letter
           written
           in
           March
           last
           ,
           by
           the
           Governour
           of
           Portobell
           to
           the
           Commander
           of
           a
           French
           Sloop
           ,
           which
           was
           imployed
           by
           the
           Spaniards
           to
           perswade
           the
           Indians
           of
           the
           
           Samballo's
           to
           join
           against
           the
           Scots
           Colony
           at
           Caledonia
           .
           The
           Letter
           was
           written
           in
           Spanish
           ,
           and
           found
           in
           a
           Bottle
           by
           some
           of
           our
           Colony
           on
           board
           of
           the
           said
           Sloop
           ,
           near
           the
           Samballos
           ,
           where
           she
           was
           left
           deserted
           and
           owned
           by
           no
           Body
           ;
           and
           the
           Contents
           of
           the
           said
           Letter
           is
           in
           Substance
           as
           followeth
           .
           
             Sir
             ,
             I
             have
             received
             Advice
             from
          
           Monsieur
           Du
           Cass
           ,
           
             Governour
             of
          
           Petitguavis
           ,
           
             wherein
             he
             assures
             me
             ,
             that
             rather
             than
             fail
             ,
             he
             will
             come
             himself
             in
             Person
             ;
             but
             however
             ,
             he
             will
             send
             four
             Friggots
             to
             assist
             us
             in
             rioting
          
           
           
             the
             Scots
             out
             of
          
           Darien
           .
           
             You
             may
             assure
          
           Ambrosio
           ,
           Corbet
           ,
           Pedro
           ,
           
             and
             the
             rest
             of
             the
          
           Indians
           
             of
             the
          
           Samballos
           ,
           
             That
             if
             they
             continue
             to
             help
             ,
             and
             keep
             Correspondence
             with
             the
          
           Scots
           ,
           
             that
             not
             only
             the
          
           Spaniards
           ,
           
             but
             likewise
             the
          
           French
           ,
           
             will
             revenge
             it
             upon
             them
             :
             But
             if
             on
             the
             contrary
             ,
             they
             will
             join
             with
             us
             to
             destroy
             and
             root
             out
             these
          
           Scots
           ,
           
             they
             shall
             be
             well
             rewarded
             and
             gratified
             for
             their
             Pains
             .
          
        
         
           I
           shall
           make
           no
           Reflections
           on
           this
           Matter
           ,
           nor
           shall
           I
           pretend
           to
           Prophesy
           ;
           but
           any
           one
           of
           but
           an
           ordinary
           reach
           in
           Speculation
           ,
           may
           easily
           see
           ,
           that
           it
           's
           very
           possible
           there
           may
           be
           such
           a
           Juncture
           of
           time
           ,
           that
           the
           English
           Nation
           may
           come
           to
           wish
           ,
           that
           this
           Company
           had
           never
           met
           with
           such
           unreasonable
           Obstructions
           in
           the
           prosecution
           of
           their
           Designs
           ,
           as
           they
           have
           done
           :
           Nor
           am
           I
           out
           of
           Hopes
           of
           seeing
           ,
           perhaps
           ,
           some
           of
           the
           wisest
           Men
           of
           our
           Neighbouring
           Nation
           ,
           become
           so
           sensible
           of
           the
           Folly
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Injustice
           of
           the
           unaccountable
           Treatment
           which
           the
           Company
           met
           with
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           think
           it
           their
           Interest
           ,
           even
           to
           contribute
           to
           the
           Mantenance
           of
           such
           an
           important
           Settlement
           on
           that
           Isthmus
           ,
           which
           now
           affords
           so
           much
           Matter
           of
           Speculation
           to
           the
           most
           considerable
           Courts
           in
           Europe
           .
           
             
               Proestat
               sero
               sapere
               ,
               quam
               nunquam
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             My
             Lord
          
           ,
           I
           need
           not
           tell
           you
           the
           Ferment
           that
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           Nation
           seems
           to
           be
           in
           ,
           upon
           Account
           of
           the
           Disasters
           and
           Misfortunes
           ,
           that
           have
           attended
           the
           Undertakings
           of
           this
           Company
           ;
           and
           really
           ,
           since
           the
           Affections
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Interests
           of
           many
           People
           seem
           to
           be
           wrapt
           up
           in
           its
           Fate
           ;
           I
           wish
           ,
           with
           all
           my
           Heart
           ,
           that
           those
           at
           the
           Helm
           would
           think
           of
           falling
           upon
           some
           agreeable
           Expedient
           ,
           for
           quieting
           the
           Minds
           of
           People
           upon
           this
           Head
           ,
           by
           doing
           something
           or
           other
           ,
           that
           may
           let
           the
           World
           see
           ,
           that
           the
           Company
           is
           not
           so
           destitute
           of
           Protection
           ,
           in
           the
           Prosecution
           of
           its
           Honest
           and
           Lawful
           Undertakings
           ,
           as
           now
           (
           alas
           !
           )
           it
           seems
           to
           be
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           it
           should
           so
           happen
           ,
           that
           through
           the
           Stupid
           Ignorance
           of
           some
           ,
           the
           Supine
           Neglect
           and
           Indifference
           of
           others
           ,
           the
           Industrious
           Suggestions
           and
           Malicious
           Detractions
           of
           a
           Third
           ,
           the
           Dreaming
           Delusions
           and
           Imaginary
           Fears
           of
           a
           Fourth
           ,
           the
           Servile
           and
           Mercenary
           
