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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36101	A discourse of the duties on merchandize, more particularly that on sugars occasionally offer'd in answer to a pamphlet intituled The groans of the plantations, &c., exposing the weakness of the said pamphlet ... also shewing how the last imposition on sugars did truly affect that trade ... / by a merchant.	Merchant.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1604; ESTC R41354	21,150	38

Plantation Voyage where they might be merry among their Friends and be sure of a kind Reception while the Planters had it they thought nothing too good for them c. and yet for all this I never heard that the Seamen were so fond of these Voyages that they would take a Farthing less Wages than to other Places for they always counted the rolling of Buts of Sugar of above a Tun Weight to be as hard work as any they should meet with elsewhere neither did I ever hear them boast of the extraordinary Kindness of the Planters to them whatever they might shew to their Commanders or that they could be entertain'd there gratis but on the contrary I think they say That a Bitt which is 7 d. 1 ● or half a Bitt is the least Coin that will pass there in a publick House and that they can eat and drink as well for a Groat in many other Places as they can there for a Shilling Well but now this beloved Navigation is gone and by Destroying the Plantations the Navigation to them must be destroy'd likewise or at least made good for nothing We are so Pinch'd our selves that we are forc'd to Pinch all that we are concern'd with We cannot now afford the Seamen that liberal Freight we did formerly This is all over Robert for Richard for what 's the Freight to the Seamen Is not their Wages the same whether the Freight be Dear or Cheap But I think he 's more besides the Matter yet when he talks of their Liberality and how willing they are to do Reason to their good Friends the Seamen and give them a fair and full Price when we know that they have brought their Tunnage to be the heaviest in the World and have always been wont to beat down the Prices of Freight perhaps the lowest of any Commerce But where 's the Navigation gone How is it destroyed Have there ever since been a want of Ships to bring off the Sugar Have not Ships frequented the Plantations and Freights been as good since as before which all that know the Trade will allow But he says There was no Cause so visible for the Desertion of the English Seamen in the late Reign as the spoiling that Navigation which was most Dear to them A Reason which certainly no Man else ever thought on and sure I think too weak to take with any one besides this Gentleman I have Commented the larger upon this again to shew that this Gentleman hath not a fair way of Reasoning but that he doth from divers Suggestions Untrue in themselves form Conclusions altogether False But as the Gentleman hath in the First Part of the Pamphlet endeavour'd to perswade us that the Plantations are Ruin'd by Taxes which no body can believe so in the Latter Part he takes a great deal of Pains to Prove what no Understanding Man will deny viz. that the Plantations are not a Detriment but an Advantage to England and in that I 'll never contend with him no more than for his Smiting at those People who did in the Late Kings Reign make it their whole Study and Endeavours Right or Wrong to Advance the Kings Revenue and even Pick the Traders Pocket to put into his Straining and Wresting the Laws in the Kings Favour which ought to be Construed most favourably for the Merchant By which means the Traders were extreamly Opprest and Discouraged contrary to the true Interest both of King and Kingdom But as we ought always to have in Remembrance the Goodness and Mercy of God for the Wonderful Deliverance he hath Wrought for us so 't is our indispensible Obligation to Love Honour and Obey that Happy Instrument by whose Means we are freed not only from those but far greater Oppressions and the daily Apprehensions of approaching Ruin But now let us consider the Consequence of what this Gentleman aims at which is to have the Plantations eas'd as he calls it by taking off the Duties on Sugars doubtless he means all the Duties for he represents the First as insupportable and I doubt we shall herein find this Gentleman guilty of the same Principles he hath Condemned in others That they care not how heavy Burdens they lay upon others so they could shift it off themselves For if we may take his own Account that 7 or 800 Sail of Ships are Imployed yearly in the Plantation Trade if only 700 bring one with another but 50 Tuns of Sugar it makes 35000 Tuns But we 'll be so Modest to Account but 30000 Tuns the Duty whereof in the Islands at 6 d. per Hundred as he makes it is 7500 l. of this 30000 Tuns Imported we 'll allow 10000 Tun to be Shipt out again and that then Pays but 9 d. per Hundred Duty which makes another Sum of 7500 l. But the other 20000 Tuns allowing nothing for Whites at the present Duty of 3 s. 10 d. per Hundred Amounts to 76666 l. 13 s. 4 d. so here we have near we might venture all things considered to make it quite 100000 l. per Annum of Their Majesties Revenue which by this Gentlemans good Will should be quite taken off but in what Manner else to Raise this Money as we don't well Know so I believe he doth as little Care if he can but be eas'd as he thinks of Bearing a Part on 't himself But now I 'll shew him how this great Loss to the Revenue would not yet ease the Planter One Farthing In order to which I 'll take a Maxim of his own though indeed it overthrows his own Argument which I 'll Allow as a great Truth viz. That 't is only Plenty or Scarcity which is really according to the demand of a Commodity is that which Rules the Market and Commodities of constant Use and Necessity will and do Rise in spight of the greatest Impositions that were ever laid on them while they continue in good Demand And 't was the Plenty or Glut of Sugars occasion'd not by the Imposition but by an Accident resulting therefrom as I have already shewn that was the Cause of the Fall of Sugars at that time And I Challenge any Man to shew me any other Instance of a Commodities not Rising according to the Impost laid on it And notwithstanding this Gentleman's Suggestion That the Mystery of laying this Load on them viz. the Plantations was because if 't were laid on Foreigners they 'd carry or send their Commodities to other Places whereas if he understood Trade he would know that we use to fetch the Commodities we want from Foreigners our selves and expect not to have our Markets supply'd by them But I pray him to inquire whether the French did send their Silks Linens Wines and Brandies when they were so highly Imposted the last especially no less than 8 l. per Tun added which was half its cost in France but 't is known the French did not sell any of these Goods a Farthing cheaper and they were kept up

