A treatise : wherein is demonstrated, I. that the East-India trade is the most national of all foreign trades, II. that the clamors, aspersions, and objections made against the present East-India Company, are sinister, selfish, or groundless, III. that since the discovery of the East-Indies, the dominion of the sea depends much upon the wane or increase of that trade, and consequently the security of the liberty, property, and Protestant religion of this kingdom, IV. that the trade of the East-Indies cannot be carried on to national advantage in any other way than by a general joynt-stock, V. that the East-India trade is more profitable and necessary to the kingdom of England than to any other kingdom or nation in Europe /