A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to it
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A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to it - John Cary
John Cary
A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to it
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
DISCOURSE
TRADE,
DISCOURSE
POOR
ESSAY
NATIONAL CREDIT.
DISCOURSE
Table of Contents
ON
TRADE,
Table of Contents
AND
Other Matters Relative to it.
VIZ.
Of Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: OfHusbandry, Feeding, Tillage,Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals,Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool,Cotton-Wool, Hempand Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware,Silk, Distilling: Thegreat Advantages of a universalNational Bankdemonstrated: Sugar-baking, Tobacco,Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper-Mills, Powder-Mills:Method to improve our Manufactures, by imploying thePoor: Of Courts ofMerchants, Silver Coin: An effectual Method to prevent theRunning of Wool: Of ourTrade to the East and West-Indies,Africa, the Plantations,Iceland, the Canaries, Spain,Portugal Turkey, Italy, Holland,Hamburgh, Poland, Russia,Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, France, South-Sea, &c.What foreign Trades are profitable, and what not. AnEssay on National Credit, andthe Irish Linnen Manufacture,&c. &c. &c.
Wrote at the Request of several Members of Parliament And now Published for universal Benefit.
By JOHN CARY, Esq; Merchant of Bristol.
LONDON:
Printed for T. OSBORNE in Gray’s-Inn,
MDCCXLV.
TO
The Right Honourable
Spencer Compton, Esq;
SPEAKER.
And to the Honourable the Knights, Citizens,and Burgesses, of thisPresent Parliament ofGreat-Britain, Assembled.
May it Please your Honours,
THE First Edition of this little Tract, Relating toTrade, the Poor, &c.was Humbly Dedicatedto his Royal Highness the Princeof Wales, when Governor of theSouth-Sea Company, which I thenthought, as I still do, might be ofService to the Nation, by alluring theHeir to the Crown, into an Earlyliking of Trade, and Setting beforehim the Advantages that Accruefrom it, with the Methods wherebyit may be Improved; and therefore IContracted it into a narrow Compassto Encourage his Reading it.
THIS second Edition, whereto I have added some sure and practicable Methods, for Discharging thePublic Debts of the Nation, withmost Ease to the People, I humblyPresent to this Honourable House; Ifit may be Usefull in your Debates, Ishall think myself very Happy.
’TIS the Ballance of our Trade, that supplies us with Bullion; ifThat be in our Favour, it brings it tous, if otherwise, it must be carriedaway.
THIS Ballance is supported by our Manufactures, which keep ourPeople at Work, and enable them toMaintain themselves by their ownLabour, who must else stand still, andbecome a Charge on our Lands; andtherefore I humbly conceive it to beour Interest, First, to encourage theirbeing worn at Home, and then togive a Preference to such Things, asare Purchased for them abroad, rather than to those, which are boughtfor Bullion; and if our Trade waswell regulated, we should soon becomethe Richest, and consequently theGreatest, People in Europe.
I have made some Essay at such Methods, as I doubt not, being Improved by your Wisdoms, and strengthened by your Authority, may Tend verymuch to the Effecting this great Work;And I humbly Offer the six Propositions following, as so many Fundamentals, necessary, for the better Ordering of our Trade, the Discharging ofour public Debts, and Supporting theCredit of the Kingdom, whereby HisMajesty will be rendred more Glorious, both at Home and Abroad.
THE First is, a Committee of Trade, made up of such Men as arewell verst in the true Principleswhereon it is Founded, and therebyenabled to make right Representationsof such things, as shall be referred tothem by the Parliament; who, Holding their Places, according as they arethought capable of performing them,will be careful to execute those Trustswith Judgment, Honour and Honesty.
THE second is, a due Inspection into the Affairs of the Poor, andputting an End to that PerniciousTrade of Begging, which I can assurethis Honourable House, from the Experience we have had in their Regulation at Bristol, may be done, and thatthe Poor may be trained up to an earlyDelight in Labour; the Means andMethods whereby That wasAccomplished, though at first ThoughtImpracticable, I have set forth in theAppendix. pag. 167.
THE Third is, the Keeping of our own Wool at home, and preventing the Wool of Ireland from beingTransported any where else except tothis Kingdom; which I am persuaded can never be done, by any otherMethod, but by a Register, and thatThat will effectually do it; towardswhich I have made an Essay in thefollowing Treatise.
THE Fourth is, the Encouraging the Linnen-Manufacture of Ireland;’Tis not easy to comprehend the Advantages that will thence arise to bothKingdoms, when each of them shallbe fully employed, on a Distinct Manufacture: the Hands that are nowkept at Work there, on the Spinningof Wool, might be then turned to Linnen, and a great Part of their Landswould be taken up, in raising Flax andHemp, for which they are very proper; and then a Stop might be put tothe Importation of those great Quantities of Worsted and Woollen Yarnthence, so pernicious to the Poor of thisKingdom, the Spinning whereof, ifImported in Wool, would amount tomany Thousand Pounds per Annum, to be divided among them; and it is certain, that Spinning is the most profitable Part of the Woollen Manufacture, because it is done by Women andChildren, who can no otherwise beemployed.
IN the Year 1704, I was desired by the Ministry to give my Thoughtsof such an Undertaking, which I thendid, and printed some Considerationsrelating thereto, adapted for thatTime, which I have added in theAppendix, pag. 158.
