• A SHQR T 
 
 .VINDICATION 
 
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 Phil. Scots Defence 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Scots Abdicating DARIEN.: 
 being 
 
 In Anfwer to the Challenge of the 
 Author of the Defence of that Settle¬ 
 ment, to prove the Spanijb Title, to 
 Darien, bv Inheritance, Marriage, Do¬ 
 nation, Purchafe, Reverfion, Surrender, 
 or Conqueft. ' 
 
 WITH A 
 
 Prefatory Reply, to theFalfeand 
 Scurrillous Afper/ions, of the New Au¬ 
 thor of, The "Juft and Mode(l Vindicati¬ 
 on, &c. And fome Animadverfions on 
 the material Part of it, relating to the 
 Title of DARIEN, • - 
 
 Non cjiii mult a fed q:ti muknni dick liene dick. 
 
 LO >7 D 0 N : 
 
 - Printed in the Year, 1700. 
 
PREF ACE- 
 
 T HE rnoffgenuine and bejl meant\De- 
 ffgns of Man , being lyshle not only to. 
 MifconffruBion, but Reproach, 'tis the 
 left furprifwg to meet with either of thefe in the 
 prefent Cafe, confidering. the fmatt-Proportion l 
 bear to a numerous Party, who are fo far dipt 
 n a Project, that motwkhflanding a great m<t-. 
 iy of them by this Time begin to perceive the 
 'Errour they have been led unto , yet they will not. ' 
 diffntangle themfelves .; and if any Perfoh 
 wuld take upon, him to unblind, them he midi • 
 expelf to have his Throat cut. • 
 
 : As my firfi Attempt in this Nature k not ' 
 only cenfupd Bold , but Impudent, by the Mana r 
 gers of the Caledonian, Project, fo it has been 
 attended with Menaces enough , that 1 (Ifould 
 not eat my Chriftmas Dinner . The friend¬ 
 ly Advices! I have received of ray Jddden Fate 
 don't in the leaf make my. Pen ftagger from 
 Vindicating what I have already offer'd to jhow 
 the Impracticability of that Trojett, for which 
 altho' I am at prefent bajsly cenjiiPd, by drefq- 
 lute and keadffrong Party , yet,'Idol ft not of 
 receiving the Approbation of the moderate and,. 
 
 A 2 _ judicious: 
 
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 judicious Part of that Nation before the Jubilee 
 be over, my Theme being both just, and well 
 defign'd to the Proprietors of that Stock, 
 
 1 could have wip'd that this gentle Author, 
 who Effects Jo much Moiejly , Senfe, and good 
 Manners , had flood by his Text, and had taken' 
 
 • more convincing Ways of confuting what 1 have 
 written on the Darien Subject: For, however 
 neceffary he thinks it for his Argument to treat 
 it and me with Reproach, yet he will gain there¬ 
 by bat few. Profelytes to his Opinion: And if'he 
 had emplofd his Mathematical Head in difpro- 
 ving what 1 have offer'd in Defence of the 
 Abdication, with fome of thofe Euclid Demon¬ 
 fir ations, wherewith he would ley us know that he 
 abounds , his (landerotss and perfonal Reflections \ 
 ■ might be the better credited: But as he has ad¬ 
 vanc'd nothing, either to juflife the Conduct of 
 the Directors of that Company, or to difprove 
 one Syllable of what's offer'd against the Darren 
 Project, except the Inftance of Mr. Wafer, 
 which he wouldhave the World'take forgran¬ 
 ted.to be a Lye, and make ufe of that to o- 
 verthrow my Faith; 1 hope that (if the whole 
 Difcourfe does not carry Demonfiration enough 
 dong with it) it may fiand firm till fuch Tim 
 as it is repeaPd by Dint of ArgumentAnd 
 as. for this Pafjage relating to Mr, Wafer, 
 1 (ball juflife it before I proceed any fur¬ 
 ther. ' . . . 
 
 , In 
 
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 Irithe'firB Place,-1 defire that it may be tar 
 ken as .a Preliminary, that if Mr. Wafer had 
 met-with fo egregious a Romance, and fo near¬ 
 ly relating to him publickly in Print, he ought 
 infjufiice, both to the Company and himfelf, to 
 have infiantly detected ids Faljbood: But al- 
 tho’helives very near the Royal-Exchange, 
 and had the Perufal of the fame Book the fir It 
 Day it was publifhed (which is above Two Months 
 ago) yet he hath Seen fo far from offering to 
 difprove it, that he hath fime exprefi himfelf 
 to Perfons of unquefiionable fir edit, that if he 
 ■ had known of my Intention, or had not thereby 
 been anticipated fro)n Publifbing his own Sen - * 
 timents, he woulfi have faid a great Deal 
 more on that Subject. 
 
 . 1 pmli needs own , that he was ignorant of 
 my Defign of Publifbing that, or any Thing 
 elfe ; but I mull tell you, that about the fame ; 
 -Time, he thought to have obliged the Company \ 
 to recompenfe him for his Difappointment, or ^ 
 to have expos’d them to the Publfck :■ And to 
 , confirm ; what I herein affiert, •tis very well known 
 to a great many in. Town, that-about Four , 
 Months agoe, he prefented'.a Memornl to a 
 . certain Scots Perfon of Quality, containing e- _ 
 yery Syllable of what-1 have wrote, as likewife 
 ' fom more which I defign’d/y deft out, becaufe' 
 
 . itfparticularizdd feme- Perfons whom I had no 
 ’ Inclination to, mention. . 
 
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 He was kept in Hopes of fom Gratification, 
 and- 1 believe be might have been eafily com - 
 pounded with, but. what I have wrote from his 
 own Mouth and Memorial, 1 am fo far from 
 difirufiing he will retraft, or can be brib'd,to 
 deny, that 1 firmly .believe he gave no Occafion 
 ' to this Author, to make ufeof his Name torn* 
 pofi thus upon the World: And to confirm me 
 the more in this Belief, if is not above Three 
 Days fince he came to-wy Lodging to acquaint 
 me, that a Book was newly publtp'd in Vindi¬ 
 cation of the. Damien Settlement , but he had 
 not feen it; on which I ask'd, If any Perfons 
 had been with him from the Company, to ob¬ 
 lige him to pafs from what he hadfaid and 
 wrote? to which he anfwer'd, No. I {bow'd 
 him the Book and. Pajfage in it, relating to him , 
 which having perus'd, he told me, That he wits fo 
 far from p'afling from it, that he wonder'd hotv 
 that Author jhould be fo confident, ' as fo re¬ 
 ly on what he jhould anfiver. : i. 
 
 . If this is, not enough to juftifie that . Pajfage 
 relating to Wafer, by which our Authorfub- 
 rnits the Truth of the Whole to be 'try'd, I 
 {ballprove Viva voce., if need be-, andpall 
 
 fay no more to it here, but only {how.you the E- 
 vafion which our Author makes ufe of in: the 
 i%th Page of his Preface, to clear his Party-of 
 thatlmputatiou, Towit; Nor can any with¬ 
 out the Renouncing of common Senfe, be¬ 
 lieve that the Gentlemen employ’d by the 
 Com- 
 
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 Company to. confer and tranfaft with Mr. 
 Wafer, could be guilty of ftfchWeaknefs and 
 Folly, as to reveal and dete&to him their 
 Pefign upon Darien, in that ,the whole Snc- 
 cefs of that Undertaking depended entire¬ 
 ly upon it’s being kept and preferv’d a ■ 
 Secret. If our learned'Author would hot im- 
 pute it to brutal Ignorance, to differ in any 
 Point front bis Conception of’things, I might 
 be allow’d to. deteffi the Weaknefs or Innocence 
 of this frong Argument ; and would ask him, 
 if at the. Conference between the fame Gentle¬ 
 men'and Mr.. Wafer, at Pontaksh, the’ Sak-r 
 pB: was not Darien ? 1 would likewife know 
 whetjber the Collection of’ Guineas for him ’at 
 that: Meeting, was not. to keep him from Dif 
 pofing of .hmfelf till they acquainted the Conir 
 pany. with his Qualifications to ferve them?- As 
 alfo, whether that Articlehn the Contrail, 
 whereby ,he received 20 Guineas,. Was -not to¬ 
 wards Stopping the Publifhing: of this Book 
 for the. Space of a Month y till the Company and * 
 he Jbould come to Terms for Suppreffing it al¬ 
 together 1 Mis evident enough , thfit We Sub- 
 Jlance, of that Book or Journal relates, to no¬ 
 thing but Darien ; as likewife, that Wrier*s 
 Talent as to Projects lay no. where elfeNow 
 how. far this Mathematical Argument, of our 
 Author will demonflrate Wafer to be a Fool ,, 
 and men Lyar, Lfiibmitjt to.Judgment. In 
 .the mean Time,, it may. be' worthy: of Remark, 
 
 ‘ ' ' that 
 
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 that this-Faction is not calculated for Lon* 
 don or EnglanVf, but for a Country 'where 
 Wafer is not-to be feen and fpoken with. 
 
 Believing what U already faid on this Head 
 to be fufficient to reinjlate me in my Credit, I 
 {hall return to the firjl Part of this Preface, 
 where he* throws fome Foul-mouthed AfperfionSy 
 not only on me, but likewife on hjs Majejlfs 
 Minijlers of State; how corrofpondent that . 
 Style is with the Title of his Book, let any Per- 
 Jon judge, or if it is not ftter to be bound- up 
 with the Volumes of the Scotch Presbyterian 
 Eloquence, than left ftnglefor the more civil Ca- 
 fuijlsofthisAgetoperufe. 
 
 I Jball not take upon me to fay anything re¬ 
 lating to thatMiniJler,- whom he ufes Jo fcur- 
 riloujly,- believing, that if he thinks.it worth 
 his While, he will do himfelf Right ; yet 1 muB 
 take upon me to remark,' that through the whole 
 Strain of his Calumnies and Invectives, it is 
 not at him alone he points his Thunder, but 
 through the .Sides .of that State-Officer . he 
 wounds and bullies the ReB (be of what Office 
 or Quality they will ) who will prefume to aB 
 directly or indireBly againfi the Darien Pro¬ 
 ject ; and if a Man dares be fo bold, as to 
 whifper his Thoughts, , either publickly or pri¬ 
 vately, in Oppojition to it,' he mujj pe mouth'd 
 at, and reprefented as an Enemy to one of.His 
 Majeftfs kingdoms, and is not ft for the Of¬ 
 fice he bears ; as alfo,'that he mufi remember 
 
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 . the Fate of Archbifhop Laud/ and the Earl of 
 Strafford. So God ha 1 Mercy Old England. . 
 
