fered their Magazines to grow empty, while by a fteady 
Application to Trade, they were labouring to advance 
their private Fortunes. At the Time the Tartars made 
their laft Conqueft of China , there dwelt in the Dutch 
Town, upon this Ifland, a Taylor, whofe Name was Chin- 
chilung , by the Dutch, and other Europeans , called Iquon. 
This Man had a prodigious Spirit, a vaft Capacity, and a 
Courage equally ftubborn and enterprizing •, and, from an 
unconquerable Averfion to the Tartars , got together a few 
Men, two or three fmall Barks, and with this Force turn- 
ed Pirate, or Privateer, which ever you will pleafe to 
call him. In a Ihort Space of Time, his Power increafed 
to fuch a Degree, that he became extreamly formidable to 
the T artar Emperor, who finding that his Foible was Am- 
bition, offered to make him King of the two great Pro- 
vinces of Canton and Fokien, and fent for him to Focheu , 
where he promised to give him the Inveftiture of his new 
Dignity ; but inffcead of keeping his Word, he cadfed 
him to be feized, and conduded to Peking , where he was 
foon after poifoned. 
This Taylor, who was fo near being a King, had a Son, 
whofe Name was Cexfmia , or Coxenga, and who had been 
Taylor to Mr. Puttman , Governor of Fort Zealand , and 
who, on his Father’s Imprifonment, took upon him the 
Command of the Fleet. He at firft demanded Succours 
from the Dutch , and promifed them great Advantages if 
he was fuccefsfulagainft the Tartars , which they refufed *, 
and this provoked him to fuch a Degree, that he refolved 
to turn his whole Force againft Formofa , the rather, be- 
caufe he had a good Intelligence from the Dutch Town, 
and knew that their Affairs were in a very bad Condition. 
He affembled, with this View, a Fleet of fix hundred 
Sail, moft of them Frigates of fmall Force, but near one 
hundred were ftout Men of War, offorty Guns and upwards. 
The News of thofe great Preparations reaching the Ears 
of the Dutch Governor, who was at that Time Mr. Fre- 
derick Cojet , Succeffor to Cornelius Keifer , he immediately 
difpatched Advice to Batavia, and demanded a fpeedy 
Succour, and alfo to Japon , for the Afliftance of fuch 
Dutch Ships as happened to be there. . All this, however, 
was to no Purpofe •, for before any Relief could come, 
Coxenga fent his Fleet under the Command of his Uncle 
Souja, which appeared before the Place in the Month of 
March 1661. 
The Dutch Governor fent a Detachment of three hun- 
dred and fifty Men to prevent the debarking of their 
Troops, who behaved as well as Men could do, but to 
very little Purpofe, as we may eafily guefs, fince the Chi- 
ne fe landed forty thoufand Men. They foon cut off the 
Communication between the Town and the Ifland, and 
having made themfelves Mailers of the adjacent Country, 
Coxenga treated all who had joined the Dutch , in the fame 
Manner that Nicholas Werhurgh , who was Governor in 
1653, did fiich as were concerned in the Rebellion ; that 
is to fay, he put them to Death with all the Marks of 
Shame and Cruelty he could invent, and without the leafb 
Regard to Age, Sex, or Quality. After this, he attack- 
ed all the Outworks at the fame Time, which prevented 
the Dutch from fuccouring each other ; fo that thefe Pla- 
ces were very foon carried, tho’ with a vaft Effulion of 
Blood, and the Governor was forced to retire into Fort 
Zealand. 
The Conqueror confidering the great Strength of the 
Place, and ho.w unfit his Army was to undertake Sieges, 
made choice of Mr. Anthony Rancbroeck , the eldeft of 
the Dutch Clergymen, and fent him with his Brethren, 
two or three Schoolmafters, and fome of the graveft Men 
among his Prifoners, to perfwade the Governor to furren- 
der, declaring, that he was content they fhould retire in 
Safety from Formofa , and that he would not touch the 
Flair of a Dutchman's Plead, or one Farthing’s Worth of 
their Goods j but if they refufed this Propofition, he 
would put them all to the Sword, without Mercy. The 
Governor told thofe who brought him this Meffage, that 
he had all the Sorrow and Concern in the World for their 
Misfortune, but at the fame Time, that there was nothing 
could induce him to betray his Truft, or to give up the 
Place he commanded into the Hands of the Enemy. With 
rifis Anfwer they returned to Coxenga , who, as foon as he 
heard it, caufed all his Prifoners to be put to Death, Men, 
Women and Children. 
