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A33691 A reply to an ansvver from a friend, to the apology for the English nation, that the trade to the East-Indies and Africa should be free.; Reply to an answer from a friend, to the apology for the English nation. Coke, Roger, fl. 1696. 1692 (1692) Wing C4980A; ESTC R214301 4,120 7

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A REPLY TO AN ANSWER FROM A FRIEND TO THE APOLOGY FOR THE English Nation That the TRADE TO THE East-Indies and Africa Should be FREE LONDON Printed in the Year 1692. A Reply to an Answer from a Friend to the Apology for the English Nation that the Trade to the East-Indies and Africa should be free SIR WHen I desired your Opinion of the Apology for the English Nation c. I expected you would have first answered where I began viz. That all Nations as well as the Inhabitants of Nations by Equal Right or the Law of Nature may entertain Trade and Commerce with one another and if in Times of Peace Humane Laws shall debar Subjects of this Right this is practising Iniquity by a Law And that you would have Objected against the Reasons which the Parliament gave 3 Jac. C. 6. for the freedom of the English in the Spanish Trade or that these Reasons did not hold in the East-India Trade but of these you say not one word You say when you were in London all Men Agreed the East-India Trade could not be driven without a Company because of the Power of the Dutch in those Seas I suppose you mistake me in contending against a Company Exclusive to all others for it is not a Company I contend against but the Exclusion of all others For your seeming Reason of the Dutch power in the East-Indies to necessitate a Trade by the English in a Company it will not hold unless you can make an English Company to be equal to the Dutch in power which can never be hoped for but if it could it could never be by Excluding others which might contribute to the Encrease of it For the Instance you give of the Turkey Trade it hath no resemblance to the Trade in the East-Indies For our Trade to Turkey is upon the Matter but to one place viz. Smyrna whereas that which the Company call the East-India Trade is to all the Parts on the East of Africa and the Southern Parts of Asia to the North of China with all the Islands which lye in that vast Ocean so that for ought is known Tenfold the Trade might be managed by the English there if the Trade were free than to Turky which is impossible to be done by one Company exclusive to all others in the numerous and vast Dominions in those parts of the World Besides the Objection which you make of the Dutch power in those Seas to exclude all others but a Company is a Topick set up only by the Favourers of the East-India Company for unless you suppose the Dutch power to he more than that of all the Princes of Africk Asia and all the Islands in the vast Ocean these cannot give Laws to them all and this is an Argument which the Company themselves do not believe for if granted Interlopers could never Trade to the East-Indies which is the greatest fear the Company have But suppose all the Princes in Africk and Asia could not protect the English in their Trade with them yet sure a King of England is not so faln from power but that he is able to protect his Subjects in all their Just Trades from the Violences and Oppressions of the Dutch You say the Commons had reason to refer the Business of the Erecting a new East-India Company to the King they having so little time to Sit. The Commons had busied themselves above four Months in Establishing this Company more than in any thing else and then threw it upon the King who in the Circumstances he is in cannot attend it four days But you say you doubt not but the Commons upon their next Sitting will assume this Business again and then will undoubtedly Blow up the present Company But this will be more strange than to Vote an East-India Company exclusive to all others to be Established by Act of Parliament and then to throw it upon the King and after to take it out of the power of the King But here you may see how Industriously Men pursue their Interest without any regard to Justice or Prudence For all this time in propagating an East India Company exclusive to other Men no regard is had how the English might be secured from the Violences and Injuries of the Dutch in it nor how it can be carried on by the English in the miserable and distracted state the now Company have brought it to with the Mogull Sophy of Persia and King of Syam The Dutch power in the East-Indies is vastly more than the English yet to maintain this they are at as vast Charges in maintaining it so that where the English and Dutch Trade with all the other Princes of the Indies Persia or China the English Trade is so much cheaper as they are at less Charges in maintaining their Dominions nor can it be ever hoped the English with or without a Company can expel the Dutch out of their Dominions in the East-Indies It 's true the Dutch have been as Injurious to this present Company if Injuries can be done to such a Company of Men as the Company has been to the rest of the English Nation For besides the Business of Amboyna which was not in this Companies time they Outed the Company from Polloroon where the Natives could not protect them and was a principal cause of the second Dutch War in King Charles the Second's Reign And by falshood kept the Company from Trading to China and Japan alledging the English were Christians and the King had Married the King of Portugal's Daughter the Portuguez of all Nations being most detestible to the Chiness and now by joining with the young King of Bantam against his Father they keep the King Prisoner and make use of his Name to expel the English from their Trade to Bantam for Pepper so as the English are forced to Trade to the West of Sumatra for Pepper a most unhealthful place where more English lose their Lives than ten times the Trade is worth of which the Company have no regard so as they could purchase a Pound of Pepper by the loss of ten English Men The unhealthiness of this place being represented to Queen Elizabeth she forbid her Subjects Trading to Sumatra In the second Dutch War the French joyned with King Charles against the Dutch and thereby the Dutch were reduced so low as they were in the War with the Rump Parliament but the Parliament dreading the Consequences Petitioned the King to make a separate Peace with the Dutch without including the French but this prevailed but little till the Spanish Ambassador the Marquess Del Fresno interposed threatning other ways Spain would break with England and then the King made a separate hasty Peace with the Dutch whereby a Regulation of Trade was agreed to be settled and adjusted in the East-Indies by certain Commissioners on both sides Persuant hereto the 9th of Feb. 1673. six Commissioners named by the King entred into a Treaty with Six sent by the