Observations on the Reports of the Select Committees of Both Houses of Parliament, on the Subject of the Timber Trade and Commercial Restrictions: In which are Pointed Out the Real Bearings of Those Questions and the Shipping and Manufacturing Interests of the Kingdom, and the Great Importance of the Trade with the North American Colonies as Compared with that to Norway and Sweden : Also Some Remarks on Canada and the United States, and the Trade Between Those Countries and the West India ColoniesJ. M. Richardson, 1820 - 72 страница |
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Страница 55 - The Navigation of the River Mississippi, from its Source to the Ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the Subjects of Great Britain, and the Citizens of the United States.
Страница 71 - To measures of this nature her pre-eminence and prosperity have been unjustly ascribed. It is not to prohibitions and protections we are indebted for our commercial greatness and maritime power; these, like every public blessing we enjoy, are the effects of the free principles of the happy constitution under which we live, which, by protecting individual liberty and the security of property, by holding out the most splendid rewards to successful industry and merit, has, in every path of human exertion,...
Страница 46 - ... facilities afforded to trade, and its relief from some of the restrictions which the provisions of these laws impose upon it. They are convinced, that every restriction on the freedom of commerce is in itself an evil, to be justified only by some adequate political expediency; and that every facility that can be extended to it is a benefit to the public interest, as leading, amidst the incalculable changes and accidents occurring in the circumstances of nations, and of society, to the certain...
Страница 45 - Kingdom, have rendered them objects of attachment and veneration to every British subject. Nor can your Committee suppose that any suggestions they may offer can lead to a suspicion of their being disposed to recommend an abandonment of the policy from which they emanated ; or to advise, in favour of the extension of commerce, a remission of that protecting vigilance under which the shipping and navigation of the kingdom have so eminently grown and flourished.
Страница 54 - The boundaries, which I deem not admitting question, are the high lands on the western side of the Mississippi enclosing all its waters, the Missouri of course, and terminating in the line drawn from the northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the Mississippi, as lately settled between Great Britain and the United States.
Страница 5 - I beg to move the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of the whole House on so much of the King's Speech as relates to the establishing of Poor-laws in Ireland.
Страница 51 - ... facility afforded, it might be chiefly to the commerce of foreigners ; and that the participation of British shipping in the conveyance of the produce of the distant parts of the world might be confined to the transport from the ports of the continent to those of the united kingdom, while the more valuable and extended navigation devolved upon the shipping of foreign states. Your Committee have felt the importance of this representation, and examined it with the attention it appeared to deserve....
Страница 48 - ... advantage, far beyond the power of human foresight distinctly to appreciate. This being the admitted principle, it must be regarded as subject to all the precaution in its application which interests embarked under the faith of existing laws, and a due consideration of the difficulties attending an extensive change in a long established, though defective system, ought prudentially to inspire.
Страница 45 - ... they may offer, can lead to a suspicion of their being disposed to recommend an abandonment of the policy from which they emanated; or to advise, in favour of the extension of commerce, a remission of that protecting vigilance under which the shipping and navigation of the kingdom have so eminently grown and flourished. The only question which on this subject they have entertained is whether the advantages hitherto enjoyed by our shipping might not be compatible with increased facilities afforded...
Страница 50 - ... interests were more exclusively connected with British shipping, expressed considerable alarm lest the proposed alteration should be followed by a change in the existing course of trade, by which their interests might be eventually affected ; and represented that if any benefit accrued to commerce by the increased facility afforded, it might be chiefly to the commerce of foreigners ; and that the participation of British shipping in the conveyance of the produce of the distant parts of the world...