Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of StLucia and Granada, truly stated . eing again canvalfed in council, immedi-ately after the reftorauon of King Charles II,thefe letters patent were aduaJly produced, andthefe facts before dated were all clearly proved,as we are fully and authentically informed by thegreat Earl of Clarendon^ who as Lord HighChancellor and as a minifter of ftate had veryattentively confidered this whole matter. As truth is always
Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of StLucia and Granada, truly stated . eing again canvalfed in council, immedi-ately after the reftorauon of King Charles II,thefe letters patent were aduaJly produced, andthefe facts before dated were all clearly proved,as we are fully and authentically informed by thegreat Earl of Clarendon^ who as Lord HighChancellor and as a minifter of ftate had veryattentively confidered this whole matter. As truth is always confiftent, fo by comparingthe French account, and its confequences, withthat which we have jufb before given, the realityand credibility of the latter will be fully tfia-blifhed. The French tell us, that the SieurDEfnamhiic landed on one fide of the ifland ofSt. Cbrijlophers on the fame day tjiat CaptainWarner^ afterwards ^\x nomas Warner Xz^^^dion the other fide of the fame ifland: but onwhat day this was, we are not told, the yearhowever was 1625. Thefe two gentlemen,who had been both attacked in their palfage bythe Spaniards^ entered into an amicable agree-ment, and pofTcfs the country, and mutually. [39] mut^ually to affift each other againfl the com-mon enemy. They likewife agreed, that eachof them fhould return to his own country, inorder to obtain a fupply and fupport. Accor-dingly the Sieur UEframhuc with this intentionreturned to France^ and having made a very ad-vantageous report of the illand which he propo-fed to fettle, a certain number of perfons aflb-ciated as a company for that purpofe, under theaufpice of the great cardinal de Richlieu^ whowhen the Sieur B^Efnambuc was ready to fail a-gain to his new colony, thought proper to granthim a commilTion, the beginning of which, li-terally tranQated, runs thus. « Armand John du Plessis de Richlieu,^ cardinal, counfellor of the king in his coun- cils •, chief, grand mafter, and fur-intendant* of the comme
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