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A59253 A serious advice to the African and Indian Company 1700 (1700) Wing S2603; ESTC R219996 6,220 12

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A Serious ADVICE TO THE African and Indian Company IT is proposed that the Directors may be pleased to Call not only the General Council but as many of the Partners of the Company as can be had now in time of Parliament In Order to consult the common Concerns of the Company where the True Interest of the Company may be Calmly and Seriously considered without Passion or By-ends And if by them it be found expedient the following Proposals may be debated agreed unto or rejected and that others may be added or put in their place 1 mo That a Dutiful and Earnest Address may be made to the King and Parliament Representing the Injuries done us by England in order to such Redress as the Nature of the thing will bear and for preventing of future Injuries 2 do That since hitherto we have received much Loss and little Gain if any by our being united under one Sovereign with England And that the Opposition which occurs in the Interest of two distinct Kingdoms under one Sovereign are not only Embarassing but oft times hurtful especially to the weakest That therefore the Union of the two Kingdoms either entirely or at least as to mutual Trade amongst themselves may be now seriously intended and speedily prosecuted as hitherto it hath been only pretended and Treated rather in Jest than Earnest by which great Evils that threaten Brittain may be prevented Or if this be impracticable or on any Account rejected The King and Parliament would be humbly Supplicated to Explicat our mutual Interests so that we may be not be used by our Neighbours of England during our Nominal Union with them as Slaves in time of War nor as Aliens in time of Peace Of both which hitherto we have had many sensible Experiments 3 tio Since it was thought that we might Legally Possess a part of the Isthmus of Ameria where the King of Spain pretended Right Though he had Garrisons and Possessions nearly Adjacent On this Ground that he was not in actual Possession of the very Place That now we may Address His Majesty as King of England to allow us the like Priviledge and Faculty in the Isles and Continent of America nearly Adjacent to the English Plantations where we may have better Neighbourhood and may claim more favour than from the Spaniard 4 to That the Priviledges granted to Our Company having been Rendered ineffectual hitherto by what Occured That therefore now we may Supplicat the King and Parliament for a further Prorogation of the time of our Priviledges And likewise in consideration of our very great loss And that this Project of Ours tended more to the National advantage than to any private Gain Viz The settling of a Colonie in America in order to Vent our Native Products by a Canal of Our own and for bringing to us needfull things from Abroad in return of our own Goods and not by the wast of Our Stocks And what is for a Common Good should be sustained for a Common Stock That therefore the King and Nation may Contribute to the Resturation of Our Company For which end it is humbly proposed It is proposed that since Wine imported in so great quantity as is usual is so far from being of necessary use That it may rather be esteemed seperfluous and yet a Prohibition of its import absolutely is not acceptable to the People That his Majesty may dispence with a 4th part of the Custom and Excyse of Wines Imported be the common Stock of the African Company This proposition wi●l be the more acceptable to the Nation If the Wines so savoured be restricted only to the Wines Imported for the returns of their Exported Fish allenarly And whereof sufficient prooff is made that they are returned on the Company 's Accompt and by the product of their Exported Fish Or if additional custom of a 4th part more than is payed presently for Wines be added on all Wines not Imported be the Company on the return foresaid It s owned that this will give the Company the whole benefit of the importing of Wine which is no hurtfull concession since a prohibition of 3 parts of 4 of the Wine that is Imported will not only be Legal but perhaps most fit Yet since the generality of People are so defireous of its Import And that it's consumpt is not by the poor but by those who have Money to spare The Importation of it may be the less grievous That the profit thereof should go to support this Company who whose designs and Trade will be so beneficial to the Nation And by this other Merchants will be thereby induced to Employ their Stocks on the other things which are necessary for the Nation whereby the Nation may be better furnished in all these Materials such as Timber Iron Salt for Fishing Copper Flax Hemp Soap Ashes materials for Sugar c. By which Manufactories will certainly be encreased Idle hands Imployed and the poor sustained Whereas now Merchants Employ their Stocks upon Wines and neglects the Materials of other Manufactories So that the Priviledge of Importing of Wines being only in the African Company 's hands will both be some Advantage to the Company and a General Good to the Nation And if the same Priviledge were granted to the Company on Tobac●o would be on the same Grounds desirable and this would encourage the Company to bestow a great part of their Stock upon Fishery And since the Design and Result of the African and Indian Trade will be without doubt to the Nation in General And consequently to every Individual person in it and that in Justice a common Good should have a general Concurrence and Support And that the generality of the Nation especially the Great Men and Burrows have professed a great and Extraordinar Zeal for the Concerns of this Company And that private Persons have now Expendit on their private Stocks above 200000 lib. Sterling on this design albeit the profit was indeed the result of the Nation and is not now to be reattempted without a considerable support from the Nation Therefore That three Months Cess yearly for 3 or 4 years may be imposed in savours of this Company with this provision That at least a third part thereof be imployed on Fishings on the Scottish Seas whereby the Money so imployed will indeed come to the common National profit and almost to every Person in it In so much that if this Quota of Money were put in the hands of good Managers it is positively asserted that it could not be so advantagiously Imployed even for the particular Persons of the Nation who contribute this Cess as it may be for promoving a Fisherie and an Indian Trade in this Companies Hands as the Sequel of this Paper will shew And to the effect it may be Managed aright it is proposed that a General Council of the Company may be called presently and three of every State And some of the Kings Officers may join with the