Chap. VII. <U M E%^1 C A. ^ t 



Thefc Misfortunes made the Weft-lndia Company begin to be very forward 

 to come to a Treaty with the Tortuguefe Agent, who before feem'd rather to court 

 them, having offer'd to Engage for the reftoration of whatever they poffefs'd at 

 that time, when the ten years Peace was concluded , but when they came to infill 

 upon that Point, he anfw^r'd, That he muft expert new Orders from Lisbon con- 

 cerning Loando, becaufe the taking of that Place caus'd an alteration in the date 

 of Affairs. But the States no way fatisfi'd with Delays, that were like to prove both 

 hurtful and difgraccful, rcfolv d to put into Execution what they had before agreed 

 upon, v^. The Eaft.Indid Company was impower'd to make Prize of all Tortuguefe 

 Ships towards the payment of the fifteen Tuns of Gold ordain'd for the Weft.India 

 Company, to help them againft the Portuguese Opprcffion. The WeJUndia Com- 

 pany alfo received Commiffions to Cruife for Portuguese Veflels before Brafile. 



On the feventecnth of February, Anno 1649. t,iree thoufand Soldiers that came **«0»**1 

 over in the fore-mention'd Fleet, befides two hundred Negro's, and as many Sea- «r*85 

 men, marching to Befiege Gar ar apes under the Command of Scbuppe and Code, were Z&w™ 

 fo furioufly fet upon by the Sallying Enemy, that they were fore'd to break up the *"""'*'' 

 Siege in great difordcr, whileft the Portuguese being in number two thoufand five 

 hundred, fell upon the Rere . and though the Dutch Officers us'd all the care they 

 could poffible to bring their Men to face about, yet they were not able to keep 

 them from running away j in which flight great (laughter of them was made by 

 the Portuguese Horfe, confiding of a hundred and thirty, Arm'd with Lances, info- 

 much that in the flight and the purfuit, a thoufand Netherlander s were (lain, and 

 nineteen Enfigns or Colours were left behind as Trophies for the Portuguefe . the 

 chief of the Slain were Colonel 'Brink and Houteryve. 



The Zealanders were much concerned at the improfperous Affairs of Brajtle,in re- 

 gard a fifth part of the Weft.hdia Companies Stock belong'd to Middleburg, Flujbing, 

 and Veer, infomuch that the Complaints of Widows and Orphans that fhar'd in the 

 common lofs, mov'd the States to fit out fix great Ships, and as many Ketches, 

 Mann'd with two thoufand eight hundred Men, for <Braftle, where all things ran 

 to mine, the Grandees both of the Council, Army, and Fleet, being at variance, and 

 impeaching one another. 



The reft of the Provinces, efpecially Friefland, being lefs inclin'd to the Weft-India 

 Company, werefomewhat colder in the purfuit of this Bufinefs . neverthelefs, up- 

 on a frefli Letter of Complaint from Walter Scbonenbergb, Prefident of the Brafiliatt 

 Council, they held a Confultation together, how to raife Moneys for the fittincr 

 out of twenty Ships and five Ketches for the Relief of (Bra/Be. 



The Admiral De Wit returning home, was, upon the accufation of the Council 

 in Brafile, and the General, Sigifmond Scbuppe, made Prifoner in the Hague ; and to* 

 gcther with him the other five Captains that went with him were Committed by 

 the AdixiiralCy, for returning without the Confent of the Council • but they were 

 foon releas'd by the Magiftrates oi Amfterdam, who upon the Admiralties refufing 

 to deliver them, commanded their Provoft-Marfhal to break open their Prifon 

 Doors. De Wit after his Releafement juftifi'd what he had done before a full Af- * *» *- 

 fembly of the States, and alledg'd that it was according to the Orders he receiv'd ^n, jS- 

 when he undertook this Expedition* 



The <PortugueJe Agent, Soufa Macede, obtaining Audience of the States, told them 

 how ready che King his Matter had been to come to a perfeft Agreement of Peace 

 With them, but that their own A&s of Hoflility had been the occafion of the breach 

 of that Treaty of Peace that had been concluded on . that the Robberies and Info* 

 lencics committed by thofc Portugueses under their Jurifdittion, was not any way 



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