TRADE'S RELEASE: OR, Courage to the SCOTCH-INDIAN-COMPANY.
Being an Excellent New
BALLAD; To the Tune of,
The Turks
are all Confounded.
1.
COme, rouse up your Heads, Come rouse up anon!
Think of the Wisdom of old
Solomon,
And heartily Joyn with our own
Paterson,
To fetch Home INDIAN Treasures:
Solomon sent a far for Gold,
Let us do now as he did of old,
Wait but three Years for a Hundred-fold
Of Riches and all Pleasures.
2.
His Throne with Gold was overlaid,
He hundreds of Shields and Targets had
Of beaten Gold, and (as is said)
Gold Vessels all for Drinking:
Cedars he made as the Sycamore-Tree,
Silver as Stones abounding to be,
And TRADE from all Incumbrance free;
For Reason rul'd his thinking.
3.
So the wisdom of our
Parliament
Have jointly agreed, with a very good Intent,
By their ACT together with th' Royal Assent,
To free TRADE from Taxation:
Now since our Freedom they did restore,
We'll quickly visit the
Indian-Shoar,
And thence return with such Cargoes of
Ore
As must enrich this Nation.
4.
Saint-Andrew's Flag then without delay
We'll over all the World display;
We'll many a River, Crick and Bay
Find out by Navigation;
In which our selves we'll soon Invest,
As having never been Possest
By any that can in the least
Pretend Preoccupation.
5.
And as choice of Plantations abroad we can find;
To our Undertaking e'en Nature seems kind,
In having our Nation dispos'd and design'd
For TRADE, by its situation:
For to
Portus-Salutis from our Habour at
Leith,
And round by the
Lewis till you come to
Roseneath
There are store of good Bays, where free from all skaith
Our Shipping may ne'r miss a station.
6.
And now while that matter runs fresh in my Head,
Let us think of our own Home-Subjects of Trade;
Rare Fishings of all sorts, all-North from the
Tweed,
And plenty of Corns and Provision,
Our fine Manufactures of
Woolen and
Threed,
Our
Salt, Coals, Marble; our
Iron and
Lead;
Pray then what should ail us, but to Thrive with all speed,
If we banish all Seeds of Division.
7.
No River by Nature was ever brought forth,
From the
East to the
West, or the
South to the
North,
More adapted to Trade than our
Clyde and our
Forth,
When both shall in one be united:
We'll make both the INDIES pay Tribute to
Clyde,
From whence we'll diffuse it upon our
Forth's side,
And many more Things which never were try'd,
May at Home to our
Trading be fitted.
8.
Then come along Lads then, Come, come, come,
Why should we longer thus linger at home?
While extending the bounds of
Christendom
Must be Crown'd with Riches and Glory:
But to carry our noble Atchievement on,
Our Purses and Strength we must all Joyn in One,
We must never remember the Distinction
Of
Papist, Whig, or
Tory.
9.
Since by Nature and Law we are equally free,
Wherever true Merit is found, let it be
Rewarded most nobly in every Degree,
Without regard to Compactions:
Let Vice and Oppression be cloathed with shame,
Let brave Undertakings our Breasts all inflame,
Let
Liberty, Property, Religion and
Fame
Be mainly the Scope of our Actions.
10.
For if ever great things to do we propose,
We must cherish our Friends, and vanquish our Foes
By Rules of Justice; but scorn to impose
Such Tricks as now are in Fashion:
By regular steps we'll bravely advance
Till the Trade of all EUROPE to us we enhaunce;
Then adieu to the blust'ring Grandeur of
FRANCE
Or any imperious Nation.
11.
To
SCOTLAND'S just and never-dying Fame,
We'll in ASIA, AFRICA and AMERICA proclame
Liberty! Liberty! nay, to the shame
Of all that went before us;
Wherever we Plant, TRADE shall be free,
In three Years time, I plainly foresee,
GOD BLESS THE SCOTTISH-COMPANY
Shall be the
Indian-Chorus.
12.
