6 A Defence of the Scots 



Country. So that it is the ftrangeft Impofition 

 that can be put upon any Nation,^^nd one of 

 the moft audacious affronts that ever was put 

 upon fc» Great a Prince as K. WillUm^ for the 

 Spaniards to pretend a Right to Darieny and ac- 

 cufe him of a Breach of the Peace, becaufe a 

 Colony of his Subjeds have fettled themtelves 

 there ; when it is fo well known to the World 

 that the Crown of Spain has no manner of 

 Title to that Province. 



Then as to any claim by virtue of Poffeflion, 

 the SpAniards have not the leaft ground of Plea : 

 All they can alledg on this Head is,that they were 

 once admitted by the confcnt of Capr. DiegOj 

 another of the D^r/V;? Princes, to work on fome 

 Golden Mines within 15 Leagues, or therea- 

 bouts, of the Scots Settlement. But it is plaia 

 that this makes nothing for their purpofe. 

 That Prince admitted them only as Labourers, 

 but not as Proprietors ; and when they broke 

 the Conditions on which they were admitted, 

 *i//jc. to allow the Dariens fuch and fuch Shares 

 of the Produft, they were expeU'd again by 

 force ; and ever fince that time the Dariens 

 refufe to have any further dealings with the 

 Spaniards J who made themfelves odious to them 

 by their Treachery and Infolence : So that 

 yiv. Wafer id\s us />^^. 135. they allow a di- 

 ftinguifhing Mark of Honour to him who 

 has kiird a Spaniard: and pag. 179. thzi La- 

 tenta^ one of the chief of the Darien Princes, 

 did in his converfe with him, exprels his Senfe 



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