A plan of the English commerce Being a complete prospect of the trade of this nation, as well home as foreign. In Three Parts. Containing, among many Others, the following Curious Particulars; viz. Of the Rise, Growth, and Increase of the English Commerce, together with its Present State, more especially of that Part which relates to the Woollen Manufacture. A View of the English Trade, as it respects The Exportation, The Importation, The Re-Exportation, and Home Consumption. A solid Inquiry into the Question, Whether our Trade is decreased, or not? Of the English Improvements in Trade, upon the Inventions of other Nations, and the Increase of our Commerce on these Improvements; and of the Improvements likewise made upon our own Product. A Proposal for exterminating the Pirates of Tunis, Tripolt, Algier, and Sallee. With a Scheme for restoring the antient Commerce on the North and Northwest Coast of Africa. A Proposal for the Increase of Commerce upon the Western Coast of Africa, the Coast of Guiney from Sicra Leon to the Coast and Gulph of Benin. And Another for the Increase of Commerce on the East Coast of Africa. A Proposal for turning the Whole Trade for Naval Stores from the East Country, and Norway and Sweden, to our own Colonies, without putting the Government to the dead Charge of Bounty-Money on that Importation. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of King and Parliament. By the late ingenious Mr. Daniel De Foe

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Defoe, Daniel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for J. and J. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1749, M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]
Edition:	The third edition
Subjects:	Great Britain / Commerce
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0273000100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa