...as still more applicable to war, than to commercial and mercantile purposes, he says:— " There is abundant reason to believe, that it is fully felt,...attention very particularly to this object, it is the more imeumbent on us, to see that no time is lost by ourselves, m taking such steps as may insure us that...

...NAVAL WARFARE THAN TO COMMERCIAL PURPOSES." He states " there is abundant reason to believe that this is fully felt not only by the government itself, but...bestowed the slightest attention on the subject." After giving a history of the steam-engine, he proceeds to suggest a very ingenious "system of tactics...