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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35602	The great necessity and advantage of preserving our own manufacturies being an answer to a pamphlet intitul'd The honour and advantage of the East-India trade, &c. / by N.C., a weaver of London.	N. C., weaver of London.; Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699. Great honor and advantage of the East-India trade.	1697 (1697)	Wing C88; ESTC R7438	7,162	40

part of what he now sells it he cannot pay his Landlord much more than a quarter part of what he now pays but these are so plain Truths that it seems as needless to spend many words about it as it is to bring Arguments to prove that two is more than one or that the whole is more than a part or any other most certain Maxim But ere I conclude it will be necessary once more to look back to the fore-mention'd Pamphlet stiled The Great Honour and Advantage c. where that Author brings in the profit the Dutch make and the Scotch promise themselves by the East-India Trade as a sure token of its Goodness because no man courts a Mischief I answer 't is not true nor pertinent 't is not true in the sense we are treating of for too many men court that which is a publick Mischief for their own private Gain as I suppose will be generally own'd in the case of those that bring in Alamodes and other French Commodities against Law now we are engaged in a Waragainst them and many other cases were easie to name wherein men do court that which is a Mischief to the Publick for their own private 2. Nor is it pertinent for it is not the East India Trade in general that is complain'd of nor that we seek Relief against but only such of the made Goods as interfere with our own Manufactures and yet but so much of them neither as only are worn here and as to this 't is well known That though the Dutch Trade to the E. Indies be so much superior to ours yet as to these Goods that are the mischievous part of that Trade two of our last Ships brought over much more than their twelve Ships brought and yet that Trade would not be so pernicious to the Dutch as to us because they have not so large a tract of Land no such Fund as our Sheeps-wooll nor such vast numbers of People employ'd in Manufactories but as they have a smaller spot of Ground so their People are mostly employ'd about Merchandise and Shipping He might have told us what reception the French that have a large tract of Land and many Manufactorers do give to Foreign wrought Goods especially Indian if he had thought it his interest Some are of Opinion and not without reason That if the French King had suffered his People to export the Treasure of his Country to bring in foreign made Goods as freely as our Indian Traders now do his own Merchants would have helpt so effectually to humble him that he had been brought to Reason before now But that Author hath a special knack of confounding one thing with another to the end that he might make one thing pass for another a trick very necessary for those that do not intend to clear up Truth but stifle it Thus he would make Trade and Commerce in general and the whole E. India Trade to be understood for this part of it which we only oppose and some of themselves have counted a small part formerly Thus he would have the particular gain of that Company in advancing their Actions treble pass for a sign of the Profit it was to the Nation and the greatest part of his Book upon strict examination will fall under this Head As for our Scotch Friends whatever they promise themselves from this Trade that we contest about and if that Bill now depending before the Honourable House of Commons for restraining the wear of Indian Silks c. do pass into a Law they will be little the better for it if they come to bring in their Callico's in any considerable quantities to be worn in Scotland in lieu of their own Linen Manufacture a few years will teach them whatever some private persons may get by it that they have made but an ill bargain of it for their Countrey but if it should not pass into a Law no doubt but they will be peddling them all over England and then they may well promise themselves to be great gainers but poor England must pay for all and suffer the fate of Issachar to couch under two Burdens I have now done for the present with the aforesaid Author and the Trade he pleads for if any desire to inform themselves both in our East Indian and other Foreign Trades what benefit each is to the Nation they may please to read a Book called An Essay on the State of England in relation to its Trade c. written about a Year since by the Ingenious Mr. John Cary Merchant of Bristol I shall now state briefly Whether the People and their Employ for whose sake I have made these faint Essays be a real benefit to the Kingdom in general or only to some few persons in particular under the severe Administration of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands Many Families came over into England and brought over with them this Trade of weaving broad Silks and Stuffs made of Wooll and Silk and Wooll mix'd These were graciously received by that great and wise Princess Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory and were so encouraged that through the succeeding Reigns they came to more thousands than they were Families that this hath been one of those means that hath advanced Land both in Rent and Purchase so considerably since that time were easie to demonstrate not only from Experience but from the nature of the thing as a Cause that must naturally produce such an Effect and when all is said that can be we shall never be enrich'd by an Ignis fatuus but by such Trades as have a natural tendency thereunto To conclude Solomon faith The honour of a King is the multitude of his Subjects but in the want of People is the destruction of the Prince Now this Trade hath not only brought a Livelihood to such great Multitudes of our own People but entertain'd also many thousands of French Protestants fled hither for Refuge which will be much to the Honour and Advantage of this Kingdom if our Manufactures be so incouraged that there may be a sufficient employ flor them all and our Poor whom God and Nature requires us to take care of be so employ'd as to be an useful part of the Nation Much more might be said but I shall only add That no one thing under the Divine Providence and the Care of our Governours contributes more to the Riches and Safety of the Nation than incouraging our own Manufactures FINIS