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<P>A SUPPLEMENT OF Original Papers AND LETTERS, RELATING To the <HI>Scots</HI> Company Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1700.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>To the Honourable My Lord <HI>Seafield,</HI> Secretary for the Kingdom of <HI>SCOTLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis is by Order of the Council General of the Company of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies,</HI> to acquaint your Lord|&s;hip, That we have prevail'd upon Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton</HI> to be at the trouble of going up with an Addre&s;s to His Maje&s;ty from our &s;aid Coun|cil-General, on behalf of Captain <HI>Rob. Pinckar|tan,</HI> and Thirty more, who were wrongfully detain'd Pri&s;oners at <HI>Carthagena</HI> &s;ince the be|ginning of <HI>Feb.</HI> la&s;t, and (as we are inform'd) are mo&s;t inhumanely treated.</P>
<P>We are daily importun'd by their Relations (who are very con&s;iderable) for their Relief; and it is of great concern to our Company, that &s;omething material be &s;peedily done there|in, not only for the &s;ake of the &s;aid Pri&s;oners, but al&s;o that others may thereby &s;ee, we do not abandon the Intere&s;t of &s;uch as engage them&s;elves in our Company's Service.</P>
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<P>Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton</HI> is fully in&s;tructed in all matters relating to the &s;aid Addre&s;s, and o|ther Affairs relating to our Company, of which he'll inform your Lord&s;hip. Wherefore we intreat that your Lord&s;hip be pleas'd to intro|duce him to His Maje&s;ty, in pre&s;enting of the &s;aid Addre&s;s; and to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in procuring a gracious return from His Maje&s;ty; in the con|fidence whereof, I remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hip's mo&s;t humble Servant, Ye&s;ter, J. P. C. G.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Sedr. <DATE>4th Decr. 1699.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>The Company's Addre&s;s to His Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t dutiful Subjects, the Council-General of the Company of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies,</HI> having formerly, in mo&s;t humble manner, repre&s;ented to your Maje&s;ty, how that we have, with much Trouble, great Expence, and after many unex|pected Stops and Difficulties, &s;etled a Planta|tion and Colony on the North-&s;ide of the <HI>I&s;th|mus</HI> of <HI>Darien,</HI> on the Continent of <HI>America,</HI> preci&s;ely in the Terms of your Maje&s;ty's Acts of Parliament and Letters Pattent under the Great Seal of this Kingdom.</P>
<P>We now, in all Duty and Humility, beg leave to repre&s;ent further to your Maje&s;ty, That whereas in the &s;aid Acts of Parliament and Letters Pattent there is a &s;pecial Clau&s;e, by which your Maje&s;ty is graciou&s;ly pleas'd to promi&s;e, That if contrary to the Rights and Privileges therein mention'd, or contrary to the General Treaties of Peace and Commerce between your Maje&s;ty and any Potentate Prince or State in Amity with your Maje&s;ty, the Ships, Goods, Merchandize, Per&s;ons, or other Effects what&s;oever, belonging to the &s;aid Com|pany, &s;hould happen to be &s;topp'd, detain'd, embezell'd, or taken away, or in any &s;ort pre|judic'd or damnified, That your Maje&s;ty would
<PB N="6" REF="5">interpo&s;e you Royal Authority, to have Re&s;ti|tution, Reparation, and Satisfaction made for the dammage done; and that upon the publick Charge.</P>
<P>And whereas likewi&s;e by the X and XI Ar|ticles of the Treaty concluded between the Crowns of <HI>Great Britain</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> at <HI>Madrid</HI> the 8/18 day of <HI>July</HI> 1670. It is &s;pecialy &s;tipu|lated, that in ca&s;e any of the Subjects of ei|ther the Confederates with their Shipping be forc'd at any time, through &s;tre&s;s of Weather, pur&s;ute of Pyrates, or Shipwrack to retreat and enter for &s;helter, and harbour into any of the Rivers, Creeks, Bays, Havens, Roads and Ports belonging to the other in <HI>America,</HI> That the Per&s;ons &s;o Shipwrack'd or forced a Shoar, &s;hall in no &s;ort be detain'd Pri&s;oners but that on the contrary, all friendly a&s;&s;i&s;tance and re|lief &s;hall be admini&s;tred to their di&s;tre&s;s, both for the Su&s;tenance of their Per&s;ons and repa|ration of their Ships and conveniency of their Voyage, and that Letters of &s;afe conduct &s;hall be given them, for their free and quiet pa&s;&s;age thence.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding thereof a Ship call'd the <HI>Dolphin</HI> belonging to our Company, being &s;ent from our &s;aid Colony to &s;ome of the Leeward I&s;lands, with a Cargo for buying Provi&s;ions, and the &s;aid Ship in a few days time after her go|ing to Sea and plying to windward, for the &s;peedier pa&s;&s;age &s;tricking unfortunately upon a Rock, &s;prung a Leak and being forced to run a&s;hoar, under the very Walls of <HI>Carthagena</HI> to e&s;cape Shipwrack, not only the &s;aid Ship and
