The
Interest
of
the
Nation
,
the
Sugar
Plantations
,
and
the
Refiners
of
Sugars
,
stated
.
IT
is
observable
how
industriously
busie
some
have
been
in
misrepresenting
the
true
Interests
of
the
Plantations
,
when
't
is
so
frequently
objected
,
that
a
Relief
to
the
Refiners
by
a
Draw-back
will
be
injurious
to
the
said
Plantations
:
To
obviate
such
Impositions
,
wherever
they
have
obtained
;
it
will
be
necessary
here
to
shew
,
that
the
Relief
the
Refiners
do
crave
is
of
as
great
Use
and
Advantage
to
them
,
as
to
the
Refiners
.
And
although
a
Petition
now
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
from
those
concerned
in
all
the
Sugar-Plantations
,
and
which
import
Brown
Sugars
only
,
being
the
first
Product
,
asserting
the
same
,
puts
it
out
of
all
doubt
;
yet
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
shew
wherefore
it
is
so
.
Refining
of
Sugars
in
England
is
now
brought
to
so
low
an
ebb
,
that
the
Question
is
,
Shall
it
be
destroyed
or
continued
?
If
destroyed
,
where
will
the
Brown
or
Muscovado
Importers
sell
their
Sugars
?
Jamaica
,
Nevis
,
Antegoa
,
Monserrat
,
S.
Christopher
,
and
at
least
four
parts
of
five
in
Barbadoes
are
all
such
.
If
takeing
away
a
Draw-back
,
they
have
for
exporting
to
Foreigners
,
be
such
a
Hardship
upon
them
,
being
by
that
confined
,
as
they
say
,
to
England
only
for
a
Market
;
will
their
being
destitute
of
a
Market
at
all
in
England
,
and
forced
to
seek
and
depend
upon
a
foreign
Market
alone
,
help
them
?
But
the
Refiner
desires
only
to
be
enabled
to
make
this
a
better
,
and
so
a
Market
of
choice
for
them
,
and
leave
them
their
Draw-back
and
a
Liberty
thereby
to
take
any
other
,
when
this
pleases
them
not
.
Can
they
contrive
better
for
themselves
than
to
multiply
Buyers
?
And
that
there
should
be
contending
between
England
and
foreign
Markets
who
shall
give
most
for
their
Sugars
.
By
many
Arguments
,
more
than
is
needful
here
to
use
,
it
's
evident
there
's
an
union
of
Interests
,
and
inseparable
,
without
prejudicing
both
,
the
one
as
a
Seller
,
the
other
as
a
Buyer
;
they
draw
one
Breath
,
live
and
dye
together
.
How
comes
it
then
that
many
whom
it
concerns
to
be
truly
informed
are
thus
abused
?
To
discover
this
,
it
may
be
observed
,
there
is
another
Interest
not
amounting
in
number
to
a
fourth
part
of
but
one
Island
,
viz.
Barbadoes
,
that
clay
their
Sugars
.
The
Heads
of
this
Interest
,
though
small
in
Number
,
are
great
in
Figure
,
and
imployed
where
they
are
most
capable
to
manage
a
little
and
private
Interest
to
great
Advantages
.
They
assume
the
Care
of
the
Welfare
of
all
the
Plantations
;
but
it
's
plain
that
the
few
of
their
own
is
only
aimed
at
,
and
that
to
the
Ruine
of
all
the
rest
;
for
they
,
by
brining
in
their
White
Sugars
and
Molosses
,
lower
and
sink
a
Market
for
the
Muscovado-Importer
,
even
to
a
greater
degree
of
a
Burthen
than
the
Duties
that
are
imposed
upon
them
amount
to
.
We
do
not
render
the
Duty
as
little
on
them
;
those
concerned
for
the
Interests
of
England
and
Plantations
,
may
happen
to
see
occasion
to
make
this
less
,
and
that
on
the
clay'd
Importer
more
,
or
otherwise
to
discourage
an
Interest
that
's
so
diametrically
opposite
to
both
.
