SOME Considerations: Humbly Offered to Demonstrate How prejudicial it would be to the English Plantations, Revenues of the Crown, the Navigation and general Good of this Kingdom, that the sole Trade for Negroes should be granted to a Company with a Joint-stock exclusive to all others.  
THe great and unspeakable Advantage the West-India Plantations are to England, is so well known, that it needs no demonstration to prove it. The only thing Necessary, is to endeavour to improve and increase this mighty advantageous Trade, by securing them from the Insults of their Enemies, and enabling them to make larger quantities of the Commodities of those Colonies.  
Now the means most conducive thereunto will be to make the Trade to Africa open and free for all the Native Subjects of England, which Trade for Slaves is chief from Acra to Angola, and contains about 1200 Miles Sea-cost, in which extent the present African Company have neither Fort, Castle, nor Factory; so that they have not the least colour for a Pretence to an exclusive Right of Trade into those Parts.  
It is well known, that the Riches of the Plantations consists in Slaves chief, by whose strength and labour all their Commodities, as Tobacco, Sugar, Cotton, Indigo, Ginger, etc. are produced; and the more Slaves those Plantations are supplied with, the more Commodities are made, and the stronger they are to defend themselves against any Insults. Neither can there be any more danger of being overstockt with Negroes, than there is that too much Tobacco, Sugar, etc. should be sent to England; for it is a plain consequence, the more Negroes the more Goods will be produced, the more Goods the more Custom paid, and all those Commodities rendered here at home so cheap as will enable this Nation to send them abroad cheap also, to the great discouraging of the Plantation-Trade of all other Nations. Wherefore it is very plain, that a large supply of Negroes will not only bring great Riches to this Kingdom, but will also greatly Increase our Navigation.  
Whereas on the contrary, should the African Trade be enclosed, and confined to the Wills and Powers of a Company, the consequence would prove as fatal to the Plantations as a Power given to one Person in England to supply the Gardeners with Servants, and the Farmers and Carriers with Horses: It is not to be doubted that the one would be constrained to pay yearly for his Servants as much as his Years product would amount to, and the other for his Team as much as the Rent of his Farm, which would prove great Discouragements to their Labour and Industry. This may we reasonably suppose would be the Case of the Planters in the West-Indies, were there but one Person that must supply them with Slaves, they being so extremely Necessary, that it is impossible to live without them, every Man being rich or poor according to his Stock in Slaves. A Man that may be Proprietor of 10000 Acres of Land, would still be poor had he no stock of Negroes to employ upon it.  
It might be fairly Objected, That the present African Company have carried on their Trade but very imperfectly as to their own Advantage, (notwithstanding that was all the Design they aimed at) as may be plainly proved from the Care they have taken to supply all the Plantatitions, it being very well known that they have not for these 20 Years or more sent one Ships-loading of Negroes to Virginia nor Maryland, which are two very large Countries, and capable of making twice as much Tobacco as they now do, were they but well supplied with Negroes.  
Every Negro that is sent into those Plantations, makes as much Tobacco yearly as pays from 30 l. to 40 l. Sterl. Custom, but the Company think that is not material to their Stock: They understand the People are generally poor, and therefore will not venture to trust them; whereas at the same time private Men have, (tho' with the hazard of being seized by the Companies Agents) and had it not been for that Supply those Countries had been in a much worse Condition than at present they are.  
To further demonstrate what before is hinted at, that the Company have no Forts, Castles nor Factories from Acra to Angola, nor do they suppose them necessary to carry on the Slave-Trade, is plainly proved from their own Practice and Management of that Trade, for when they design a Ship to trade for Slaves, they put a Lee-ward Cargo (as they term it) on board the Ship, and give the Master or the chief Officer of the Ship full power to dispose, barter and sell the said Cargo for their Accounts, allowing them a Commission of 4 per Cent. for disposing of the said Cargo, taking on board the Negroes, and delivering them to their Factors in the Plantations, who have usually been the Governors of those Places, who have disposed of the Negroes not always to the poor Planters liking, but necessity hath no law, so must submit to the Will and Pleasure of their Superiors.  
Now this great and growing Evil can only be prevented by permitting more Sellers of Negroes than one, wherefore since it is evidently demonstrable, that it is no charge to carry on and manage the Slave-Trade, and of what great Concern it is to encourage and support the English Plantations, whereby the Navigation of the Kingdom, Revenues of the Crown, and the General Good of this Nation is so much advanced, therefore it is humbly hoped that the Trade from Acra to Angola inclusive may be henceforth judged and allowed to be free and open for all the Subjects of this Kingdom.