 . As to that Part of hisjlandrous Story, where¬ 
 in he inf mates, that large Rewards have been 
 heftow'don me by that Minifter-, I have Rea- 
 i fon to. believe, that the■ Perfons, whom hie calls 
 1 Friends,' of thofe State-Comcellors, are only 
 feign’d by Umfelf, to make the Story pafs the 
 more current: As for my felf, I muft needs 
 , own, that when 1 came from Scotland, ’ about 
 I Eighteen Tears ago, I brought but little Money 
 [with meand what 1 have purchafedftme,, has 
 been in Serving the' Kjng: Rut that I either 
 , receiv’d' or expelled any mercmary, R ewar.d (as 
 our Author: impudently and-malicioujfy infnu- 
 ates)I muft tell him,- or whoever elfe fays fo;, 
 that, it is a Lye . To reproach me the more, - he 
 ogives out , that I was exf sit'd the ' Navy for 
 iCrimes and Mifdemeanours, which is lihwife 
 falfe, for 1 was neither expelPd Or ever tainted 
 with any bafeor mean-Amon: The Reafonof 
 my Leaving that Service, is fufficiently known 
 to be on the Score of a..Rahcounter I had'at 
 Poitfmouth, with the'Commander of the Ship, 
 where Iferv'd. 5 Tis true ', the Cloud I was un¬ 
 der for fame Months afterwards (being unwil¬ 
 ling to ftand the Left of a~ Court Martial) 
 induc'd me. the' eafter to* enter into that Com¬ 
 panies Service, under the' Notion of going to 
 the EaMfidies, and which T was mMe ta- 
 citely to believe for aTwelve-month ^afterwards ; 
 
 B but 
 
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 but by what has happen'd it was jumping out 
 
 £ the Frying-pan into the Fire: For after I 
 i fervid them in more Stations than one 
 (with their Approbation) for the Space of 26 
 Months, and proceeded in their private Expe¬ 
 dition with Five or Six Months Provifions 
 to a Country where nothing was to be feen but 
 Death, Ruine, and the Spanifh Mines, Iha- 
 vinggot my Belly full of the Project, obtain'd, 
 my Difcharge with an ample Certificate from 
 the Council of the Cottony: And altho' I was 
 Shipwrach'd the very next Day, corning out of 
 their Harbour's Mouth, had my - Servant 
 drown'd, efcaping very narrowly my felfi be¬ 
 sides the Lofs of what I had \ when 1 came to 
 England, I was oblig'd to go to Law with 
 them in Do&ors-Commons for my Wages, 
 where it cofi me more than I recover'd. . 
 
 As for theMeannefs of my Office and Parts, 
 ■wherewith our Author upbraids me, IJbatt not 
 offer much on that Head, that fignifying but 
 little to the Subjecl in debate ; We lefs Force 
 the fVeaknefs or Meannefs of my Argument' 
 carries with it, it is the edjier evinc'd, but 
 us there's nothing appears, but flandrons 
 Afperfions to confute it, it will bear but little 
 Weight with the judicious' Part of Mankind. 
 The Qbfcurity of our Author, indeed, fbades 
 him from J'uitable Returns to his Compli¬ 
 ments ; however, I muff take the Liberty to 
 remark that, mtwithfianding he would make 
 us 
 
m believe be is w Plagiary.; yet the whole Sy~ 
 fiem of his Difcourfe is eafily difiover'd to be 
 Mr. F—rs, klmoffParagraph by Paragraph,' 
 only drejs'd up with a long-winded Pramiumy 
 a 0ain of innumerable Tautologies , Paren- 
 thefes, and crabbed Abfirufitks, defignedly cal -, 
 culated to Crambo, the Reader, out of Tils Senfes ; 
 befides, a few .French and/ Civilian Authori¬ 
 ties, the Latter of which he might'have kept-in 
 his Pocket,- 'till- once the Spanifh Title to Da- 
 irien had been fairly confuted: Hepas, indeed, 
 left out fime of the fowrejl Parts -of the Origi- 
 , ml Book, ■ which reflected on his- Majejiy, ■ and 
 the Englifh Government,.buthe 'retains, fiich 
 Portions of the fame Venome, that- .notwithi 
 flanding his affected Manner linef$-,' and- Dei 
 cency, be can't forbear fpurtiug it. out in fe¬ 
 ver alP laces, nor from pomtihgiNplaNly and 
 diametrically at the Councils., -and'Government 
 flf’England, The Threats, indeed , are 'Airy, 
 gnd.fi. the lefs worthy of Regard .; yet they 
 may;be. look'd upon from■ one who'fits under 
 'the Nofe of the fame Government, to be fraught* 
 ed.with much more Prefumptioh',. than what's 
 offer'd in the Defence of the Scots Abdicating 
 Darien, .to dCompany of Merchants. . 
 
 But that I may, vindicate that: Defence from 
 any National Ajperfims, whip- thofi Gentle* 
 men, who are bigotted to the Darien Projedf, . 
 Ipa'd- it with',., and 'whoHvould fiueex^ithgffirlh 
 
whom it was plainly directed, and apply it to 
 the Body of the Nation ; to clear my felf of this 
 general Imputation, I mufi refer the Reader 
 to the 6th Page of its Epiftle Dedicatory, 
 where I particularly caution it to prevent fini- 
 ftrous Interpretations. In the next place, I mufi 
 detect the bafe and unfair Methods, which the 
 Author of The juft and modeft Vindicati¬ 
 on ufeth to wrefi, and pervert what I have, 
 faid in the Paragraphs, which he cites in his 
 Preface to the Reader, The firfi is Page 2. 
 where he tells you, That I have affum’d the 
 Impudence of averting, that the Motives 
 on which the Proclamations were emitted 
 in the EnglHh Weft-lndia Plantations, for¬ 
 bidding the Supplying, Relieving, andi 
 . Affifting the Scots at Darien, or in any 
 Parts of America, where they ftiould fettle,! 
 was hecaufe the Government of England 
 would not be acceffary to an A&, which 
 the World might judge to be Felonious. 
 Now, that the Reader may judge of this man¬ 
 nerly Gentlemans Integrity, I pall rehearfe 
 the Paragraph as I wrote it, where there 1 s nei¬ 
 ther any mention made of the Englifh Procla¬ 
 mations, much lefs of the Englifh Govern¬ 
 ment's forbidding, to afflB or fupply the Scots 
 in any Part of. America, to wit, Defence oi 
 the Scots Abdicating, Pag. 4. Epifl. .Del 
 . If you were thus perfwaded {direBIngit ti 
 ' the Managers of the Qomfany) to run head 
 loo[ 
 
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 long on a blind Projeft, at which the Tra¬ 
 ding Part of the World ftands amaz’d; -the 
 India Companies of England, and Holland 
 laugh at in their Sleeve, and the reft of Man¬ 
 kind admire,thatPeople in their right Senfes 
 lhould.be guilty of, and if the fame fhould 
 . mifearryby your own ill Management (to 
 fay no worfe on’t) ’tis not fair you fhould 
 fnarje at your Neighbours, who have no 
 other Hand in your Misfortune, than-that 
 they would -not be acceffary to any Act 
 which the World might judge Felonious, 
 and. wherein.they could not join without 
 engaging themfelves in an unreafonable 
 War, and in the. End to~aflift you with 
 Weapons to break their own Heads. But 
 that I may likewifte rehearfe the Paragraph, 
 where-1 had Occafton to mention the Englifh 
 . Proclamation or Prohibition. . See- the Page 
 1 56 . Laying afide the Spanifh Complaint, 
 and atlmit the Scotch Company to have 
 a. Legal Title to their Settlement, was it 
 not reafonable, that the Goverment of 
 England having met with the clandeftine 
 -Declarations, which the Scotch Cottony 
 had fpread all- Over- the Weft-Indies , in¬ 
 viting them over toDar-ien; ..fhould.,take 
 •fuitable Meafures to prevent the ill Con- - 
 Sequences of the fame, and retain their own 
 Subjects;: The Declarations are notorious, 
 and mult bepenn’d by fome Perfoii belong- 
 
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 ing to the Company or Collony, and I 
 prefume the Oppofite Proclamation or 
 Prohibition was penn’d by fome Englijh 
 Man, who had fome Intereft in the Eng¬ 
 lijh Plantations. Now whether our Author 
 umbers in his juft and modeftVindication, 
 fairly and hone ftly, I fubmit it to Judgment, 
 or whether 1 mayrft juftly retort upon himfelf, 
 again , that Jlanderous Afperfton relating to 
 Wafer, in the 18 th Page of his Preface viz. 
 Thatthroughthe Fellows appearinga Lyar, 
 or uncandid in one Cafe,hisTeftimony fhouitl 
 not be receiv’d in any other whatfoever. 
 
 Nay in the fame Breathy he backs it with 
 fuch another Perverfton (altho’ not cjuite fo 
 maliciousj and vents his Choller thus , citing 
 the 'jth Page of the Epiftle Dedicatory, That 
 I Ihould have taken the Boldnefs to add, 
 in Terms that are moft flanderous, as well, 
 as defamatory, that their Attempt of Plant- ; ' 
 ing on the Ifthmus, was their Settling ;a. 
 Colony in another Man’s Dominions, un- 
 lefs by Virtue of their Presbyterian Tenet ' 
 (of Dominions being founded in.Grace) 
 the Scots , who are the Prefumptive Elecf,. 
 pretend a Divine Right tp the Goods pi 
 the Wicked, and fo take upon ‘them to , 
 - cloath the Seven Councellors of their Co¬ 
 lony, with fuch another Commilfipn as ' 
 
 . God gave the Hebrews, when they depart¬ 
 ed out of Egypt . The Injuftice \ which this 
 Gentle-;. 
 
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 : Gentleman Mbs me, and, the little Service he 
 does his Caufe , is very apparent ; fir 1 don't 
 fay, that the Scots are. the Trefimptive EleB 
 (there being no fitch Word mention'd') nor do 
 , 1 think it. Some Species offbAen, indeed, in 
 that Nation are conceited with that Opinion of 
 themfelves, but there are feveral Perfons of 
 Worth who will not ajfume 'that Title ■ neither 
 do 1 direB that Medication to them, but to 
 .Directors of the Septs ■ Affrican Company, of 
 whom that Sept, who were the Occafion of the 
 chief Mifmanagementy are of this vain Kjd- 
 ney. As for Harris, whom our .Author cites 
 irreverently in the fame Paragraph, I know 
 him, 'but D — 1 is fuch a StrangeY to me, 
 that I proteft, there’s none of mfiAcquaintance 
 1 can think 'of whofe Name begins "and ends 
 with- thofe Letters :But that mufi be plac’d to 
 the other falfe Notions he .runs. on. 
 