To
the
first
enough
hath
been
said
;
the
latter
,
viz.
the
Nation
in
its
darling
Jewel
,
the
Navigation
,
is
as
much
impaired
already
as
this
Interest
hath
gained
footing
,
and
the
Growth
and
Increase
of
it
will
as
much
impair
and
ruine
the
Navigation
,
as
the
Abatement
of
the
use
of
two
thirds
of
our
Shipping
that
's
used
by
the
Muscovado-Importer
amounts
to
;
for
according
unto
the
stated
Rule
in
proportioning
of
Duties
on
Sugar
,
and
which
is
the
exactest
Computation
possibly
to
be
made
.
Three
Hundred
of
Muscovado
or
Brown
makes
One
Hundred
of
White
.
Accordingly
the
Subsidy
Duty
is
5
s
.
on
White
,
1
s
.
6
d
.
on
Brown
:
The
Impost
Duty
7
s
.
on
White
,
2
s
.
4
d
.
on
Brown
;
so
it
's
Three
for
One
at
least
;
and
consequently
one
Ship
of
White
brings
the
Lading
of
three
of
Brown
:
And
is
this
the
way
to
maintain
Nurseries
for
our
Seamen
?
Have
we
any
that
may
be
properly
called
so
,
besides
the
Plantations
and
Newcastle
?
For
that
of
Newfound-Land
is
lost
,
but
how
is
not
our
business
to
treat
of
here
;
lamented
it
is
,
but
prevented
would
have
been
better
.
If
the
Maxim
of
Production
abroad
and
Manufacture
at
home
that
the
most
Politick
Governments
ever
kept
close
to
be
not
enjoyn'd
here
,
possibly
we
may
have
half
a
Score
Weavers
go
to
the
Plantations
and
buy
Negroes
,
and
weave
the
Cotton-Wool
upon
the
Place
,
the
Tobacco
Strippers
and
Cutters
go
to
Virginia
and
follow
their
Functions
there
,
and
so
lessen
the
(
occasion
of
Shipping
and
)
Custom
;
and
how
far
the
Evils
that
attend
Presidents
in
this
nature
may
grow
,
who
knows
?
Many
Thousands
of
Families
have
now
a
Livelihood
and
Dependance
on
Refining
of
Sugars
,
and
those
Manufactures
,
that
through
these
Mischiefs
must
perish
.
It
s
an
ordinary
Charge
when
Sugar-Houses
in
full
work
to
expend
one
House
with
another
1000
l.
which
is
50000
l.
per
an
.
throughout
the
Kingdom
;
few
Trades
but
either
depend
on
,
or
are
benefited
by
them
.
By
all
which
it
's
seen
the
Nation's
,
Plantation's
,
and
Refiner's
Interest
is
one
and
entire
,
all
Advantages
circulating
evenly
through
them
;
and
that
of
the
Clayers
,
a
Worm
at
the
Root
preying
upon
all
Three
:
And
shall
all
these
Interests
be
sacrificed
to
the
Interest
of
a
few
already
over-grown
rich
Men
?
For
what
concerns
the
Revenue
in
the
Refiners
Draw-back
upon
Sugars
,
it
s
a
perfect
plain
Bargain
of
20
per
cent
.
profit
to
the
King
;
the
King
gives
the
Refiner
7
s
.
to
save
himself
9
s
.
3
d
.
Three
Hundred
of
Brown
Sugar
exported
,
draws
back
9
s
.
3
d
.
The
Refiner
working
this
,
produces
but
One
Hundred
of
White
,
for
which
desires
but
7
s
.
when
exported
;
it
's
plainly
a
Hiring
the
Refiner
to
keep
the
Muscovado-Sugars
from
being
exported
:
And
for
every
9
s
.
3.
he
saved
the
Revenue
,
the
King
will
give
him
7
s
.
The
Claying-Plantations
draw
back
9
s
.
6
d
.
and
no
Words
made
on
't
;
how
they
come
to
be
priviledged
thus
is
matter
for
Amazement
,
when
the
English
refined
Sugars
are
imprison'd
in
England
,
nor
daring
to
book
abroad
without
paying
6
d
.
per
Hundred
.
And
had
they
but
this
Market
to
themselves
,
it
would
be
a
Favour
;
but
if
good
at
any
time
,
the
Clayer
reaps
the
Benefit
of
it
,
until
he
makes
it
bad
with
his
Quantities
,
and
then
picks
his
Markets
abroad
,
having
9
s
.