No Brawle, no Murmure, no Complaint,
No Cause of any Discontent,
Where
Patersonian-Government
Shall once commence a Footing;
His wholesome Laws being publish'd there,
Shall harmeless keep their Goods and Gear,
And free their Persons from all Fear
Of
Thummikin or
Booting.
13.
The
Muscovite, Tartar, Turk, and the
Pope,
The
Sophi, Mogul, and
Morocco, I hope,
To the Charm of our Laws must yeild and give up,
Their absolute Sway and Dominions:
Then the
Spainiards, and
French, and
Portugueze,
Venetians and
Dutch, and
Genoese,
And th'
English themselves perhaps may please
To alter their narrow Opinions.
14.
The Gospel in the
[...]S we'll propagate,
But not by such Ways as attempted of Late,
By
Jesuits-Guile, nor vain pompous State,
Nor bloody
Inquisition:
There's one way more yet left fol Us,
A way Divine and Glorious,
Which can not fail; and that is thus:
By
Peace, Love, and
Contrition.
15.
Then
Sawny, and
Johnny, and
Jemmy, and all,
Whose Names are Enrol'd in the
INDIAN-HALL,
Prepare and be ready to answer the Call
Of our brave Sea-Commanders:
Come follow me quickly, our
Admiral is gone
On board of
SAINT-ANDREW, I've heard a Gun,
You belong to the
NEPTƲN, and I to the
SƲN,
We'l try who dare withstand us.
16.
We'll truckle no longer to Friend or to Foe,
But be ev'ry one's Friend that to Us will be so;
We'll build our Success wherever we go;
On the Justice of our Undertaking:
May evil betide them that evil do think;
Mean while (
pray-thee Sawny) forget not to Drink,
Bon-voyage to Our
FLEET, I'm resolved to skink,
One
Brimmer or Two at our parting.
17.
Now
Malice and
Envy are rampant with Rage,
To see Us so frankly our Purses engage,
Beyond Expectation; from which they presage,
In
TRADE some strange Revolution:
Since by
LAW to suppress Us, none well dare move,
Gross
Lyes and new
Stories they dayly improve,
As hoping by such to make our Minds rove,
But we'll shew them a firm Resolution.
18.
Should our Neighbours still offer, in stead of their Aid
To crush our Adventurers, (as it is said)
Or send Us more
Cox-combs in grave Masquerade
To sow and nourish
Sedition:
May they never thereafter taste
Pudding or
Beef,
May Poverty seize their
Traders in chief,
May they labour in Streights, and beg our Relief,
Till we pity at last their Condition.
19.
And if any unnatural Son of a
Scot,
Has basely against Us engaged to Plot,
May he live in Disgrace, and at last may his Lot
Be to dance aloft in a Halter;
Let his
Off-spring beg both Abroad and at Home,
May the Curse of their Parent pronunce their Doome,
May they never be cherish'd wherever they come,
With either Food or Shelter.
20.
May the
Plague, and the
Pox, and the
Gravel, &
Gout,
Seize them all over within and without,
May they never find Ease till their Candle go out,
Who labour to destroy Us.
Let nothing disturb Us, come let Us go on,
And mind the Business which now we're upon;
If
JEHOVAH be for Us, tho' but he alone,
Who is't that can annoy Us?
21.
Tho'
Calumny, Malice, and
Envy combine,
To strike at the Root of this noble Design,
Yet bravely to push it, we'll never decline,
in spite of all
Banter or
Bully:
Come the Work is near ended that well is begun,
Here's a Cup of Success to the
RISING-SƲN,
If any refuse it all over the Town,
May he soundly be kick'd for a
Cully.
22.
We'll Statues of Brass and Pyramides raise,
We'll drink to the Health, and sing to the Praise,
Of our
Nobles and
Worthies, who made no delays
Our TRADE to free from Disaster:
Now that those who support it may scorn to relent,
That such as would crush it may've Cause to repent,
That Lyes may not fully what's honestly meant,
Is the Prayer of your
Poetaster.
FINIS.