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A30355 Considerations and proposals presented to his late Highnesse Oliver, Lord Protector of England touching the not warring with Spain, or the more advantagious prosecuting thereof, after it was begun / by F.B. F. B. 1659 (1659) Wing B58; ESTC R28325 11,989 19

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CONSIDERATIONS AND PROPOSALS Presented to his Late HIGHNESSE OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR OF England Touching the not Warring with SPAIN or the more advantagious prosecuting thereof after it was begun By F. B. LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1659. Some Considerations upon the present Expedition supposed for the West-India's humbly remitted to his Highnesse the Lord Protector and delivered to Secretary Thurloe in September 1654. long before the Fleetes Departure 1. THe vast and inevitable charges of setting forth the Flects the continual pay of Seamen and Soldiers with supplies that must be sent till the Conclusion of the Voyage which is like to be dilated 2. Whether in times of so much unsettlement this Common-wealth can spare so many Ships and Seamen which in great part are the security of the Land to go so farre off from whence they cannot be occasionally had home again upon necessitie England being surrounded with so many considerable Potentates and they for the most part in affection adversaries which upon all opportunities of advantage will injure us notwithstanding any capitulations to the contrary and the States Power being formidable and at hand will still awe them to a better Compliance 3. They go to a place where they must not only fight men upon disadvantages the scituations helping still the inhabitants in Countreys that have not commodious Ports of disembarking an Army and difficult wayes to march but which is worse with a Climate not at all suiting with our English constitutions particularly of Soldiers which may be justly feared will sweep away the greater part of them that go more especially if Provisions come to decay or lose of their natural vertue as they are subject to do in such extraordinary heats as they must there meet with and liquor being the chief is not to be had at all times in an enemies territories and ships being thronged with people diseases will encrease and endanger all then those seas and aire with the piercing Sun will destroy our English and Dutch-built ships both in Hull and Tackling more in a moneths time then in our own Northern Climates in a year beside the worm that eats under-water will render them incapable of future-service 4. In case of a repulse to which all attempters are subject in an enemies dominions and so distant from relief which will daunt many a swelling spirit this Common-wealth will be Involv'd out of honour and interest to a second engagement that must be more costly and necessarily burthen the subject which will be the more resented when successe thwarts the great expectations first entertained of the design for undoubtedly the enemies so long time of advertisement will give them time to provide largely for defence and retire with their riches to inaccessible places which must render the businesse more difficult and peradventure altogether fruitlesse and of disrepute 5. Let it be granted that the place intended be surprized yet before it can be put in a thriving way what an endlesse treasure must be disbursed beside the losse of men and shipping and 't is questionable whether ever the benefit from thence will pay it again these designes promising great matters but in effect come to nothing we have the example in hand of New-England Barbadoes Christophers c. the first Planters whereof were all undone and yet they were void lands purchast without the price of blood and little expence of money and the Proceedings of the Holland West-India Company in Brazil may be pettinently recited which have not only been baffled by their enemies but outed of more wealth then ever they had from thence the sea reprizals set aside but here is hope of silver and gold mines it may so fall out that there are such which yet is doubtful give it for granted and let attention be had to the trouble in bringing them to perfection and the extraordinary expences upon slaves and other people that must work in them with the materials requisite to such a task and it will appear that we have easier and more profitable wayes to draw into England that treasure and if accounts were deliberately made up it would be found that the King of Spain himself is not such a great Gainer by the India's as many in the world have conceived though he have all in possession 6. It were to be wished that the people allotted for this attempt or others in their room were rather applied to Ireland and more near Plantations which would not only bring greater gaines to this Government then any place they can possesse in the India's but also be formidable to assist in any honourable atchievments near at home that may in time be thought requisite 7. And if we must have to do at the India's let a more opportune time be waited for which may be at any other better then now for the Spaniard seeing that we proceed not will grow carelesse and our ships being already sheathed and warlike Provisions fitted may insensibly be put forth to fall upon them when not so warned and consequently armed as at present they are and Merchants though not made fully acquainted with the intentions of States may moderate and draw home their adventures in the Interim and a yeares possession more or lesse of the places intended cannot import by too great a quantity what may be lost in that the Merchants of this Common-wealth have trade in all the dominions of Spain and great estates there depending that cannot be so suddenly withdrawn the entercourse having been of long continuance that hath contracted many debts and occasioned the transmission of goods for sales from one place to another yea many to the very India's though in Spaniards names all which will undoubtedly be seized on if this Fleet fall upon any of that Kings territories and will be of farre more value then is to be feared will be had from the India's in many years and to him will prove a good Exchange to have so many ready effects for his present occasions in stead of an Island that yields him little or nothing of revenue 8. Falling out with that people the greater part of our Manufactory here must cease whereof that Countrey vents more then any other Nation with whom we have Commerce which will deprive a great number of poor Tradesmen of livelihood and this Commonwealth of its Custom and Excise of all Commodities exported hence and brought from other places of those dominions some whereof do in a yeares time pay the greater parts of their value if not the whole to this State as can easily be made manifest and with those Manufactories comes into this Nations possession a great part of the Plate that arrives from the India's for which this Common-wealth is neither at charge nor hazard and men are enabledto undergo the burthen of taxes c. but if trade faile their estates must decay and be inabilitated to contribute towards the maintenance of Fleets and Armies