nieuhoff's brazil. ' 80 L 



The before-mentioned proclamation runs thus : 



Their Proclamation. 



** We the commanders-in-chief of the Portuguefe forces, Martin Scares Moreno and 

 Andrew Vidal de Negreiros, make known to all perfons and inhabitants of the captain- 

 ihip of Pernambuko : that the great council of the Dutch Brazil, having by a letter 

 fent to the governor and captain-general of Brazil, given advice of the revolt arifen 

 among the Portuguefe of this place, defire to endeavour the appeafmg of this rebellion 

 by his affiftance ; for which purpofe the faid governor now having fent us with a fuffici- 

 ent force into this captainlhip, we command all the Portuguefe, of what condition and 

 quality foever, to appear peremptorily within eight days after the publication of thefe 

 prefents before us, in order to reftore tranquillity among them, purfuant to the requefl: 

 of the lords of the council of the Dutch Brazil. We alfo hereby entreat the faid lords, 

 in the moll friendly manner that can be, purfuant to the tenour of the ftrid alliance 

 there is betwixt both thefe nations, to flop the further perfecution of the Portuguefe, 

 or any other warlike executions, and that if any of their foldiers prefume to ad contrary 

 to it, they may, upon complaint made thereof to them, be feverely punifhed. 



" I Alexes Autunes have penned this proclamation, and I Franco Bravo Defembar- 

 quadox have approved it. 



Martin Soares Moreno. 

 Andrew Vidal de Negreiros." 



The great council refolved to give a fiiort anfwer to the faid letter, and to refute the 

 proclamation by another ; and confidering, that the origin and caufeof all thofe troubles 

 and mifdemeanours were laid at the door of the council, they ordered the two counfel- 

 lors of the court of juftice, De Wit and Moucheron, in conjundion with Mr. Walbeck, 

 affeffor in the fame court, to anfwer the fame, and thereby to reprefent to the council 

 of Nineteen in Holland, that they were occafioned by the rebels and their adherents. 



In the month of Augufl, the troops lately come from the Bahia marched from 

 Serinham to Pojuka, and fo to the cape of St. Auflin, where, being joined by the forces 

 under the command of Kamaron and Dias, and the inhabitants, they refolved (after 

 our men had quitted Pojuka and the city St. Antonio de Cabo) to attack the fort Van- 

 der Duflen on the cape of St. Auflin from the land-fide ; purfuant to which refolution 

 they polled their troops all along both fides the river. 



The council in the meanwhile being forewarned of the enemy*s defign, had ordered, 

 the 2d of Auguft, Mr. Adrian Bulleflraet, one of their own members, and Admiral 

 Lichthart, to go thither with all fpeed, and to take effedual care that nothing might 

 be wanting for the defence of the place. They were for that end to take a full view 

 of the fort Vander DuiTen and all its out-works, and to confider whether the redoubt 

 upon the hill called Nazareth, and the battery at the entrance of the harbour, might be 

 repaired for the better defence of the fort. Accordingly Mr. Bulleflraet and Admiral 

 Lichthart left the Receif the 5th of Augufl, and arrived the fame evening in the fort 

 Vander Duffen, where, having executed their commifTion, Mr. Bulleflraet returned the 

 9th of Augufl to the Receif, where he gave the following account to the council. 



That he left the Receif the 5th of Augufl, in the morning about nine o'clock, and 

 came the fame evening to the fort Vander Duffen on the cape of St. Auflin. 



That the 6th of Augufl, after forenoon fermon was ended, he rid with the admiral, 

 »nd fome other officers, to the hill of the cape of St. Auflin i where, having taken a, 



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