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england_n	council_n	lord_n	privy_a	4,231	5	10.1951	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48636	Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend.	Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.; Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712.; Lisola, François Paul, baron de, 1613-1674.; Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing L2375; ESTC R20948	11,893	23

Traders to change bondage for liberty or at least in hopes of better entertainment one Countrey for another as did the subversion of the Florentine Government in that Countrey and as they were preparing to do the like in Holland when they feared the late Prince of Oreng's over-turning that State for the Antipathy betwixt Merchants and Souldiers is such that all Monarchs of Trading Countries have ever held it their Interest to keep their great Trading Towns free from a Mercinary Militia and it is exceeding difficult if not Morally impossible for a Prince to advance Trade to any great height where the people are under the awe of a standing Military power and the French King seems to own the truth of this in that finding the benefit of Commerce he is even in France content that his Trading Cities should be freed from Souldiers and more gently used then the rest of his Countrey for so far as the Nature of his arbitrary Government will permit he studieth all manner of wayes to advance Trade As first by totally prohibiting such Forrein Commodities and Manufactures as his people are capable of making sufficient to serve his Countrey as Train-Oyl c. Secondly By burthening others with high Customs and Impositions to the end to incourage his own Artisans and Seamen thereby making the Trade of England thither very prejudicial to us our Transportations hence being inconsiderable to our Importations thence and as they improve in any faculty so they either prohibit or increase their impositions upon the Importation of the Forrein-made Commodities of that faculty And Thirdly as an incouragement to Trade the French King hath lately declared the exercise of Commerce in a Gentleman to be no prejudice to his quality having also erected an Academy for breeding his Nobility to Sea Affairs and teaching them the Art of Navigation c. All which may well Alarm England to a jealousie of their designs as most dangerous to it and to look upon the French as those Rivals whom if hatred be lawful as the Letter in this Case seems to make it we ought most to hate for should they once come to Vie with us in Trade or Naval strength we should find them to exceed all that ever went before them in insolency injustice and selfishness And whether the second part of this Notion hath a good foundation which asserts That should England get but the Sea Towns alone leaving the rest of the States Dominions to the French we should have no cause to repent our Bargain I will not presume to judge yet this I think considerable in the Case that should the Inlands of the Vnited Provinces and with them all the Conquered places fall to the share of the French as by the late published Proposals in Dutch if true they seem to pretend unto the Latter then having thereby the command of the Rivers of Rhine and Mase c. together with Sluce and the other Garrisons which shuts up the Trade of Flanders and Brabant they will have it in their power to render all the parts of the Seventeen Provinces which will remain to the Kings of England and Spain of no more use to them then they please to allow of First Because the Sea Towns of the Vnited Netherlands cannot be divided from the Inlands from which they receive their nourishment nor deprived of the use of their Rivers by which they drive their Trades without utter ruine to them and making them thereby an intollerable burthen to their Masters Secondly Because the Spanish Netherlands will thereby be so invironed or rather be leagured by the French Garrisons and Forces on all sides as well towards Germany Holland and Zealand c. as towards France that having no means left them for forming or maintaining an Army as any that know those Countries must confess they will always be in the French Kings devotion and when assaulted by him without possibility of contributing any considerable assistance to their own deliverance or to make the Triple League of any use to them Thirdly Because such will be the enervated condition of the Spanish Netherlands that the King of Spain will be necessitated as not being able to maintain them longer then the French will permit him either to quit them voluntarily or if he can obtain so much favour to make an exchange or sale of them to the French King who then having Flanders and Brab●nt which he hath so long thirsted after and all the Rivers belonging to them in his own hands will assuredly for the advantage of himselfe and his own Countries even in times of peace so obstruct and hinder the Trade of the Maritine Towns of Holland Zealand and Friezland if in the possession of any but himself and in times of War totally shut them up by Land as will restore Flanders and Brabant to their ancient Trade and make a new Holland of them which being in the hands of the French will probably prove abundantly worse to England then the old if large experience of injuries and injustices committed in Trade by them against this Nation may warrant a Conclusion as by the Certificate under the Lord Ambassador Hollis his hand which I send you here inclosed given upon an order of his Majesties Privy Council Dated the 17. April 1667. in the Case of Sir Francis Toppe and Company doth for one instance sufficiently appear Nay such is the envious care of the French that no Nation should get or thrive by them that as Mr. Samuel Fortrey one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Privy Chamber reporteth in his Book Printed 1663. and Dedicated to King Charles the second not many years ago they suspecting through mistakes that England had an advantage of them in their Trade for France they were upon Counsels for prohibiting all Trade with England until upon a strict examination they found that whereas England vented of their Commodities into France not to above the value of Ten hundred thousand Pounds per annum France vented of theirs to the English Six and twenty hundred thousand pounds and then finding that they had Sixteen hundred thousand Pounds advantage in the Ballance they soon let fall their design though yet not without burthening English Manufactures with New Impositions in such manner as might much hinder the vent of them in their Countrey And Mr. Fortrey in the aforementioned Book doth not only recite the very Ballance of Trade it self which he affirms was presented to the French King to shew the advantage they have in their Trade with England but also adds further that hereby it may appear how insensibly our Treasure will be exhausted and the Nation beggered whilst we carelesly neglect our own Interest and strangers abroad are diligent to make their advantage by us And it is of no little consideration that the French should so far overvalue themselves as to increase their Impositions upon Dutch Commodities to a degree of prohibiting them and deny to the Dutch the like power by theirs as