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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B090313.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>OVERTURES For Promoting the Trade of this Nation: Humbly Offered to the SERIO&V;S CONSIDERATION Of the En&s;uing Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, By a Well-wi&s;her to his Country.</HEAD>
<P>THAT the Government may, conform to the prudent Practice of mo&s;t Nations, Regulate with other Countries the Ballance of Trade, which now, to our great Lo&s;s, lyes &s;trongly every where again&s;t us.</P>
<P>To which purpo&s;e, 'tis humbly conceived, That &s;uch Foreign Com|modities, as may be conveniently &s;pared, be Prohibited.</P>
<P>That &s;uch unwrought Commodities from Abroad, as may be Manu|factured at Home, be encouraged to be Imported; not only to keep our People and Money Vertuou&s;ly Imploied at Home, but al&s;o to &s;end Abroad for &s;uch Nece&s;&s;aries thence, as cannot be wanted.</P>
<P>Therefore, the following Particulars of Trade with Foreign Countries, are humbly tendered. <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Norway, Denmark, Sweden,</HI> and all the <HI>Baltick</HI> Sea,</HEAD>
<P>Take our Commodities, and we want theirs; As Timber, Pitch, Tar, Hemp, Flax, Pot-a&s;hes, Iron, Copper, Bra&s;s-Wire, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And if our Ma|nufactures were encouraged, the Ballance would be on our &s;ide.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Hamburgh,</HI> and <HI>Bremen</HI></HEAD>
<P>Affords us few Things nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
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<HEAD>Holland</HEAD>
<P>Furni&s;hes us with many Commodities, but few of them are ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary, and the Ballance is now on their &s;ide; whereas, before our Wool was exported, we yearly drew much Money thence by Woollen Manufactures, exported chiefly from <HI>Aberdeen;</HI> as may appear by the great quantity of Dollers and Ducatoons, &s;till current among us.</P>
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<HEAD>England</HEAD>
<P>Takes but few of our Commodities, except Cattle; yet our Merchants bring in con&s;iderable Quantities of &s;uch Goods, as might well be wanted: So that, what by the Expen&s;e of our Nobility and Gentry at Court, and the unnece&s;&s;ary Commodities imported thence, the Exchange is rai&s;ed &s;o high, that va&s;t Sums of Gold and Silver <HI>in &s;pecie,</HI> are carried thither.</P>
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<HEAD>France</HEAD>
<P>Tends much to our Di&s;advantage in Trade: For they prohibite, under Forfeiture of Ship and Cargo, the Importing our Herring, and all our Manufactures: And we expend va&s;tly for their Salt, Wine, Brandy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The two la&s;t take above 30000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> <HI>Sterline per annum;</HI> whereas we may be &s;ufficiently provided from other Countries with Liquors, by our own Product.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Portugal, Spain,</HI> and all the <HI>Straits,</HI></HEAD>
<P>Who&s;e Product is Silk, Wool, <HI>Bra&s;ile</HI>-Sugar, &s;everal &s;orts of Wine and Fruits. Rice and Oyl: They allow us the Freedom of Trading with them, not &s;o much to our Lo&s;s: And, were our Manufactures duely improved, it might more likely contribute to our Profit. So that, if we be fond of Wines, it were more rea&s;onable to have them from thence; tho Care mu&s;t be taken, that, under colour thereof, <HI>French</HI> Wines be not impor|ted; and that neither Wines nor Fruits be brought, but directly from the Place of their own growth; becau&s;e Bad of both &s;orts come often from <HI>Holland.</HI></P>
<P>IT is al&s;o humbly Offered, That the Exportation and Importa|tion of the following Goods may be prohibited, under &s;evere Penalties, as highly Prejudicial to the Intere&s;t of the Nation.</P>
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<HEAD>Exportation of Goods to be prohibited, as</HEAD>
<P>Wool, all &s;orts of Yarn, Skins and Hides, of our own Growth Unma|nufactured; But that all Foreign Wool may be imported, free of any Duty: The benefit of which, the Practice of our Neighbouring Nations, making the Offences Capital, may fully Convince us of. The great Indu&s;try of <HI>Sweden, Denmark,</HI> &amp;c. tho they have very little Wool, as well as <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> who have not much, to promote their Manufactures; are &s;ufficient Demon&s;trations of the Benefit of Importing, and the Damage by Exporting Wool.</P>
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<ITEM>Lin&s;eed, as being a Material for Oyl.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Talow, a Material for Soap.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Wax, for Candles and Flambeaus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bra&s;s and old Copper may be Re-manufactur'd.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lead-Ore.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Importation of Goods to be Prohibited, as</HEAD>
