The African trade, the great pillar and support of the British plantation trade in America, shewing, that our loss, by being beat out of all the foreign markets for sugar and indigo by the French, has been owing to the neglect of our African trade; which only, can supply our colonies with negroes, for the making of sugars and all other plantation produce: that the support and security of the negro-trade depends wholly on the due and effectual support of the Royal African company of England ... and also, what the Royal African company have a natural right to hope for this session of Parliament from their country ..