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A27535 An account of the French usurpation upon the trade of England and what great damage the English do yearly sustain by their commerce, and how the same may be retrenched, and England improved in riches and interest. Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697. 1679 (1679) Wing B2062; ESTC R19600 16,883 28

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE FRENCH Usurpation UPON THE Trade of England And what great damage the English do yearly sustain by their Commerce and how the same may be retrenched and England improved in Riches and Interest LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXIX AN ACCOUNT OF THE FRENCH Usurpation UPON THE Trade of ENGLAND SIR I Received yours and do pay you the greatest tribute of thanks for your excellent Remarques upon the present state of Affairs in Europe and must have the same Sentiments and do admire with you that France which not many years since was so weak and feeble that it trembled at the very Name of the Dukes of Burgundy should now be so potent as to contrast the mightiest Powers of Europe Lewis the II. paid to the King of England fifty thousand Crowns yearly to be his Friend and sixteen thousand Crowns to his Ministers of State to keep him so Henry the IV. having the Carkass of an inconsiderable Ship in the Stocks received sharp Messages from Queen Elizabeth of England to desist which accordingly he did and that Queen lent unto him and disbursed for him four millions of pounds sterling to support his Wars and had Towns of Caution for them Within these few years France had not above twelve Gallies and twenty men of War as they called them and was not able to put them to Sea and keep them there for want of money the yearly Revenues of that Crown then not exceeding ten millions of Florens But of late the French King is tapred up to that magnitude of Power so potent in the best Squadrons of Ships at Sea so powerful in the most experienced Captains and Troops at Land so rich in Treasure the Revenues of the present King amounting unto sixty millions of Florens yearly that Europe begins to bow to his Power and to declare unto all Christian Princes what he intends he hath taken to himself this Motto Solus contra omnes His Designs are so vast that in some short time all Europe will not be Elbow-room for his Ambition How France hath of late arrived to this Power and Pyramid of Grandeur it 's well becoming the wisdom of the most considerate person to enquire It 's not from the richness of their Soyl nor the amplitude of Territory Spain having much greater France hath no Mines of Gold or Silver as Hungary and Bohemia nor other rich Mines as Germany and other places have yet by their natural and artificial Commodities peradventure their stock of money doth not fall much short of the money of the rest of all Europe The Images of great things are best seen contracted into small Glasses By their Wines the natural Riches of France they draw out of the Northern Regions of Europe twenty five millions of Florens for Salt ten millions of Florens for Brandy five millions for Wines Brandy and Salt they yearly exhaust from thence forty millions of Florens For their Silks Stuffs Toys and Fripperies which are the artificial Riches of that Kingdom they spirit out of those Parts yearly forty millions of Florens and there is not imported into France of the Commodities of all the North so much as doth amount unto fifteen millions of Florens So that France doth yearly drain out of the Northern Regions of Europe sixty five millions of Florens the prodigious sum of money which he doth yearly drain out of the rest of Europe is beyond my Arithmetick to tell you But the most Christian King being Lord of the Commerce of that Kingdom and being studious to accumulate money and careful to bring in more daily and rarely suffers any to go out and being provident to dispose of all his Merchandise and Manufactures abroad and not permitting any foreign Commodities to be imported into France but such as are incumbred with such great Duties that they return to no profit to the Merchants France will in a short time draw into them all the moneys of Europe The most Christian King having for his Royal Revenue sixty millions of Florens yearly and France being enriched yearly as abovesaid and by his supream Power without any check or control may impose what Taxes and Impositions upon his people he shall please and they willingly submit thereunto he hath laid such an inexhaustable ●u●dus of Treasure to carry on his Designs he being very active and circumspect that he can rarely be disappointed or fail in any By this all submit to his Power This makes the Ephemerides by which he knows how all the Orbs of many Princes Courts move by it he can work all things Platonically to his own Idea to its splendor and lustre the World the safety of the Common-wealth and the love of liberty do humbly prostrate themselves and to deal plainly with you it 's the source of all the miseries and infelicities of Europe Hence it is that France not long since so impotent can now maintain such stupendious Forces and can support their Armies when other Princes are enforced to beg for peace and disband their Armies because their Treasures are exhausted France only after many years War can engage in a new War and upon all occasions by reason of its money have instruments to execute their Designs and truly Sir money is the primum mobile which moves the Sphears which are the hearts and hands of men and it 's the soveraign Cordial which gives life to all noble Actions and Designs The most Christian King hath set up the East and West-Indian Trades and hath engaged in them most of the rich Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdom and hath armed them with ample Priviledges Powers and Immunities and hath erected several other trading Companies and certainly he hath thereby laid a foundation of a greater Empire than ever was in Charlemain By his Moneys and Priviledges he draweth most of the best Workmen and Artists out of the other parts of Europe into France and the Materials too when they are there manufactured they make a Mittimus and send them into the Countries from whence they came But if any from thence be imported into France they are seized upon being forbidden Goods as they pretend or else so incumbred with Duties by them that Europe can have no profit or encouragement to trade with France By these Arts France with its Manufactures and Commodities and those which will be drawn from the East and West-Indies will surcharge all the Marts of Europe and the most Christian King having so great a Treasure may under-sell his Merchandise and Goods on design to break all other Merchants and Traders and so in consequence will have the Trade and Commerce of the Universe in their hands and we must be content to take their Commodities and Merchandises at such prices and rates as they shall please to impose upon them And all other Princes and States must become Higlers and petty Chapmen under them Trade is the true and intrinsick Interest of England without which it cannot subsist From Trade there doth not