 '.. Our Author thinks fit to cite only one Pafi 
 fage-more of. The Defence of the Scots Abd. 
 ,pag.i6. That juft as the Scots Companies 
 jBooks were opened at Amfterdam, for re¬ 
 ceiving Subfcriptions to their Capital Stock, 
 the Dutch EaJt and West-lndia Companies 
 run open-moutb’d to the Lords of Amfter¬ 
 dam, fhewing what was hatching by die 
 Scotch Commifiioners in their . City, to 
 Tui'ne the.Tr'ade of the United Provinces. 
 The Gentleman thinks fit to own this to be 
 true, defignjng to make Two . .neceffjtry Vfes- of 
 
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 it ; the frU. is calculated for the Proprietors of 
 the Scots Aftiican Stock, as the Printing and 
 Reprinting of tbe'Houfe of Commons Addrefs 
 to theKJng , of the Tear i6g6, ^Edinburgh, 
 was to inf mate the Fafinefs of the ProjeB, 
 and the Riches that were to be acquired by it, 
 when fitch Foreign People opposed it: But that' 
 none of thofe may be deceiv'd by the Vfe he makes 
 of that Paragraph, I must acquaint them in 
 port, that if thofe Dutch M en had known the 
 Scotch Companies Project to be on Darien, I 
 dare fay, they, would not have taken fuchMea- 
 fures to opjiofe them, the other Vfe our Au¬ 
 thor makes of this is, to. fow fome malicious.. 
 Seeds of diftrust among the People of England, 
 and to calumniate His Majefiy and his Coun¬ 
 cils, as if thofe were altogether calculated for 
 a Dutch Interest. This Mathematical Polk 
 tician, both here and every where elfe, when 
 
 jefiy and his Government, preuds hisAfperp- 
 ons under a Religious and Well-meaning Canv ¬ 
 as if they were the Apprehenfions and Defigns ~ 
 of other People, and not of himfelf 
 
 This modeft Author excufes. himfelf from re? 
 plying any Thing to the Argument-part of what 
 hot been offer'd againft the Darien Project, it , 
 being fully obviated-and anticipated by' this . 
 Book of his, which he fays was- 'antecedehilf ; : 
 written on that Subject: How far this is true, 
 let any M an (who will have the Patience, or 
 
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 punifh himfelf’ to read, it ). determine. 'Tis. 
 pity that-it jhould have lain Jo long in Em-< 
 brio, and not feenthe Light, till now moft 
 People -are confirm'd of-an adverfe Opinion of 
 the Project, not becaufe it is like to enrich that 
 Company, and Nation, but becaufe there’s a great 
 Deal of good Money fquander'd away, which 
 might have been better employ'd.Neither can 
 that Judicious part of Mankind '(to whom he 
 recommends his Booky find any more in it of 
 Subfiance than what is already, and lefs barba- 
 roufiyexprjs'd in the Original, which this eter¬ 
 nal Pdrenthefer has only Paraphras'd upon, with 
 apedantick Accumulation of SynonimousWords 
 and Repetitions, and has' no ways mended it ■ 
 unlefs he thinks, it a firong Way of Arguing, to 
 brawl a Man. out of his Reafon \ which, in my 
 Opinion, fuits better with Billingfgate; than 
 the Aula. 
 
 But to proceed on the Vindication of my de¬ 
 fending the Scots Abdicating Darien, ImaB 
 tellyou, that the Motives which pujb'd me on 
 to it, were quite different, from thofe of this 
 modefi Author, or fome more particular Per- 
 fons, who, beftdes the Noife themfelves make, 
 may rather'encourage than endeavour to. crujh 
 the Clamours of others, it being, a Topick war¬ 
 ranted by Precedents -, whereby Money has been 
 got, and may f ill, if it be well manag'd, altho' 
 perhaps, little-of it may. come to'the Share of 
 the Subfcribers. ■ 
 
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 Any impartial or unprejudiced Reader, who 
 hath perus’d that Defence, may fe.e that it runs 
 in-three different Strains ; the fir ft is in Vindi¬ 
 cating the JuJlice of His Majefly and Councils 
 from the oblique and exprefs Calumnies, iMhe 
 Defence of the Scots Settlemen at Darren, 
 which my Duty oblig’d me to as a Subject, and 
 Jo long a Servant of His Majefly and the Eng- 
 lifh Nation, ■ that what Bread I have eat thefe 
 18 Tears has been theirs, favemy Caledonian 
 Allowance, during that Service, 'and .my Trip 
 to. Darien. And if in that Part of it, which 
 points at the Errata’s of that Author (where he 
 jets up his Royal Beacons for. Kjng William to 
 mind,, and be aware of)-1 have offer’d , any thing 
 inconfijlent with the Celebrated Hi forks of 
 Scotland, or have not worded,it with more Ad¬ 
 vantage to the Scots, than the Englilh Hifto- 
 rians relate it, Heave it tojudgment. 
 
 The fecond Styain of it runs on the Proce- 
 . dure of the Company, their Mifmanagernent of 
 that-great AUthey are invefed with, as alfo 
 of the Money of thejeveral Proprietors where¬ 
 with they were intrufied, and of their, fending 
 Jo many worthy Gentlemen, and other brave 
 Fellows on Jo dark an Errand, unprovided of 
 either the Necejfaries for their Subffiance, or 
 Credit topurchafe any, and ofnegklHng them 
 in fo Foreign and defolate a Country. 2 have 
 faid no more in this than what is notorious, and 
 if I have deviated in any particular, thofe 
 Gentle- 
 
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 Gentlemen who left the Collony atfiril, and the 
 reft who have quitted it fince, are dt liberty to 
 confute me. As for my own Share , l loft what 
 1 had in their Service ; when I came home, J was.. 
 oblig'd to fue them for what was my due ; and 
 fwhen at the Request of fame Perfaus of Qua¬ 
 lity, I gave a candid Relation of the Collony, 
 their Affairs, arid the Improbability of their 
 holding of it'-, the Managers in Scotland riot 
 only usH'Means.to ftifle my Credit, but baffl'd , 
 i and mifreprefanted-me here, and when-any ad- 
 verfe News.came , at.any time, relating'to Ca¬ 
 ledonian, it was cruft/d~ and laid on my Back, 
 as the malicious Author, of it. 1 thank God I 
 am the Subject oft a Nation, where I breath free 
 Air, and may Jay, t thatLhave been’ill us'd by 
 that. Company, and am- riot under the petty Ty¬ 
 ranny ;of : fame' Gentlemen, where T. mutt not . 
 mutter a Groan,, altho'. my., Oppreffion were 
 ' greater-, but in a Country where it'u'noCrime 
 to detett the..Erroriofa asgreat'Societies,' arid 
 i Per fans when,they act amifsi ' ; "*'( ■ 
 
 ! . The Third and Lafl Strain of that Defence,' 
 hints at the Impracticability of tbiD&nenPrd- 
 jeff, (bowing the little Encouragement ’the-Com- 
 pany has, to'profecute a Title to. a■ Colony there-, 
 arid the [malt Advantages they .can reap by its, 
 either to themfelves or ;Nation,- Aho'miey Were 
 firmly poffeft pf it. ': If the RefpectTl bear to 
 the Welfare of that, .Nation, and particular 
 ■Triendfhip T oive tp 'fever al Proprietors .of the 
 
Stock, bad not more Influence on me than my 
 Pique at fitch Directors of the Company, as 
 were the Occaflon of the Miflmanagement, I 
 jbould have held my Pen, and wrote nothing 
 on this Part of the Subject-, but by reafon I 
 know what Pains have been taken to lead and 
 retain a. great Number of People in this Ml- 
 flake, I Was refold'd to dete£i it. *Tls true1 
 did not inflft much on it', thinking it unneieffary 
 on the Account of their Colonies quitting the 
 Place; but flnce what has.been offer'd already 
 Gn that 'Head has not any Influence, I jhall off 
 fer fiome few Things more to their Coipfidera - 
 lion, by way of An finer to the Original Author’s 
 Challenge, to prove the Spanifh Title to Da- 
 rierv either by Inheritance, Marriage, Dona¬ 
 tion, Pur chafe, Reverflon, Surrender, Fof- 
 fejjion or Conquect. I jhall offer nothing dogma ■* 
 tically, nor pretend to know all the Spanifh Pre-. 
 tenjions to it, Jo that what 1 offer on this Head, 
 is, Salvo jure, cujuslibit Hifpani, or any ci¬ 
 ther Perfon who will take this Task upon him, 
 JftheGentkmen of the. Company will not liften 
 to Reafon, let therm go on and profper; they 
 may perhaps flndit true, after they have thrown 
 fome more good Money after bad. I mufi only 
 whifper the juft and mode ft Author in the Ear, 
 that thofe Per fins, whether of the Englifh 
 pr Dutch Inter eft, who liften,- and make lea ft 
 Oppofltion to the Darien Profit -are not the 
 feft Friends to the Scots Aftric %a.Company; 
 
 ' ■ they 
 
[ 5i 1 ; ; ' 
 
 they perhaps fee the Event of it, and will but 
 fmile to fee the remaining Part of the Stock 
 fbipt off for Darien. 
 
 D Efence of the Scots Settlement at ' 
 Darien, Page 4. he begins to dif- 
 prove the' Spanijh Title to the Province of 
 Darien , and tells you ; It is evident, that the 
 Spaniards cannot pretend a Title • to that Corn - 
 try, by Inheritance, Marriage, or the Donati - 
 on of Prince and People , &c. 
 
