Proposal to raise the price of tin to £6 a hundredweight, with calculations of the profit this would generate. The Dutch cannot have much tin in the East Indies or they would be exporting it in quantity already

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Iff wee can by Advancing the Price of Tinn {illeg}to six pounds the undred & sellinge but 1200 Tun as that price raises } 144000li
1600 Tun & all Charges acctt:ing thatt 16li Tun Comes to 121600
All Tinn & Charge pd there will be Gayned 22400
More Gayned 400 Tun of Tinne wch: att the sd Price is 48 000
I acctt: the 8li: on every hundred att 76li ꝑ Tun to the charges but I compute 76s: ꝑ hundred wch: ist is andvanced {sic} & the 8 pounds on 5600 Tun amounting to 115 Tun 53ll– 2q: 12{illeg} } 05 026– 13s: 4
£ 75426– 13: 4
If there be a Quantity of Tin in the Indies Iff it be in Few hands the Dutch factors would hand it – if in Many this would Aply to the factors & they would not thus Pedle to send 12 Tun in a whole Fleet when they send such Prodigious Quantityes of other thinges that it is to Admiration itts a Greater proofe that there is noe more to be hand than if so men had sworn it – Iff it be urged that it is deare – then itts answeared that they have Occasion for it & if the Dutch Snatch it into their hands Once they will advance the price as will have it no more
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A Computation of the Profitt on Tin if advanced & a Defence of the Dainger of East India Tin