Settlement in Darien. 7 



and ^efentment of the havock made by the 

 Spaniards in the Weft of America^ at their firft 

 coming thither. 



It remains then that th^ Spaniards can lay 

 no other claim to Darien but what they plead 

 from the Papers general Grant of America, its 

 being bounded by their Dominions^ and the Trea- 

 ties with England, which fhall be confider'd in 

 their order. 



To urge the Pope's Grant amongftProteftants 

 is ridiculous, and amongft PapKts themfelves 

 but precarious : but admitting it were fuiRcient 

 to juftify their Title, it is eafy to prove that 

 thQ Spaniards have forfeited all the Right that 

 they can claim by virtue of that Grant. 



The Church of Rome will not publickly own 

 her power to grant a Right of Conqueii, but 

 in order to propagate the Faith, and not that 

 neither, except the Infidel Prince or People be 

 guilty of a Breach of Treaty. So that the 

 Pope's Grant with thofe Rellriftions is lb far 

 from eftablifliing the Title of the Spaniards^ 

 that it plainly overthrows it. 



That the Indians were committed to the Spa- 

 niards by Pope Alexander VI. on condition that 

 they fhould teach them the Chrifiian Reli- 

 gion, is provM by Don Bartholomew de lasCafas 

 Bifhop of Chiapay in his Account of the fir ft Voj- 

 <tges and Difcoveries made by the Spaniards in A- 

 merica, and the Relation of their unparaSePd 

 Cruelties J p. I gt^, and there he likewife owns, 

 *^ that by their acquitting themfelves fo ill of 



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