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A46179 An impartial vindication of the English East-India-Company from the unjust and slanderous imputations cast upon them in a treatise intituled, 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 / translated out of Dutch, and feigned to be printed at London, in the year 1687 ; but supposed to be printed at Amsterdam, as well in English as in French and Dutch. East India Company. 1688 (1688) Wing I90; ESTC R17309 120,912 229

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the Invasion of Bantam have not only Obstructed but Hostilely Invaded our Trade and shot at our Servants with Bullets on the Coast of Malabar to deterr and beat them off from that little Remainder we had there of the Pepper Trade To which the Subscribers Answer That the Dutch Company having taken from the Portugals when they had War with them the Towns and Forts which they possest on the Coast of Malabar It was not unjust for the said Company to enjoy the Advantages of their Victory with excluding of all those who without having shared with them in the Charges and Dangers of the War pretend to a share in their Conquest although they have the Trade of all the North part of Malabar free and open where is a great deal of Pepper and where the Dutch Company hath very little or no Trade and which produce much greater profit to the English Company without being at any Charge of keeping Towns and Forts That the Hollanders assaulted the English fireing upon them as it is said in this Article The Subscribers protest they knew nothing of it and that they do not even believe any thing of it since the Letters from Batavia make no mention of it The second Article speaking of the Money which the English Company had lent to the Young King of Bantam and with which the Fort was built is a thing does not in the least concern the Dutch Company and of which they know nothing Besides That when they make up their Accompts with the King of Bantam he will discharge himself of his Debts by a just Compensation The third Paragraph making mention of an Assassination which the Dutch Company abhors shews a great inclination to Suspition and Jealousie which ought to be banisht from the Mind to re-establish a good Understanding between the two Companyes The fourth Article is a Dilemma couched in these Terms Because if the Old King of Bantam had a Right to Bantam and to the Territories thereof they are now His Majesties by his Donation of them to the late King of ever blessed Memory If the Right thereof lyes as the Dutch say in the Young King He hath been so inhumane and ungrateful and bloody an Enemy to His Majesties Subjects confessedly without the least Cause or Provocation on their Parts that we humbly conceive His Majesties Honour cannot be repaired without invading his City and Country and the rather because though he be called a King he is in Truth none but a perfect Slave to the Batavians and an Executioner of their Will and Pleasure As to the first fork of this Argument because it is evident that the Old King of Bantam having resigned His Kingdom to his eldest Son could not give it afterwards to any other so that the inference which ought to be made from it is against the English Company As for the second part of the Dilemma viz. If this Right belongs to the Young King and that it be true that he hath been so inhumane ingrateful and bloody an Enemy to His Majesties Subjects without the least provocation One may indeed inferr a great deal from it but nothing which can support the demand of the English Company from That of Holland As there can be nothing inferred from it against the Young King of Bantam if for good Reason as he maintains he has he shewed his resentment against the English But it must be observed here by the by that when they are to reproach the Young King they say he has been an inhumane ungrateful and bloody Enemy to His Majesties Subjects without the least cause or provocation But when the Hollanders are to be charged and to make them pass for the Authors of the expulsion of the English from Bantam the language is changed and it is said that there could not be observed either in the Kings looks or words the least thing which shewed any resentment against or that he had any design of turning them out of his Countrey The Fifth Sixth and Ninth Articles have been examined before Of the Seventh The Gentlemen of the Dutch Company never knew nor believe any thing To the Eighth it is answered That the Young King was perswaded as it appears by Tack's Relation marked O. and that of Heinsius marked N. that all those which he had drove out of his Countrey had assisted his Enemies Thus is the Apology of the Dutch Company finished and the English Companies