 It being the eafieft Part of an Argument 
 to deny, but not to prove a Negative^ ’tis 
 to be prefum’d, that what he hath to f ad- 
 . vance on this Head, is the Authority ©f 
 the Colonies Journal, which came home 
 ■laft March': At the fame time, it is to be 
 believ’d, as a Preliminary, that the Com¬ 
 pany defign’d to irtv'eftthe fame’Place of 
 Darien before any Perfon of the Colony 
 either fawthat Country, or could pen the 
 Journal. If tlie Company depended on 
 Buccaneer's Stories (the Actions arid Wri¬ 
 tings of fuch being equally regarded by. 
 politicalEodies) their Eoundation wasfan- 
 dy and lame,, and fuch Evidences will 
 fcarce be admitted, in this Cafe, in . the 
 Courts of any Kingdom or State. ’ : ; 
 
 ’Tis fufficiently known to all Europe} that ' 
 tbi Spaniard h&s been near 205 Years Ma¬ 
 tter 
 
fter of fo much of the Continent of A- , 
 menu, as pafles commonly by the Names of 
 Mexico and Peru, which are Two Trafts 
 of Land feveral Thoufand Miles extent, 
 both on the South-and North Seas: Thofe ' 
 Two v'aft Countries are join’d by a Neck 
 of Land call’d the ifihmus di Darien (which 
 is about 6 o or 70 Leagues .long, -and about 
 20 broad in the narroWeft Part from Sea 
 to-Sea) which Province, he may be faid 
 as much- to inherit and poflefs as any 0-. 
 ther Portion of Land, of that Extent, in 
 either Mexico or Peru ; or rather more, by 
 Reafon his moft important and ftrongeft 
 Cities m America, are on this very Ifihmus, 
 to wit, New Panama, St. Maria, withfe-. 
 veral fmaller Garrifons on the South-fide, 
 and Porto-bello , Chagre, : Nombre. de dios, 
 Conception, &c. oil the North-fide- belides 
 Carthagena adjoining to the Baft End of the 
 ifihmus. It can’t be expend, that' the 
 Spaniard can have a Fortand Garrifon on 
 every Hill, or in every Creek of his A- 
 meritan Dominions, nor that he Ihould ex¬ 
 tirpate the whole Race of the Indians in 
 this * Province ol Darien, ;more than- he 
 does in his others. ’Tis evident, that the 
 Spaniards are ; more, numerous on this, Ifih¬ 
 mus and the Parts adjoining, than on four 
 Times fo much Ground, in either Mexico 
 or Peru, and where never hitherto diftur- 
 
; [*?].•• • 
 
 bed ,or interrupted in tlieir Poffeflionofit, 
 but by Pyrates, Buccaneers and Privateers, 
 except in the Time of a declar’d War, 
 when their Towns in Flanders and old 
 Spam were equally lyable to Attacks. 
 
 . This Ifihmm is of that Importance to the 
 , Spaniards, that.it will not admit ofa Doubt 
 amongft reafonable and unintereffed Men, 
 but that they fhould take as much Pains to 
 be Mafters of.it, and retain the fame, as 
 either Mexico., or Peru, by Reafonit is the 
 Thorough-fair, and Road by which all 
 their Treafure and Riches from the South . 
 Sea are convey’d over-to their Galleons 
 and Flota’s, on the North Sea, and fo to 
 Europe. , ’Tis very odd,' that this Gentle¬ 
 man fhould allow, the Spaniards to- cut off 
 40 Millions of Indian^ in the Reign of 
 Charles the 5th to make Way for their Co- 
 ’ ionies, and to neglect tliis Neck of Land 
 which joins them, and which is thtTermi- 
 nm and Receptacle of the Whole,, and 
 without which moft of their Cbllonies on 
 tihe South Sea are not worth Six-pence to 
 Old Spain. . A Man’s* Reafon will give him 
 that it was as eafie, and of more Importance 
 to clear the Province of Darien of 40 HU1I- 
 dred as the other Parts of America 
 
 of 40 Millions j atid if they could fwedp 
 off to. many at firft Entrance into that 
 .Country, ,it may be reafonably allow’d that 
 
they have had time enough to 'clear this 1 ? 
 Province of fuch a fmall Number of Ene¬ 
 mies. The Suppofition of the Spaniards 
 neglefting this Ifihmus of Darien , is as im¬ 
 probable and‘ridiculous, as if the incor¬ 
 porated Inhabitants of London fhould have .; 
 made themfelves Mafters of the City and’ 
 Borough of Southwarky dxid have negle&ed > 
 tofubjefl; the Bridge to their Dominion or * 
 Charter : Nay, the Simile in Proportion 
 ist)f more Weight and Importance on the 
 Spdnijb fide' than this is on the City’s, al- 
 tho’ there was no other wayof communi¬ 
 cating with the other fide of the ,Thames, 
 than this of the Bridge. 
 
 . ’Tis evident, that thofe Spahifb Cities , 
 and’ Forts are fcatter’d over the IJihmns'j 
 being on the middle, and at both ends of 
 it, and that they have an interrupted Com¬ 
 munication with, one another. If the Da¬ 
 rien Indians were not'in Subjection, or if 
 they were in War with the Spaniards (as. 
 this Gentleman would make us believe) 
 
 . why might they not with the Half of 
 thofe 50000 Men (which fag. 5. he has; 
 pick’d out of Ringrofe the Buccanier’s 
 Dream) intercept the Spanijh Treafure, and • 
 carry it to the Scotch Cpllony, if they were : 
 mot able to beat them* out of their Forts ? •' 
 ’Tis very well known,, that the Spaniards 
 - are fo veryfecure on that Ijihmns, that they 
 ' tranfport 
 
r -51 • 
 
 trafifport-. their Treafure over Land from 
 Panama Porto-bello by- common Carriers; 
 and when any of their Afles or Mules fee 
 up on the Road, they are-fo little appre- 
 henfiveofthe Interns , that they leave their' 
 Loads of Silver where they fall, till luch 
 time as they or Lome others return that way 
 again. . ■ 
 
 He tells us; f. 9. that the Spamjb Domi¬ 
 nions, are limited'^t both Ends of the Ifth- 
 miss, exclufive by a blind Story of the Ri¬ 
 vers Chepo wiA Congo , and afferts, that Nom¬ 
 bre de dios is the Spanijh Bounc!ary,at one 
 end of the Ifthmus, onthe : North-fide, and 
 . that Panama and St. Maria are the Eaftern 
 
 and Weftern Bounds on the South-fide (by 
 which he would take off between 30 and • 
 40 Leagues from the ' . 
 
 Length ofthe* lftbmrnX , * The Author ofthe . 
 
 • r, & .,1 . juft-,and modeft Vmd. 
 
 if he w ill, re-examine the j^s.makes the Length • 
 Map, he will .find that of his ifthmta but 17 
 note ^NmkcdeJio,, TSSSS'' 
 
 ' but likewile Porto : beUo , Harbour lies between 
 CbagtemiConceMonpxt ' 8 or ? .Leagues -from 
 much about the middle 
 of the-. Ifthmw on the . Conception River on the 
 North-fidciaQd.tlteta'OT - Me • 
 
 Panama on -the South- i n tlie fairieTage, that 
 fide is.in the : Cod of the ■ Boats dn pah onei- 
 
 . ther" of thei.e vRirers 
 
 to the South Sea-, which ! is -as'true ' and poffible as to go-by ■ 
 . W^tet.uptathtrTop-o^hei'Monuinenti'- •- ' 
 
 :' ■' I) Bay, 
 
[ - 6 j ' : - ■ - 
 
 Bay, and oppofite to Porto-bello ; as likewife 
 that Old Panama and St .Maria on the fame 
 fide, are further to the Eaft-ward, and 
 right oppofite to Fort St. Andrew, in Cale¬ 
 donia. 
 
 Travellers ought to be gifted with a 
 good-Memory, for altho’ he will not al¬ 
 low tb & Spaniard to be intitled to an Inch 
 of Ground on bis lfihmm,. yet lie forgets 
 himfelf and betrays his Gaufe, for f. 76. he 
 owns that a Party of TenSpa- 
 * By miftake niards lived on Golden *\IJlmd 
 " (which 1S withfo 5 Miles of 
 Def.of theJcori Fort St. Andrew, and looks in- - 
 Abdicar. to the Caledonian Harbour),- 
 till they were cut off by Capt. 
 Jmbrofio. Retells you, indeed, that itwas 
 donebyConfent, and Combination of the 
 Darien Princes, who had only given them 
 a Toleration to live there, and were their 
 Tenants durante beneplacito ; but there’s' no 
 .more Authority for this Affertion, than.that 
 Arijlotle’s Dixit. 
 
 The Ground where this Faff Was comr 
 mitted, was in the Diftricht of C?bpC An¬ 
 drews, who own’d himfelf to be a Spanijh 
 Captain, and which our Author indirectly 
 confcffeth, fag. 75. as likewife, that this 
 Murder was committed but Two Months 
 ' before the Scotch Collony fettled there. The 
 Collonies Journal acknowleclgeth, that 
 
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 Capt.* Andrema. nd Capt.- ; ttPignify’dby.onr 
 
 on the Score, that the tor- - oi’ Caqms, to' 
 mer would hot break with *L 110QtI ; er '°f 
 the Spaniard , whereas if: :S mucSajefty a 7 s 
 this Story of ourCaledoman in that of znwr. ■ 
 Author be true, of that - . - 
 
 Murders"b'eingxommitted by Confent, and 
 Gombinationof the Darien Princes,it fhould 
 be taken for granted, that Capt. Andrews 
 was as much-,an Enemy to Spain as Ambro- 
 fio, or rathe^nipre, becaufe the Murder was 
 committed; in his Grounds 
 
 But it is more liable to. belief, that thofe 
 Ten -Spaniards who were polled on Golden 
 IJland (which is not above-a (Quarter of a 
 Mile fromthe main Land) could think 
 themfelve§ in no greater Danger than fo 
 many English in fome Motmtanpus part of' 
 ire/4^,-.^here a Rapparee Party could with 
 th|^Lrne ; Eafe cut; their Throats.^ Gur Au- 
 thcifiacknowledgeth, that they were polled 
 there for a Look-out, to give rNofice of any 
 VeiTels that, appear’d on that Goali; and it’ 
 may be the eafier credited,; : that the: Spa- 
 ■,wards employ^ 
 
 •for that U^dDy realbn thp Author of, The 
 
 ment^ itopc-e ntly.Tellsyou,? that; the 'Spa¬ 
 niards .call that^-d^landL^ 
 
 GpMdfy .fehisit-felf 
 V P « . implies 
 
t*8] 
 
 implies the Ufe which the Spaniards (not 
 newly, but ofalong Date) have made of it. 
 
 After all, I muft tell, that Capt. Andrews 
 had no Hand in this Murder, but Ambrofio, 
 who came with his Gang from his Habita¬ 
 tion (which is above 40 Miles diftant) and 
 treacheroufly furpriz’d them. Neither is it 
 to be imagin’d, that the Spaniards (who are 
 very Wary and Politick) can be thought 
 to be guilty of fuchWeaknefs, as toexpofe 
 fo fmall a Party amongft Indians , their 
 Native Enemies, but rather that they 
 thought that Party fecure enough in a 
 Country which was under their Obedience, 
 
 So much I have offer’d to demonftrate 
 the Spanijb Inheritance: As for their Title 
 by Marriage, ’tis evident enough, that the 
 King of Spain has more Subjects bom of 
 Indian (befides Moorifh) Mothers in Arne-, 
 ■rka, than he has of Spanijb in Europe : Nay, 
 -if if were not for the Liberty which is gi¬ 
 ven the Spaniards to marry with the Indians. 
 'and Moors, it were impoffible they could 
 plant and inhabit thatvaft Continent; and 
 ’tis well enough known, that this Progeny 
 of the Spaniard: is of moft ufe in defending 
 thofe Countries, and retaining them under 
 •theObedience-and Subjection of Spain. 
 
