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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55702	The Present interest of Tangier		1679 (1679)	Wing P3248; ESTC R9104	5,548	4

THE Present Interest OF TANGIER TAngier is a pleasant City as any in the world in a most wholesome Air pure and free from all Infection scituate in a most rich and fruitful Soil able to yield all things needful to the life of man There is no pleasure or delight but this Country if open would afford to the Inhabitants without the assistance of Forein Nations The Air is temperate and cool'd with the annual Brises in the Summer called Etesian Winds and often purg'd from the Distempers which otherwise might raign there by the Easterly and Westerly winds By this means it happens that it is neither very hot in the Summer nor excessive cold in the Winter but temperate and agreeable with the disposition of our humane bodies The Moors thereabouts live commonly to a great age I have seen many amongst them about Eighty and Ninety years of age very lusty And since Tangier belong'd to England none can say that ever the Plague hath been in that Citie or that there hath been any Infection to carry away the Inhabitants proceeding from the Air or Countrie I confess many have died in this place but most through their own Follies Debaucheries and Lust which have destroyed here many of his Majesties good Subjects If we could beg such a Wind from Almighty God as to drive from thence these Infections our English bodies would be very healthy and Tangier would not be so odious to the Nation It was built by the Phoenicians if Procopius may be believed for he tells us of a Pillar near Tingi where these words were engraven in the Phoenician Language Nos fugimus à facie Josuae filii Nun. They were then the greatest Traders of the world they chose this place for that purpose to enrich themselves by that Art Of all the Cities of the world I know none better scituate for Command and Trade than this It lies at the mouth and passage of all the Levant-Trade no Ship can go in or out of the Streights but Tangier must see it in the day and in the night four or five Men of War cruising to and fro some in others out of the Mediterranean may take all the Ships that sail that way none can escape without a strong Convoy which would be too chargeable for the Dutch French and other Northern Merchants If Argier were scituate where Tangier is now all its Enemies must forbear Trading and if Tangier were in the hands of the Moors or of the French or some other Prince strong at Sea our Nation were undone and our Merchants must bid farewel to the Streights in time of War It is an easie matter for the Prince of Tangier therefore to command our Northern world and to give Laws to Europe and Africa The scituation of Rome of Carthage of Constantinople of London Paris and other Imperial Cities is nothing near so advantageous for that purpose as Tangier if all things be considered The Countrie and Soil is fruitful in Corn Honey Cattle Beef Sheep Goats Camels Horses and Buffles The Woods are full of Bees and wild Beasts that have excellent Furrs The Earth would bear good Wines of all sorts for there are the sweetest Grapes of the world Here are all manner of Eastern Fruits Pomgranats Oranges Melons Lemons Figs c. So that if our English did husband the ground about Tangier there is nothing that we fetch from Spain Italy Greece or France but we might have it there It is the nearest Plantation that belongs to England within a fortnight or three weeks sailing from the Downes So that if all things be considered it seems no little wonder that Tangier hat not flourish'd since it is in the hands of such a powerful Nation as the English But our unhappiness there is not to be ascribed to the place the Air or Country but to several other things which I shall here set down not onely for the publick satisfaction but that we may understand the true causes of the Peoples aversion for Tangier and be better able to remove them for the future First I shall begin with Religion It was never there truly encouraged but in the short Governments of the Earl of Tiveot and Colonel Norwood We can never expect a City will flourish when all manner of Debaucheries Profaneness Irreligion and Idolatry shall have the liberty to appear without a check when the Governours themselves have been the Examples to encourage the contempt of Vertue and Piety when either openly or privately they have made it their business to ruine the Protestant Interest and to call those persons in question for their Lives who have been the greatest supporters of it Let profane men think what they will there was never yet a Citie or a Nation that ever prosper'd since the beginning of the world that slighted the Religion of the Countrie The Romans Prosperitie is ascribed by St. Austin to their sincere profession of their Idolatries In Tangier too many have cast off all respects due to the God that hath made them and minde nothing but Debauchery and Lewdness others have hearkened to the sollicitations of some Popish Priests and make profession of that Religion that they might by the means of their Absolutions enjoy their Vices and filthiness without remorse of Conscience For the benefit of Trade and the encouragement of Strangers all sorts of Religions should be allowed but it is against all policie that the English Subjects and Officers that receive from the King their Livelihood should be suffered to change their Religions as often as their Garments and wantonly to profess which they please Not onely from hence but from several other passages Religion hath received great discouragements to the open scandal of the Protestant Profession and the dishonour of the Church of England in the eyes of the Nations round about The second cause of Tangier's unhappiness is that most of the persons that have been sent thither have never intended to inhabit there but have been needy and greedy and have onely design'd to live there a while to fill their Purses and then to return for England with their Gains By this means the soberer Inhabiters of Tangier from whose industry and good behaviour onely we can reasonably expect Prosperity impoverish the Citie and discourage the rest And many other inconveniencies proceed from hence to his Majesties prejudice and of the place To remedy this inconveniencie such Laws should be enacted as might encourage sober men to live there and discourage their departure upon such unhandsom terms as they commonly leave the Garison The third cause is the difference and variance between Traders and Souldiers encouraged too much by the Rulers covetousness and the Citizens poverty and wants and the unreasonableness of both unwilling to comply with one another For this discourageth all wealthy persons from inhabiting there because they are not countenanced nor have those Liberties which it hath pleased his Majesty to grant them Some in a late Governours time for