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All the good EffeXs however which it hath produced to while we can, without empoverifhing ourfelves, grant 
this Company, are like to vanilla into Smoke, by Means timely and fuitable Alliftance to our Allies when attacked, 
of the prefent War, which has been equally fatal to it at there is no Danger either of the difturbingdomeftick Quiet, 
home and abroad : For at home it has occafioned that or lofmg the Ballance of Power. For whatever fpebula- 
higli Demand for Money, which has brought on the Suf- tive Politicians may pretend, we mull derive our Title 
penfion of their Dividends, and thereby the Ruin of their to both from the Superiority of our Fleets, and the 
Credit *, and the Blowftruck by Commodore Barnet in the Wealth of our Subjects. Arbitrary Governments may at- 
Indies , and the Lofs of the Ships taken at Cape-Breton has tain Strength and Influence from other Maxims, but a 
gone fo far towards the Ruin of their Commerce abroad, free People never. 
that another fuch Stroke will go very near putting an End It is our peculiar Happinefs, that the Glory of the 
to it : For the French , like other People of lively Tern- Crown, and the Intereft of the People, depend upon the 
pers, are eafily difcouraged ; and if once, after all the very fame Thing •, fo that whatever advances one, mult 
Care has been taken of it, their prefeht Company of neceflfarily enlarge the other •, and what diminifhes this 
the Indies fliould fail, they would infallibly defpair. This may, fooner or later, deftroy that. In France the Go- 
fufficiently fhews the Confequence of making a proper vernment is obliged to take unwearied Pains for the En- 
Ufe of our Naval Force in a War with that Crown •, couragement and Protection of Commerce. In Great - 
fmee, if we deftroy the Commerce of France , we mult Britain , again, this may be entirely fpared ; for, provided 
neceflarily enlarge our own. There is fo much the more the Government does notopprefs Trade, private Men will 
Force in this Argument, becaufe Trade in that Kingdom carry it on with all the Succefs that can be wilhed for *, 
is a new Thing ; a Thing, which, as we have abundantly and the lefs the Hand of Power meddles therewith, fo 
Ihewn, they have nurfed with the greateft Care, and yet much the better. This Ihews, at once, the Difference 
have raifed with the utmoft Difficulty ; fo that if it can between our Conftitutions, and the Excellence of that un- 
be overthrown, they are fet back for twenty or thirty der which we live. It is to this Conftitution that we owe. 
Years at leaft, which is a Thing of far more Confequence our Trade being natural to our Illand. It is to their liv- 
to us than all the Conquefts we can gain upon the Con- ing under a different Conftitution, that the French feel, by 
tinent. _ Experience, the Difficulty of carrying on Commerce to 
To fay the Truth, our Title to Maritime Power is that any Advantage. If ever our Trade fails, it muft be owing 
which we ought chiefly to regard *, and as it is impoffible to ourfelves ; if ever theirs flourilhes, it muft be the Effect of 
to fucceed in all, if we engage in too many Defigns at Accidents, or rather of Miracles. In [fhort, nothing but 
once i fo, if we fix our Attention upon this, and pur- Tyranny, under the Malk of Corruption, can poffibly hurt 
fue it with Vigour, we ftiall find that it will have a better the Commerce of this Nation ; whereas nothing but the wife 
EfteX, both with Regard to ourfelves and our Allies, than and gentle Adminiftration of defpotick Power, can poffi- 
if we diverted our Views to other Objects, which, at firft bly raife. the Trade of that. Thefe Reflexions fhew fuffi- 
Sight, may appear of equal Importance. The Truth of ciently what we have to hope, and they have to fear. They 
this will be clearly difeerned, if we confider that the en r arile naturally from the SubjeX ; they are of the m-eateft 
creafing of our Naval Power will render us more formida- Confequence to my Readers, and if by Dint of thefe Rea- 
ble than any thing elfe, and the recovering and extending fons, founded upon Fads, 1 ftiall be able to imprefs them 
our Trade., prove the fureft Means of bringing in Riches, as ftrongly upon their Minds as they deferve, my End will 
The former will render us moft dreadful to our Enemies, be fully anfwered. In the mean time, having executed all 
as the latter will make us moft ufeful to our Friends. While that was propofed in this SlXion, I ftiall proceed with as 
we are able to carry Terror into the moft diftant Parts of much Brevity as is poffible, to fimfti the tew that remain, 
the World, our Foes can never be out of our Reach j and in order to make this Volume compieat. 
SECTION XXXVI. 
A fuccinSi , but compieat Hiflory of the Rife , Progrefs , and Supprejfton of the Imperial 
Company of the Indies, eftablifhed at Oftend, by the late Emperor Charles VI. 
Collected from private Memoirs, as well as publick Hiftories and Ads of State. 
i* The jirjl Grounds and Beginning of this Trade from the Auftrian-Netherlands to the Eaft-Indies, and the 
Difficulties with which it was attended from its Infancy . 2. The Plan of its firft Charter , and the Mo- 
tives which induced the Court op Vienna to confent to its Eflablijhment , Jet in a true Light. 3. An Ac- 
count of the Reafons alledge d by the States-General for its Abolition , and an Ext rail of the Memorial pre- 
fent ed by their Minifler on that Subject to the Court of Vienna. 4. The TJfe made of that Memorial by the 
Englifh Eaft-India Company, to obtain an Act of Parliament to prevent the Subjects of Great-Britain from 
having any Concern, in the Capital of that Company. 3. An Abridgement of the Imperial Letters Patent 
for the E/labliJhing of the faid Company , with a concife Account of the Priviledges granted to the Proprie- 
tors. 6 . The Apprehenfons raifed by this Eflablijhment , in Great-Britain and Holland, and the Methods 
nfed to overturn it. y. The Kings of France and Spain alfo take Umbrage at this Company , and publijh 
their Difapprobation of it to all Europe. 8. The Emperor and the King of Spain being fuddenly recon- 
ciled, conclude a Treaty of Commerce , by which the Oftend Company obtains the Protection of both Mo- 
narchy . 9. An excellent Memorial of the Dutch Eaft-India Company, demonfi rating the Incompatibility 
of this Treaty of Commerce with the Emperor's Title to the Netherlands. 10. The Grounds of the Treaty 
of Hanover concerted for the impeding the Execution, and defeating the Views of that c/' Vienna. 1 1. The 
Subfiance of M. Vander-Meerh Memorial to the King of Spain, in Defence of the Rights of the Mari- 
time Powers.^ 12. A fuccinSi Detail of the remaining Part of this Difpute, and the ConduSi of their 
High-Mightineftes. 13. The Letters Patents of the Oftend Company are fufpended, by which the Com- 
merce of the Eaft-Indies is fecured to the Maritime Powers . 
S ’ !\ $ fo ° n 23 £h °fe Provinces whic h were formerly in the feveral Cities of Flanders and Brabant , fet their 
r\ Ihledth tSpaniJh Low-Countries, were yielded Heads at Work, to find out Ways and Means by which 
■4 ■ £o £ ^ e ^ a£e Emperor Charles VI. by the Trea- their Commerce might be extended through the Authority 
fy 0 Peace concluded at Raftadt , all the rich Merchants and Influence of their new Mailer. One of the firft 
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