 As for-die Donation of. Prince or People, 
 I don’t pretend to know the Spanijb Ameri¬ 
 can Archives and Regifters, more than our 
 Author 
 
■ ' f. '-9 ] 
 
 Author can prove the Contrary. I pre- 
 fume the Spaniards have more to fhow for 
 their Inveftiture, than the Caledonian Coun- - 
 cil has brought home with them; Only ■ 
 this I can be pofitive in, that thefe Darien's 
 acknowledge, that they have had nOHead 
 or Emperor of their own Nation, for above 
 thefe 150 tears, which may be reckon’d 
 to be about- the Date of the Spaniards. 
 Settling there; and if I am not miftaken, 
 the Colonies Journal (altho’ caiitioufly 
 enough calculated) acknowledged! the. 
 fame/. 
 
 As for Conquell: (he fays in the fame Pa- 
 Tagraph, Page 4.) 'Tis ridiculous to alledge 
 it , fwce the Dariens are in actual Pojfeffion 
 ofthein Liberty, and were never fttbdrdd., nor 
 receiv'd any Spanifh Garrifon or. Governour ' 
 amongfl them. The laft Author who para- 
 phrafeth on him, alferts likewifethat tiiofe 
 Captains are all fovereign andindepende'nt 
 Princes, but coming clolfer to the Text, 
 tells'us, from Purffendorf and the Civilians, 
 Page 73..(making the Suppofition bf their 
 being conquer’d:) That perfolam Viminjli¬ 
 ft am, non pojfe "dicta Jus qa<eri 7 SreV and from 
 Grotius; That JMtfis. imperii invajbris quos 
 e'xcercet nullam Vim 'habere ~ pojjunt ex ipftus 
 .Jtire, cjuod nullum ift. ‘ By both thefe Au¬ 
 thorities, this rnodeil- Authoi; may, as Le¬ 
 gally claim a 'Right to all th‘e Spanijb Towns 
 
C "3° ] ' ' 
 
 and Dominions, astohisPeninfula, .where¬ 
 in Fort St. Andrew hands, if he can but let 
 his Foot there, and perfwade the Indians 
 to revolt; fmcehefo plainly fays, that the 
 . Spaniards made an unjuft Invalion and Con- 
 queft over the American Princes and King¬ 
 doms, which no ways obliges them to pay 
 Fealty, or continue in their Obedience long¬ 
 er than they find it in their Power to free 
 themfelves from the Yoke. He fouls Pa¬ 
 per enough in Preaching up this Do&rine, 
 altho’ it Sad been Time enough Seven Years 
 • hence,' when the Caledonians had furer 
 Footing on the Ifibmtts : But altho’ thole 
 Civilians allow him fuch Liberty of Con¬ 
 fidence, yet he wifi find fiome prevailing 
 Arguments in the Treaties between the 
 King of Great Britain and Spain to curb 
 him, which out-balances his Civilian Au¬ 
 thorities., Sp that we muft. agree-to fuffer 
 . the King of Spain to be Conqueror and. Ma¬ 
 tter of thole Parts of America , efpecially 
 where he has Cities, Forts, Garrifons and 
 Mines. _ ■ 
 
 But to return to the original Author, 
 who fays, that it is ridiculous to alledge 
 any fuch Title to Darien, where the Na¬ 
 tives are in actual Polfeffion of their Li¬ 
 berty. He is either Brazen-fac’d, elfe he 
 has forgot that St. Maria, Tubaconti,. Old' 
 and New Panama, Nombre de dios, Portq- 
 • * ' : hello, 
 
; *' , L 3 1 - ■ 
 
 Why Conception, &c. arefcatter’dover that' 
 very Ifibrnttsy if I Ihould fay nothing of 
 Guard* or Golden Ijland it felf, where thofe 
 Spaniards refided. Tis well enough known, , 
 the, Spaniards have Mines in feveral "Parts 
 of that IftbnWy and fome not above ’ 12 
 Leagues from the Collony, without any 
 Guard, fave the Overfeers'and other Ne- 
 ceifary Affiftants to keep the Negro's to 
 Work. 
 
 I can’t underhand how thofe Dariens 
 can be faidto enjoy their. Liberty, where 
 there are f ;fo many Cities, Forts arid Gar- 
 rifons to curb them. ’Tis very unaccoun¬ 
 table, that his Warlike Prince, called^-' 
 brofio, fliould live fo occultly, as not to 
 have a ; , Path to his Royal Pallace, but 
 that from'the Capital Pott of his King¬ 
 dom a Man muft wade Eleven Times 
 through the fame River, up to the Middle, 
 and brulh through Thickets, whpfe Twigs 
 have npt been cut nor prun’d fince the Cre¬ 
 ation, before he can conle to his Wigwam' 
 City/'altho’it knot above an Hour’s Jour¬ 
 ney, if the Road were beat and e v en, Am- 
 brofio and Diego have indeed pils’d jin the 
 Pumpdale, and both live pbfcurely with, 
 may be, 50 or %o in their feveral Gangs, 
 whom a Dozen of Men, with Fire. Arms 
 would foon reduce, if it were ^olfibje to 
 ferret them out. 
 
As for Wafer and Dampier whom put, 
 Author add uces, - Page 4. for his Evidences, 
 neither of thefe pretend to know Diego or 
 Ambrofw , Damper having.only crofs’d the 
 Jfihmus and Wafer ftaid not above Three. 
 Months there, with his Lucent a, with whom, 
 after he had fojourn’d till his Leg was well, 
 crofs’d the Country, and took Water at La- 
 Sounds Key, which liesamongft the Sam-. 
 bada\ and about 20 Leagues to the North- 
 Weft of the Caledonian Collony: And if 
 Wafer fays, that the Spaniards have no Corn-, 
 mand over the Indians on the North-fide of 
 the Ifilmms , a little beyond Porto-bello, .1 
 have no occafion to difprove him, fincehe 
 does not deny, that the Spaniards Com¬ 
 mand on the 80uth-fi.de, and likewife on 
 this fide of Porto-bello, where New Caledonia ' 
 lies. See p. 4. Of the Def. of the Scots Settle¬ 
 ment. Our Author either fums up his Evi¬ 
 dence wrong, elfehetrufts to the flight En¬ 
 quiry of his Readers. 
 
 In the Two next Paragraphs he cites the' 
 fame Evidences, and tells you a Tale of a 
 Cock and a Bull, ho w Batt. Sharp in the 
 Tear, 1680, landed at Golden Ifland^Chfi- 
 ften’d one of thofe Indian Captains, Empe¬ 
 ror 7 and his Eldeft Son, Kfng Golden Cape, 
 and having. join’d thofe Darien Pripces (of 
 -their own Creation) took %t.Maria, at¬ 
 tempted and made Prize pf .ieye-< 
 
ral fymjh Ships on the SouthSea* ? aiid liow 
 afterwards whenke came-to b'^if’d for 
 tfeofe Pyraciesin England; ';y/; , 
 the * Emperor of Darien^ > '.'.fTfie.Autiiorofj 
 Comnuffion clear'd lum. 
 gives, Wafer the Lye here ; for> 90;,\heftys, *1© Darien 
 . Captains always rul’d w.ithin themfelv'es, and ney.er.had any. 
 other Indian Sovereign.'. ~ . - *v 
 
 < - itoitJsy jheifo 
 
 $#xthemfelves, andbyithe-Collonies Jour-' 
 pal, that there has ; been,no hdimMomvch 
 or ;Emperor ; iti that Country Jqt fan Age > or 
 tiwo by .paf v^iii the- next pjaefi^if^^s 
 
 Jury ;had any great Inclination todiM him, 
 they rtlight have .enquirM further? into' the 
 Emperor,,or his Secretary who wrote the 
 CommiffionI dare fay, thatln -kkgli(h$&n 
 both wooded and ,fign’d it; for in my Tra¬ 
 vels' in that Country,^ I.could meet with 
 neither Prince.nor Clergyman that :kn$w a 
 letter of the Book. I . want -to know who 
 Commanded zsQenerdiffimoM the Taking 
 .of St. M^m-. and the Spamjb V-nzcs zt Sea, 
 .and when thofe Princes fegv’d on board^ 
 Who was Captain,- v and -who Cook ? It. 
 d^enBithe.-v^r^impiEe. was very low at 
 $he Canding-.hf Capt. S^/irp, when he and 
 hi?T3o iVIoiicouId givefuch.Lifej .and do 
 fueh!Eeats.ag^inft.the ^Spdiardsjoktlut ljih s . 
 Mm ? /When" m§& .the. feme. 
 
 ;Gxe\v, his Daqep .Kj-ng eould do fo iittfe 
 ’:h ' , E‘ ■ with 
 
E 34 3 
 
 with his 50000 Men, to reyenge .the Rape 
 of; his Royal Daughter. ’Tis pity the Jury 
 did not- oblige Mr. S/j/irp to produce his 
 Difcharge, or Certificate from that Empe¬ 
 ror :. But let the Pitcher go ne'er Jo oft to the 
 Well, it mil be fare to come home crack'd fome 
 time or other \ fothis poor So jour or Sailor 
 of Fortune has not the fame Tuck every 
 where, for none of tliofe Commiflidns 
 would ferve his turn 1 about 1 6 Months ago 
 ait the Eland of S tThomas, where he was 
 doom’d to die in a Halter for one of the 
 like Enterprizes, and had nothing eIfe *to 
 truft tothan thek. of Denmark's Merc^f 
 : :Our Author to confirm all, fays in the 
 lame Paragraph, Page 5. This is the mote 
 remarkable, becaufe tliofe very Princesor 
 their Succelfors are. now in League with 
 the Scots , and have joyfully receiv’d them 
 into their Country.: I anfwer to this, I 
 refer my felf to the 58 and 59 Pag. Of the 
 Def. of the Scots Jhd. wliere Captain i^iw- 
 dreas (whom both of us agree onj . to be 
 the fuppofed Emperors Succeffor) tells the 
 tragical Story of their joining tnbfe ^Buc¬ 
 caneers and Privateers, and how they fuf- 
 ferM/for the lame, after thefe.hadjgot the 
 Spahijb Plunder ( which was their Errand) 
 
 . and left thera expos’d to theS/wtfjfr Fury, 
 
 • • As for Jmbrojio and Diego'S willingnels 
 to receive the Scotch: Colonyamongft them, 
 ■K •' •' ; it 
 
c ?5 ]•• ■ ■ 
 
 it may be reafonably believ’d, ;becaufe thole ; 
 areoutlaws and neverexpe&'to be pardon’d, 
 the Fjormer for the Murder of thofe Spani¬ 
 ards on Golden IJland, ap'd the other for At¬ 
 tacking Three Priefts in’ their Cell or; 
 Glmppel, and-Murderin'gb|them,andRob- 
 bing the of it’s Furniture j‘ '^liereof, 
 
 Diego's Son brought the' Sacerdotal, Veft-’ - 
 ments and Challiee to the Scotch Colony, 
 and fold tlie fame, to. Captain Frazer,. for. 
 little or nothing. ■ Thofe Outlaws will not 
 only be glad blithe Scots; : J 
 
 ' * bytof tWDutchj&ehchj * Wimefs Dkgo 's 
 
 nuyJWJVfa 
 
 if they thought any of fettle in his Tlanrati- 
 ffiefc^rMhemcould, 
 
 . protect and lhelter them fame time the ^-ow 
 from Juftice. Nay, they . retcied. ^ 
 are fo little able to make 
 any Oppofitieh, that I could engage to be 
 One of 2 b Men to go over that fjthtiw over 
 thfei.rBellies, providingthe Spaniards woUld 
 wink at it.. ; ^ - ^ , ' ^ r ‘. 
 