When this was done* he embarked the beft Part of his 
Army on board three hundred Juncks, a very light Sort 
of Veffels, with which he blocked up the Port, while he 
fired upon the Fortrefs from two Batteries of twelve Pie- 
ces of Cannon each. While Things were in this Situation, 
there arrived from Batavia , a ftout Squadron of nine Men 
of War, commanded by Commodore James Cawett, who 
immediately made the beft Difpofition he could for the 
Relief of the Place. With this View, he landed the 
Troops he had on Board, and being joined by a Part of 
the Garrifon, marched to attack 6000 Chinefe that were 
covered by a Redoubt, not yet mounted with Cannon* 
Thefe Troops being well armed, and compleatly difei- 
plined, received them in Order of Battle; and tho’ the 
Dutch fought with great Refolution, and renewed the At- 
tack feveral Times, they were at length obliged to retire 
with the Lofs of four hundred Men. The Commodore 
then ordered his Ships to force a Paffage into the Porr, 
but the Juncks drawing very little Water, kept clofe un-. 
der the Shore, where the great Ships durft not follow 
them-, and in this Attempt the Dutch loft two of their 
beft Men of War, of which one run afhore, and had all 
her Crew, to the Number of three hundred and eighty 
Perfons, killed by the Chinefe , the other was blown up by 
a Shot fired into her Powder-room. 
Commodore Cawen perceiving that it was impoffible 
for him to do any Thing more, detached two of his 
Ships to Japon , and having taken on Board two hundred 
Women and Children that were in the Fort, he failed 
back to Batavia with the five Ships remaining of his Squa- 
dron, and made an exadl Report to the Governor of the 
Council of the State of their Affairs in Formofa. 
The News was received there with deep Concern, and 
a Refolution was immediately taken, to fend an Ambaffy 
to the Emperor of the Tartars in China , to inform them, 
that they were in Danger of lofing Formofa, on account 
of refufing to afiift this Chinefe in his Rebellion ; but not 
depending altogether on the Succefs of this Ambaffy, they 
ordered five Ships of War to be equipped, and to fail 
forthwith to the Relief of the Place. The Governor Co- 
jet made fo obftinate a Defence, that old Souja , the Uncle 
of Coxenga, refolved to raife the Siege without the Know- 
ledge of his Nephew, with, at leaff, that Part of the Ar- 
my which he commanded. But tho* he managed this 
Defign with the utmoft Secrecy and Caution, yet Coxenga 
came to have a Sufpicion thereof; upon which, forgetting 
the Nearnefs of his Relation, he caufed old Souja to be 
arrefted, and put in Irons ; after which, notwithftanding 
he had the Plague and Famine in his Camp, he pufhed 
on the Siege fo vigoroufty, that the Governor found him- 
felf obliged to furrender, notwithftanding that the Suc- 
cours he expedted were in Sight. 
Accordingly the Place being given up to the Chinefe , 
he marched out with the Remains of his Garrifon, and 
being taken on Board the Squadron, he returned to Bata- 
via, where, inftead of having received the Thanks, as 
he might reafo.nably have expedted of the Governor-Gene- 
ral and Council, he was committed toPrifon, and kept there 
a long Time, under Pretence, that he had given up the 
Place too foon, becaufe the Dutch Squadron was in Sight. 
To fay the Truth, we may, in fome Meafure, pardon 
the Injuftice of this Proceeding, when we confider the 
Importance of the Place, that the Lofs was irreparable, 
and that, inftead of having the Portuguese and Spanijh 
Trade at their Mercy, their own was now fo much expofed, 
that it was very difficult for them to fend their annual 
Squadron to Japan. This Misfortune, however, brought 
about a Correfpondence with the Chinefe Emperor, who 
confcnted to give them his Afliftance, to reftrain the 
Power of Coxenga, to hinder him from pirating in thofe 
Seas, and thereby difturbing the Commerce of China and 
Japon. 
14. It was about this Time, and by the Mediation of 
King Charles II. who had married the Infanta of Portugal , 
that a Treaty of Peace was fet on Foot between that Crown 
and the Republick of Holland , which was foon after con- 
cluded, to the mutual Satisfied: ion of both Parties ; for the 
