Let us now consider the Inconveniences that have attended this Monopoly, and consequently the Conveniencies which would come to the Nation by digesting it into an open and free, tho' a regulated Company; sure if confining the working in a Golden Mine to one day in a week which would afford the like Treasure every day to the Nation cannot be its advantage, no more can the limiting this Trade; for if we send more Ships we fetch more _Negroes_, and vend more Commodities for their Purchase; besides every _Negro_ in the Plantations gives a second Imploy to the Manufacturers of this Kingdom, and had we many more to spare the _Spaniard_ would buy them, so there can be no Ground for putting this Trade into few Men's Hands, except 'tis designed those few shall grow Rich, whilst for their sakes the Nation suffers in its Trade and Navigation; The Company have made this detrimental advantage of their Charter, that they have thereby been enabled to buy up our Manufactures cheaper at home, and to make the _Planters_ pay dearer Rates for _Negroes_ abroad, than could have been done if there had been more Buyers for the former, and Sellers of the latter; besides the ill Supply they gave the Plantations, and the partiality in their Lots and Dividends there, the effect whereof was that one Planter who was befriended grew Rich by having good _Negroes_, whilst another was ruined by having none but bad; and this drew with it another ill Consequence, their Factors as it were Monopolized Trade to themselves, by obliging the Planters to deal with them for other things if they expected favour when the _Negro_ Ships arrived, so that the rest of the Merchants were forced to look on whilst the others had any thing to sell, and all because they were restrained by a Monopoly from supplying the Planter with the same Commodity, for which likewise the Company expected ready Pay, whilst the others gave long time. This was sully proved before the Honourable Committee at one of their Meetings, to whom I heard an eminent Merchant of _London_ of an undoubted Reputation and well acquainted with the Trade to _Africa_ affirm, That on a former little relaxation of the severity of their Charter, which was then called in question by the Honourable _House of Commons_, some of our Woolen Manufactures fit for that Trade rose instantly Fifty _per Cent_ to his certain knowledge, occasioned by the Multitudes of Buyers, whereof he was one; and indeed it is not to be wondered at, for whilst that Company was in power many of the _English_ Interlopers were forced to fit in _Holland_, where they also furnished their Cargoes, it being thought cause sufficient to stop a Ship here if any part of the Goods entered out gave Suspicion she was bound for the Coast of _Guinea_, which would have made a Stander-by to have thought that the _Dutch_ had given Pensions in that Court as well as the _French_.