The Speciall Remote Cause of our want of Money, I noted to bee the want of our East India Stocke in the Common-wealth. the Remedy whereof, is in the Princely Power and Gratious Favour of His Majestie to apply at His pleasure to this Languishing body.
And if HIs Sacred Majestie will vouchsafe to apply His Gratious Mouth, to this Mount: His waking Eye, to this Eye: His powerfull Hand to this Hand: then surely this fainted Body will receive Breath and Life, from the powerfull influence of so Great a Majestie, and revive also the many other fainting Trades, that are fallen in it. The Forreine Remote Causes, I observed to be the Warres in Christendome, or the Trades maintained with ready Money Out of Christendome. The former, either cause the Exportation of Money, as do the Warres of Christians: or hinder the Importation thereof, as doe the Warres of Pirats. A Remedy in the former of these I know none, besides that blessed disposition in His Majesty to spare no Cost to make Peace: which hath made His Fame shine as farre as the Sunne shineth, and shall last as long as the Sunne and Moone endureth: and as sure as the Lord is faithfull, will be remembred on His Posterity for ever: Besides this I say, I know none, but Patience and Prayer: that God would avert the heavy Judgments at this day on the Christian world, and give us grace to cnsider Our peace, in this Our day thereof. ARemedy in the latter, may be either by reducing of the stragling trade of His Majesties subjects into the Dominions of the King of Spaine, into Government; whereby they also might goe in Fleetes, as other governed Companies doe, and the better defend themselves against so Common and Cruel an enimy: or else by seeking restitution of our wrongs in this kinde, where it may be had: so farre as it may concurre with the Honour of the Kng, to whose Great and Princes judgement, I submit the same.
The Remedy for the Exportation of Money out of Christendome by the Trades before mentioned, dependeth much on the good Conclusion hoped for, betweene the Dutch and our Nation. Whereby not only the Indian Commodities, which in those Trades are the principall, may be bought much better cheape, and consequently spare a great deale of the Treasure now issued out for the same: but also, the Native Commodities of either Country, and as much as may bee of every Country, may be brought into Trade and Traine with the Indians, and advanced in their use and price: that so at last in stead of Money for Wares, we may give Wares for Wares according to the Law and nature of Commerce. And this good conclusion betweene the Dutch and Us, is the rather to bee wished, and the more to be hastened, because the subtilty of the Indians is great, intaking advantage of this unhappy Faction, or rather Fraction, that is fallen betwixt us. For those that have travelled the Indies, and observed those people can tell, that the Indians doe ascribe so much to the light of their understanding, that they doe account the rest of the world blinde in Comparison of them. Only they vouchsafe to the people of Europe this honour, to call them One Eyed Men. Which aslo Masseius taketh notice of, in his History of the Indies, that those people dare beyond modesty thus to brag; Chineses duos habere oculos; Europeaos unum; & quod hominum est reliquum, caecutire. That the Chineses have two Eies, the Europeans one, and all the rest of the people of the world are blinde. And indeed they doe approove themselves to be Quicke-sighted enough: for they are the Antipodes of Christians, and are in scituation farthest remote from them, and yet can finde the Meanes, to pry into the mines and Treasrue of the Christian world. And therefore I say, it is high time that the Dutch and We lest Darting at one another, and so joine together, that as with one Hand, and one Heart, and if they will needs have it so, with that one Eie, we may collect and contract our sharpest sence & fight into it; that as it is said, some Monoculists, by the sharpnesse of the sence drawne to one Eie, see better with that, then both:we may at last put this remedy in practise, that we seem no longer blind men, to those Indian people. But herein on both parts, are we humbly to impore His Majesties Regall Intercession, that these differences, betwixt the Dutch and Us, may no longer Hang in Suspence, but at last be drawne to that happy and hopefull Period wee have so long looked & longed for. That so the Majesty of the King, arising like the Glory of the Sun-rising upon this our Horizon, may dispell and disperse all the tempestuous Mists and Fogges, that have obscured the same; and lend such a glorious Light and Life unto this Orbe of ours, that They & We, like lovers and friends fallen at oddes, may be redintegrated, renewed, and reunited, in unfaigned Amitie and Unity, tha the name of Hostilitie betwixt Them and Us, be never hereafter told in Gath, nor publish't in the Streets of Ashcalon: And that the Publike complaints as well of their Owne people, as Ours, may no longer come under the view and censure of the world.
Another Remedy of this kinde, may bee His Majesties gratious protection of the Persian Trade now so happily set on foote: that so neither the Envy of any, at Home; nor the Power or Policy of any abroad, supplant us in the same. Whereby the Cloth and Tinne, and other the Native Commodities of this Kingdome, may be brought into Use and Commerce amongst the Persians also. Which through Gods blessing, and his Majesties Royall Assistance, may be a means to draw the whole Trade of the Persian silke into this Kingdom, and make it the Magazin thereof, for the supply of other Nations: to the weakning of the Turkes power, the increase of Trade in this Common-wealth, and with it His Majesties Customes, the Navigation, and employment of the poore: to the Great Honour of the King, and enriching of all His Kingdomes.
