It Has Not Been Thought Necessary To Insert The Substance
Of This Treaty As Contained In The Annals, As It Is Given In The
Journal.
- E.] "The dispatches of Sir Thomas, of this year, concluded
with recommending to the company, as a commercial speculation,
To send
out annually a large assortment of all kinds of toys, which would find a
ready sale at the great festival of Noroose, [the new year] in the
month of March.
"In 1616 we discover a jealousy in the factory at Surat, of Sir Thomas
Roe, notwithstanding his efforts and success in obtaining phirmaunds
from the Mogul favourable to the factories at Surat and Ahmedabad, and
in general for the encouragement of English trade in the Mogul
dominions; for the factors represented to the court that a merchant or
agent would be better qualified for a commercial negociator than a
king's ambassador; and, in support of this opinion, referred to the
practice of the king of Spain, who on no occasion would send an
ambassador, but always a commercial agent; and stated that Sir Thomas
Roe, besides, considered himself to be vested with the exercise of a
controlling power over the commercial speculations of the Surat factory,
and held himself to be better qualified to judge of the English
interests by combining the political relations which he wished to
introduce between the Mogul and the king of England, than by forwarding
any projects for trade which the factory might devise as applicable to
the Mogul dominions.
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