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<ITEM>Hats, being very well Manufactured at Home.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stockings, in the like manner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Powder and Fire-Arms, which are made as good here as any from Abroad.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cabinets, and all other Pieces of Wrights Work.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Points and Laces: But fine Threed for that purpo&s;e to be free of all Duty imported.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earthen and Gla&s;s Ware, of all &s;orts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iron Work of all &s;orts, except Sword-blades, till we recover again the Making of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Soap White or Black, <HI>French</HI> Barley, and Starch.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chee&s;e and Butter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tape&s;try, and Hangings of all &s;orts; which may be made here upon due encouragement.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Flannel, and all &s;orts of Woolen Manufacture, in like manner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mum-Beer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Goods, unle&s;s imported directly from thence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That no Goods, but of the Growth and Manufacture of the Places they directly come from, be Imported.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Encouragements for promoting what is above &s;aid.</HEAD>
<P>All Tack&s;men and Collectors of Cu&s;toms, that &s;hall pa&s;s any thing &s;o prohibited, &s;hall incur a certain Penalty <HI>toties quoties,</HI> the one half to the King, and the other to the Informer; and that tho&s;e belonging to Ma|nufactures, have Liberty to enter into Ships, Ve&s;&s;els, Shops, or other Places, the better to di&s;cover the Goods &s;o prohibited.</P>
<P>That all Foreign Trade&s;men and Artificers, who Excel in their Profe&s;&s;ions, may be Enfranchi&s;ed, and have Liberty to Set-up in any Town or Incorporation, and that free from all publick Burdens and Impo&s;itions, for a certain number of Years: Which being duely ob&s;erved, will not only further encourage skilful Artificers to come and inhabit a|mong&s;t us, but &s;trongly invite many Ma&s;ters to import their Stocks al&s;o, to the great Advantage of this Country.</P>
<P>That the Law or Cu&s;tom, obliging Strangers and Un-freemen to make the fir&s;t Offer of their Goods to the Dean of Guild, be taken away, and in lieu thereof, the Strangers to pay them only Two <HI>per Cent.</HI> and Na|tives but One <HI>per Cent.</HI> more than Burghers, and this Money to be given to New Manufactures. And all Towns and Shires that &s;et not up Ma|nufactures to imploy their own able Poor, may be obliged, according to their valu'd Rents, to pay to others who do imploy their Poor, as much as may amount to One Shilling <HI>Scots per</HI> day for each Head for &s;ome Years, commencing from the time they &s;hall be received; which will greatly en|courage Manufactures, &amp; yet be more Ea&s;e to People, than what is u&s;ed to be Collected for the Poor, and given at Doors: Be&s;ides the Benefit that the Publick will receive, by having all Hands Vertuou&s;ly imploied: Which
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 24 -->Numbers of Poor, will more than Manufacture all the Wool of this Na|tion. And this will remove the great Scandal of &s;o many Beggars going about, many of whom, within the&s;e few Years have Starved for Want. Indeed the&s;e who are unable to work, &s;hould be rea&s;onably provided for in the Place where they have lived, like the Prudence of <HI>Holland,</HI> where not one Beggar is to be &s;een.</P>
<P>That further Laws be made for encouraging our Herring and other Fi&s;hings, that Trade being of great Con&s;equence for the Good of the Nation.</P>
<P>That neither Silk, Woollen, nor Linnen, but what is Manufactured here, be made u&s;e of in this Kingdom; and therefore Raw Silk be imported free of all Duty.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not mention what is fit to be offered concerning the <HI>African</HI> and <HI>Indian</HI> Company, that being proper to come from the Directors thereof.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Overtures</HI> being &s;eriou&s;ly Con&s;idered by His MAJESTY's <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ioner,</HI> and the Honourable <HI>E&s;tates of Parliament,</HI> I am per&s;wa|ded they, in their Wi&s;dom, will find them nece&s;|&s;ary to make the Nation Happy: And however this may &s;eem to cro&s;s the Intere&s;t of &s;ome; yet it is always known, that a Publick Good, will, in a &s;hort time, Recompen&s;e a pre&s;ent Lo&s;s.</P>
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