 "In'the - next paragraph,, Pqg- 6- fbin as 
 toJny;Gfam,tfeirtae of Pqffej/mjhe, Spank 
 le#f Ground of a, Piet, all 
 *ihey U» Medge on this Headis; that the) 1 were 
 once a,dmit0b) the Gonfentof Capt.Dicsp, 
 Princes, Wimponjime 
 ; $$dt^keswfthm y ^O^^^'^^Otch 
 'IpHisflaUpbat ibiff'makes j/%* 
 
thing for their Purpofe , that Prince admitting them 
 not as Proprietors y but ds Labourers, andwjcn t‘:ey 
 broke the Conditions on which they were admitiedynz. 
 To allow the Damiens fuch and fitch Shares of the 
 product they were -cxpelfd again by Force, &C. 
 
 Our Author having compos’d a handfom Story 
 of Diego (whole [(ingdomis the 3d from the Gdl- 
 louy) (hurBes,iii Mr. Wafer for'Evidence, whereas 
 he owns himfelf, that he never faw fuch a Alan as 
 Opt. Diego •, and as for his Lucent a, that Prince 
 is fuch a Stranger to the Indians of the Scots Ac¬ 
 quaintance, that altho’ fome Pains was taken to 
 enquire after him, yet he could not be heard of 3 
 but there being 17 or 18 Years between Wafers 
 and the Scots fojoarning in that Country, Lacenta 
 in the time might probably be choak'd with fome 
 of the Spanifb H$mp amongft the other Princes, 
 whom the Privatiers and Buccaniers deferted, 
 and left to care of thenifelves. 
 
 This mighty Story of Diego is fo ill coyn’d, 
 that it would make a Man fick to trace it. He 
 ovvns thofeSy^z/f/; Mines to he within 15 Leagues 
 of the Collony (I fay 12) and Di/go is the Third 
 Captain, or Zaar, from the Coiiony towards 
 St. Maria (as appears, p. 79 and 80) Andreas the 
 Companies Landlord being the Firft, Pouffigo the 
 Clergy-man (as cur Author dignifies him) the 
 Second ■, whereby it may be eafiJy conceiv’d what 
 apo.verrul and large Government Diego can have 
 to hire the Spaniards as Labourers} and after 
 thefe Spaniards had fpent fome Years in opening 
 t'uofe Mines,and bringing them to Perfeftion,they 
 fhouldbe expelfd when King Diego tookSnufE, 
 This Strength of Diego is fo very, incoherent 
 with the late Action which happen’d in January 
 Jail, when 2 6 Spaniards being order’d from 
 
£ 37 1 
 
 St. Maria to march over the Ifihmiis in'Otder to 
 view the Scots, came through- Diego's Ground, 
 where, if the Indians had been their , open Eue- 
 raies, fo friiall a Party would fearce have ven¬ 
 tur’d j yet Diego’s Men were fo unable tooppofe 
 them, that they took upon theni to'pilot them 
 fo a convenient' Place, where 'they might view 1 
 the Scots, and in the mean time foihe of Diego’s 
 Men came to the Government of Pedro (the 
 Defunct Jndreas his SiiccelTor) a fid fd' to the 
 Collony with the News ■, on which Mr. Mont- 
 gomry , with a : Detachment’ of a ioo Men, 
 were .piloted by,-them t'othe Spot where the 
 Spaniards lay. 
 
 In this very 'AffiOn.FdUr Things are remarka¬ 
 ble, i. The Weakiiefs Of Diego’s and Pedro’s 
 Forces, who were not able to cut off the Heads 
 of fuch a Handful, but that they rnuft come to 
 theGollony for Affiftance. . 2. The Confidence 
 which the Spaniards put in the Indians of Diego 
 and Pedro. 3. Th q Scotch Party leaving their Col¬ 
 lony, and going with .the Indians, with a Deiign 
 to. attack thofe 26 Spaniards, Who Were, lying 
 fome Leagues off on’ the Bank Of a fmail River, 
 and .who finding themfelves betray’d by thofe 
 Indians, fir’d upon them, and fo tetreated to 
 their next Garrifonof Tubaconti. 4.That this 
 being the-.Only Fight between the Scots and Spar 
 niards , the Breach of PeaCe Was founded on it, 
 and Letters o£.Mark, and Reprifal granted by 
 the. Collony .t O’ljlii^idnMtSandJ, Maftets of 
 'Jamaica Sloop’s., , \ 
 
 The Story. of. Diego’s beating the Spaniards 
 . from the. Gold MirieS tells very dckwardly (our 
 Author imputing this' Rupture to - the Spaniards 
 Beating and male-treating Diego s People, when 
 
 '. #y 
 
they came to ask their Shares) but to wave the 
 Improbability of this Story, and admit it for' 
 a Truth j ’tisto be prefum’d, that when Diego 
 fell upon thofe Spaniards and flew them, he did 
 not allow them time to blow up thofe Mines, or' 
 fill them up with Rubbifh, that they might not 
 be ferviceable to him or his Friends afterwards j 
 and it might have been reafonably expe&ed, that 
 Diego fhould either have made a Preferit of thofe 
 Mines to the&ott&Gollony (for Houfe^warm- 
 ing) or at leaf! havefuffer’d them'to dig up fornc 
 of the Gold to buy Prpvifions, and keep them 
 from ftarving, that thereby they might have- 
 been the more enabled to affift them again!! the 
 Spaniards , and reftore them to their Ancient Li¬ 
 berty, befides, leading them a nearer Way to the 
 Kingdom of Heaven, than that which the Spa¬ 
 niards cut out for them. 
 
 The Gentlemen ofthe Goltony were very mo- 
 dell: (as he tells you in the 78 and 79W.)' Wtieh 
 they were inform’d by Jotne French 
 nefwesjhatyithaxooMehthty 
 
 ted French could be Mafters of feme Gold arid 
 
 trkJSiit Silver Jtines belonging totht$&r 
 co.who were oblig'd niard, but they were Jo gifted with 
 ^e Grace of Self-deny'af that.they 
 they were liableto would not lifted to it , till Once the 
 
 SS’cSort! Spaniard offer’d’ fame Hoftiliiy . 
 
 whereon they could' We HOW fifld that tflis, Which 
 
 ijecaught. our Au thor would have to be the 
 
 Hoftile Afr, was 'cotimittsft inffanuary \ but jt 
 is to be admir’d that the Colldny Ihould only 
 fend Sloops out to pilfer a few'Filhe'r-mens Ca- 
 nou’s, and HoufesatTf/ff«,'near t«rf/j^f^,"and 
 not have Ipar’d tKeforefaidtob Men to reduce ' 
 ihtSpaniftiMih 4 S to tfeSubje&ibn \ oriirthCy 
 '• •' ■’ wefe 
 
.[’39] 
 
 wereafraid to ofiend the ^^. by Land, they had 
 hot fent A few of theft hum. to : their Frd. and Ally 
 Diegos Gold' Mines* where there was nd Danger 
 to be appr ehended of the Spaniards looking that 
 Prince in the Face * and not Have laid in Fort 
 $t. Andrew making'.Childrens Sfiooes (after thie 
 War was thus begun (from January to Jme i 
 and at laft be forc’d to quit the glorious Pfpjed 
 for want of Provifions, when at the fame time 
 they were tantaliz’d with Velfels loaded with 
 good Food on one lide of them, and Mines fell 
 of Gold oh the other for want of Grace to attack 
 them. I wife our Author would revile thOfe 
 Paragraphs in the %tb and 6th Pages,, as alfo in 
 the 78 and 79th, ■ and fee if the Stories are of a 
 piece, or if they will hold water. , 
 
 I am rather inclin’d’ to believe that the Spani¬ 
 ard is more Matter than Servant amongft the In¬ 
 dians^ and likewife^ that he does noteafily part 
 With any Place , he once gets into his Pofleilion, 
 especially Gold Mines: ’Tis very rare to'hear 
 of the Spaniard’s being beaten oft’by the Indi¬ 
 an i, and it’s more improbable on this fmall 
 Trad of Ground, call’d the Ifibrnas oi Darien, 
 where his Cities, Forts, Garrifons' and Mines 
 are fo clofely planted,and where if lie Wanted any 
 Alliftance,' he can fooner have Supplies brought 
 thither,* than to any ..other Part- of New Spain. ■ * 
 Wheii the Buccani’ers and Pfivatiers Were at 
 the ftrongett (muttering about 1300) and- fur- 
 priz’d St. Maria, and fome other Places on the 
 South Sea, neither*they nor the Indians durft 
 venture too 1 keep them above a Week or ;Ten 
 ■JO^ysj‘beingjealous;of. the Spaniards rallying 
 With, new llmbfo’sV andattaCking them aigaiif ? 
 but having'robb’d.a'nd'delttoy’dvVhat they could, 
 ' fculk’d 
 
I 40 J 
 
 fculk’4 away to fome new.paee,(aiay bei or^op, 
 LeaguesAilbuit) and always;-left the indies of 
 of the laft Place, if . aay join’d them; to capitur 
 late for thgmfelves, If they fought under thofe.~ 
 Indian Princes to recover their .Country for • 
 thpm, it might reafo^hlybe'e^eQied, that they 
 Ihould left them pQflgf|; pf fuch Places as, they 
 
 nothing like tjhi? in 4$ the. ^^^Cbroiiici- 
 •To l^ihort,ifyouTtake my^prd,!’]! ; tel-i you, 
 fh& this $tpry p,f Pfegp’s b’eatiiig JL\\zSp>apifer l ds 
 from their Mines.isfp rar.a^i^k^jthat'ithe jfyar, 
 »wr4jwereat work on them-when thereof jlands^ 
 there,having only an-Intendant,with ^Spaniards 
 to overlee $oo Negro’s, who wrought them nei¬ 
 ther did they defert thofeMues notwitbftand* 
 ing the Neighbourhood of the S cots, tho’per¬ 
 haps they might reinforce their Guards. And 
 hotwithftanding Mr. Montgomrk' was fo neat 
 -them with that felech Partyipf iooMen, and 
 and thofe Three Indian Princes to Hand by him, 
 yet he did not think it expedient to diifurb 
 them, but fatisfy’d himfelfwith Redpith’s famous 
 Captain, Bon Domingo de la rada. As for the 
 Teltimony which our Author would draw Wafer 
 in for here y he neither knows any thing ,of 
 Diego, nor of thofe Priefts, thefe being murder’d 
 many Years after his leaving that-Country. 
 
