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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41175	A just and modest vindication of the Scots design, for the having established a colony at Darien with a brief display, how much it is their interest, to apply themselves to trade, and particularly to that which is foreign.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.; Hodges, James.	1699 (1699)	Wing F742; ESTC R21931	134,853	248

and terms as are agreed upon and expressed By neither of which are the Kings of Great Britain or their Subjects shut out debarred or excluded from Sayling into such Ports Havens and places of America and setthing Plantations any where there as either are not inhabited or where the King of Spain is not in possession and occupation But to set this matter yet further in such a clear and distinct light as that they who are the most Prepossessed and Prejudiced may see and be oblig'd to confess that the Scots have proceeded in the whole affair of their Calidonian Settlement and Plantation both according to the measures of Law Justice and Equity and with a full deference and respect unto and an entire compliance with the Articles of the publick Treaties and particularly of that of 1670 I shall call over the Heads of some of the Articles of that Treaty and make those reflection upon them which they do Naturally suggest and offer Whereas then it is Stipulated agreed and provided by the Second Article that there shall be a Firm and Vniversal Peace in America as well as in other parts of the World between the Kings of Great Britain and Spain and between the Kingdoms States Plantations Colonies Forts Cities and Dominions which do belong to either of them and between the People and Inhabitants under their respective Obedience it doth from thence undeniably appear that as both the Kings were set upon an equal foot and did treat for themselves and for the people and Inhabitants that were under their respective Obedience and no further nor for any other so it is from thence no less evident that all matters and things were left untouched and undetermined that did concern and relate unto such places and parts of America as were either wholly void and not at all Inhabited or that were inhabited only by the Native Indians which as that part of the Isthmus of Darien was where the Scots have Landed and are now begun to settle so it doth in the way of necessary consequence from thence undeniably follow that by the said Article it remained Free and Lawful either for them or for any other of his Britannick Majesty's Subjects so to do and therefore that there neither is nor can thereby any Violation or Infraction be made of the Alliances between the Crowns of Great Britain and of Spain For in that the Right Titles and Claims of the Kings of Great Britain and Spain are defined by and circumscribed unto such Regions Territories Plantations Colonies c. as do severally and respectively belong to either of them it is thereby made uncontrolably Manifest that neither of them by that Treaty had any Rights and Claims granted and allowed unto them in reference to any places in America further than as they were possessed of them and save as those places were in and under their actual occupation And consequently that by the chief purport and design and by the whole Tenor of the Treaty it was left free for each or either of them to make new acquisitions and to establish new Plantations in such parts and places of the West-Indies whether upon the Continent or in Islands as were inhabited by the subjects of neither of the two Kings but were either as I have said wholly void or possessed by the Native Indians Moreover whereas it is Covenanted adjusted and provided by the Eighth Article that the subjects of their Britannick Majesties shall not Sail into nor Trade in such Ports Havens c. as do belong unto the Catholick King unless with leave and upon the terms which are there specified it doth from thence evidently and unquestionably follow that they are left at liberty to Sail into and Trade in such other Ports and Places as are not the King of Spain's And therefore that the Port into which the Scots Sailed and where they are establishing a Colony being neither then nor having been at any time since in the possession of the Spaniards they are in their having so done altogether unaccusable of the being guilty of any crime or misdemeanor or of having in the least transgressed against publick and solemn Treaties Further whereas it is concerted and agreed by the same Article that the Subjects of the King of England should not Sail into any Ports or Havens that had Fortifications Magazins or Warehouses possessed by the King of Spain it may from thence be Apodictically Inferred and Concluded that it continued Free and Lawful for them to Sail into Ports and to Trade where there were no Fortifications Magazins nor Warehouses at all and much less any appertaining unto or in the Possession of the King of Spain Both which being unquestionable with reference to Acla and the Creeks Ports Harbours and Places adjacent thereunto it may thereupon be Justly affirmed and solidly concluded that neither the Scots nor any other of his Britannick Majesty's Subjects were by that Treaty precluded and debarred from Landing Trading and Settling there and that the Scots thro' their having sit down and become Planters in that place are altogether innocent of the Infraction of any such Alliances Moreover whereas it is agreed and provided by the tenth Article that in case the Ships that do belong to either of those Kings or to the Subjects of either of them shall by stress of Weather or otherwise be forced into the Rivers Creeks Bays or Ports belonging to the other in America that thereupon they shall be received kindly harbour safely and be treated with all Humanity and Friendship it may from thence be inferred and deduced that as both the Kings are thereby stated upon an equal bottom and foot and the rights of both and of each of them respectively are restricted and determined to particular Rivers Creeks Bays c. so it is also thereby mutually confessed and acknowledged that there are other and of all those several Kinds in which neither of them have any Property Interest or Concernment and that it might be free for the Ships of either of them to Sail into such and there to Anchor and to furnish themselves with what they wanted and the places afforded and to continue there during their own Pleasure and to do in such places whatsoever they should judge to be for their Advantage and Interest without incurring the imputation of being accounted injurious to one another or of becoming liable to a charge and complaint against them of having Violated Alliances And by consequence that the Port Acla being such the Scots might Sail thither land and settle there without either asking leave of the Spaniards or of becoming thereupon censurable by them of having therein done any thing that is either against the Laws of Nations or an Infraction of Alliances and Treaties between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain Again whereas it is Concerted and Stipulated in the Fifteenth Article that Nothing in the said Treaty shall derogate from any Preheminence Right and Dominion of any of the Confederates in