<PB N="7" REF="5">Goods were violently &s;eiz'd and di&s;pos'd of as prize but al&s;o the Men to the number of thirty, and a Boy (who&s;e Names are here &s;ubjoyned) were detain'd and made clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, con|trary to the expre&s;s Terms of the &s;aid Trea|ty.</P>
<P>Upon notice whereof, the Council of the &s;aid Colony &s;ent, in your Maje&s;ty's and &s;aid Com|pany's Name, a Me&s;&s;enger with a very civil Letter, to the Governor of <HI>Carthagena,</HI> to de|mand your &s;aid Subjects, who were wrongfully detain'd Pri&s;oners, as afore&s;aid; and likewi&s;e Re&s;titution of the &s;aid Ship and Goods, pur|&s;uant to the Treaty above-recited; and &s;ent al&s;o Copies of the Acts of Parliament and Let|ters Patent above-mention'd, in <HI>Engli&s;h, Latin,</HI> and <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> for the Governors information; but in&s;tead of any compliance to tho&s;e ju&s;t and rea&s;onable Demands, the Me&s;&s;enger was threat|ned to be put in Chains, and not &s;o much as allow'd to &s;ee any of the &s;aid Pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>And being lately a&s;&s;ur'd that (notwith&s;tan|ding of all endeavours hitherto us'd for their Liberation) they are, contrary to the Rules of Chri&s;tianity, Humanity, and the Law of Na|tions, &s;till detain'd Pri&s;oners under very &s;evere treatments, we think our &s;elves in Duty and Con&s;cience bound to lay their deplorable Ca&s;e before your Maje&s;ty; and for that effect have commi&s;&s;ioned Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton,</HI> one of our number, to pre&s;ent this our humble Addre&s;s on their behalf to your Maje&s;ty, and to give your Maje&s;ty a further account of our Com|pany's other Affairs, as he is particularly intru|&s;ted
<PB N="8" REF="6">therein; not doubting but that your Ma|je&s;ty will, in your Royal Wi&s;dom, take &s;pee|dy and effectual Mea&s;ures for the redre&s;s of tho&s;e Dammages, and the freedom of tho&s;e di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed Pri&s;oners, in the number of which there are &s;ome young Gentlemen of good Quality, and related to the be&s;t Families in this King|dom.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Signed at</HI> Edinburgh <HI>the</HI> 4th <HI>Day of</HI> <DATE>Decem|ber, 1699;</DATE> <HI>In Name, Pre&s;ence, and by Order of the &s;aid Council-General, by,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, <HI>Your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Faithful, mo&s;t Dutiful, mo&s;t Humble, and mo&s;t Obedient Subject and Servant,</HI> Sic Sub&s;cribitur, Ye&s;ter, J. P. C. G.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>The Chancellours Letter to the Directors of the Company.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Holyrood-hou&s;e, Saturday</HI> <DATE> the 6th of <HI>January</HI> 1700.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HIs Maje&s;ties Secretaries of State have ac|quainted me, That the King will not al|low my Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton</HI> acce&s;s to him, Be|cau&s;e he did not wait on his Maje&s;ty when he was formerly in <HI>London.</HI> And that he has ne|ver &s;ince given any publick Evidence of his Loy|alty, nor has hitherto owned and acknowledg|ed His Maje&s;ties Government. But his Maje&s;ty will not refu&s;e to hear what my Lord <HI>Ba&s;il</HI>'s In&s;tructions are, and has Declared his willing|ne&s;s to be inform'd of what the Company de&s;ires. And if my Lord <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> will give in Writing to His Maje&s;ties Secretaries, what he had to repre&s;ent, His Maje&s;ty will receive In|formation from their hands of what is De|manded, and will give his An&s;wer to the Com|pany; His Maje&s;ty doth not refu&s;e to Receive the Petition, tho' he will not allow my Lord <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> to be the pre&s;enter of it. This is from</P>
<TRAILER><HI>To the Right Honourable The Court of Directors of the Company of</HI> Scotland, <HI>Trading to</HI> Africa <HI>and the</HI> Indies.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Right Honorable Your very humble Servant, Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur</HI> Marchmont Chancellour.