 Our Author proceeds thus to the feth ,Pgge, 
 ,where he tells us, that the afprefaid pretended 
 Titles being fully confuted, the Spmdrds can-lay 
 no Claim to Darien, but what they pleadfrom.the 
 Pope’s general Grant ofAmerica, &c. ‘Morp/fe 
 dkulous itis u urge-the Pope s Grant amongft P,nor 
 teftants, and hots, orecariom it is atnongslPapijis 
 tbefhfelves , fot adr. lining it to be enough .to.jnfiifie. 
 
 ' ‘ . • ' ' their 
 
their Title, it is tape to -prove that the Spaniards 
 have forfeited all the Right they can claim by Virtue 
 of that Grant. 
 
 His Buccanier Evidences are laid afide for 
 fome time, there being no room for them here, 
 wherefore he tells us fuch another Tale in a. 
 Tub of the Bilhop of Chiapa, whoitfeems, .was 
 Tefty with his Sovereign Lord the King .of Spain, 
 becaufe that Prince did not anfwer the End-of 
 the -Pope’s Grant, but minded more the Trea¬ 
 sure'than Souls of the. Americans , arid rail’d at 
 him: for not Reltoring to the Executors of thofe 
 dead Indians, whatever he or his Inftr'uments 
 ; had taken from them, and pleads Queen Iffobella’s 
 Requeit for the fame, when fhe was on her 
 Death-bed, ©r. 
 
 ■ That I mayn’t, wafte too much Paper in an¬ 
 
 swering thofe Three or Four Paragraphs, take 
 this in’lhort, that the Bilhop. of Chiapa had not 
 the fame Senfe of Money’ in his. Age, as the Mif- 
 fioners or Propaganda Gentlemen have in ours, 
 elfe he. had made lefs Noife. If the General 
 Alfembly IhOuld fraught their Difciples with 
 never foUrift Inftrudions, to eftablifli the Kirk 
 Difeipline, yet if Pradicant Faterfon Ihould form 
 an Anabaptift Government there, the Company 
 ' would' fcarce think their Title to that Country 
 thereby forfeited. Our Author fomewhere elfe.in 
 his Politicks thinks it expedient for the fpeedier 
 .deftroyihg; of Antichrift, tofeizeon his Pouch 
 ' or Puffer It was reafonable the Spaniard Ihould 
 make iife- of the fame Maxim,.-and imitate Mofes 
 after his defcending from the Mount, ini taking 
 away the Golden .Calf from his Brethren, and 
 •fuch lhftrumentsof Idolatry.’’ /■ 
 
 ■ -. Bnt 'if the ; S^Ki>ihas been guilty of allour 
 : Author lays to his .Charge, and'-hath not' an- 
 'Twefd the End of the Pope’s' Donation, pray 
 
 G ' whe- 
 
t 4- ’] I 
 
 whether is the Pope or the Scotch Company judge. | 
 of it ? If the Pope thinks 'fit to revoke the Spa- 
 mjh Charter, Yis time enough then for the Com- , 
 pany to take the Charge of the American Souls 
 upon them} but as he has done nothing like 
 this as yet, but on the contrary has granted a 
 large Subfidy on the American Church to lup- 
 poft it, the Company‘may appear officious iii 
 meddling with his Holinefs’s Bufinels, and give 
 the World too much reafon to believe that their 
 Dd&gn is not only to expel th ^Spaniard out of 
 -Darien, but likewife out of Mexico and Peru, 
 under this Religious Pretext. I want to know 
 whether Vaterjon s and the Companies Project 
 was to take the Cure of the American Soulsj or . 
 Treafure upon them ? If the former, - then 1048 
 -Levitesand two Soldiers, had been fitter Miffib- 
 nerstoI)<rrte», than two Preachers,and 1048 Inch 
 lay Elders *, and inftead of 2 or 3000 Buchaniers 
 Pieces, Piftols, Daggers, and Drnms.proportio- . 
 nable'j they ought to have follow’d the T'nftm- 
 ftions annex’d to the Original Commiffion of, he 
 & predicate, and gone without Staff ox Scrip. 
 
 Altho .our Author by the ftrain of his Pen, 
 (hews that he has been a, conliderable time from 
 Home, yet he betrays fomething nOw and then,' 
 to confirm us, that good Itore of the Kirk Milk 
 
 lurks ftiilin the recefles or his Nofe \ for he is 
 * *rhe jaft and niodeft Author ndt fatisfy’d with beating 
 
 of the Vindicat. pag. 84, and the Spaniards out of *A- 
 lo 5 'be™Sid h to K^Amerkm mericamth Ms ReligioUS 
 
 Poffeffions. But in other Places but muft ftick ,tO 
 
 thedfoff aglin with a ftrook the good' QM Way.; of 
 
 ofthefabe ren. Murdering his Adverra- 
 
 ries Rcputation,-thatby once rendring .him Odi¬ 
 ous, he. may mufler .the whole Kennel of (Curs 
 .to bark him out of Town.; In. the 7th, 8th, and 
 •9th Pages, he Whines'in the fame Strain as. the- 
 
 w- 
 
I 43 J 
 
 Hypocrites in the Gofpel did, When they had .a 
 devouring Defign on Widows Houfes. ' 
 
 But to return to the Subjeft in Debate, fince 
 our Author after all his Railing, isfuch a Hero 
 as to admit the Pope’s Donation to be fo valid 
 as to .give th t Spaniard fome Claim to America 
 I’ll be quits with him in Civility and. pafs from 
 ‘the Pope’s Donation altogether, and ftick tothe 
 ft wifi PofFefl&n which they have had not only 
 of Mexico and Peru in General, bbt of the Pro¬ 
 vince of Darien in Particular, by Prefcription 
 of a great many Years y where their fev’eral 
 .•Towns, Ports, Garden's and Mines, are fufficient 
 Evidences of it \ and befides thefe Legal Iiifeft- 
 bnents^ cab bring 50 of thofe Darien Indians .un- . 
 der their Banner, to one that Will appear againft 
 . them, to juftifie .their Right of Dominion. ;. 'Ml 
 this being duly cori'fider’d, I can’t fee where the 
 Audacious Affront lyestfiat’s offer’d to His Brttk- 
 • nick Majefty, by the Catholic^ King, who only af- 
 .ferts hiyRight, and fays, That fome Scots iff the 
 time of Peace, without hiiy Injury Offer’d, have 
 in vaded the Heart of his Spamlh Dominions: ’Tis 
 . .very unaccountable, that this Cholerick Gentle¬ 
 man ftiduld take his Catholick- Majefty by the 
 Nofe, for faying, That the Church ftands in 
 The Ghurcffyhvd. :: . 
 
 . So much t-heii for the Spanifi: Title to D'anch, 
 'by Iffoeritahce, Marriage, Donation, PoiTeffiqn 
 and Conquefty as for the Purchafe and Surren¬ 
 der, I was not Witnefs to thofe Tt' a ?faQion s '■> 
 
 ' but Reafori Will allow 'thefe tofpllovv in Courfe, 
 i if the others be good. Asfor: Reverfion, 1 can’t 
 . ■; well comprehend our Authors Meaning * for it 
 ■. Cannot- belaid/That the 5 pdniard has either Quit¬ 
 ted, or Mortgaged that 'Province fo the Indl'&s s 
 -fince hffrfebi'mns itill On -'iKp Spofy t |thd in,lifo 3 §ff 
 fioii of itj-ahd’in ah apifoaVaff^ is lfke to d'ffafter 
 We are Dead. F 2 If 
 
' £«I ; 
 
 , If what I have offer d in Anfwer to this Au¬ 
 thor’s Challenge, will ferve to demonstrate the 
 Spaniards Right to that Ifthmus there will be no 
 more occafion for Eufferdorf nor Hugo Grotius\ 
 Jo that the only Standard we are left to walk by, 
 is the Treaties of Peace between Spain and Engr 
 land , Which both thefe Authors, the Defender 
 and Vindicator of the Darien Settlement, can 
 neither wreft nor fqueeze any thing from to ferve 
 their Turn: After they have faid all they can 
 think of on that Head, they tell 
 you, 4 * That .all that can be in? . 
 
 4 ferrd from thofe Treaties , is, that * 4 - uT 
 4 they are a Mutual Security for 
 4 the peaceable Poffeffion of what each Crown 
 4 Pofleft, and no more. The Spaniards defire no' 
 piore benefit of thefeTreaties, than what thofe 
 Authors herein allow them. ’Tis evident e- 
 nough. That by thofe Treaties, His Majelty got 
 confiderably from the Spaniard^ to wit, Not on? 
 ly a Title tothelfland o£ Jamaica, which was 
 taken from the Spaniard during, the; Exile of 
 'Ckarles'll. butlikewife a full Right to all the 
 Colo nies in America, his Subjeds were then pof; 
 feft pf- Andif thofe T Katies were no Fence to the 
 Spaniard in America, I don’t know what fhould 
 obligehimtoinakefuch large Gifts,and renounce 
 ’ his Title to Places which fome time or other 
 he might be in a condition to Recover. If the 
 Subje&sof Great Britain, vasy when they pleafe, 
 Seat themfelves on Darien, Or elfewhere on the 
 Spanijb Coaft, then the Spaniard has no Benefit ‘ 
 by thofe Treaties : But I am rather apt ; to believe, 
 (as our Author has hit it) That they wer? made 
 fora Mutual Security of what each Crown pojfefti 
 
 ^ahdnomore. : 
 
 " What our Authors would fquee2e from thofe 
 EpreatiesfiifTiiat neither Party is-excluded from en -■ 
 
 : "' s 7 .. ; ^ ’ IjFgivg 
 
. c+51 ,\ v v 
 
 urging his Dominions. inAmsrka 
 
 tives mjMh Flaces,ashave never yet p a g. - u. 
 
