Considerations humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, by the planters, in relation to the Bill to settle the trade in Africa. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B20636 of text R226628 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B20636 Wing C5909C Interim Tract Supplement Guide 1888.c.11[48] ESTC R224909 ESTC R226628 ocm99886811

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 eng Great Britain -- Commerce -- Africa -- Early works to 1800. Trade regulation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Considerations humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, by the planters, in relation to the Bill to settle the trade in Africa. . n/a 1697 2 544 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-04 Sampled and proofread 2014-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Considerations Humbly Offered To the Honourable House of Commons , by the Planters , in relation to the Bill to settle the Trade to Africa .

THAT it being of so great Importance to this Nation to Encourage and Support the Plantations , it will be of absolute Necessity to have them plentifully supplied with Negroes , by whose Labour and Strength all the Commodities of those Countries are produced , which Production is all clear Gains to this Nation , and better than the Mines of Gold and Silver are to the Spaniards .

There is not a Negro but produces as much Commodity , either Sugar , Indigo , Tobacco , &c. as will load one Tun of Shipping , the Increase of which Product will also largely encrease the Consumption of the English Woollen Manufacture , and augment the Revenue of the Crown .

A great Quantity of the Product of our Plantation-Commodities , will enable the English Merchant to make large Exportations to Forreign Markets , and put them into a Capacity to undersell all other Nations that vye with us in the same Commodities , which will not only discourage their Plantations , but greatly encourage our own .

Since the African Company are so very desirous to be Establisht , the better , as they say , to preserve the Gold Trade , and demand a Duty to maintain their Forts and Castles at Gambio , and on the Gold Coast : We the Planters do say , that we are willing to pay such a Duty as this Honourable House shall deem necessary for the Trade to Gambio and the Gold Coast ; viz. from Cape Blanco to the River Vultus .

Therefore since the Plantations are not against paying a Duty for that Trade , they Humbly hope , that what is of undoubted Necessity for their Support , may be had cheap , plentiful and easie ; desiring only that the Coast from River Vultus to Angola , and Cape Good-hope , may be free and open for all the Planters and Merchants of this Nation to trade to , without any Duty or Incumbrances laid on them by the Company , in regard , in those Places there are no Forts , nor will the Natives suffer any to be built , nor are they needful , as hath been found true by a long Experience of Trade with the Natives of those Countries , who always treat civilly , and deal honestly with all Persons that come amongst them to Trade .

The Company not being at any charge to maintain Forts or Castles in the Places , from River Vultus to Cape Good-hope , it will be a great Hardship , and a heavy Tax on the Plantations , to pay a Duty to their Prejudice , only to assist and help maintain the African Company in their Trade .

The Planters being humbly of Opinion , that the Interest of the Plantations are of infinitely greater concern to be preserved , than any Company with a Joint-stock can pretend to .

CONSIDERATIONS Humbly Offered By the PLANTERS , In relation to the BILL , To Settle the Trade to Africa .