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD><HI>A Letter from the Directors of the Company, to the Secretaries for</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE Council-General of our Company, having lately at a very frequent Meeting; thought fit to &s;end up one of their own Num|ber, with an Addre&s;s to His Maje&s;ty, and with In|&s;tructions concerning the Contents of our Com|pany's former Petitions; they thought that none could be more Capable to Di&s;charge that Tru&s;t, than Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton,</HI> as being throughly Ver&s;ed in the cour&s;e of the Compa|ny's Affairs, nor more acceptable to His Ma|je&s;ty, as having had no objection made again&s;t him when he was appointed; &s;everal Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council being then pre&s;ent. And the Council-General having &s;ignified &s;o much to your Lord&s;hip by a Letter, wherein they entreated; that you would be plea&s;ed to Introduce him to the King, and give your Con|currence in procuring a Gracious Return to what he had in Commi&s;&s;ion, and which he was to Communicate to from Lord&s;hip. We are &s;urpriz'd to find this day by a Letter to the Lord Chancellour; that the King will not al|low Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton</HI> to have Acce&s;s, becau&s;e he did not wait upon His Maje&s;ty when he was formerly at <HI>London.</HI> But his Lord&s;hip being &s;ent by, and having his In&s;tructions from the Council-General: We the Court of Directors can &s;ay nothing to it, other than to entreat your Lord&s;hip that you'd u&s;e your Intere&s;t with
<PB N="11" REF="7">His Maje&s;ty, to allow Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton,</HI> to have Acce&s;s to His Royal Per&s;on, lea&s;t the Re|fu&s;al thereof be not only a great Di&s;courage|ment to the Company and all its Wellwi&s;hers, under its pre&s;ent Difficulties and repeated Misfortunes; but give al&s;o ground to the World, to believe that his not being allow'd Acce&s;s to His Maje&s;ty, is upon the Account of his carrying an Addre&s;s from this Company, which every Body knows &s;tands in great need of, and has a ju&s;t Right to his Maje&s;ties Royal Favour and Protection, And which being the General Concern of the whole Nation, is confidently expected and &s;ignified to your Lord&s;hip, by Order and in name of the Court of Directors by</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Edinbur. <DATE><HI>the</HI> 9th <HI>day of</HI> Janu|ary, 1700.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED> <HI>Your Lord&s;hip's mo&s;t humble Servant,</HI> Sic Sub&s;cribiter Pat. Scot. I. P. C. D.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>From the Company, to my Lord</HI> Ba&s;il Hamilton.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE have your Lord&s;hips Letter, of the 2d. In&s;tant, by ye&s;terdays Po&s;t in relation to the Contents of which, we &s;end you here|with the Copy of a Letter, which we have written by this Night's Po&s;t, to both the Secretaries of State, and likewi&s;e the Copy of another Letter, which we had this morning from the Lord Chancellour upon the &s;ame head.</P>
<P>As our Company cannot but have a ju&s;t &s;en&s;e of your Lord&s;hips generous conde&s;cen&s;ion, to the Council-General's Reque&s;t, in undertaking a trouble&s;ome Journey to <HI>London,</HI> this time of the Year, to wait upon and Solicite his Maje|&s;ty about our Company's Affairs, with no other view but frankly to &s;erve the Intere&s;t of your Country to the manife&s;t neglect of your own, So we cannot but heartily regret that the car|rying of the Company's Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hould be the occa&s;ion of putting any &s;uch di&s;tingui&s;hing Mark, upon a per&s;on of your Lord&s;hips Quali|ty and merit, as to be denied acce&s;s to His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, becau&s;e you did not wait up|on His Maje&s;ty when you were formerly at <HI>London.</HI> No body can be &s;o blind as not to &s;ee through this. And whereas we never could hear that your Lord&s;hip did ever any thing unworthy of your Quality, or incon&s;i&s;tent with
<PB N="13" REF="8">the duty of a Loyal and Peaceable Subject. So we are &s;till hopeful, that by your own prudent management, His Maje&s;ty may be undeceived of any mi&s;repre&s;entation, he might have had of you, and that he will yet conde&s;end to grant your Lord&s;hip acce&s;s to his Royal Per|&s;on, with the Companies &s;aid Addre&s;s, and give you a gracious An&s;wer, to the Contents thereof, and to the other particulars menti|on'd in your In&s;tructions; An account where|of would be very welcome News, in the mid&s;t of our misfortunes, to the Company in general, and particularly to the Court of Directors in who&s;e name, and by who&s;e order this is from,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED><HI>Your Lord&s;hip's mo&s;t humble Servant, </HI>Pat. Scot. I. P. C. D.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the</HI> 9th <HI>day of</HI> January, 1700.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>His Maje&s;ties Letter to His Council of</HI> Scotland. William R.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sic &s;upra&s;cribiter,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>RIght Tru&s;ty and Right well Beloved Cou|&s;in and Councellor, Right Tru&s;ty and en|tirely beloved Cou&s;in an Councellour, Right Tru&s;ty and well Beloved Cou&s;ins and Coun|cellours,
