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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF JOSEPH MARRY AT, ESQ., IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1820, TJPOS THE etttion of OF THE PORT OF LONDON, AGAINST ANY ALTERATION IN THE DUTIES ON TIMBER. PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE OF TUB SOCIETY OF SHIP OWNERS. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: SPEECH, Mr. Speaker, I Febl it my duty to bear my testimony to the truth of the allegations contained in the petition now in the hands of my honorable friend, the Member for the City of London; and to give my best support to the prayer of the petitioners. They state that they are laboring under great and serious difficulties, as well from the depression of commerce, as from the competition of fureig.u ship owners: and the facts of the case unfortunately bear them out too well in the assertion; for no description of property has. I believe, been depreciated to such an extent as that of the British ship owners. 1 admit, that on the breaking out of the late war, the value of shipping rose, the rate of freight advanced, and that the ship owners, in common with the landholders, the manufacturers, and all other classes of the community, enjoyed for a time a considerable share of prosperity. Ships, however, are but of limited duration; they last from fifteen to twenty years, according to the goodness of the materials of which they are built. The war continued more than twenty years; and therefore almost every merchant vessel now in use, has been built at the high rate of war charges. The war gave us a monopoly of the carrying trade of almost all the world, and ships were built to meet the demand; but at the peace we restored most of the colonies we had conquered, to their former owners, and each nation resumed that skare of commerce which she had formerly enjoyed.To add to the distress of the ship ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217100656 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217100651 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $32.10 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 282 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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