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Show :34 and Crueltz'er in the "Veil-Indies. A Relation of the Spanifll Voyages fuch as have feen it with their own eyes. And 'tis to be remark‘d that God uliially obferves this Rule in the exeCution of his judgments, to proportionate his Penalties to the Crimes committed againl‘t him. ‘ ‘ ' The Cottages and Cruelties thefe innocent People have felt are [0 horrid and notorious, that their 1 3:; :ellthatlhad told you aim more before, and to explain to you what Right the Kings of Spain have to thofe Kingdoms in the Indie: .- and the rather be- (caufe fome whq are uneafy to fee the liberty your Majelty is p‘leas'o to give me in converfing with doWn Vengeance on thofe that have oil'er'd all this your. Royal Perfon about thefc Afl'airs, to engage you tdiregulate thofe Diforders committed in Ameri-ca, have declar'cl againlt my Sentiments with a great deal of heat and animofity. They fay the Zeal violence to their Perfons, and plunder'd 'em of their Eltates. ‘The Report of thefe Cruclties is fpread :the Spaniard: (and thefe I'm refolv'd to oppofe as Tears and'Groans and Blood, the cry of which has reach'd the Throne of God, will undoubtedly draw through thewhole World, and has been carried even to the molt barbarous Nations, and has made 'em ab- hor the Spaniards, and conceive a mortal hatred againll 'em 2' A hatred which extends to the Perfon of lwitlr‘which Ioppofe the Violence and Injulltice of long as it plea‘fes God to continue my life) prompts men to call in queltion the Title the King of Spam pretends to, have to the New World. However l have perform'd what the Council demanded of me, prejudicial to the whole Nation in general. :and drawn up thirty Propolitions, without giving my felt the trouble of proving them at'large, partly None can be fo ignorant as not to forefee what Mifchiefs the Defolations in America are like to bring upon Spain :, and fucceeding Generations will be. but too much convinc'd of the truth of this Pro- hecaufe I was much urg'd to difpatch the bufinefs, and to fend them to your Majel'oy -, which I have ac- vcomplilh'd in the fear of God, and according to our King, as well as his Subjects, and is extremely 'hecaufe they are all certain and evident, and partly phecy :' And if the‘ King of Spain {till {utters the ‘the dictates of my Confcience, with a [trial regard Spaaim‘ds to domineer and tyrannize as they have hi- :to Truth. Since the defire I have of being fervieeable to God daily increafes, I thought my felf oblig'd to refute therto done in the Indies, and makes not efiedual provilio'n by proper Edifis to [top the Courfe of the WW Mil'eries the People of this New World undergo, ' thqfe Countries will in a little time be totally depopulated. ‘ And God will undoubtedly make all Spain feel the Et'feé‘ts of his Wrath in punilhing {06h Crimes as thefe; fince the whole Scripture isfull 0f Threatnings, and plain luf'tances of the Judgments of God on fuch as have been accelihry to the Siflfioé others‘by permitting them. ' ' Moflr it'luflriom and Mighty Prince 5 The Royal flouncil for the Indies; animated with a fincere 263i for the Glory of God, and your Majefty's H0119"? f .r delir'd me a 13W‘ days ago to write to your Martial the Impoltures and Calumnies of form ill-defigning Perfons, who wilfully {hut their eyes againlt the Truth, becaufe 'tis directly oppofite to the Deligns and Projeéts they have form'd. They flatter them‘felves, that under the falfe pretext of fervmg the Kings of Spain, who are ordinarily of a fweet and benign temper, and ready to judg of others by the i cud Sentiments they find in themfelves -, Ifay, they tter themfelves that they {hall ftill be able to_im- pofe on 'em, and bear a fufficient {Way in their minds to bring 'em into the fnares they have laid for 'em. 1?: was the complaint of Abafueru; in the Hifiory 0f " , W aa '‘ either, |