We Sent The Same Message To Him Next Day, But Our Messengers
Were Not Allowed To Land.
* * * * *
"The differences and maritime warfare which took place between the Dutch
and English East India Companies, of which some
Notice has been taken;
and the peace and union which are announced, as having been communicated
to their respective commanders at this time, would lead to historical
discussions and deductions, which do not properly belong to the object
of a Collection of Voyages and Travels; but which, if altogether passed
over, would leave much of the foregoing circumstances, and some that
have to be noticed in the sequel, abrupt, isolated, and almost
unintelligible. It has therefore been deemed proper to give a brief
account of these differences, and of the singular so called union,
which took place in consequence, extracted from the Annals of the East
India Company, vol. I. p. 201, et seq.[276]
[Footnote 276: This addition to Sec.4. of the present voyage, is made by
the Editor; but almost entirely derived from the historiographer of the
East India Company. - E.]
"When the differences and aggressions which had occurred in the spice
islands were reported in Europe, the English and Dutch Companies
presented memorials and remonstrances to their respective governments,
each complaining against the servants of the other, as guilty of
unwarrantable aggressions. In Holland, calculating on the pacific
character of King James, it was expected that the opposition to the
projects of the English for participating in the trade of the spice
islands, although of at least a tendency towards warlike aggression,
would not lead to national hostilities, but might be discussed by means
of remonstrances and negociation.
"After long conferences between English and Dutch commissioners, for
settling the disputes between the two Companies, a treaty was concluded
at London on the 17th July, 1619; by which, after specifying an amnesty
for all past excesses, and a mutual restitution of ships and property,
the trade of the two nations in the East was declared to be free; - That
the pepper trade at Java should be equally divided; - That the English
should have a free trade at Pullicat, on paying half the expences of the
garrison; - That the English were to enjoy one third of the export and
import trade, at the Molucca and Banda islands, commonly called the
spice islands; commissioners to be appointed for regulating the trade,
and the charges of the garrisons, under their inspection, to be defrayed
in that proportion by the two Companies; - That each Company should
furnish ten ships of war for the common defence; which ships were not to
be employed to bring cargoes to Europe, but only in the carrying trade,
between one port and another in the East Indies. - The whole proceedings
arising out of this treaty, were to be under the regulation of a
Council of Defence, composed of four members appointed by each
Company, who were to reside in India; and this treaty was to subsist in
force for twenty years.
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