A short state of the countries and trade of North America claimed by the Hudson's Bay company under pretence of a charter for ever of lands without bo(...)

A short state of the countries and trade of North America claimed by the Hudson's Bay company under pretence of a charter for ever of lands without bounds or limits and an exclusive trade to those unbounded seas and countries, shewing the illegality of the said grant and the abuse they have made of it and the great benefit Britain may obtain by settling those countries and extending the trade amongst the natives by civilizing and incorporating with them and laying a foundation for their becoming Christians and industrious subjects of Great-Britain and the necessity there is of a parliamentary enquiry into the pretended rights and exclusive monopoly claimed by the said company and their abuse of the grant, that those countries may be settled either by fixing a company under proper regulations and restrictions or by laying open the trade to all the British merchants and settling them at the publick expence or by a moderate tax upon that trade. Bound (2) with A short narrative and justification of the proceedings of the committee...to prosecute the discovery of the passage to the western ocean of America.