Settlement in Darien, ^ 



^' him with Hell if he did not, whether H^a** 

 ^ ven was open to thQ Spaniards 'o and being an-* 

 *' fwer'd that it was to fuch of them as were 

 good, replied immediatly that he would noi: 

 go thither for fear of meeting fuch cruel and 

 wicked Company as they were, but would 

 much rather chufe to go to Hell, where h^ 

 ** might be delivered from the troublefom fight 

 *' of fuch kind of People. So that their forfei- 

 ture of all Right or Title to Darien by the Pope's 

 Grant, if it were of any validity, is plainly de^* 

 monftrated. 



Their next Plea is, that Dariefi is bounded of 

 inclofed by their Dominions, ^viz. by Portobello 

 nnd Carthagefja^ with their Territories on the 

 North, and Pafiama and Sand a Maria, on the 

 South. To this it is anfwered, that Darien is 

 bounded only by the Sea on both fides, without 

 (b much as a Spanijh Fort or Garifon, from 

 Nombre de Dios to the Gulf of Darien on the 

 North Sea, or from the River of Chepo to the 

 River of Congo on the South Sea. The Terri- 

 tories of the Spaniards confining on both ends of 

 the Ifthmtis are not unhmited, but are reftrifled 

 on both fides by the DartenSy who, as has been 

 already faid, were never fubjeft to Spain. Nor 

 is it any new thing in the World for indepen- 

 dent Soveraigntys to lie inclosM within the 

 Dominions of other Princes ; to inftance in no 

 more than Orange and Avignon in Enrope ; Cew 

 ta, Metilla^ &c* poffefled by the Spaniards 

 ^hemlelves in Jfrick, which lie in the very bo- 



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