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send an annual ship to take off the quantity procurd, which as it will by so doing supply themselves with an Investment for China of as certain as far as it will go a Sale, as Silver, for they will by so doing & at the same time preclude all pretence of the Colonists to carry it to China Canton in their own Vessels. The Collection of Sandalwoood should be encouraged as the americans will Certainly obtain Every Pound of that valuable article which our Colonists neglect, Procure its value high price however will amply Provide for the Cost of sending it to England where the East India Company will find it their interest to Purchase it at Prices Rates very advantageous to the original shippers.
It will clearly be expedient to promote a Track in Coals, between the Colony & our new acquisition at the Cape, at present Coals must may be brought to the Cape by Ships sent to New South Wales for that purpose, which will be found a much more economical mode of supply, than sending Coals from England, as was done when the Cape was last in our hands, if this trade is satisfactory & a proper encouragement is given to the Colonists, by allowing the Entry of new Articles from thence into the United Kingdom, without charging upon them the exhorbitant & impolitic duty now levied on all unrated Goods, a supply of Cabinet Woods for Veneers, Dying stuff, Gums, & many other usefull raw materials, will by degrees find its way to the Mother Country, while the collecting of them will give ample encouragement to the industry of the resident Stationary Inhabitants, their Children & Servants.
At present the Colonists have no Vessels very little Craft of any kind, nor ought they to be allowd any increase till regulations respecting the size of their Vessels & the Limits within which they may be allowd to Navigate have been sanctiond by his Majestys Ministers & agreed to by the Directors of the East India Company, this cannot be a difficult task, as the Colonists can have no possible claim to visit Lands within the limits of the Companys Charter North of the Equator 10 degrees South Latitude, nor the Company a just reason for witholding from them that privilege of going there & as they will by this arrangement be effectualy restraind from all intercourse with the Colonies of Europeans in the East Indies, tho Permitted to visit Every Port of the Immense Continent, to which they are destind in due time to People give a British Population.