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... amount in number to twenty - eight , and include those commodities which , being of the most bulky nature , employ the greatest quantity of shipping . With respect to these " enumerated articles , " the exception was this - that they 6 ...
... amount in number to twenty - eight , and include those commodities which , being of the most bulky nature , employ the greatest quantity of shipping . With respect to these " enumerated articles , " the exception was this - that they 6 ...
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... amount of our Shipping . With the termination of hostilities , there was necessarily a diminished demand for ships in the public service . The greatest proportion of those which had been taken up as hired transports was discharged . I ...
... amount of our Shipping . With the termination of hostilities , there was necessarily a diminished demand for ships in the public service . The greatest proportion of those which had been taken up as hired transports was discharged . I ...
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... amount of their tonnage 1,540,145 tons . In the present year , that is to say , in the year ended the 31st of December 1825 , the number of registered ships was 24,174 ; and the amount of their ton- nage 2,542,216 tons ; shewing an ...
... amount of their tonnage 1,540,145 tons . In the present year , that is to say , in the year ended the 31st of December 1825 , the number of registered ships was 24,174 ; and the amount of their ton- nage 2,542,216 tons ; shewing an ...
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... amount of their tonnage 2,681,276 tons . It appears , therefore , that there has been , since the conclusion of the ... amount of their tonnage 95,976 tons . Last year , the number of ships built was 1,312 ; the amount of their tonnage ...
... amount of their tonnage 2,681,276 tons . It appears , therefore , that there has been , since the conclusion of the ... amount of their tonnage 95,976 tons . Last year , the number of ships built was 1,312 ; the amount of their tonnage ...
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... amount of their tonnage 2,364,249 tons . The number of foreign vessels that entered inwards , during the same year , was 5,280 , the amount of their tonnage being 694,880 tons . In the year ended 25th De- cember 1825 , -a year in which ...
... amount of their tonnage 2,364,249 tons . The number of foreign vessels that entered inwards , during the same year , was 5,280 , the amount of their tonnage being 694,880 tons . In the year ended 25th De- cember 1825 , -a year in which ...
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Page 583 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba . as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our / system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 582 - We begin to broach the idea that we consider the whole Gulf Stream as of our waters, in which hostilities and cruising are to be frowned on for the present, and prohibited so soon as either consent or force will permit us.
Page 117 - December one thousand six hundred and sixty, and from thenceforward, no goods or commodities whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of any lands, islands, plantations or territories...
Page 434 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
Page 535 - ... poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society. The stationary is dull; the declining melancholy.
Page 558 - Arms may leave this country as matter of merchandise j and however strong the general inconvenience, the law does not interfere to stop them. It is only when the elements of armaments are combined that they come within the purview of the law ; and, if that combination «does not take place until they have left this country, we have no right to interfere with them.
Page 581 - You know that the navigation cannot be practised without a port, where the sea and river vessels may meet and exchange loads, and where those employed about them may be safe and unmolested. The right to use a thing, comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
Page 13 - And be it enacted that Goods the produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom to be used therein; in Foreign Ships, unless they be the Ships of the Country in Asia, Africa, or America, of which the goods are the produce and from which they are imported...
Page 288 - Ireland ; with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjustment, as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment, and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his majesty's subjects.
Page 332 - Huskisson; — In consequence of your last letter, I feel it to be necessary to recall to your recollection, the circumstances under which I received your letter of Tuesday morning. " It is addressed to me at two o'clock in the morning, immediately after a debate and division in the House of Commons. It informs me that you lose no time in affording me an opportunity of placing your office in other hands, as the only means in your power of preventing an injury to the King's service which you describe....