 Spain,or Great Britain. 
 
 Althbthertfs nothing cxprejtfo in thofe Trea¬ 
 ties, and if I. IhouhL yield them this Glofs they 
 •fet on them, yeti carnt fee how the Caledonian 
 Settlement :can take any place here, bccaufeDo- 
 ir tj nin n;canft properly be enlarg’d before there be. 
 a Footing $ and when thofe Treaties were conclu- 
 , ded, there, was no word of a Caledonian Colony. 
 
 The Caribdee Iflahds cannot well be enlarg’d, 
 but if .the Englijb or French have not Room e- 
 noughon them, they may remove' to fuch Neigh¬ 
 bouring, Ones, as are . .not ‘the Property of a- 
 nother Prince in Alliance with their Sovereigns. 
 .As for : the Englifij and French Colonies on the 
 mainLand, they ,may enlarge their.: Dominions 
 far enoughVround themiuf they will, and the 
 ; Sf<?«*W.neverquarrel with them, fo long as they 
 don’t come within the *Tropieks, and meddle 
 ■ with his Noli me iaxgere. • . . . - 
 
 . As for Dr. Gw and. the Creolians^ who fettl’d 
 and,remov’d in the Bay of Campechy, they were 
 in the Right* iin Forming ^fuch Flying-Camps, 
 for when. any .of them were caught by the Spa¬ 
 niard, they .pay’d .for it, and had their .Mends 
 _ in .theif own Hands: And the Author of the 
 juft andmdeft Vindic.ys. i68 y is as:good as;fatif- 
 ? fy’d. as to that Part of it, altho’ he does'not ap- 
 . prove of the Judgment of his Majelfy^ the Lords 
 Juftices, and the Eriglifi. Council,, who beingad- 
 .drefs’d by feme Englijb Marchants 'for. a Patent 
 < to. fettle., on the fame. Ijfhnm of. Darien, iotas 
 , Time before the Scotch Company had got the Pro¬ 
 ved, refus’dit on the Score of its being contrary 
 -to thei-Treaties of -Teaceii would-iiifinuate. 
 
[40 
 
 But if our Author will look back and earjuire a 
 little further, he will find,, that Sr. Urn. Mid* 
 difordy Governor of Jamaica .propos’d the feme 
 in the Reign of Charles the id. and it being can* 
 vafs’d at Court, and the Legality of it exami¬ 
 ned, it was refus’d on no other State-Reafons 
 than its being contrary to the Treaties between 
 their Britannick and Catholick Majefties; but' 
 our Author being dexterous, never wants a 
 Hole to creep out at, by Infinuating, that his 
 Majeftys and the Lords Juftices refufing the 
 EngliJI] Subjects that Patent, Was notonthe Ac* 
 count.of its Injuftice, but upon Motives of State, 
 which is as much to fay, that it was not Time 
 to difoblige his Catholick Majefty. 
 
 As for their Inftances of the independent So¬ 
 vereignties in J Europe and Africa ,. which are 
 inclos’d with other Princes Dominions, the Cafes 
 are no ways parallel, fo long as the Spaniards are 
 Matters of all the fortify’d Places and Towns On 
 the JfthmMy and the Indians fcarce of a Wigwam 
 they can call their own. And as 
 r'£^'^ tieS ^ a for the King- of * Darien’* inviting ’ 
 ’ P " the Buccaniersto ajfifthimto retake 
 
 his Country. Altho’ ? the King were not Fi&itious 
 ■yet by this innocent Story our Author'concedes, 
 that he had loft his Country to the Spaniards, 
 When he wanted Afliftanee tp recover it oiit of 
 their HandsAt this Rate the Scotch Company 
 may not only elbow the Spaniards out of Ddriehj 
 But likewife out of Mexico and Per®, fince in 
 the feme Page he means as much by. declaring the 
 Indians, the natural Lords of Darien , andthe 
 ■Spaniards only Tyrannical Ufurpers. But to 
 diyea little farther into the Probability of this 
 Story, 1 want to know where that People, call’d 
 Buccaniersliv’di yybom the King of Darien tar 
 . vited to.his Aififtance, or'wheq theyjoynd 
 
E 47 3 
 
 him and recover’d feme of thofe Spanijh Towns, they did 
 not leave r him in Pofleffion of them ? ’Tis more reafonable 
 to believe, that that Kind of Vermin which feedsoh the 
 Spanijh Spoil, went to the ifibms on the Account of its 
 Communication with the South:Sea, and the Paffage by 
 whichithe Spanijh Riches are tranfported to the Galleons 
 on tlmiNorth Side,* and perfwaded thofe poor Indians to 
 revolt, and pilot them to fuch Places where they thought: 
 to get Sooty, which is the more probable, by reafonthefe 
 Indians dear for it always when theBuccaniersdefert- 
 edthem. 
 
 As forCapt. Saukinshis fending a Letter to the Gover- 
 nor of Panama, wherein he juftify’d his Proceedings, and 
 afferted this imaginary King of Darien to be natural Lord 
 of Panama i I know that old Buecaneer fo very well, that 
 I believe it to be true, .if toHwr had carry’d the Meflage 
 himfelf, he might perhaps have got a fuitable Anfwer. 
 
 As in the Def. of Scots Abdicat. I declin’d.Anfwering the 
 fiery Ejaculations of the firft Author, either by offering 
 any Thing againft the Legality of the oRroy it 'feif, or the 
 Intereftof the Scots Nation in applying themfelves to Fo¬ 
 reign Trade, belieying the former to be great and- well de- 
 fign’d, for the Advantag e an d Profperity of theCountry 
 in'general,' and that the latter isfo'juft, that I yield both 
 the Theme and Dofirine of the juft and modeft Vindicator 
 to.begood fo far.as it-relates thereto y fo I ftiil ihun med* 
 ling yftth.an^Eaffsges, either in the Firft or Second Author 
 that relates toihh feparate Inrereft of the Two Nations, 
 butfiick clofe to the Darien Title which is the mam Subject 
 in-Debate, and as 1 the Original Author cites Pag. 3. front 
 •Dr. 'Saffold — Sublata cauja tollhur EffeRm, if the Span if) 
 Title to that Jfihmui be found to be good; Tlxn the• Caufo 
 oftbei Complaint ceafes •, and the Company ought to apply them * 
 Jelves to that which will turn to Account, and'not run on 
 Meafures toimbroil hot only the //Jeo/GfeatBritain,- hut per¬ 
 haps affEurope in anexoWar. Ifthe thinkingParcofMan- 
 kind will but refleft on the Steps thathave been-made to 
 Darien,, to wit, in fending their Ships and Men to fo fo¬ 
 reign a Country which was fo lyable to be difputed, -and 
 'that with Six Months Prbvifions, 2. The-Companfies Ne- 
 gleft in Supplying them with more. KnA'/ajily, The 
 .■Difperfing fuch.DeclaratiOns dandeftinly over the 
 ■dia lilands and Plantations ("which of Neceftitymuft meet 
 With GppofitionJ to invite People thence to fettle oo Dn- 
 ; they will find that there baVe been'-fome‘private 
 -Wheels in- this Machin that liave : brought: k- to blie State 
 ’Wherein it now-is,-to faynomoreen-t. •’ 
 
 POST- 
 
POST SCR IP T. 
 
 TF I have treated the laft Ctle&grim Authorwith there 
 | Civility than he merits, ’cisbecaufe.thefe Sheets were 
 finifh’d and in the Prefs before I was fore that Fergufm was 
 the jaS and molejl Man, till now his Books fticking in the 
 feveral Bookfellers Hands obliges him to difperfe them a- . 
 bon tGmis, as the other Qaack-bili^-and fo giveshme the 
 Opportunity of being My confirm’d in'the Matter. His 
 Employment andIMorals are fo notorious already, that any 
 thing I fhould fay of him would add but little to his Infamy^ 
 and would be fo'much loft on him. Wherefore, in reply 
 to'thofe SctmSlities he falfly afperles me withy lfhaliionly 
 put him in mind, that his Pot had not boil’d-fo welV'if he 
 had not isea-better paid for his Shuffling, Plotting:and 
 Tricking, than I have for .what I Have juftly offer’d dn'Vinr 
 _ dication of His Majefty’s Proceedings, and to. unblind a . 
 
 ’ great Number of well-meaning Perfons, whoare .induftri- 
 onfly led into this Miftake, by fome particular Gentlemen 
 behind the Curtain, who poffefs them witha Notion, that 
 .. the Mifmanagement and Mifcarriage of their Affairs was 
 ■notoccafion’dby the-Diretlors of that Company, but by 1 
 the Government of theEnghfi Nation: And how far this. 
 will appbarto, betrue, when ir comes to be either calmly • 
 or warmly'caiivas’d, Time will difeover : Thegreateft Pro- ■ 
 fpecl that I Mve ofanyReward at prefent isiheDaggers arid 
 Piftols, wherewith i .am daily threaten’d, and nightly way- ‘ 
 lafd ; 4 againft whic&Di.Fergujbn in all his. Machinations was 
 always: fare to' fence-hi m felfi Trade being-very, dead of late, 
 he isrefolv’dro playatfmallCame rather thanftandout; 
 
 • but altho’ the conceited Politician lhades himfelf under the . 
 Sfcreen oiPatria Jua, to calumniate the-.jGpvernment of. 
 that Hofpitium, whofe Bread he hath fo long eat, and where- 
 .with hath been fo pamper’d; it isneitherput'.pf .Fiiendlhip 
 to the Company, Nation, or Kirk, (theJaftofwhich he ... 
 plainlyenough demonftrates, p.20-;, &t'2o6:) but to blow 
 - die Coal pf-Sedirion, fet Great Britain iii a : Flame, : and bring 
 his pwnMarkstobear; which may b.e theeafier conceiv’d . 
 by mindingjbf what Sett and Kindneyrhofe Gentlemenare, 
 whoefponfe the Darien Intereft with the moft Heat. To 
 . ftab the %ndyeinN’easgate, werebutto. incourage theold. . 
 ShmerinhisTaMe,-and put him, in a.Way to get Money*; 
 whereas givinghim his Mittimus, and fending him home .to 
 ... hisown Cotintty, to drive the Trade there, and giving hitn 
 kavefreely to-make what he can of this Text, would be .the 
 moft mortifying and fuitabiePnniihment that could be: in- : 
 fliaedonhim. . . . .. 
 
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