6
d
.
Draw-back
as
aforesaid
.
It
's
evident
from
what
hath
been
said
,
that
the
Interest
of
the
Nation
in
all
its
parts
,
the
Plantations
in
general
and
the
Refiners
,
is
interwoven
and
one
Interest
;
and
that
the
small
Interest
of
Claying
of
Sugars
in
but
a
small
part
,
as
yet
,
of
but
one
Sugar-Island
,
viz.
Barbadoes
,
is
destructive
to
all
;
and
the
Benefits
that
arise
from
it
are
so
far
from
being
publick
,
that
it
only
makes
a
few
Men
very
rich
,
and
all
the
other
Planters
very
poor
;
like
a
Wen
that
grows
out
of
this
Political
Body
or
Interest
,
that
draws
all
the
Nutriment
to
it self
,
to
the
languishing
of
the
whole
Body
.
It
's
a
common
Cry
,
the
Plantations
lie
under
many
Burthens
and
Pressures
;
and
't
is
too
true
,
that
in
the
general
they
do
;
and
it
's
hoped
this
may
serve
for
a
Glass
in
which
it
may
be
seen
,
and
from
whence
it
chiefly
proceeds
;
and
if
the
Farmers
in
England
have
never
so
good
Crops
and
yet
have
bad
Markets
,
they
cannot
be
rich
.
Needs
must
the
Importers
of
Brown
Sugar
therefore
be
poor
when
their
Markets
are
bad
,
as
already
is
shewed
,
by
the
Quantities
of
clay'd
Sugar
and
Molosses
.
Sir
John
Bawden
in
his
life
time
was
wont
frequently
to
say
,
they
had
better
bury
their
Molosses
in
the
Plantations
or
cast
them
into
the
Sea
,
than
send
them
hither
;
for
Molosses
always
sunk
the
Price
of
Sugar
to
a
great
degree
;
and
he
was
known
to
be
a
Person
that
understood
the
Interest
of
the
Plantations
,
and
as
much
interested
therein
as
most
in
his
time
.
It
's
pity
,
since
Refining
in
England
hath
been
a
Trade
before
ever
we
had
Plantations
,
it
should
be
lost
by
the
having
them
,
when
the
having
Plantations
of
our
own
is
so
natural
a
means
to
make
it
flourish
,
and
others
that
have
none
of
their
own
do
flourish
by
the
Product
of
ours
.
But
so
it
is
,
that
the
English
Refiners
have
not
been
able
for
many
Months
to
work
at
all
,
altho
at
great
Charges
with
standing
still
,
many
Houses
held
by
long
Leases
,
some
140
l.
some
150
l.
per
ann.
Stocks
Lying
in
Utensils
cost
1000
l.
or
1200
l.
and
these
when
a
House
is
demolished
not
worth
a
third
part
of
the
Mony
.
Their
Estates
are
much
impair'd
already
,
and
without
Relief
many
must
be
ruin'd
;
and
although
Subjects
in
,
and
in
a
sense
may
be
said
to
be
Children
of
,
the
Kingdom
;
have
their
Bread
given
to
Strangers
.
And
this
introduces
a
few
Words
,
with
respect
to
them
,
viz.
Holland
,
Flanders
and
Hamborough
,
to
which
places
our
Brown
Sugars
are
conveyed
to
be
Refined
;
which
being
the
Products
of
our
own
Plantations
,
as
Wooll
is
our
own
Nation
,
might
be
wrought
all
of
it
at
home
,
to
the
great
Advantage
of
the
Kingdom
and
Revenue
.
