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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46403	A justification of the directors of the Netherlands East-India Company as it was delivered over unto the high and mighty lords the States General of the United Provinces, the 22d of July, 1686 : upon the subject and complaint of Mr. Skelton, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Brittain, touching the affair of Bantam, and other controversies at Macassar, and on the coast of Mallabar and at Gamron, in the Gulf of Persia : likewise a justification in answer to the several memorials lately given unto the States General by the Marquess of Albeville, touching Meslepatam and other places in the Indies / translated out of Dutch by a good friend for the satisfaction of all such as are impartial judges of the matters now in dispute between the two companies.	Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; Good friend.; Dam, Pieter van, 1621-1706.	1688 (1688)	Wing J1259; ESTC R12898	44,960	84

because thereby they could not expect any Profit or Advantage or if they had it would have been mixt ●ith an uncertainty as to the Event And again the Son would then have endeavoured to have been afore●●d and the first Aggressor whereas on the con●●●y it was the Father who thereby got so great Advantage over the Son burning and ruinating the City and keeping his said Son besieged in his own 〈◊〉 So that had it not been for the Intervention ●●d Succours of them of Batavia the Father certain●● would have triumphed over the Son. And put 〈◊〉 case the War had ended according to the intention ●●d advantage of the Son what more could he have expected thereby who already sate on the Throne ●●d could be no greater than he was Would the Son 〈◊〉 listned to such Counsel and engaged in a War ●●●inst his Father whose Interest consisted in Govern●●g his Kingdom in Peace And doth it not hence ●●llow that all these Troubles did arise from them 〈◊〉 breathed after nothing more than Change who 〈◊〉 being able or willing to submit to the Government of the Young King revolted against him with ●●●ention to thrust him from his Throne and to set 〈◊〉 another more sutable to their liking and humour Which their Design also so far succeeded that the Young King was brought to the point of losing his Crown and Life Could the Government of Bantam at the begin●ng have with any reason imagined that the Young ●ing should finally have got the upper hand over his Enemies and Rebels Or that the English should have ●●termedled with that War and would have assisted the Rebels against their own Prince whom themselves owned as Lawful King of which hereafter shall be more largely spoken and he thereupon should have thrust the English out of his Kingdom Would they have stirred up the Son against the Father after that the Son by so many lamentable Letters had implored their Assistance and let it come to that Extremity that in case they had delayed but one day longer he must have given himself over t● his Rebels and undergone a cruel Death In case the Rebels before it was delivered by the Netherlandish Forces had taken the Castle and murthered the King could they have hindred that either the Old King or one of his Younger Sons should have obtained the Crown and so managed the Affair● of his Kingdom as to take Vengeance of them tha● had opposed themselves against his Designs And if so be that in cases of such nature place may be given to Conjectures and Presumptions is it no●● most probable that the English themselves have done that very thing which they falsly impute to the Netherlandish Company They publish for a certain Truth That the Young King while the Father as yet govern'd the Kingdom assassinated their Agent and Commises and that h● always carried himself as an Enemy to them wherea● on the contrary the Government of the Father wa● most Grateful unto them Doth it then seem to be such an ungrounded Presumption that they partly to revenge themselves o● that Massacre of which the King of Great Brittain i● his Letter to the now King of Bantam declareth him● self so sensible and partly that it was much for thei● Interest that the Son might be pull'd down from th● Throne and put to death and that the Father o● another Brother were set up they should labour to kindle the Fire and foment this War Especially hereunto concurring that they were so soon ready to joyn their Forces to the Assistance of the Father without which the Father could not have obtained those Advantages nor the Son be brought to such a Labyrinth Also it will clearly appear that all the Mischief which is come to the English Company in this business is wholly from the bad Management of Affairs by their own Men and Ministers in Bantam For the King of Great Brittain and the English Company acknowledg the Young King for the alone King and Soveraign But their Ministers declare him to be an Usurper and a Rebel of the Father Their Masters endeavour to establish a setled Peace with him They set themselves formally against him as their Enemy Their Masters endeavour to Oblige the Son by all means possible and send great quantity of all manner of Ammunition of War to him They do not only disoblige him in all things but even assist his Enemies with the Provision sent to his Assistance Their Masters in their fore-mentioned Letter pray that God the Creator of Heaven and Earth would bless and prosper him They endeavour to bereave him of his Throne and make him the most miserable of men So that having by these Unrighteous Courses brought upon themselves to be driven out of Bantam they now know not how to excuse the Matter And being disappointed in their Design as fallen into the Pit they digged for others they are at their Wits End and know not what to do some body must be found out upon whom to lay the Blame and the next that comes to hand is the Netherlandish Company Hic mihi turbat aquas But had they sate still or had as they would make the World believe kept themselves Neutral according to the Will and Footsteps of their Masters or had they instead of helping the Old assisted the Young King these difficulties nor questions had never happened And how can the English with any shew of reason dispute or call in question the Soveraignty of the Young King seeing it is a known case that the sending and admitting of Ambassadors and Agents together with the making of Treaties and Alliances are true Tokens of a Soveraign Power and therefore all such as admit and receive Ambassies do thereby acknowledg the Soveraignty of them that send the same which is also further owned by proffers of Alliances and Leagues which cannot be erected but between Soveraigns Now as to the Second Fact to wit That after the Netherlandish Company had got the Young King into their Snares and perfidiously brought him under their Yoke they then should have forced him to the Expulsion of the English This we have before manifested to be a false Fiction For first They ought not in a case of so great weight and tendency to make such odious and malicious Positions except they had clear and convincing Proofs at hand There is not any one of the Witnesses which the English Company have produced that mentions a Word thereof or that speaks of Snares into which they of Batavia caused the Young King to fall or of any Yoke under which against all fidelity they had brought him It is true they produce in the Process one Mr. Waite speaking of the departure of the English by Order of the King who relates only of an hard Contest between the said King and Major Sir Martin before that Order of causing them to depart could be obtained from him But being saith he altogether under the Power of the Hollanders he was