NOR can this be any Prejudice to the Linnens of North-Britain, beingof quite different Sorts; which shouldalso for many Reasons be Encouraged,by such Means and Methods, as on dueConsideration may be thought proper.
THE Fifth is, the carrying on the Fishery, which deserves all the Encouragement the Legislature can giveit; and I think the readiest way to doit, is, by incorporating such Societies,as are witting to set upon it with jointStocks, but not exclusive to any others,which will promote Industry, and shutout Stock-jobbing, the Bane of somany good Undertakings.
THE sixth, and indeed the Foundation of all the rest, is, the establishing a substantial Credit, large enoughto answer all the Occasions of the Nation, both public and private, which isthe Wheel whereon all the rest mustturn, and whereby, not only the Tradeof the Kingdom, but also the Occasionsof the Government may be supplied,and the public Debts gradually sunk,by a good Management; and This, Ihumbly Conceive, cannot be settled anyother way, but on a parliamentaryFoundation, any Thing less will betoo narrow.
IN the Year 1696, I made some Essay towards such a Credit, which Ithen presented to both Houses of Parliament, and have now incerted it inthe Appendix, pag. 174. But the Bankof England having about that timefurnished his Majesty with a considerableSum of Money, then very muchwanted, for the present payment of theArmy, which the Ministry could nototherwise have raised, tho’ they approved of the Projection, were unwilling to disoblige at that Juncture, bysetting up any thing like theirs, and sothat Matter slept then, as it hadever done, if I had not observed thatthe famous Mr. Laws had drawn aScheme from it, for the Service ofFrance, as near as the Constitution ofthat Kingdom will admit; not that Ithink it can be lasting, the Foundationbeing laid on Sand; Yet it hath servedthe present Occasion, to pay off theDebts of that Nation, by an incredibleStock-job, which must in all probability,end in Confusion and Discontent.
NOTHING can support a National Credit, but a steady Government, where the arbitrary Will of a Princecannot withdraw, or lessen the Securityat his Pleasure; and had sucha one been then establish’d here, in allprobability, we bad been several Millions less in Debt, and not felt thatheavy load of Taxes, which hath opprestour Lands, and injur’d our Trade;nor do I think those Debts can bedischarged by any other way, privateMen now carrying off those Profits,which should sink them by degrees.
THE Advantages of a National Bank, and the good Effects it willhave, in this Free Government, towards the Lessening our national Incumbrances, will plainly appear, whenit is considered, that one hundredPounds borrowed, will circulate two,besides it self, and thereby reduce theInterest, to one third Part of what ispaid to the Lender; but if it circulatesthree, then to a Quarter, and it maybe, to much less, according as a Bankhath Credit, and is found Useful.
BY this Rule, if the Public pays Four per Cent. for Interest, it may byCirculation be reduced to one, andthere is no doubt, but that a Well-constitutedBank, will be soon fill’d withMoney at that Rate; the great Groundof Buying and Selling Stock being, thevast Sums of Money which lie deadon Mens Hands, who hope thereby tomake some Profit, but would be gladto dispose of it, on a substantial Security, at a moderate Interest; besidesthe Advantage it will be to Widowsand Orphans, whose Money would besafely lodged, and bring them in acertain Income, for their Maintenance; and here will be no room leftfor Stock-jobbing, which hath now gotsuch a Footing, even into our publicAffairs, that the Parliament doth notgive a Land-Tax or a Lottery, wherethe Subscriptions to it are not Ingrost,by those who have not Money, in order to make an Advantage, by sellingthem to such as have, besides the vastCharge in the management of Lotteries.
AND as to Trade, the Bank of England hath been very serviceableto this great Metropolis, by making alittle Money serve the Uses of a greatdeal, but the Benefit thereof hath extended no farther; and why otherCities, and indeed the whole Kingdom, should not have the same Advantage, (which it will, if aNational Bank be established, and Chambers settled where desired) I cannotconceive.
AND here I must refer to the Appendix, for the better Illustratingthe Benefit thereof, and the manner ofits Institution, as then intended, whichmust now admit of several Alterations.
IF such a Bank were settled, the Charge of managing it would be verylittle, and the Kingdom might growricher some Millions every Year, andthe Government have an Addition toits Security, by drawing the Cash ofother Nations hither, whose Interestwould thereby become interwoven withours; and our Manufactures wouldbe encouraged by a Flux of Money,which is the Life of Trade; and this,with the easiness of our Government,would bring the monied Men of Europe to settle here, which would be anAddition to our Wealth; the Tradermight hence be supplied, with suchSums of Money as he shall want, andfor so long time only, as he shall haveOccasion to use it; whereby the Fishery,and other good Undertakings, maybe encouraged, and our Wool be certainly kept at Home; and the Gentlemen of England may be hencefurnished with Money at the common Interest, and be permitted to make theirPayments by such Parts, as they canbest spare it; the want of which isnow such a Clog upon their Estates, thatit destroys many good Families; who,when they are once got into the UsurersBooks, can find no way to get out,till they have paid the whole Debt atonce, so that their Estates are devoured, by Procuration and Continuation.
NOR is it hereby intended to put a Force upon any Man; ’twill be theInterest of the Lender to put his Money into this Bank, where he hath socertain a Security, and of the Bankto take it in; and on the other Side, itwill be the Interest of the Bank tofurnish Money on the Terms