And
it
's
observable
that
formerly
before
we
were
so
kind
as
to
send
them
our
Brown
Sugars
,
at
least
in
such
Quantities
as
now
we
do
,
they
used
to
buy
our
Molosses
;
Holland
and
Flanders
being
the
chief
Markets
for
that
Commodity
;
But
now
they
have
gotten
our
Meat
,
they
will
have
none
of
our
Porrage
,
and
at
any
time
when
Molosses
is
low
here
,
they
lay
a
high
Duty
to
keep
it
out
from
coming
there
;
great
Quantities
of
Loafe-Sugar
likewise
was
used
to
be
exported
to
Flanders
,
but
when
they
found
means
to
have
our
Brown
Sugar
there
was
a
Duty
of
2
d
.
per
pound
laid
upon
it
,
and
so
kept
our
;
so
that
what
little
Care
soever
hath
been
used
to
preserve
this
Trade
in
England
,
these
Instances
shew
the
regard
others
have
for
it
;
and
the
Hollanders
cannot
but
be
reckoned
good
Judges
in
the
Interest
of
Trade
:
And
well
may
they
esteem
it
,
for
by
it
they
have
increased
their
Trade
and
Navigation
,
although
with
the
abatement
of
as
much
of
ours
;
great
Quantities
of
Loafe-Sugar
were
formerly
exported
for
all
the
East
Country
,
Italy
,
Spain
,
and
Turky
,
Places
which
now
the
Hollanders
serve
;
the
Train
of
Inconveniences
that
attend
this
is
too
long
to
recite
.
Returns
in
Pitch
,
Tar
,
Hemp
,
Timber
,
&c.
for
our
naval
Stores
are
Commodities
our
Nation
cannot
be
without
,
and
by
this
means
the
Dutch
have
them
to
better
Advantages
than
we
.
Hamborough
likewise
,
that
hath
not
one
Plantation
of
its
own
,
makes
so
good
and
Improvement
of
the
Talent
of
Refining
of
Sugar
cast
into
its
Lap
,
that
tho
but
one
City
or
Town
it
hath
near
as
many
Sugar-Houses
as
all
England
hath
,
for
all
its
being
privileged
with
so
many
Plantations
of
its
own
.
Upon
the
whole
the
Refiners
Case
cannot
but
be
seen
to
be
very
hard
,
and
to
give
them
such
a
Relief
as
they
pray
for
,
cannot
be
thought
to
be
too
much
,
since
it
will
when
received
(
although
preserve
them
from
ruin
,
which
is
a
great
Mercy
)
never
enrich
them
;
they
ask
but
7
s
.
because
the
Revenue
may
gain
2
s
.
3
d
.
by
giving
it
;
the
Sugar-Clayer
,
as
before
is
said
,
hath
9
s
.
6
d
.
and
the
reason
the
Refiners
desire
not
as
much
as
they
have
,
is
not
because
they
deserve
it
not
as
much
,
nor
because
they
need
it
not
much
more
.
And
they
humbly
hope
the
Honorable
the
House
of
Commons
,
now
their
Case
being
known
,
will
take
notice
in
what
Interest
they
stand
,
and
provide
for
it
as
it
relates
to
a
publick
and
an
universal
Good
to
the
Kingdom
,
and
that
many
renowned
Patriots
will
take
up
a
destitute
,
though
a
good
Cause
,
and
promote
it
,
against
the
Designs
of
its
few
,
tho
mighty
,
Opposers
;
many
of
whom
seem'd
to
have
some
relenting
alittle
while
ago
,
and
promised
to
assist
the
Refiners
to
procure
some
Relief
,
and
for
that
end
their
Petition
was
presented
to
the
House
,
in
the
body
of
which
they
own
the
Plantations
aggrieved
through
the
Pressures
of
the
Refiners
.
It
was
upon
this
Petition
that
a
Committee
was
apppointed
;
and
that
it
is
not
followed
,
proceeds
from
the
Resolves
of
some
Gentlemen
,
who
by
this
may
be
seen
to
be
as
bad
Friends
to
the
Plantations
,
as
they
have
ever
been
to
the
Refiners
,
and
their
opposing
them
in
a
Relief
that
will
no
way
prejudice
them
if
granted
,
is
a
demonstration
that
the
opportunity
presenting
,
of
the
Refiners
being
down
,
't
is
their
time
to
keep
them
so
.
But
all
that
hath
been
offer'd
is
humbly
submitted
to
the
Honorable
House
of
Commons
,
desiring
nothing
more
,
than
that
which
makes
most
for
a
publick
Interest
may
only
be
encouraged
and
promoted
.
FINIS
.