them plume themselves in their Successes and triumph in their Grandeur if it be once admitted that Grandeur and Successes be true signatures of Heavens favour I shall forbear as an ingenious Gentleman said any longer to think Mahomet an Impostor and must receive the Alcoran for Gospel They are the greatest Patrons of Schism in the world For my part I 've ever had a serious abhorrency of that sin being against a main Article of my Faith the Communion of Saints which makes the Church Militant and Triumphant one Parish Here they give the people Liberty of Conscience as they call it But as to their Estates they make them the greatest slaves in the world witness the Fetters they lay upon them by their Taxes Their Government is ill in its Original but worse in its Progress if God and the Wisdom of Princes do not prevent And therefore I 'm confident nothing can so much establish peace in Christendom and make the Belgick people happy as to reduce them under the obedience of a good Prince But many of those men think that a Prince is as unfit a person to govern them as Caligula's Horse was to be a Consul and you may as soon Convert a Jew to be a Christian as perswade some of them to be Loyal And therefore it was Oracularly said by a Wit of theirs That a Prince will bring an eternal ruin upon them and their Posterity and they are to be accounted Inter homines damnatae memoriae for the scum of the earth and to be remembred with curses and abominations who shall but once entertain a thought of setting up a Prince over them I know says one this will displease the King of Great Britain yet his displeasure is no more to be valued by us then his Alliance for all Alliance with England is unserviceable to Holland and even those Alliances which we shall be press'd into for fear of a War with England Bravely said These people are like unto the middle Region of the Air which maketh her Thunderbolts against the Earth out of the Exhalations she draws from the Earth it self England may complain as the Eagle in the Emblem Heu patior telis vulnera facta meis But the wrongs and insolencies of our Enemies more then our own discretions may sometimes make us both wise and fortunate Is his Majesties Alliance unserviceable unto them well we may from these men observe That the more a Prince weakneth himself by giving the poorer he is of Friends Their Fishing upon the British Ocean which is by his Majesties Favour is the only basis of their Greatness If his Majesty would be pleased to assume that to himself as he hath Right and Power and suffer none to Fish there but such as should come with their Wives and Families and live in our Sea-Towns here in England that great Colossus of their Hogan-Mogan-ship must suddenly decline for 10000 Vessels at least by them imployed in the Fishery would presently decay their Mariners want imployment and not fewer then 300000 people thereby imployed by Land would want support And for default of the Fish they take upon the British Seas to fraught their Ships they would not be able to maintain the tenth part of the Ships and men they now set forth to Sea thereby their Revenues and Customs would become small their Intrado would never support their ordinary charges their Excise must fail their Trade to the East-Indies and elsewhere must faint the people who now subsist by their Manufactures and contribute to the charges must be supported by them which they are never able to do or else they must quit their Country for want of maintenance and come into England where they will be sure to be kindly receiv'd and grow rich Its an humble Address to his Sacred Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to set up the imployment of the Fishery for then we should establish our Security and Trade upon our own foundation the art and power of our greatest Enemies cannot take it from us It s a Treasure equal to that of both Indies in the Riches Consequence and Circumstances of it Insomuch as if we do but improve that all other Trades will follow For our Fish will not only furnish us with such Foreign Commodities as we our selves want but besides large returns in mony may store us with quantities of all sorts to supply other Nations It would exceedingly increase his Majesties Revenues and be of more advantage to his people then all other Commodities or Manufactures which they export and vend It would be an excellent School and Nursery of Mariners and Navigators not only for Sea-service but for discovery of Foreign parts to vend our Native Commodities And thereby the Nation would be much strengthned by Sea and enriched by Land both for our own safety and terror of our Enemies And indeed wisdom of State obliges us not to let a Neighbour grow too powerful at Sea for when his Majesty ceases to be absolute Master of the British Seas and with his Trident Scepter to give Laws we must receive them from others And how great a