           Backwardness
           of
           a
           Fifth
           ,
           or
           the
           Humorsom
           Factions
           and
           Divisions
           of
           a
           Sixth
           Sort
           of
           People
           ,
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           Nation
           should
           be
           discouraged
           from
           concurring
           unanimously
           ,
           in
           representing
           the
           whole
           Nations
           Concern
           in
           this
           Matter
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           in
           endeavouring
           to
           procure
           some
           Gracious
           Marks
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Royal
           Favour
           and
           Protection
           to
           the
           Company
           ;
           Or
           if
           that
           ,
           through
           the
           want
           thereof
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           Company
           's
           other
           Misfortunes
           ,
           the
           Designs
           of
           so
           Noble
           ,
           Great
           and
           Generous
           an
           Undertaking
           should
           happen
           to
           be
           frustrated
           ,
           and
           that
           so
           many
           brave
           Men
           as
           are
           lately
           sent
           to
           maintain
           the
           Company
           's
           Settlement
           in
           Darien
           ,
           should
           perish
           in
           the
           Design
           (
           which
           God
           forbid
           )
           as
           most
           of
           those
           that
           went
           on
           the
           first
           Expedition
           did
           ;
           then
           may
           we
           justly
           expostulat
           with
           Heaven
           in
           the
           Words
           of
           the
           Royal
           Psalmist
           upon
           an
           other
           Occasion
           ,
           
             Thou
             makest
             us
             a
             Reproach
             to
             our
             Neighbours
             ,
             a
             Scorn
             and
             a
             Derision
             to
             them
             that
             are
             round
             about
             us
             .
             Thou
             makest
             us
             a
             By-word
             among
             the
             Heathen
             ,
             and
             a
             Shaking
             of
             the
             Head
             among
             the
             People
             ,
          
           Psalm
           44.
           13.
           14.
           
        
         
           But
           I
           am
           still
           in
           Hopes
           of
           better
           Things
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           those
           ,
           in
           whose
           Power
           it
           is
           ,
           in
           their
           several
           Capacities
           ,
           to
           contribute
           any
           thing
           towards
           the
           aiding
           ,
           assisting
           ,
           carrying
           on
           ,
           supporting
           or
           protecting
           this
           Noble
           and
           Just
           Undertaking
           ,
           will
           ,
           sooner
           or
           later
           ,
           be
           of
           Sir
           Francis
           Bacon's
           Opinion
           ,
           in
           his
           Excellent
           Essay
           upon
           Plantations
           ,
           where
           he
           hath
           the
           following
           Words
           ;
           
             The
             Principal
             Thing
             that
             hath
             been
             the
             Destruction
             of
             most
             Plantations
             ,
             hath
             been
             the
             Base
             and
             Hasty
             Drawing
             of
             Profit
             in
             the
             first
             Years
             :
             It
             is
             true
             ,
             speedy
             Profit
             is
             not
             to
             be
             neglected
             ,
             as
             far
             as
             may
             stand
             with
             the
             Good
             of
             the
             Plantation
             ,
             but
             no
             further
             .
          
           Then
           ,
           after
           having
           given
           his
           full
           Advice
           and
           Opinion
           ,
           in
           many
           Useful
           Particulars
           ,
           in
           the
           Way
           and
           Manner
           of
           Settling
           and
           Carrying
           on
           a
           Plantation
           ,
           he
           concludes
           expresly
           thus
           :
           
             It
             is
             the
             Sinfullest
             Thing
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             to
             forsake
             or
             destitute
             a
             Plantation
             once
             in
             Forwardness
             ;
             for
             besides
             the
             Dishonour
             ,
             it
             is
             Guiltiuess
             of
             Blood
             of
             many
             Commiserable
             Persons
             :
          
           
             
               Tu
               ne
               cede
               malis
               ,
               sed
               contra
               audentior
               ito
            
          
        
         
         
           
             My
             Lord
          
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           ignorant
           of
           my
           own
           Incapacity
           ,
           for
           Discussing
           Judiciously
           such
           Intricat
           Points
           ,
           as
           are
           interwoven
           throughout
           this
           Letter
           :
           But
           according
           to
           the
           Information
           that
           I
           have
           had
           ,
           (
           which
           I
           dare
           say
           is
           pretty
           good
           )
           I
           have
           endeavoured
           ,
           as
           no●…
           as
           I
           could
           ,
           to
           place
           every
           particular
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           in
           its
           due
           plac●
           according
           to
           Order
           of
           Time
           ,
           and
           to
           assert
           nothing
           as
           such
           ,
           but
           what
           I
           have
           unquestionable
           ground
           to
           believe
           is
           Truth
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           studied
           throughout
           the
           whole
           to
           shun
           Personal
           Reflections
           as
           much
           as
           possible
           ,
           but
           if
           any
           particular
           Person
           fancy
           to
           himself
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           comprehended
           under
           this
           or
           that
           general
           head
           ,
           let
           him
           blame
           his
           own
           Actions
           for
           bringing
           him
           under
           any
           disagreeable
           Predicament
           :
           If
           I
           seem
           to
           shew
           any
           more
           than
           ordinary
           Zeal
           in
           the
           just
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Management
           ,
           it
           is
           because
           I
           have
           seen
           it
           so
           very
           lately
           attacked
           in
           such
           a
           publick
           manner
           as
           was
           not
           expected
           .
           I
           am
           ,
        
         
           
             My
             Lord
             ,
          
           Your
           Lordship
           's
           most
           obedient
           Servant
           .
           
             P.
             C.