<PB N="14" REF="9">Right Tru&s;ty and well Beloved Coun|cellours, And Tru&s;ty and well Beloved Coun|cellours, We greet you well, WHEREAS The Council-General of the Company of that our Kingdom, Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies,</HI> By their Letter to our Secretaries of the Fourth day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t; did de&s;ire, That they might give their concurrence to pro|cure a Gracious Return from Us, to the Petition which they had &s;ent with Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton.</HI> And the &s;aid Lord <HI>Ba&s;il,</HI> having communicated to Our Secretaries, both the fore&s;aid Petition and His In&s;tructions; And they having Repre&s;ented to Us what is de&s;ired in behalf of the &s;aid Company, and We having refu&s;ed the &s;aid Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamilton</HI> Acce&s;s, to pre&s;ent the fore&s;aid Petition to Us, for the Rea&s;ons, We did Order Our Secretaries to Communicate to Our Chancellour; Yet We being willing to give an An&s;wer to what the &s;aid Company does de&s;ire. You are therefore to call for &s;ome of the Council-General, and acquaint them that We are Re&s;olv'd in the terms of our Treaties, to demand from the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> that Captain <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>Pinkar|ton</HI> and the&s;e of his Crew, who are detained Pri&s;oners at <HI>Carthagena</HI> be Relea&s;ed and &s;et at Liberty. And you may al&s;o acquaint them, That our Subjects of that our Kingdom, &s;hall be allowed the &s;ame Liberty of Trade, that others enjoy with the Engli&s;h Plantations; And in general, You may &s;ignify to them, Our Re|&s;olution to promote and advance the Trade of the Kingdom, And the three Friggots they
<PB N="15" REF="9">demand, having been given by Parliament for guarding the Trade of the Coa&s;ts, We are not re&s;olved to di&s;po&s;e of them till We have the Advice of Our Parliament, And &s;o We bid you heartily Farewe. Given at your Court at <HI>Ken&s;ington,</HI> the Tenth day of <HI>January</HI> 1700, and of our Reign the Eleventh Year, By His Ma|je&s;ties Command <HI>Sic. Sub. Seafield</HI> Directed thus, To Our Right Tru&s;ty and Right well Beloved Cou&s;in and Councellour, Our Right Tru&s;ty and Entirely Beloved Cou&s;in and Councellour, Our Right Tru&s;ty and well Beloved Cou&s;ins and Councellours, Our Right Tru&s;ty and well Be|loved Councellours, And to our Tru&s;ty and well Beloved Councellours, <HI>Patrick</HI> Earl of <HI>Marchmont</HI> our Chancellour, and the re&s;t of the Lords and others of our Privy Council, of our Ancient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland.</HI> This is a true Copy taken from the Principal and Sub&s;cribed by <HI>Sic Sub&s;cribitur.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilb. Eliot Cls. Sti. Con.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>An other Letter from the Company, to my Lord</HI> Ba&s;il Hamilton.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur Lord&s;hips Letters to the Court of Directors, having been by them Com|municated to us, We cannot but acknowledge, that as you have at our reque&s;t Frankly un|dertaken a trouble&s;ome Journey and Task, to &s;erve the Intere&s;t of your Country and our
<PB N="16" REF="10">Company: So we are fully &s;atisfied, that you have acquitted your &s;elf with a great deal of Prudence and Di&s;cretion in the execution of that Charge, for which we render you mo&s;t hearty Thanks: But finding by a Letter of the 10th. in&s;tant from His Maje&s;ty to the Lords of His Privy Council, and by a former from the Secretaries of State, to the Lord Chancel|lour (Copies of both which are herewith in|clo&s;ed) That His Maje&s;ty has determin'd not to allow your Lord&s;hip acce&s;s to pre&s;ent our Addre&s;s, nor to impart to His Maje&s;ty, what other things we gave you in charge by your In&s;tructions. We are heartily Sorry that your Lord&s;hips carrying of our Addre&s;s, &s;hould bring you under any &s;uch di&s;agreeable cir|cum&s;tances with His Maje&s;ty. But the matter being &s;o, we cannot think it ju&s;t to detain your Lord&s;hip any Longer at <HI>London,</HI> to the neglect of your own affairs at home, and do therefore hereby &s;ignify that your Lord&s;hip may u&s;e your own Freedom, to take Journey homeward as &s;oon as you think fit, and as may &s;ute be&s;t with your conveniency. This is in name, pre&s;ence and by order of the Coun|cil-General of our Company from</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED><HI>Your Lord&s;hip's mo&s;t humble Servant,</HI> John Home P.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the</HI> 29th <HI>of</HI> January, 1700.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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