diminution this will be to the grandeur and prosperity of this Nation let wise men gravely consider When England hath been the Counter-balance which time out of mind hath held the Scales between the great Monarchies of Europe for the safety of the rest And I doubt not yet to behold his Majesty culminant in the highest Orb of Glory and his Dominions fix'd upon the Center of a flourishing Happiness His Majesty hath an Imperial Name it was Charles that brought the Empire first into France a Charles that brought it first into Spain Why should not Great Britain have his turn It is a great advantage which England hath by reason of her many safe and secure Harbours and Narrowness of the Seas for all Ships which go from East to West or from West to East are compelled because of the dangerousness of the French Coasts except it be exceeding fair weather to make use of the English Harbours His Majesty being Sovereign of these Seas can at pleasure command and seize all Ships passing there especially the Westerly Winds of those Seas lying on this side the Tropick and blowing almost continually do give his Majesty a great deal of conveniency to go to Sea when he pleaseth So that all the Voyages of the Hollanders to the East and West-Indies Spain the Streights and other places upon his Majesties Seas his Majesty being in hostility with them may be interrupted their Ships taken and their Voyages obstructed And by consequence the ruine of that Trade of the Hollanders between the East and West must necessarily follow And in case of a War England may get more Booty from the Hollanders then they from England His Majesty making War against them by Sea and Land ruine and confusion must speedily attend them in respect of the vast
THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND IN THE Present War WITH HOLLAND By the Author of The DUTCH USURPATION Nulla Potentia Scelere quaesita est diuturna LONDON Printed for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate-street 1672. TO THE KING DREAD SIR SInce Heaven your Righteous Cause has own'd And with Success Your powerful Navy crown'd Silence were now an injury as rude As the proud Hollanders Ingratitude While th' Glories of your Arms and Triumphs shine Not to Congratulate were to Repine Your Enemies themselves to Greatness raise By disingenious and inglorious ways By means no Vulgar Spirit would endure But such as either Courage want or Power But while your Clemency proclaims aloud Compassion to the miserable Croud Your Royal Breast with Love not Anger burns And Your resentment into Pity turns In Christian Gallantry You Your self out-doe And Honour by the Noblest Arts pursue THE Interest of ENGLAND In the present War with HOLLAND TRade and Commerce are the Pillars of Prosperity and safety to England But how these of late have been shaken by the artifice and undue practices of the Hollanders every sober man may judge For they have not only made great diminution of the Merchant Adventurers antient priviledges in their Jurisdiction but our Trade to Muscovia the Hollanders serving the same Market with our own cloth carried thither from Hamburgh we cannot long enjoy We do not vend the one third part of the Cloth in Germany and the Low-Countries which we have formerly done And that we have transported from North to East of late years hath been sold to loss being beaten out by the subtilty and cunning of these men they having such quantities of Wool out of England and Ireland to the exceeding damage of this Nation that they make more Cloth and Stuff than we do in England and afford it cheaper then we can do The Fishing upon the British Seas then which nothing is more peculiar to this Nation they have taken from us by force and have defended and justified the same against his Majesties greatest power And to signalize their Ingratitude to his Majesty they have not only undermin'd the Trade of the English in all parts to the diminution of his Majesties Revenue and prejudice to his Subjects but have laboured to soil his Glory and lessen his Dignity where the Honour of the King of Great Britain was justly famous Although they have received greater Favours and Kindnesses from this Nation then all the Kings and Princes in Europe could give them In the Molucca Islands the Hollanders exercised great Cruelty upon the poor Natives there And when they had done they declar'd to them that they were English the Natives asking them who the English were the Hollanders told them they were Christians Thereby they did not only render the English odious but the very name of Christians abominable to the Natives But when they came to understand the kindness and behaviour of the English to them they had a very great love for them and did much Honour the King of England the Orankies being often heard to say that the King of England was a good King and his God a good God but their Tanto and the