93§ A fuccinB Hiftory of iue Rife^ Progrefs y and Book L 
General Speelman foon after embarked his Forces* and 
tranfported them to another Part of the I (land, where he 
committed great Ravages, and deftroyed a great Multi- 
tude of Villages. As this War was apparently attended 
with great LoiTes and Inconveniences on both Sides, Depu- 
ties were at laft chofen, to try what could be done towards 
fettling a Peace. The King of Macajfar was very unwil- 
ling to let thefe Deliberations be fpun out to any length, 
becaufe he found his Indian Allies deferring him by De- 
grees, and making Peace for themfelves on the belt Terms 
they could ; which Example of theirs he refolved to fol- 
low, by fubmitting to fuch Terms as he could get, which 
were, indeed, none of the molt reafonable •, and fo the 
Treaty was concluded on the 1 8th of November , 1667; 
in confequence of which, the Regents of the Wand, and 
and all the neighbouring Princes, as well as the King of 
Macajfar , fent a numerous and folemn Embaffy to the 
Governor-General, John Maetfuicher at Batavia , to make 
their Submiffion to the Company. 
All this Time the Dutch Army and Fleet continued in 
the Wand, and the rainy Seafon coming on, there enfued 
fuch a Mortality among them, as induced the Indians to 
hope they might gain fome Advantages over them, by 
which they were tempted to break the Peace, which they 
did by maffacring a great Number of the dying Soldiers, 
and two of their Captains ; upon which the War broke 
out again, and continued with as great Violence as ever 
for two Years ; in which Time the Succefs of Admiral 
Speelman was fo great, and the Calamities he brought up- 
on the Natives of Macajfar were fo many and fo heavy, 
that, at laid, they were forced to implore a Peace, to 
fend a new Embaffy to Batavia , and to make all the Sub- 
millions the Company could require ; and, after all, they 
were left to the Mercy of Speelman , who, by a new Treaty, 
concluded on the 15th of June 1669, not only renewed 
the Treaties of the 19th of Auguji, 1660, and the 18th 
of November , 1667, but alfo impofed upon them other 
Conditions ftill more grievous and more intolerable. By 
this Treaty the Company became entirely Miftrefs of the 
Commerce of the Wands of Celebes , which, though very 
confiderable in itfelf, was ftiii more fo by being taken 
from other European Nations, who under Colour of trad- 
ing for the Commodities of the Wands, came in for a 
confiderable Share of the Trade in Spices ; fo that it ferved 
likewife to fee ure to the Dutch what was of more Confe- 
quence to them than any thing elfe, their abfolute So- 
vereignty over the Moluccas. 
I have been the more particular in writing the Hiftory 
of this War from the Memoirs furnifhed me by the Dutch 
Authors, becaufe it is the laft of any Confequence that the 
Company has carried on in the Indies , and has, with re- 
fpeCl to the Natives, eftablifhed their Power fo effectually, 
that there is no great Danger of their being obliged to 
fuftain fuch another War. Before I part however with 
this SubjeCt, I fhall take the Liberty of making a few 
Remarks, for the fake of fuch Readers as feek Inftruc- 
tion rather than Amufement, and are truly defirous of 
underftanding what in this SeCtion I have undertaken 
to explain. 
My firft Qbfervation is, that how rude and barbarous 
foever we may efteem thefe Nations, yet moft evident it is, 
that the King of Macajfar acted like a great and wife Po- 
litician, and that the Indian Princes, who joined with 
him, were entirely guided by a Principle of publick Spirit, 
and a very juft and rational Befire of preferving a Ballance 
of Power in thole Parts upon which their own immediate 
Safety and quiet Enjoyment of their Dominions depended. 
They mifearried indeed, but it was in a noble Caufe, 
and even their Mifcarriage fufficiently proves the ReCti- 
tude of their Intentions ; for fince the Conclufion of 
this fatal Peace, to which they were driven by abfo- 
lute Neceffity, they have loft all Commerce with Stran- 
gers, and are, to all Intents and Purpofes, the Vaffals, or 
to fpeak in plain Englijh , the Slaves of the Dutch. This 
plainly fhews, that the Ballance of Power, is not Inch a 
Chimera as fome People would reprefent it ; and my next 
Remark will make this ftill more evident. 