Demands destroyed There remains now nothing more but to relate in a word the Demands of the Dutch Company for the Hire of their Ships of which the Gentlemen of the English Company at Bantam promising to pay the Freight made use of to Transport their persons and Effects from thence to Batavia and which afterwards were made use of instead of Magazines to the great dammage of the Dutch Company who had desired them to be returned to them to carry their own Merchandize The Ships which the Gentlemen of the English Company used are these following The Europe of 1200 Tuns which was at the disposal of the English from the 16th of April 1682. until the 13th of August of the same year and by consequence four Months each Month at 1000 l. Sterling for four Months l. 4000 New Middleburgh of 1000 Tuns was delivered to the English the 22th of April 1682. and was not unladen and discharged until the 22th of November of the same Year and therefore seven Months each Month at 900 l. Sterling 6300   l. 10300 T. Wont of Burthen 200 Tuns was used from the first of May until the first of July being two months each at 200 l. sterling amounts to for the two Months 400 Delfshaven Burthen 900 Tons was from the 13th of April until the 13th of August that is to say four Months each Month at 800 l. sterling amounts for the four Months to 3200 The whole Freight of the Ships together amounts to l. 13900 And the Subscribers relying entirely upon the Justice and Right of the Dutch Company as well in Relation to their Defence as to their Re-convention they hope your Excellencies will acquit them from the English Companies Demands and that you will condemn the English Company to pay to the Dutch Company for the Freights of the said Ships the said sum of 13900 l. sterling besides Dammages and Interest Signed G. Hooft Jacob Van Hoorne S. V. Bloquery A. Paets Dated at Westminster 13th Octob. 1685. The Reply of the English Commissioners Instructors to the last foregoing Paper humbly presented to the Lords Commissioners Decisors To the Most Honourable the Lords Commissioners appointed by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty for determinig the differences between the English and Dutch East India-Companies according to the Treaty of 1674-75 Right Honourable 1. WE should admire at the Voluminousness of the Deputies for the Dutch East-India-Companies Answer especially considering how valuable Your Lordships time is But that looking back for many years past we find it is one of the Old
I Do hereby License this Book to be Printed and Published White-Hall March 6th 1687-88 SVNDERLAND Pr. An Impartial VINDICATION OF THE English East-India-Company FROM THE Unjust and Slanderous IMPUTATIONS Cast upon Them in a TREATISE INTITULED 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 Translated out of Dutch and Feigned to be Printed at London in the Year 1687. But Supposed to be Printed at Amsterdam as well in English as in French and Dutch. LONDON Printed by J. Richardson for Samuel Tidmarsh at the King 's Head in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange MDCLXXXVIII THE whole Treatise is such a tedious Rhapsody of Fictitious Fallacious Inferences and Arguments confusedly mixt with some distorted Truths spun out to an unnecessary prodigious length that it would be tiresome to the Reader to trace all the Prevarications Mis-Recitals and Sophistry contained in it By which the design of the Author seems to be not onely to impose a false belief upon the vulgar-well-meaning Subjects of those Provinces but even upon the Lords States General Themselves if it were possible Whether we have truly characterized the said Treatise we shall leave to the Judgment of the unbiassed Reader and have therefore caused it to be Reprinted after the Amsterdam Copy and Annexed hereunto And that we may not be guilty of framing a long Story without Coherence Verity or Proof of which we accuse the Author we shall in the first place expose to publick View and Censure true Copies of those Original Papers which passed between the Commissioners of both Companies at London Anno 1685. which will give sufficient Light and Confutation unto the Authors prolix and Erroneous History of those Transactions concerning the Affairs of Bantam And shall then proceed to detect his willful mistakes in other matters and his ill-grounded Arguments by which he endeavours to Honest many Injurious and Insolent Violations of Right done by the Dutch towards the English in India directly contrary to the Articles of Peace In all which we do profess the most Religious sincerity and to write nothing but what we know to be really true or believe in our Consciences so to be upon very sufficient Evidence without using that common Liberty which