Hollanders were naught Anno 1608. an English Colony was planted by Captain Robert Harcourt in Caripo situate on the Banks of Wiapico in Guiana the Hollanders possess themselves of Gomeribo on the top of a Hill near the Mouth of the Bay of Wiapico but soon deserted yet they endeavoured nothing more during their short stay then to make the Natives disaffected to the English affronting their persons and defaming the Grandeur and Power of the Kings of England But when the Natives found by experience how the King of England and his Subjects were abus'd they did ever after perfectly hate the name of a Hollander Anno 1614. The Hollanders planted themselves in a Province or Port of Virginia having purchas'd the Charts and Maps of Hudson and all his right which he had acquir'd by that Voyage and call'd it by the name of Nieu-Nederlandt But being question'd by Sir Tho. Argal then Governour of Virginia for his Majesty of Great Britain were told that they must quit the possession of that place or else pay Tribute to his Majesty for that Hudson was an Englishman and licensed to discover those Northern parts by the King of England and could not alienate or dismember it from the Crown of England Complaint hereof being made to the States of Holland it was declar'd by them in a publlck Instrument that they were no ways concern'd in the Action but 't was a private undertaking of the West-Indian Company of Amsterdam And though the Hollanders did seem willing to be gone yet taking advantage of the Troubles which not long after happened in England they have not only kept possession thereof and built a Fortress and call'd it by the name of Orang-Fort which was Garrison'd and planted with Cannon but fell in with the Natives and furnished them with Arms and taught them how to use their Weapons with design to have destroyed all the English Plantation there A most mischievous and wicked act not only tending to the damage and discouragement of the present Adventurers but even unto the extirpation of all Christians out of all those Countries But the best is they were the first which smarted by it The Natives thus arm'd and train'd fell foul upon them destroy'd their houses and forc'd them to betake themselves to their Ports and Fastnesses But upon all occasions expressed their kindness and obedience to the English Ormus an Island in the entrance of the Persian Gulf in the possession of the Portuguez Anno 1506. was made the Staple of their Trade for the Indian Merchandizes and so inrich'd the same that the Revenues of the Kings there though Tributaries and Vassals to the Portugals amounted unto 140000 Shirifes yearly In this flourishing estate it stood till the Year 1622. when Abas the Sultan of Persia having received some affronts at the hands of the Portuguez and being desirous to remove the Trade of Ormus to some part of his own Dominions gave order to Emangoti Chares the Duke of Shiras to lay Siege unto it with his Army But seeing no hopes of mastering it by his Land Forces only furnished himself with Ships and Cannon of some English Merchants and by the assistance of the English presently subdu'd it The City was utterly destroyed the Cannons removed to Lar the wealth thereof to his own Treasury of Shiras the materials of the houses to Gunbroon about nine miles from Ormus then a poor village but since the fall of Ormus a rich and populous place and of vast Trade For this Service so much honour was given to the English Nation by the King of Persia that he gave to the King of Great Britain the Customs of all Strangers which should traffick thither and by his Agent which resideth at Gunbroon ought to be
Charges and Expences they must necessarily be put unto For look upon the States they are indigent they owe no less then a Million of our pounds for Interest which they cannot pay much less the principal when it shall be requir'd Consider the East-India Company by reason of their exceeding Charges in enlarging their Dominions there and the vast expences which must necessarily attend the keeping of them cannot be rich For all Countries of new acquest till they be setled are matters rather of burthen then of profit And certainly the rich Merchants there the States being now upon the disbanding will not bring their mony into their Banks or lend it to the States For if they do their Security is gone their mony lost and that which other Nations have in their Banks And therefore its prudence to get it out of their hands as soon as may be however not to venture more in that Vessel which is ready to sink The Common people measure the bond of their obedience by the good always which they receive And therefore they being under such great Oppressions and severities unjustly impos'd upon them by the States will not long endure their want of Trade and those great Taxes will in a short time beget a general Revolt in them all And Amsterdam will prove more