An arrest on the East India privatier as per advice and copy sent to its commander Sr. J. C. from H. K. near Hamburgh.
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- An arrest on the East India privatier as per advice and copy sent to its commander Sr. J. C. from H. K. near Hamburgh.
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- H. K.
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- [London :: s.n.,
- 1681]
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AN ARREST On the East INDIA PRIVATIER, As per Advice and Copy sent to its Commander Sr. J. C. from H. K. near HAMBURGH.
SIR;
SEnse as well of your Worth as of my Obligation to you being a con∣stant Spring of desire in me to subserve your Inclination and Interest, I could not let slip this Occasion given me (as opportune as casual) to serve them in the Information of an Arrest hereunto annexed; If the Original thereof be, as I hear it is, designed for Royal View and Judgment, exclusive of all other, I have thwarted them, and gratified you by motion equally unexpected and hidden to both.
Tho the end and motive of this Mission be obvious in the Reason of the thing sent, yet somewhat I may say to each of them. The Aim or End there∣of is, to propagate Philopatriasm, and to state and promote the real Interest of our King and Nation in Trade, particularly in that of East India; next to serve your Interest and Inclination too, if Philopatris be Name and Nature: for walking Exactly, and being a Common good is Wisdom and Satisfaction in Philopatria and Theoprepia; as being Rich and growing in Contraction is, in Argentoria: Only with this difference, the former is real and everlasting, the later a Dream and must soon awake Fools in for∣lorn despair. The Motive thereof, (beside what hath been said) was the late practise of printing the Allegations of the Turkey Merchants pre∣sented to the view and judgment of His Majesty in Council, (exclusive of all other) without their consent. A matter you are concerned in, and in which you see your Example doth dispose to Imitation; since by speci∣al contrivance and sundry & caetera's you are in effect the whole East India Company. If you now sail in Morals, One will be induced to assert mani∣fested un-truths before Councils, and tender his Oath thereto. Another will open sealed Letters and read Contents neither directed nor appertaining to him. A third will utter Contradiction or Falshood in print: e.g. Answer to Al∣legations pag. 12. which saith, As to the Accusation of sending Throwsters, Wea∣vers, and Dyers, the East India Company say, the whole Accusation is a mistake, (i. e. they never sent any) except only as to one or two Dyers, which they have usually sent to the Bay of Bangala, i.e. tho they usually (so oft as their Ships go) send them by one's or by two's yet they send none; Riddle me what's this? Tho other prettynesses be in the Ans. yet in that they are but small, a sin∣gle winding sheet may serve them. This you see is fill'd already with Con∣tents sufficient to testifie that I am a True Philopatrite, and without Trope or Complement,
16 Sept. 1681.
Your Affect. and Faithf. Serv. H.K.