Settlement in Darien, ij 



gin with the Difadvantage which confifts in the 

 fuppoled Damage it may do to the Trade of 

 England, and that it may, as is pretended, cc- 

 cafion a Rupture betwixt them and Spsw. 1 o 

 this we may eafily reply,that being a diftinfl and 

 independent Nation, we are not oblig'd to con- 

 fult their Intereft, any further than they con- 

 fult ours ; and that we have as much reafbn to 

 maintain this Colony, becaufe of the Advantage 

 it may bring to our felves, as they have to op- 

 pofe it, becaufe of the Difadvantages that they 

 fancy may arife from thence to England, But 

 withal we deny that it can be any damage to 

 their Trade, which from that part of the 

 World confifts chiefly in Sugar and Tobacco, 

 neither of which are yet to be found in New 

 Caledonia, But that which we look upon to 

 be a compleat Anfwer to the ObjeQion is this, 

 Tiiat they may be Sharers with us in the Settle- 

 ment if they pleafe, and by confequence Part- 

 ners in the Profits and Trade, and lay it under 

 fuch Regulations as may prevent its endamag- 

 ing the Commerce of England. 



And v^her-;is it is further objeded, That by 

 the great Immunities and freedom from Cu- 

 ftoms granted to the Scots Company for fo ma-* 

 ny years, we fliall be able to underfel the Eng- 

 l/fh Company, foreftal their Markets, and leffen 

 his Majefty's Cuftoms; we anfwer, that this 

 Objedion is in a great meafure obviated, fince 

 we do not now pretend to fet up an Eafl- India 

 Trade j but admitting it were true, it will be 



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