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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40418	Free regulated trade, particularly to India the interest of England: being the true, natural means, to promote the navigation and riches of this nation. Forts and castles in India, notwithstanding all specious pretences, are occasionally prov'd to be of uncertain advantage, but of certain inconvenience to us. Discours'd in a letter to a friend.		1691 (1691)	Wing F2119A; ESTC R216397	4,198	6

permitted to be built for the procuring of Pepper which is not always to be had there neither but is so Mortal to all that go thither that it seems a Sin to keep it even if there were no Pepper to be had elsewhere but Carwar Calicut Bilipatan and Quilon c. on the North Coast of India did always and can supply us with great quantities of that Commodity and the difference of the Cost of it will be more than countervail'd by saving the Expence of a Fort and the Lives of so many Men that must continually be Sacrific'd to Garrison it and of Seamen that Navigate thither How great Provision would be made for the younger Sons of the Gentry of England by a Regulated open Trade to those Parts how large a Compass for the exercise of Parts and Industry do those Territories afford where at present none raise their Fortunes but at the pleasure of a few Men where few go but Men of broken Fortunes or Youths to be bred up at mean Sallaries Certainly it seems a Paradox that Trade to Countries of so vast extent as are mention'd in the India and Affrican Companies Charters which is nigh half the World shou'd be limited and given to them exclusive to all other English Men when every other Nation doth or may Trade thither and to Countries where our Growths and Manufactures may be in great quantities Vented and with them may be purchas'd most of the Usefull and Noble Commodities that the World produces Indeed it is unaccountable that we of this Nation shou'd be forc'd to bury our Talent and not give full scope to that Genius we have to Traffick and Navigation but must erect Companies and Monopolies to carry it no farther than just what their own Interest leads them to and it wou'd be against their Oath shou'd they preferr the Publick Good in prejudice to the Joynt-Stock which such Companies were never known to be guilty of always exporting and importing no more of any Merchandize than what would yield them their stated Profits when particular Merchants who cannot make Combinations will carry out and bring home much greater quantities of all Commodities because they can and must afford them with less profit and sometimes must content themselves with Loss and yet will return to the same Voyages to see to recompense themselves and thus rendering all Goods cheaper will naturally increase the Vent of them and we shall undo our Forreign Monopoly Competitours by Underselling them which will be a benefit to the Publick whereas Companies in Joynt-Stock do Tax the Nation by setting their own Price on all they export and import The increase of Commerce the certain consequence of laying open a limited Trade will as certainly increase Navigation the advantage whereof will be very great from the length of the Voyages to India besides the imployment our Shipping will find in those Seas the Banian Moors and other Merchants there coveting to employ English Ships though at great Freights which is too intricate a matter for a Company to concern themselves with unless sometimes by necessity and by this we shall learn more experience and daily make New Discoveries of the Commerce of those People which may prove of great advantage to this Nation And therefore I cannot think that those Merchants when the Trade to India was free to all who desir'd the Establishment of this present Company had in View the Kingdoms good but their private Interests for to put in a Stock in this Company might then be more beneficial to those Persons than trading particularly especially if they were brought in to be Managers as some of them were and made a good Use of it too by being Pensioners to the Dutch whose Interest it is that our Trade to India and Guinea should be limited by Joynt-Stocks But granting the Establishing of an East-India Company with a Joynt-Stock was then usefull yet the Case is alter'd now for we are much better acquainted in those Parts of the World and the Stock of the Kingdom is greatly increas'd and thô there may be inconveniencies in an absolute open Trade a Regulated Company will obviate them And since the present East-India Companies Affairs are reduc'd to such ill Circumstances there can be no reason why the Nation shou'd not make the Experiment of a Free Trade under a Regulation for it is morally impossible but that it will have all the happy effects I have propos'd These Sir are my real Sentiments of this Affair at this time so much controverted and I am perswaded you do not think my Judgment has been in any manner influenc'd by private Interest and indeed there is no room for such a suspicion for if such Regulation were made I cou'd have no other advantage by it but what must be common to all If the present East-India Company will not part with their Forts but on exorbitant Considerations I cannot tell why they shou'd not remain with them to make the most of their great Revenues they so much boast of for except St. Helena none of them can be thought worth the purchasing by either another Joynt-Stock Company or a Regulated one except to make a Present of them to the Mogul to ingratiate themselves with him FINIS