some considerable time did stop their Hands from Buying which made the Sugars at Market so great a Drug and gave the Buyers the opportunity to beat down the price which naturally falls out on any Commodity when there 's more at Market than the Trade will readily expend and the Necessitated Merchant is forc'd to beg Chapmen and must sell his Commodity for what he can get Yet the Consequence of this prov'd the most fatal to those Merchants who had Debts owing them in the Islands where the Accounts run to pay in Sugar which being Imported after this Imposition did scarcely clear them the one half of their usual Returns there being some men that lost above 500 l. Sterling of their proper Estate by that means which certainly was too great a hardship to be put on Private Men by the improvidence of a Publick Act and ought to have been Redress'd as soon as seen but my Authors Notion is right in that That those were not times to procure a Redress of Grievances We do acknowledge that this did reach to squeez the Planter likewise their Sugars then coming to fall in the Islands for the Merchant could not keep up the Price abroad when the Loss would have been so great in bringing them home But that which the Parliament design'd for a Kindness to the Trade was through an Oversight the cause of all this Inconvenience for as they ordered all this Additional Duty to be paid back at Transportation of Raw Sugars and did not allow any thing to be drawn back on the Shipping off of Sugars Refin'd in England by this it came to pass that as the Dutch did before Vye with us in Foreign Markets so now having the Advantage of drawing back all this new Impost of 2 s. 4 d. per Hundred which our Refiners must pay and have nothing allowed them at Shipping off they had now the Advantage of our Refiners by no less than Seven Shillings Eight Pence Half-peny upon every Hundred of Refin'd Sugar so that now we could no more stand in Competition with them in that Trade To give a plain Demonstration whereof the Reader must first be acquainted That Two hundred and a half of Muscovado or Raw Sugar is usually allow'd to make One hundred of Refin'd Now the Dutchman drawing back upon his Carrying away our Raw Sugars to Refine them at Home the one half of the Old Duty which is 9 d. and the whole New Duty which is 2 s. 4 d. this makes 7 s. 8 d. ½ upon Two hundred and an half of Raw which as I have said before produces but One Hundred of Refin'd and our Refiners having no Allowance made on the Shipping off their Refin'd Sugar they consequently lost that Trade became Over-stockt for the Inland Expence the price of Sugars were beat down the Merchant reduc'd to great Loss and no body the better for it but the Dutch And this was the True Cause by which the Impost on Sugars came to affect the Plantations And yet for all this there was no reason to cry out The Plantations are Ruin'd We pay yearly in Duties more than the Rents of our Lands We are wholly stript of our Lands and Free-holds and made worse than Pack-Tenants Many that had good Estates Four Years ago are now worth nothing and in a starving Condition 'T were a Mercy to take away our Lives rather than leave them to us with so much Bitterness 'T is our hard Lot to Live depriv'd of the Comforts of Life With Abundance of the like kind of Exclamations I think the Gentleman hath in this so much Out-run the Constable that I may modestly desire him to tell us Whether the People do Live there still or what 's become of them Whether they are all in Goals for Debt or have starv'd in the Streets Have thy sold their Plantations to pay Debts or their Servants to buy Food and Clothing They might then be said to be depriv'd of the Comforts of Life and to be reduc'd to a State of Bitterness But contrary to this as perhaps no People in the World have been more remarkable for a Luxuriant way of Living so it may be more proper to ask Whether they have in any measure retrench'd those Extravagant Excesses that were wont to abound amongst them or have yet learn'd what Providence and Good Husbandry is But as we have yet heard nothing less so we have no reason to believe that things have been quite so bad with them as this Gentleman hath studied to represent But if this should be taken as too great a Reflection on the Planters it could not well be avoided because the Gentleman hath endeavoured to represent them as a poor starv'd undone People when the contrary is so evident to all that are acquainted with the manner of Living in those Parts Besides those that are Sober and Discreet among them of which doubtless there are many will not blame me for a gentle Reproof of Vice where there is so much Reason and Truth Moreover it may not be an unseasonable Occasion to put those Gentlemen in mind that as they have had the Opportunity of those vast Improvements to raise to themselves by their own Industry Estates of 500 some 1000 2000 l. Sterling per Annum so 't is a Wonder that Sugars should continue to hold up their price so well when by the Settlement of so many other Plantations there hath been so great an Encrease of that Commodity which and not Impositions will probably be the means whereby the price of their Sugars must come in time to be lower'd it would therefore very well become them to exercise a greater Care to save and lay up against such a time as many Prudent Men among them have done whom notwithstanding the great Discouragements this Gentleman would perswade us they have all along layn under we have seen to bring very considerable Estates to England But I offer not this out of Envy or Emulation for I heartily wish them all the Prosperity and Encouragement they can reasonably desire but meerly to excite them to affect a more Frugal and Provident way of Living I come now to Remark his Talking so much of the Hardship put upon them in laying so high a Duty on White Sugars and telling us that others can Live by Making Plain Sugar they must Live by the Improv'd And herein lies his Ingenuity in making his Discourse relate more particularly to Barbadoes as he says in his Title Page for no other of our Plantations do any thing considerable in Refining Sugars But this let me tell him that howsoever it may be their Interest to make White Sugars I 'm sure it 's our Interest to keep such a Balance upon them that they shall not too much Undersel our Refiners in England and that they could very considerably when those Sugars paid but 5 s. per Hundred Duty Let us then state the Account between the Barbadoes and the English Refiner that we may see on