text:  He complains that England had become mistress of the entire commerce of Portugal and in fact that the Portuguese trade was only an English trade; that the English were the furnishers and retailers of all the necessaries of life throughout the country and that the Portuguese had nothing to do but look on; that Cromwell by the treaty which allowed the supply of Portugal with English cloths to the amount of two million sterling had utterly impoverished the country; and in short that the weakness and incapacity of Portugal as an European state were wholly owing to her being destitute of trade and that the destitution was wholly owing to her being overwhelmed by English commodities