OF INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT REPORTS AND PAPERS ON THE NAVIGATION AND TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND THE BRITISH COLONIES WITH TABLES OF TONNAGE AND OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, Some people he understood had been at infinite pains to condemn the At present, amongst European nations, a naval strength, which is the It is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, PRINTED BY ORDER OF "THE SOCIETY OF SHIP-OWNERS OF GREAT BRITAIN.” AND SOLD BY J. STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY; J. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET- ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD, &c. &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT PAPERS ON NAVIGATION AND TRADE, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED By the society of Ship-Dwners OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR GRATEFUL SENSE OF THE EMINENT SERVICES RENDERED BY HIS LORDSHIP TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST OF THE UNITED KINGDOM; AND OF HIS ZEALOUS EXERTIONS, ON ALL OCCASIONS, TO MAINTAIN, UNIMPAIRED, THE MARITIME STRENGTH OF THE EMPIRE. |