4i'6 A. D. 1^41. 



* Algerines h:id In their cruize no fewer than 65 fliips, befides feveral 

 ' galhes or galiots, all at one time.' And although it be well knowm 

 tliat their naval force is greatly leffened fince that time, yet even in our 

 days they have enough remaining to give confiderable interruption to 

 the naval commerce of fucli of the powers of Chriftendom as they pleafe 

 to make war upon. 



It would be almofl endlefs to recount all the difputes that have hap- 

 pened at different times between Denmark and other nations, and more 

 efpecially with the Hanfe towns, concerning the toll paid by fhips in 

 paffing the Sound. This year the cities of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and 

 Bremen, entered into ftrider engagements together, by reafon of Den- 

 mark's too rigoroufly exafting that toll, for the fupport of their com- 

 mercial interefls and thole of fuch other Hanfe towns as fhould join with 

 them, by arming both by fea and land, yet without mentioning this 

 toll exprefsly in the treaty : and this, like former treaties, had good con- 

 fequences attending it for fome time after. 



After the Englidi had been in poifeflion of the ifle of Providence in 

 America, and had partly planted it, ever fince the year 1629, they were 

 now attacked by the Spaniards with a great force ; and although they 

 made a flout refiftance, they were obliged to furrender the ifland to 

 them, whh confiderable lofs to the planters. Yet the Spaniards did not 

 after this fettle thereon at all, their fole aim in driving out our people 

 being to keep up their idle and unreafonable pretenfions to the proper- 

 ty of all the Bahama ifles : but England again took poffeflion of Provi- 

 dence, and we now claun the fole property of all the Bahamas. 



Tlie French haying, for the reafons already afligned, abandoned the 

 colony of Surinam, an Englifii colony was fettled there in the fame year 

 at the expenfe of Lord Willoughby, who is faid to have wafted his eftate 

 in the undertaking. 



The want of due care and provident forefight in princes and ftates 

 for cherifiiing and improving the commerce of their dominions has of- 

 ten proved to their irretrievable detriment, by the lofs of their traffic, 

 the beft fource of their wealth ;md power. Lewis Roberts, in his Trea- 

 fure of traffic, (publiflied in 164.1) gives us three pregnant inffcances 

 thereof, which alfo afford us fome part of the hiflory of three very emi- 

 nent mercantile cities, viz. ' the want of good order in the government 

 ' of the trade of Antwerp, and their impofition of heavy cuftoms upon 

 ' the merchants, hath, within thefe fifty years, brought that town to the 

 ' lowncfs wherein we fee it. Lyons in France hath futfered wonder- 

 ' fully by the fame inconveniencies : and Marfeilles, within the days of 

 ' niy knowlege, had a wonderful great traffic with maiiv places of 

 ' Ttu-key, Barbary, Spain, &c. and was able to fiiew many fiiips em- 

 ' ployed in merchandize, about twenty-five years ago, carrying thirty 

 ' and forty pieces of ordnance j and now the beft of their veifels, and 



