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A60780 Some considerations offered touching the East-India affairs 1698 (1698) Wing S4492C; ESTC R219112 4,068 5

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too Arbitrary the Remedy is easie Such Persons may stay at home under the shadow of our Native Liberty as it is better Ten Thousand Men of that Mind should than that England should loose their Trade and Dominion in India If the Exercise of Martial Law be denied the Company it will be impossible to preserve the Dominion of India of which St. Helena is a pregnant Instance having rebelled four times before they paid one Peny charge to the Government Church Poor or High-ways Custom or Excise or any other Duty 1. It is likewise seriously to be considered whether it be not safest to proceed in an Affair of this vast Import with great deliberation and whether this be a proper time for so hazardous a Change as some would make in the East-India Affairs before the three Kingdoms are so firmly setled as all good Men desire and hope they will be within a small space of time coming 2. Whether it would not be Wisdom to hear first from India how the Dutch Company will behave themselves there upon this great Revolution that hath lately happened in these Kingdoms 3. To consider how the Companies great Ships should be employ'd between the New and Old Company whereof four are in their Majesties Service three at home that will carry from Seventy to Eighty Guns each Eight or Ten more that are suddenly expected Home and very many more left in the Country Because If the present Company must be dissolved four or five years hence they can employ but few of them because their business must be to bring in not to scatter their Estates The New Company whatever men may pretend can't have a Stock to employ half that Number of great Ships in many Years to come and those great Ships must in Consequence be broke up for no other Trade will find them bread but that of India 4. Whether Grafting upon the Present Company or making a new one will not necessarily cause Division and Confusions in the Committees Councils which can never happen at so ill a Time as this when it is said The Dutch Company have already this Year sent very great Forces and are sending out a far greater for India while at the same time the English can't get to Sea that single Ship the Herbert which hath lain three Months at Gravesend full Loaden with Necessaries for the Companies Forts Seamen and some Souldiers on Board her by reason of the present Press and Embargo 5. Is it not extreamly necessary That before any hasty change be made the English Nation should see what use the Dutch Company in India would make upon the great over-ballance of Power in India they are like to have next Summer by reason of the advantage they have at present of getting many Ships to Sea while this Company can't get out that single Ship aforesaid if they should attempt any of the Companies three Pepper-Forts in their own Names or in the Name of the young King of Bantam or any of their Confederate or Vassal Indian Princes would not England Repent too late And if any of those Garrisons should fail or desert for want of Supplies from Europe or upon News of the Companies being out of Favour in England which the Interlopers and Dutch Company will not fail to aggravate and magnifie to the Natives will not such an Error be fatal to this Kingdom How can it hereafter be mended or who shall do it the old Company being mortified by the late discouragements they have met with after all their great Services for their Country and the New One whatever is pretended will never be able to do it 6. If the Dutch Company by reason of the Discouragement and Interruption given the English Company should arrive at the sole Engrossment of Pepper would not the next Commodity most proper for them to engross be Saltpetre and what will be the Consequences thereof After they have once all the Pepper they may do all things and every thing they have a mind to in India at their own good Will and Pleasure without possibility of prevention And we dare confidently aver and think it our bounden Duty to God and our Countrey before it be too late to affirm positively That if the English Company be not arm'd with the same Authority and Priviledges as the Dutch East-India Company are The English Empire and Dominion in India will certainly and quickly be lost and the loss of the Trade must follow that in a short time after or as soon as the Dutch Company please That Nation being so wise in the Affairs of those Eastern Countries that they never made any Change of their Company after it was once setled nor abridged them of any Power but rather encreased their Authority