The national and private advantages of the African trade considered: being an enquiry, how far it concerns the trading interest of Great Britain, effectually to support and maintain the forts and settlements in Africa; belonging to the Royal African Company of England: Shewing also that Support and Encouragement the Dutch and the French give to their respective African Companies; and that nothing less than 30,000 l. per Annum, granted by Parliament to the present Company, for a Term of Years certain can enable them to support a Competition with our Rivals in that Trade: with a Proposition to render the Interest of private Traders, and that of the Company mutually beneficial to each other. with a new and correct map. of the Coast of Africa, and all the European Settlements. Humbly inscribed to the Rt. Honble. Henry Pelham, Esq; First Lord Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer

People / Organizations

• Malachy Postlethwayt (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, MDCCXLVI. [1746]

Publication year

1746

ESTC No.

T39612

Grub Street ID

268838

Description

[4],128p.;plate : map ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Malachy Postlethwayt

Price from imprint: price 2s.

Uncontrolled note

MChB and NCD report folding map