THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME FIFTH.

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AMBOYNA:

OR, THE

CRUELTIES OF THE DUTCH

TO THE

ENGLISH MERCHANTS.

A TRAGEDY.

AMBOYNA.

The tragedy of Amboyna, as it was justly termed by the Englishof the seventeenth century, was of itself too dreadful to beheightened by the mimic horrors of the stage. The reader maybe reminded, that by three several treaties in the years 1613, 1615,and 1619, it was agreed betwixt England and Holland, that theEnglish should enjoy one-third of the trade of the spice islands.For this purpose, factories were established on behalf of the EnglishEast India Company at the Molucca Islands, at Banda, andat Amboyna. At the latter island the Dutch had a castle, witha garrison, both of Europeans and natives. It has been alwaysremarked, that the Dutchman, in his eastern settlements, losesthe mercantile probity of his European character, while he retainsits cold-blooded phlegm and avaricious selfishness. Of this the Amboynagovernment gave a notable proof. About the 11th of Feb.1622, old stile, under pretence of a plot laid between the Englishof the factory and some Japanese soldiers to seize the castle, the formerwere arrested by the Dutch, and subjected to the most horribletortures, to extort confession of their pretended g

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