and Worship of the Romish Church as it did that of Henry II. of France when the Protestants in Scotland resisted such as they said would Persecute them in the Reign of Queen Mary his Daughter-in-law That King being recorded to have said upon that occasion We must commit the Souls of Scots-men to God for we have difficulty enough to rule the Consciences of such as are French Neither ought it to be pass'd over without observation that the application which the Scots under the Reign of Charles I. made to Lewis XIII was not very long after his having subdu'd his Subjects at Rochel and wrested the Cautionary Towns out of the hands of his Reformed Subjects Which open'd the way to all the Mischief and Ruin that have overtaken them since Nevertheless this must be said in favour of the Scots that it was upon the Motive of Religion and from Indignation against France because of the late and present Persecution of the Protestants there that they did not carry their Resentments higher for the affront put upon His Majesty and the Parliament of Scotland with respect to their Act for a Company to Trade in India and Africa and that they did not warmly express their displeasure in relation to the interposure of His Majesty's Envoy at the Courts of Lunenburgh and his Resident at Hamburgh who by menaces as well as by gentler Methods both deter'd and discourag'd the Hamburghers from contributing to their Stock and Capital and from joyning in the establishment and promotion of the Plantation and Trade which the Scots were about to Settle and Embark in For as it would not but wonderfully surprize the Scots to find their Undertaking and particularly their transaction with the Hamburghers for Subscriptions and Aid not only stil'd The Action of some private Men who neither had Credentials nor were any other ways authorized by His Majesty when they stood warranted in the one and t'other by the King's Charter as well as by an Act of Parliament but to have it represented to the Magistrates and Governors of that Free City That His Majesty would regard all Proceedings with the Scots in that affair as an affront to his Royal Authority and that he would not fail to revenge himself of it so it was matter of the greatest astonishment to the People of Scotland that the said Envoy and Resident persevered to oppose them in all their transactions at Hamburgh until they had frustrated and defeated them in what they were about notwithstanding that Tullibarding and Ogilvis His Majesty's Two Scotch Secretaries had declar'd in a Letter to the Council general of the Company that they stood empower'd by the King to signifie unto them that His Majesty would give order to the said Envoy and Resident not to make use of His Majesty's Name and Authority for obstructing the Scots Company in the prosecution of their Trade with the Inhabitants of Hamburgh Nor ought it to give offence unto any tho' it may possibly alarm a great number of judicious and thinking People to have it represented and publish'd that all the opposition made and given by His Majesty's said Envoy and Resident to the Scots transacting with the Hamburghers was previous and antecedent unto any knowledge they had receiv'd or could possibly attain unto of the Place Territory or Country where the Scots had design'd to Land and to endeavour the establishment of a Colony For as none of the very Directors of the Company had until a long time after come to any fix'd Resolution where they should attempt the beginning and carrying on a Plantation so posteriorly to its having been agreed upon and concerted by those few of them to whom the determination thereof was referr'd by the rest it was so secretly conceal'd and kept faithfully undiscover'd that neither His Majesty nor any of his Ministers were in the least made acquainted with it And consequently that the foresaid Envoy and Resident being altogether ignorant in what part of the World the Company intended to seek and pursue a Foreign Settlement for Trade and Commerce and whether it might not be in some Region or Province that would be both agreeable to the humour of the Spaniards and subservient to the Interest of England their interposing so zealously and industriously with the Hamburghers against the Scots could neither be upon motives of Love and Kindness to the English or of respect and deference to the King of Spain but out of meer disaffection to the Kingdom of Scotland and from an aversion to the welfare and prosperity of that People So that it may be worth those Gentlemens recollecting what heretofore befell Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Strafford for having medled in Scots affairs beyond their Posts tho' with the Countenance and by the Authority of King Charles I. Who notwithstanding their being Persons of incomparable Talents as well as of the most elevated Stations and illustrious Characters of any of the Kingdom of England yet upon the arising of a misunderstanding between that Prince and his English Parliament and thro' the necessity that the latter stood in of having the favour of the Kingdom of Scotland in the difference that sprung up between them and their Soveraign were sacrific'd in order to appease and gratifie the Scots rather than for any treasonable Crimes that they were guilty of I do foresee that it will be here objected that for the English to countenance and uphold the Scots in what they have done will be to enter into a Conspiracy against themselves and a concurring in what will be highly prejudicial not only to the Traffick of the English American Plantations but to the Trade and Commerce of England it self And that not only by reason of the general Share in Trade which the Scots by reason of that Calidonian Company may speedily grow up unto but because of the great Immunities in Freedom from Taxes Customs and all manner of Impositions whatsoever which are granted unto their Company for 21 Years while the English Traffick is by so many Laws and Statutes clogg'd and over-loaded with them To which Exception I shall endeavour to give such a full and sufficient Reply in the few following Reflections that I hope both the frivolousness and indiscretion of it will be made obvious and render'd apparent to every Man that hath but judgment and temper enough to weigh things in equal and just Scales The first thing therefore which I would offer to be consider'd is this namely That the hazard of succeeding in the founding and establishing of a New Colony is so great and the Treasure that must inevitably be expended in order thereunto so large before any considerable reimbursements can be hoped for that it is extremely difficult by any propos'd Immunities and Privileges whatsoever to gain those that have Money and who know how to make other improvements of it to be forward liberal and zealous of entring into and promoting such a Design And if we will but cast our