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Show B - ~ An Embaffage 1o the Emperour o b timerous are they in any thing relating to their Emperour, o rather {o fuperfi tious, that beyond all comparifon they do more dread h Gyq his Temple ; but this fear an lownefs is but external, in referenc ' t e han and where their wantof power forbids t i thei hearts, there isno Chinefe, efpeciall of the Learned {ort of ingenious liber; Education, who is not a very Pr nce, and carries not in his Plebeja breaf t‘he pride of the : great:eft Mon-arch; and this j the {ource and f; ountain when {uch frequent diffentions {pring am ngft them, and the caufe of thej fte changes. But this is a Digrefi on,ict us retarn. Our aftliCtion and trou as no Amall to fee our hopes thus plunged; whereon, befide themany Sacrifices o the Mafs which we oftered to God we appointed alfo fome particular dev ons daily for this purpofe Qurnext application wasto 2] Princ b]emen, whom either we could rake any occa ion to vifit, or who tool any occafio to vific us (for no day pafled wherein f to adore the Hol Image, and to view our new hurch and Habitation, whic ha beftowed upon us) thele we {pared not o acquaint with the villainous and perfidious difpofition of the Hollanders, with the r Apoltacy from their antient profefle Religion, and Rebellion againft their la ful Soveraign ; as alfo their attempt upon the City of Maccow {o e years paft, where they were repelled, an off by the brave Inhabitants thereof, few: in numbe , ‘bur."m‘ighty in courage an unanimity 5 whereunto we thought fit to adde, hat after heir repulfe from Mac cow, they made an Invafion upon part of the Provi ce of Fockin, and feconde that witha forceable (eizure of an Ifland lying in that Sea belonging to the () nefes, by them called Tywan (but by us F ormofa) wher they had ereGed Warlike Forts, and where they had in no longer {pace then two r three years, Murdered more then three thoufand Souls of the Chinefes , {o e the Antient Inhabitants of the Ifland, and fome Merchants of the Province of F ockin nd Checkin pafled thither with their Merchandize : and it appeared in the Reco ds of you judicial proceedings, that during the laft Kings reign,thirteen of thofe Holland r which chanced to be taken Prifoners upon the coaft of F ockin, being brought t the Court, were all there condemned, and accordingly executed In like manne we proceed, that under the pretence of Trade, they had been admitted footi upon the Ifland of Favasthac notwirhftanding that King weary of their Neighbour hood, hath along time cut off all relief of Provifions going to them from all part of his Territories, and fometimes befieged them with Puiffant and numerou Arnes, yet could he never prevail to turn them out of their Pofleffions, fro whence at firft he might eafily have kept them ; nor was the bond of any Leagu firong enoughto tye thefe Univerfal Robbers from offering (orto {ecure any Q their Allies from {uffering) injuries by them, who thought the Sea nly their fi"fll due,excluding all others from any right to it; and therefore never made diftin&tio between Friend or Foe, when any Ship fell into cheir hands, they wereable t mafter, as if Neptune had granted to them the only Patent of the Ocean ; a on all thi s e inferred, thattoadmit thefe Men the exercife of a Free Trad.c China, befides the Domeflick perilsand mifchiefs it would Contrad&, were likewile to condemn and fcandalizeall other Chriftian Princes and Rulers, when the fhould {ee the great Potentate of the world embracing in the bofome of his Cour trey the Arch-Pirates of all Seas, whom all other Principalities did fhu 23 th molt pernitious d anger in their Dominions So well did this ftory take, with wha elfe we then alledged But here I omit thar all the chief perfons about the.Em perour fell into admiration at the impudence of thefe Holland rs under.takmg' and aftonifhment at the carelefnefs and fecy rity of thofe perfons who werein pla e of truft in this Empire, or (more truely) at their corruption in letting fucha km‘ |