Humour of many of his Subjects there arose a heavy Civil War in the Kingdom in which the Malcontended intended to cast off the Yoke from their Neck as they termed it after they had also drawn the Old King to their Party who thereupon strengthened himself in Turtiassa as also the King now reigning did at Bantam At length by force of Arms they made themselves Masters of Bantam and besieged the Young King in his Castle into which he was retired intending to bereave him both of his Throne and Life and to set up a Younger Brother in his Place Whereupon ●●is King apprehending no other way of Deliverance is having most of the Great Ones of his Kingdom ●●●ated against him and the Commonalty also his Enemies thought it Expedient for him to make known to the General of the Council of the Netherlandish Company at Batavia his Miserable State and that he not only was to expect the loss of the Crown but also a most Cruel Death The which he signified in most lamentable wise imploring their Assistance But they not judging it convenient in a case of such Importance to intrude themselves too unadvisedly did before they determined any thing in the least about it conclude to interpose their Mediation betwixt Father and Son and to that end to send Ambassadors with Letters tending to that Purpose But the Father in a most disdainful manner rejecting the same without vouchsafing to return any Answer at all to the Government of Batavia or their Committees the said Government did at last resolve seeing the Condition of the Son tending to Ruin as being forsaken almost by all to assist him against the Rebels and if possible to deliver him out of the miserable State into which he was brought which also they did with such Success that notwithstanding the strong Opposition of the Enemy we landed our Forces raised the Siege of the Castle in which the King was and set him again upon his Throne who thereupon both to demonstrate how greatly he was offended with the English who had assisted his Enemies as also to provide for his own Security for the Future did without any Instigation of the Netherlandish Company command them to leave his Country and to depart elsewhere with their Goods This then being a True Narration of what passed in these Affairs these Considerable Things do present themselves to Consideration First That the Old King having made over his Kingdom to his Eldest Son he thereby became Lawful King by his Father's Transport and was acknowledged so to be by the King of Great Brittain and by them of the English East-Indie Company Secondly That he thereby being Lawful King his Subjects in taking up Arms against him were Rebels Thirdly That according to the Law of Nature and of Nations it is not only permitted to be Assistant unto a King that is oppressed by his Subjects but that such Assistance is approveable and a Work of Charity and Love. Fourthly That it is contrary to the Rule of Justice to ascribe the evil Consequences of a Lawful and Worthy Act unto him that is the Author of the said Act and no● of the Consequences Fifthly That it is altogether against Reason to impute the Chasing of the English out of Bantam unto them of the Government of Batavia and to their Auxiliary Forces because it is manifest that the Departure of the English out of Bantam was not a Necessary but an Accidental Consequence the King not causing them to depart because he was Victorious for he had suffered them to live there from the time he came to the Crown until the War to wit during the two years of his Reign but only because he was certain they had assisted his Rebels besides many other Suspitions he might justly have taken up against them But against this they of the English Company do alledge and depose for a real Truth That they of Batavia had raised and fomented the Quarrels between the Old and the Young King of Bantam That two years before the War began they had had secret Negotiation with Pangeran Diepa Panerat one of the Principal Ministers of the Young King to bring about this their Design That they afterward having got this King into their Snares and most perfidiously brought him under their Yoke forthwith forced him to drive out the English And to make the Ministers of the Netherlandish Company yet the more suspected and stinking to all the World they undertook in the beginning of the Year 1683 to represent unto the King of Great Brittain that the foresaid Major St. Martin who commanded over the Forces of the Netherlandish Company at Bant●● in chief had committed very many Enormities against the Factors People and the Effects of the English Company at Bantam so far that they dispossessed and drave them out of their place of Residence But instead that the English Company ought to have proved the Facts which are Essential to the Thing in case they herein aimed to Triumph they do not in the whole product which they made in the Process thereof so much as alledge the least appearance either directly or indirectly no not so much as consequentially might serve for the verifying of the Enormities of such Facts And although the Netherlandish Company might stand upon the Negative which is not necessary nay many times possible to be proved save only indirectly for no man can in a direct manner prove that which is not nevertheless to manifest clearly that they of the Government of Batavia are altogether blameless let us only consider the moral Impossibility of the aforesaid Fact viz. That the Governors of Batavia should have raised and fomented the Questions and Differences between the Father and the Son as also the notorious Falshood of the second Fact namely That the said Government should have forced the King to cause the English to depart out of Bantam What concerns the first It 's known to the World that for a long time there had been no good Intelligence between the Old King and the Government of Batavia no not so much as to the least Correspondence For the latter finding themselves much affronted and injured insomuch that at last they took up Arms against each other the War not ending until the Son came to the Crown so that they could not stir up the Son against the Father much less foment their Quarrel And what Folly would it have been for them of Batavia to animate the Father to War against the Son forasmuch as they lived with the Son in Amity and as Good Neighbours not having any Reason in the least to complain of his Government and Conduct towards them whereas on the contrary if the Father had got the upper hand they should have been in a far worse Condition and attracted a new Enemy against themselves And that they should have stirred up the Son against the Father and encouraged him to War cannot be imagined by any that are in their right Sences partly