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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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French merchants from Nantes and St. Malo plan to propose taking over the Asiento slave trade to Spanish American colonies if Spain does not renew with the English South Sea Company. Backed by the French court, they seek rights to stop illicit traders on Mexican coasts, benefiting French commerce in galleons and flotillas.
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As it may happen that the Court of Spain will not renew the Asiento Treaty with the English South Sea Company, several rich French Merchants seem to have a Design to propose to the Catholick King to grant them Permission to transport to the Spanish Colonies in America the same Number of Negroes which that Company sends thither, and upon the same Conditions.
Those Merchants are chiefly of Nantes and St. Malo.
They are assur'd of being strongly recommended to his Catholick Majesty by this Court; and it is said, that if the Negro Trade is granted them, the Spanish Court will also give them Power to stop, indiscriminately, on the Coasts of Mexico, all the Foreign Vessels they can catch carrying on an illicit Trade. The Merchants of this Kingdom earnestly wish that this Regulation may take Place, because it will be of vast Advantage to the Commerce of the Galleons and the Flotilla, in which the French Nation has the greatest Share.
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Primary Location
Spanish Colonies In America
Event Date
April 6
Outcome
potential grant of negro trade rights to french merchants and power to stop illicit traders, benefiting french commerce in galleons and flotilla.
Event Details
French merchants from Nantes and St. Malo aim to propose to the Catholick King that they transport the same number of Negroes to Spanish Colonies in America as the English South Sea Company, under the same conditions, if the Asiento Treaty is not renewed. They are assured of strong recommendation from the French court. If granted, they would also receive power to stop foreign vessels carrying illicit trade on Mexican coasts.