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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31295	Min Heer T. van C's answer to Min Heer H. van L's letter of the 15th of March, 1689 representing the true interests of Holland, and what they have already gained by our losses.	T. van C.; H. van L.	1690 (1690)	Wing C138; ESTC R4107	5,073	4

Min Heer T. Van C's Answer to Min Heer H. Van L's Letter of the 15 th of March 1689. Representing the true Interests of Holland and what they have already gained by our Losses SIR YOU may think me very rude in making no quicker a return to your obliging Letter But the Truth on 't is my apprehensions at that time lest the late King James should return by the Aid of the French and Irish were so great that they blinded my understanding and made me so stupid that I could not see any probable appearance of those glorious advantages which you affirmed would accrue to our Country though he should regain his Kingdoms and force His present Majesty to abdicate as He had done and therefore I declined writing till Actions might convince us whether you or I were in the right But now Sir I must confess my errour and acknowledge that we almost feel what you then foresaw 'T is true we have some amongst us who are still as blind as I was then and these occasion no small divisions here as well as with you and an inclination in some persons to renounce his Authority and acknowledge him no more to be our Statholder Against these I oppose your Arguments and many more of my own which I shall here subjoin hoping they may be of use with you and have the same effect they begin to have with us For I assure you Sir our leading men begin now to look upon him with another eye and they who consider what he has hitherto done what he is now acting and what we have just reason to hope he will effect to our advantage before he quits them and returns are ready to prepare golden Statues for him as for one that has procured us a long wished for Liberty at Sea freed his Native Country from the greatest Obstacles to their Trade suppressed those who have always been the Objects of our Envy rendred them for ever uncapable of standing in competition with us diverted the Channel of Traffick to our own Merchants and all this in one years time without any charge to us nay on the contrary with a considerable reward from our Adversaries for their own destruction To evince all which I. First I shew them the good he has done for us In order to which I beg of them to consider the condition we were in before this Revolution and to compare it with that we are in at present 'T is certain England had robbed us of our Trade in the two last Kings Reigns who by an unlucky Neutrality had made the stream of Traffick run that way 'T is certain also the late King James was taking most mischievous measures to continue and augment their Trade and ruine ours for if the Liberty of Conscience which he was going to establish had not been prevented the most considerable of our Merchants who live amongst us because they are not molested in the free exercise of their Religion would have removed and drawn their effects to England where the Ports being more secure they would without hazarding their Religion have run less danger of their Goods 'T is manifest also and foreseen by our wife men that whilst it was impossible for us io stave off a War with France K. James whose industry and application to the Advancement of Trade made him embrace all occasions to incourage it would have preserved a Neutrality to our utter ruin These and many other considerations as I assirm made us willing to pluck the Thorn out of our own foot and put it into anothers and therefore after much Consultation nothing was found so expedient as to heighten the divisions in England and joyn with the Male-contents So that what the Ridderscap i.e. Nobility together with the Deputies of other Cities have here lately alledged against the Resolutions of the City of Amsterdam p. 6 7. is now manifest though formerly kept as a secret and stoutly denied to the late King by our Ambassador in England That the Prince did not undertake that Expedition without the previous Communication full Approbation and good pleasure of the States and that the States General were moved so considerably to assist him therein principally for the Liberty and Prosperity of our dear Native Country Moreover I tell them in our States words pag. 9. That this Expedition having been effected by the Assistance of the Arms of the States General and with an aim at the saving of the State ought not to be accounted a Foreign Expedition And that pag. 7. seeing by the admirable Providence of Almighty God under the Wise and Valiant Conduct of His Majesty of Great Brittain it had that success which is known to all the World the States expect no other but that it should necessarily tend to a narrower and stricter union of those Kingdoms with this State and that the States shall be thereby made more fit and able to grapple with all the ill designs with which the Enemies of these Lands have threatned us Having thus represented to them the condition we were in and the benefit we hoped to reap by the Expedition I proceed to shew that we were not out in our Politicks and that however His present Majesty has behaved himself to others he has still been true to our Interest and faithful to the promises he has made us And to prove this I shew them how careful he has been notwithstanding the urgent occasions he has had for Money to repay us the 600000 l. which our States laid out upon the Expedition whereas being now K. of England he might with Justice enough have discounted it upon the old scores betwixt us and that Nation ever since Queen Elizabeths Protection How speedily he sent us succours 12000 of their best men to weaken their strength and fortifie us even before he took care to establish his own footing in Scotland or proceeded to the reduction of Ireland How careful he has been to put the strongest places of Trust into the hands of our Countrymen or at least such as our Ambassadors and the E. of Portland were secure of who in case of a turn of times will be able to hold them out till we can power in fresh supplies How religiously he has observ'd his promise of making no advance without the advice and approbation of our Ambassadors and Min Heer Bentingh to whom he has caused all the strength and weakness together with all the commodious Ports landing places and Creeks of that Kingdom to be imparted How by their advice he has dispers'd the English Troops some even to both the Indies that he may more easily govern by a Foreign Force and have no dependance upon such as had no regard to their natural Allegiance and repeated Oaths of Fidelity to a Prince that loved them I also represent to them the condition of the English Fleet and Merchants How many thousands have died this Summer foy want of wholsome Provisions and even through scarcity of them also which