It is very ftrange, that while thefe Indian Princes were 
not only fighting for their own Freedom, but for the Li- 
4 
berty of trading with Europeans , all the European, Nations 
fettled in the Indies fhould be quiet Spectators of a War 
which fo much concerned them, without interpofingin the 
lead for the Prefervation of thofe who were eno-ao-ed in 
their Caufe as much as in their own. If they had ftirred ever 
fo little, we may eafily difcern,even from thefe Dutch Ac- 
counts, that the King of Macajfar and his Allies mffht 
have been fupported in their Pretenfions, and mi°-ht have 
been enabled to have thrown off the Yoke of th % Dutch’ 
fo that if Barbarity confifts as furely with refpect to Na- 
tions it does, in political Ignorance, then the Europeans 
in the Indies may, with greater Juftice, be ftiled barba- 
rous than the poor Natives, who certainly did all they 
could ; and the wifeft, greateft, and braveft Nations never 
did more. 
My third Remark is, that the Indians who joined with 
the Dutch , were Enemies to themfelves, and by deftroy- 
ing the Power of the King of Macajfar , not only contri- 
buted to the Ruin of the only Monarch who underftood 
and purfued the true Intereft of the Indians in general, but 
likewife fubverted and took away their own Importance : 
For, while the King of Macajfar continued a great and 
powerful Prince, the Dutch Eajl-India Company confi- 
dered, and muft have always confidered fuch Princes as 
lived in Friendffiip with them in the Light of Allies, and 
durft never have treated them but as Allies ought to be 
treated. But when this Power was gone, which made their 
Friendlhip fo neceffary, and of fuch Importance, they be- 
came as much the Vaffals, as much the Servants, or, as I 
called them before, the Slaves of the Dutch , as that Kino- 
and thofe Princes, who by their Affiftance, the Dutch 
fubdued. This is a very ufeful and a very important Lef> 
fon for Men are the fame in Europe and in the Indies. 
It is now time to refume our Hiftory, which leads me 
to take Notice, that while the Eajl- India Company car- 
ried all before them abroad, the Republick was excef- 
fively diftreffed at home ; for now it was that the French 
jealous of her Power, and the Englijh , in Refentment of 
former Injuries, concurred in that fatal Alliance, which 
was very near bringing the States as low as when they firft 
ffiook off the Tyranny of th z Spaniards-, nay, which ac- 
tually did bring them into fuch Diftrefs, that it is reported 
that they had once thought of feeking that Protection from 
their Eajl-India Company, which they had hitherto af- 
forded it, and of transfering that. Government to Batavia , 
which they almoft defpaired of preferving at the Hague. 
Providence however interpofed, and by touching the 
Hearts of the Englijh Nation with a generous Concern for 
their Neighbours, whom though they might wifh to fee 
humbled, yet they had no Defire, as indeed they had no 
Intereft to fee them deftroyed, delivered them from this 
Calamity, and raifed them once more to Power and Free- 
dom. 
Yet the Eajl-India Company, though it felt but little 
of this Storm, was not altogether exempt from its Force, 
fince the French fent a powerful Squadron into the Indies, 
with a View to have torn from them a Part of their Pof- 
feffions. This Squadon was commanded by the Sieur de 
la Hay, who propofed firft attacking Ceylon, with a View 
to make the French Matters of the Cinnamon Trade at 
once, as the fhorteft Means of introducing the Commerce 
of the Indies according to the ProjeCt of one Mr. Caron , 
a French Refugee, who had been long in the Dutch Eaji- 
India Company’s Service, underftood their Affairs per- 
fectly well, and made his Peace at home by betraying all 
he knew. This Man embarked on Board the Fleet, and 
was principally depended upon in the Management of 
every thing. It cannot be denied, that he ferved the French 
Miniftry very effectually j but they had not fufficiently con- 
fidered the Importance of the Expedition in which they 
employed him, or the Force of the Enemy with whom 
they had to deal ; for if they had, they would undoubtedly 
have fent a fecond Squadron to have fupported that which 
Mr. Hay commanded ; and this might have been of fome 
Ufe j but, as it was, it only ffiewed the Difpofition of the 
French , and ferved to put the Dutch upon their Guard- 
In the Summer of the Year 1673, the French Fleet ap- 
peared on the Weft-Coaft of the Illand of Ceylon, and 
immediately landed and attacked the Citadel of Trinqui- 
mals 9 
