Some Considerations Offered touching the East-India Affairs.  
THE Advantage of the Dutch jyes only insetling this Company, because never any former conduct of the English Company aspired to, or attained any Empire, or Dominion in India worth mentioning, nor built such a number of Warlike Ships.  
The English East-India Company is (or should be to support themselves against their neighbours) a Sovereign Commonwealth, under and subject to the Crown of England; meliorated and improved by the successive Wisdom of several ages passed, and never was at such a height of perfection as it is at this instant, to the envy and admiration of all European Nations, and Indian Princes: And it is justly feared, the pulling down this Company to set up a New one, may prove as unsuccessful, as it would be to grubb up a flourishing well grown Orchard, in the strength and prime time of its bearing Fruit, to Plant a New Orchard in the same Place, in hopes to have more and better Cider: Whereas a New Plantation yields little Fruit and the worst Cider. Besides which, he understands but little of India, who thinks that notwithstanding all the caution, the profoundest Wisdom can provide, Foreigners will not make an irretrievable advantage, and England suffer an irreparable loss; between the drawing off of the Old, and the entrance of a New Company, which for the first seven years, by reason of contrariety of opinions, inexperience, and for other causes will rather run backwards, than forwards as this Company did at first, to such a degree, that after six or seven years' Trading, the Stock which cost One hundred pound, was generally sold for sixty or seventy pounds, and all interest lost.  
But to follow the former Metaphor, some worthy Gentlemen (abused by Flatterers that hope to gain by the public prejudice of their Country) say, they design not to cut down the Old Orchard, but to graft upon it, and that they are persuaded to believe may be done, with safety, not considering, that whoever will graft upon an Old Orchard, must first cut off the Top, and Fruit bearing boughs, and few Wise men, will do that, when their Orchard thrives better than any of their Neighbours, and is at the most profitable height of bearing that ever any Orchard was, especially considering the uncertainty, whether the New Cyons being grafted upon Old Stocks, will thrive, live or die.  
The unsettling this Company any way, is as much as the greatest Emulators of the English prosperity in India do design, or desire, whether they be English Interlopers or Foreigners, well knowing that the business of India is not merely Trade, but a constant mixture of Trade, and Warefare, Fortification, Military prudence, and Political Government, which must be adapted peculiarly to the genius of those People, and of those Places; (not conformable to the Laws of England) in imitation of the Dutch Wisdom in those countries', which eminently transcends all other Nations, and must unavoidably force them all, to give up the little remainder the Dutch have left amongst them, if the English be not armed with the same Wisdom, as well as with the same power, as the State's General have most wisely conferred upon their East-India Company, where their Committee Men, are not upon Rotation, but for their Lives, and style themselves, as they ought to be, The Seventeen; representing the Sovereign state of the Netherlands East India Company in India: And if it were so in England, it would be much better for the Public, and be found in the augmentation of the value of Land, which can only be increased by Trade, and by that of the East-Indies, more available to that end than any other; which makes the Wise Dutch Nation cherish and defend it, with the same zeal and affection, as they would their Wives and Children, and were never yet known to part with one inch of ground got in India.  
It is the work of a long Life, fully to understand how India is to be governed, and improved for National advantage, and such a Drudgery and Expense of Time, in converse with all sorts of People, and of all Nations, and reading such Voluminous Books and Records, that very few Men in any Age, have ever applied themselves to, and is as different from the easy way of sending out Ships, and bringing home returns, in the common course of Merchandise, as the Government of many great Kingdoms is, from the Government of one single Cottage.  
It was for want of such powers to the English East-India Company, That the Dutch Company have got, and the English lost the possession, and Trade of all the Spice-Islands; Japan, and many other places in the last Age, and Macassar and Bantam in this; and which enabled them to bring Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, and Cinnamon, entirely into their own hands, and to sell Nutmegs, which cost them in India less than One Penny per pound, to all the Indian World, as well as to Europe, Africa and America, at about six shillings per pound; and all other Spice in proportion. And if it had not been for the late enlargements of power to the English Company, which animated the Committee to that chargeable attempt on Sumatra, the Dutch in probability had immediately on the surprise of Bantam, made themselves Masters of all the Pepper, and if they had done, or shall ever do that hereafter, England may too late lament, and bewail their misfortune, but shall never recover it; no more than they can or will the Spice Islands. The gain by that single Commodity of Pepper, if it were in one hand, being sufficient to maintain Fleets, to fight any Royal Navy in India, or in these Seas: for we may truly compute, that all the Pepper consumed in Japan, China, Tartary, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and in all other Places of the three aforesaid Quarters of the World, doth not amount to less than Six Thousand Tons, Communibus annis; which may be bought, if the Trade were in One Nations hand, at about a penny a pound, and sold to the rest of the World as dear as Nutmegs, being about Six Shillings per pound; to which penny and Eleven pence for Freight, and Garrison and other charges, the profit will be Five Shillings per pound, which upon Six Thousand Tons, amounts to Three Millions, Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand pounds sterling per annum. And we can apprehend nothing to be abated thereof, but so much as shall be lessened of the Expense of that Commodity in all parts of the World, as may be occasioned by such an increase of the price.  
