- Statement of depreciation in the value of ships in 1802, Statement of the war and peace prices of sundry ships, ascer- tained by actual sales in each period Comparative statement of prices of provisions, materials, and wages, in 1783 and 1784, compared with the same in Statement of the increase of the duties on the importation of naval stores, between 1782 and 1802 Memorial to the Board of Trade, respecting the licences and bonds required by the customs, in consequence of the - lxxviii Resolution on the principle and effect of the tonnage duty. - Vote of thanks to Sir Charles Price, Bart. Lord Mayor of Resolution respecting Ramsgate harbour dues on colliers in that an enquiry should be made respecting the increase of fees and other charges in the port of London, be- that application should be made to the Directors Third report of the committee of ship-owners for the port of London-On the suspension of the Act of Navigation, and the evils resulting from it-On the bonds required by the customs from the construction of ships-On the claim of the Ramsgate harbour directors, for dues on colliers in ballast, with the case submitted to the judges, and their opinion thereon-On the rates of pilotage, charged by the Cinque Port, and river pilots-On the ship-builders dis- Vote of thanks to Lord Sheffield Papers presented relative to the suspension of Act of Navi- gation, and resolution that a petition should be presented to both Houses of Parliament thereon; and that Lord Sheffield and Sir Charles Price be requested to present Resolution respecting the whole of the petition not appearing Vote of thanks to Lord Sheffield and others, for presenting Resolution respecting interview with the Duke of Montrose Resolution on the Trinity-house Ballast Bill, and petition to Parliament against it - respecting the seizure of boats of merchants ships - - Note from Sir Charles Price, Bart. to Mr. Atcheson, on the - - Resolution that application should be made to West-India Dock Directors, about the new buildings on the South Letter to Sir Charles Price on the Pilotage Bill; with ob- servations thereon, and on the want of jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty on the river Thames Case of a collier run down in the river by a foreign ship, and the difficulty of obtaining redress Letter to the Board of Trade on the new regulation, oblig- ing ships in ballast to clear at the Custom-house, contrary to ancient usage, and the great expence attending it Resolution on fraudulent condemnations of vessels in the West Indies by the masters of British ships, with letter to the Board of Trade, and the report of the commissioners on the impolicy of authorizing governors of West- India islands to suspend Navigation Act on the novelty and danger of introducing pro- Letter to the ship-builders on the river Thames, on the Letter to the ship-builders at the out ports, on the state of ship-building, with their answers and statements Resolution and letter to the Board of Trade, on the partial Votes of thanks to Members of Parliament who supported, - that if the measures of Mr. Pitt's last administra- Resolution that the principle of the bill was an abandon- that every exertion should be made to give Members of Parliament Resolution, that every exertion should be made by the nation clx clxi - clxii that the shipping, manufacturing, and trading Vote of thanks to Sir Charles Price, Bart. to Sir William Curtis, Bart. Resolution, that unless the old maritime principles of the - No. 7. Rates of freights in the trade from Great Britain to the West in the Baltic trade, from 1782 to 1806 in the Portugal trade, from 1780 to 1806 No. 10. Statement of loss in two voyages of ship Ann, in the Jamaica - clxiii - clxv - clxvi in three voyages of the ship Nelson, to St. Kitts, in 1803, 1804, and 1805 in a voyage of the ship to Dantzick, in 1805 clxxiv in two voyages of the snow Fortune, to Quebec, in No. 16. Comparative statement of the prices of ship's provisions, No. 17. Statement of the difference in the first cost, outfit, and ex- No. 18. Account of number of ships belonging to the British empire, No. 19. Account of number of ships and vessels annually built and No. 20. Account of the number and tonnage of the ships and vessels in Great Britain, in 1790, 1791, 1804, and 1805, with the tonnage of each ship or vessel, and the places where built clxxxiii No. 21. Analysis of the preceding account for 1790, to shew the dif- - ccvi No. 23. Account of the number of ships employed by the East-India No. 24. Extract from Lord Sheffield's Strictures, with account of No. 25. Observations and statements of the alarming increase of Ame- ccvii ccix ссхі No. 26. Extracts from Mr. Alley's Vindication of Lord Sheffield's from a work, intituled, Remarks on the Import- ance of the British Colonies in North America with re- spect to Naval Stores-On the Proceedings of the So- ciety of Ship-owners-On the Establishment of the New Docks in the Port of London-On the rapid decline of British shipping-On the emigration of British seamen- On the Bell Rock Light-house, with an account of the ships in the Baltic trade-On the Act for Improving the Port of London, and heavy charges on British ships fre- quenting it-On the decrease of lightermen and water- men in the port of London-On the duties paid to the city of London, under the Dock Acts, &c. No. 28. Important letters on East-India shipping; and observations No. 29. Summary of the numerous classes of the king's subjects, whose trades are connected with, and, in some degree, Supplement-p. xl dele twice the words " and a" after "before." p. xcii The resolution of the 6th June, 1805, should have been inserted in p.civ p. cix To the note add, "but which was refused by the Lords of the Treasury, ia p. cxxi For "general" owners, read "original." p. cxxii in note, for 1806, read 1807. p. clxvi In rate of freight for 1795, from Riga, for 36s. read 45s. p. ccv In third column, for amount of increase," read "of tonnage." p. ccvi Dele at the bottom of the table," ought to be 42,562." THE NAVIGATION AND TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. &c. INTRODUCTION. THE following Reports of the Privy Council framed by that able and long experienced Statesman the Earl of LIVERPOOL, in the years 1784 and 1791, when President of the Committee of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council for the Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations, contain a complete, satisfactory, and accurate Investigation of the important question respecting the Intercourse in American Ships, between his Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies and the United States of America, and they will be found, on an attentive perusal, to prove that the Complaints of the West India Planters, on the. Restrictions therein recommended, were utterly unfounded; that Great Britain and Ireland and the remaining British Colonies in North America were fully adequate to the Supply in British Ships of all the necessary articles for the West India Colonies; and that the Ship-owners of Great Britain and Ireland instead of rejecting the Naviga tion between the American Continent and the West India Islands, on account of the Expence of the circuitous voyage, had every inducement of Profit, if the Navigation Laws were inviolably maintained, to enter fully and effectually into that Trade; and in further corroboration of this assertion the Society of Ship-owners not only refer to the Debates* which took place in Parliament be tween the years 1783 and 1789 on the Trade with Ame * See the Collection of Debates in Parliament on the Trade to and from America-Navigation Act, &c. Octavo Edition, 1807. C |