formidable to them then any Army of their Enemies For that State which subsists not in Fidelity can never continue long in Potency His Majesty hath at present a potent Fleet at Sea a stout Militia at Land and a Magazine of Hearts There 's no generous English Spirit but is ready for the Honour of his King and the good of his Country to sacrifice his Life and when he hath done will triumph in the Oblation For my part I thank Heaven my Veins never knew other Blood but such as I should be proud to spend in their Service And as they are ready to sacrifice their own lives so for the vigorous prosecution of this War which on his Majesties part is only defensive and so most just and honourable they will chearfully expend their Treasure which is the life of the Nation And indeed true piety binds Subjects to look upon the Burthen of Princes with a bended knee rather in time so to deserve abatement then to dispute Authority I hope in a short time these men will understand their own Interest which is Englands good alliance For England hath always been a Back of Steel to Holland and hath and yet can afford them greater Donatives Riches and Advantages then all the Kings in Europe besides But they have so surfeited with Englands kindness that like a bad Spleen they swell so big as makes all Europe lean I praise God I am not of the complexion of thâ—se men my Genius never prompted me to the least Trillo of Grandeur Neither am I by my Stars constellated to be rich let me enjoy but such an estate as will serve me as a pass to travel the world without begging and have an honest Friend for Conversation and one good Book for my Recreation If Heaven shall vouchsafe me these Blessings I can pity the High and Mighty States FINIS Books Printed for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate-street THE Dutch Vsurpation or a Brief view of the Behaviour of the States General of the Vnited Provinces towards the Kings of Great Britain with some of their Cruelties and Injustices exercised upon the Subjects of the English Nation As also a Discovery of what Arts they have used to arrive at their late Grandeur c. By William de Britain The Amorous Travellers or the Night Adventures Written Originally in Spanish by a Person of Honour Translated into French by the Exquisite Pen of the Sieur de Ganes And into English by J. B. Great Britains Glory or A brief Description of the present State Splendor and Magnificence of the Royal Exchange with some remarkable Passages relating to the Present Engagement Humbly presented to the several Merchants of the City of London who daily Meet Traffick and Converse in the said place By Theophilus Philalethes Letters and other Curious Pieces relating to the Present State of Europe Two Letters one from the States General to his Most Christian Majesty the other from his Most Christian Majesty to the States General Relating to the present Conjuncture of Affairs Trade is the pillar of safety to England Our Trade to Muscovia we cannot enjoy long We vend not one third part of our Cloth we formerly have done The Hollanders have taken from England the Fishing Trade The Hollanders have received greater favours from England then from all Kings in Europe The Hollanders exercised great cruelties upon the Natives in India and they told them they were English Tanto was an evil Spirit which did trouble them every new Moon and therefore they worshipped him for fear The Hollanders in Guiana endeavour to render the English odious to the Natives The Hollanders instruct the Natives in the West-Indies in the use of arms The Hollanders use to pay to his Majesty Customs given to him by the King of Persia The Hollanders writ to the Pyrates of Argiers not to make Peace with England The War against the Hollanders just The Hollanders the first Aggressors The Hollanders expose his Majesty to Contempt by Libels The Hollanders have seiz'd upon his Majesties Dominions in the East-Indies Trade is the vena porta of the Kingdom Wars are suits of Appeal to the Tribunal of Gods Justice Preventive Wars upon just fears are just Wars It s prudence to watch that neighbour Princes do not aggrandize themselves too much A Republick is an Engine erected by Sedition against Monarchy The Hollanders great Patrons of Schism Schism is against an Article of Faith Their Government is ill in its original Nothing can make the Belgick people happy but a Prince The wrongs of our Enemies sometimes make us fortunate The more a Prince giveth the poorer he is of Friends None to Fish upon the British Seas but such as come and live in England The loss of the Fishery would prove the ruine of the States The benefit of the Fishery to England England the Counter-balance of Europe The advantages England hath over other Nations A War from England must necessarily prove a ruine to Holland Hollands interest in Englands Alliance The Hollanders are like a bad Spleen