Advocates think they may innocently do viz. To put the best face they can upon their Clients Cause how bad soever it be which plea we shall be content may be admitted for the Authors Indempnity To omit Credentials and Speeches of Ceremony it was agreed that the Treaty should be managed in French and Sir John Chardin was the Interpreter The Lords Commissioners Decisors for His Majesty were For the States General of the United Provinces The Earl of Sunderland Lord Anth. Heinsius Councellor and Pensionary of the City of Delf Earl of Clarendon John Goes Lord of Absmade Consul of the City of Leyden Earl of Rochester Isaac Vanden Heuvell Councellor Earl of Middleton Adryan de Borssele Vander Hoge Senator of the Supream Court of Holland The Commissioners Instructors for the English-East-India-Company were The Commissioners Instructors for the Dutch East-India-Company Sir Joseph Ashe Baronet Governour The Heer Gerrard Hooft of the Council of Amster Sir Josia Child Baronet Deputy-Governour Jacob Van Hoorn of the Council of Flushing Sir Benj. Bathurst and Sir Jeremy Sambrook Kts Solom Van de Blocquerii and Adrian Paets of the Council of Rotterdam The First Paper of Business which the aforesaid English Commissioners Received from the said Dutch Commissioners Instructors which was Translated into English in the following words Viz. To the Honourable Seigniours Sir Joseph Ashe Barronet Governour of the English East-India Company Sir Josia Child Baronet Deputy-Governour Sir Benjamin Bathurst and Sir Jeremy Sambrooke Knights all Deputies of the said Company for Bantam Affairs WHereas the Directors of the Dutch East-India-Company do desire nothing more earnestly than a good Intelligence between them and the Royal East-India-Company of this Kingdom They also desire nothing more earnestly than to see an end of the differences which would trouble that Intelligence in case it was not from both sides endeavoured with all imaginable care to suppress in the very beginning the seeds of a quarrel of which the progress though short should be able to produce an Evil which after having taken root it would not be easie to dissipate Now forasmuch as the Late King of Great Britain of Glorious Memory and my Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces being desirous to provide the differences that should arise between both Companies should have no bad consequences have thought fit to Order the Remedy contained in the Treaty of the Year 1674-75 Upon which ground the under-written Deputies of the said East-India-Company of the said Provinces desiring that the differences about Bantam should be determined They do desire your Lordships to concurr with them and proceed upon that Foundation and to deliver to them a Copy of all the pretensions of the English Company touching the Bantam Affairs and also of the justificative Proofs and Deeds upon which they pretend to ground their said pretensions The under-written Deputies being resolved to pursue all the Forms required by Equity and natural Right And because they have been informed that in the Conference of Munday last there were some mistakes they have thought fit to express their mind by Writing and to desire your Honours to give Answer in the same manner Dated at Westminster 27 May 1685. Signed G. Hooft Jacob Van Hoorne S. V. Blocquery A. Paets The English Commissioners Instructors their Answer in haec Verba To the Honourable Seigniours Gerard Hooft Jacob van Hoorn Solomon vande Blocquery and Adriaen Paets Commissioners Deputed by the Netherlands East-India-Company touching the Affairs of Bantam IN Answer to your Honours Memorial of the 27th of May it is impossible for the Commissioners of the Netherland East-India-Company to desire a more speedy end of the Affair of Bantam than the English East-India-Company who hath layen under the Oppression of the want of their Residence and Trade there now for above three years besides the great Loss and Spoil sustained at the surprize thereof And the said English Company by us their Commissioners have humbly besought the Lords Commissioners Decisors appointed by His Majesty Our Soveraign Lord the King that the matter of the Restitution of Bantam to His Majesties Subjects may be first Discoursed and Adjusted It having been already consented to by the High and Mighty Lords the States General and the Netherlands East-India-Company that Restitution should be made thereof as appears by the Answer to the Memorial presented by Sir John Chardin at the Hague the 21th of May Anno 1683. And the only difference then remaining upon that subject was the manner of the Restitution So that to enter into proof or any long Debate concerning the manner of the surprize of that Place and of His Majesties Subjects Expulsion