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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Bur|ge&s;&s;es A&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The <HI>EAST-INDIA</HI> Company's An&s;wer to the Petition of <HI>John Jolliffe</HI> and <HI>Edmond Harri&s;on</HI> in be|half of them&s;elves and others.</HEAD>
<P>THE &s;aid Company &s;ay, That they believe the Petitioners and others might &s;end &s;uch a Ship as they mention, on an Interloping Voyage to <HI>India,</HI> but know not to what Value the Cargo might amount, becau&s;e no part of it ever came into their hands or the hands of any of their Servants, to the Companies knowledge, though they have heard the Cargo was con&s;igned to one <HI>Boucher</HI> and others, whom the Company had put out of their Service for breach of their Tru&s;t, who were Men of Expen&s;ive Lives, took upon them to be Per&s;ons under a Publick Character, and as &s;uch, without any Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty a&s;&s;umed a Chargeable Equipage, and addre&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to the Great <HI>Mogul</HI>'s Court to make a Treaty of Commerce, and procure a <HI>Phirmaund</HI> for the <HI>New Company,</HI> as they called the <HI>Inter|lopers.</HI> By the charge of which Attempt and the weight of their own great Debts before con|tracted, they were reduced to &s;uch Nece&s;&s;ities, as di&s;abled them from making any returns of the &s;aid Cargoe.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Company have likewi&s;e been informed, That if the &s;aid <HI>Boucher,</HI> and the re&s;t, had been in any condition to load the &s;aid Ship with the returns of her Cargoe, &s;he might have come out of <HI>Surrat</HI> River while the Kings Ship <HI>Phoenix</HI> was on a Voyage to <HI>Mu&s;cat,</HI> as well as after the <HI>Phoenix</HI> was come away for <HI>England,</HI> as the <HI>China Merchant</HI> did.</P>
<P>The Company have al&s;o been informed, That the Judges of Admiralty appointed by His Maje&s;ty's Commi&s;&s;ion, as well as by the Company, did according to their duty condemn the Ship <HI>Adventure,</HI> and make demand of her from the Governour of <HI>Surrat</HI> to the u&s;e of his Maje&s;ty and the Company, but have not heard that &s;he was delivered by the &s;aid Governour, nor any part of her Cargoe.</P>
<P>The Company have further heard, That Captain <HI>Goodlad</HI> died of a Lingering Feaver, and that Mr. <HI>Pettit,</HI> one of the Petitioners Factors was taken in an <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> built Ship by the <HI>Sangana</HI>'s (being Native Pyrates) his Ship blown up, and him&s;elf wounded, of which wounds he dyed on &s;hoar in the <HI>Sangana</HI>'s Country. And Mr. <HI>Boucher</HI> their other principal Factor that had the whole Cargoe in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, as the Company have heard was alive when the la&s;t Ship came from <HI>Surrat.</HI> VVhat the Petitioners mean by the &s;candalous &s;ugge&s;tion of Poy&s;on or whom they &s;u&s;pect, the Company do not under&s;tand, having never heard one word of any &s;uch doubt or &s;u&s;picion from Interlopers or others before they &s;aw it in the Petition.</P>
<P>To the Charge of advi&s;ing his Late Maje&s;ty to &s;end one of His Maje&s;ties Ships of VVar to &s;uppre&s;s the Interlopers of <HI>India,</HI> as he did to the <HI>African Coa&s;t</HI> to pre&s;erve the Royal Compa|nies Intere&s;t from &s;uch injurious Attempts: The Company think it is enough to &s;ay, It was their Duty Humbly to inform his Maje&s;ty of the Di&s;ea&s;e, the Contagious Nature, the dange|rous Symptoms and Progno&s;ticks of it; His Maje&s;ty's own greater VVi&s;dom and Fore&s;ight di|rected the Remedies he found mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to con&s;erve the reputation of this Nation, and the Trades, Dominion, and Naval Power of this Kingdom in tho&s;e remote parts of the VVorld.</P>
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