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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39785	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.	1699 (1699)	Wing F1297; ESTC R6209	27,049	42

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