Although it is unreasonable to destroy, or Graft again a flourishing thriving Orchard, the best may need Pruning and Cultivating; but both must be done by a skilful hand, for fear of cutting off Bearing, instead of Superfluous Branches, or prejudicing the Roots, which is a proper Subject for the Wisdom of Parliament, when they know and have deeply considered the Laws, Methods and Rules the Dutch Govern their Trade and Colonies by in India, and for those out of Parliament which think them too Arbitrary, the Remedy is easy: Such Persons may stay at home under the shadow of our Native Liberty, as it is better Ten Thousand Men of that Mind should, than that England should lose their Trade and Dominion in India.  
If the Exercise of Martial Law be denied the Company, it will be impossible to preserve the Dominion of India, of which St. Helena is a pregnant Instance having rebelled four times before they paid one Penny charge to the Government, Church, Poor or Highways, Custom or Excise or any other Duty.  
1. It is likewise seriously to be considered, whether it be not safest to proceed in an Affair of this vast Import with great deliberation, and whether this be a proper time for so hazardous a Change as some would make in the East-India Affairs, before the three Kingdoms are so firmly settled, as all good Men desire, and hope they will be within a small space of time coming.  
2. Whether it would not be Wisdom to hear first from India, how the Dutch Company will behave themselves there upon this great Revolution, that hath lately happened in these Kingdoms?  
3. To consider how the Companies great Ships should be employed between the New and Old Company, whereof four are in their Majesty's Service; three at home that will carry from Seventy to Eighty Guns each; Eight or Ten more that are suddenly expected Home, and very many more left in the Country. Because, If the present Company must be dissolved, four or five years hence they can employ but few of them, because their business must be to bring in, not to scatter their Estates. The New Company whatever men may pretend can't have a Stock to employ half that Number of great Ships in many Years to come, and those great Ships must in Consequence be broke up, for no other Trade will find them bread but that of India.  
4. Whether Grafting upon the Present Company, or making a new one will not necessarily cause Division and Confusions in the Committees Councils, which can never happen at so ill a Time as this, when it is said, The Dutch Company have already this Year sent very great Forces, and are sending out a far greater for India, while at the same time the English can't get to Sea that single Ship the Herbert, which hath lain three Months at Gravesend full Loaden with Necessaries for the Companies Forts, Seamen and some Soldiers on Board her, by reason of the present Press and Embargo.  
5. Is it not extremely necessary, That before any hasty change be made, the English Nation should see what use the Dutch Company in India would make upon the great overbalance of Power in India they are like to have next Summer by reason of the advantage they have at present of getting many Ships to Sea, (while this Company can't get out that single Ship aforesaid) if they should attempt any of the Companies three Pepper-Forts in their own Names, or in the Name of the young King of Bantam, or any of their Confederate or Vassal Indian Princes, would not England Repent too late? And if any of those Garrisons should fail or desert for want of Supplies from Europe, or upon News of the Companies being out of Favour in England, which the Interlopers and Dutch Company will not fail to aggravate and magnify to the Natives, will not such an Error be fatal to this Kingdom? How can it hereafter be mended, or who shall do it the old Company being mortified by the late discouragements they have met with after all their great Services for their Country, and the New One whatever is pretended will never be able to do it.  
6. If the Dutch Company by reason of the Discouragement and Interruption given the English Company, should arrive at the sole Engrossment of Pepper, would not the next Commodity most proper for them to engross, be Saltpetre, and what will be the Consequences thereof? After they have once all the Pepper, they may do all things, and every thing they have a mind to in India at their own good Will and Pleasure without possibility of prevention. And we dare confidently aver and think it our bounden Duty to God and our Country before it be too late to affirm positively, That if the English Company be not armed with the same Authority and Privileges as the Dutch East-India Company are; The English Empire and Dominion in India will certainly and quickly be lost, and the loss of the Trade must follow that in a short time after, or as soon as the Dutch Company please. That Nation being so wise in the Affairs of those Eastern Countries, that they never made any Change of their Company after it was once settled nor abridged them of any Power, but rather increased their Authority.