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NAVIGATION LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN,

EXTRACTED FROM TUE ANTI-) ACOBIN REVLEW FOR
MAY, 1804.
Observations on the Importance ot a stria adherence to the
Navigation Laws of Great Britain, Bvo. Pp. 16. Printed
by Davison, tgot.
Extract froin the Minutes ot the Proceedings of the Society of
Ship Owners of Great Britain, instituted at London, A.D.,
1802, Bvo. Pp. tz. Printed by Davison, 18,4.
IN our last Number we reviewed a very able
Pamphlet by Lord Sheffield, on the very important sub-
ject of the Navigation Laws, to which Great Britain is in-
disputably indebted for her Maritime and Commercial great-
ness, and consequently, in a great measure, for her Indepen
dence as a Nation. The first of the two trads itOW 644.
us, relates to the same topic, and enforces the necessity of a
stria adherence to these laws, from Ns,,hich, of late years,
some deviations have, for temporary purposes, been made.
It was printed, as it appears by the Title-page, three years
ago, but it never fell into our hands till the other day. It
briefly traces the origin of Our Navigation Laws from the
early period of the reign of our Second Richard, Co the pass-
ing of Lord Liverpool's Ad, generally called the Navigation
Act, from the comprehensiveness of its provisions. It ap-
pears manifest to us, that for no purpose, either of Revenue,
or of Political Accommodation to other States, should we
depart from the strictprinciple of those laws ; but, that spe-
cial care should be taken, that we should carry on our own
Trade in our own Ships, and give ever), possible encourage-
ment to Fisheries of every description.
" It is with the deepest regret," says the Author of the
Observations, " the Shipping Interest of this Country ob-
serve, that the Suspension ot the Navigation Laws, during
the last two years, has already been attended with serious in-
convenience and loss ; and they fear the continuance of it, un-
less those laws are again speedily permitted to have their tree
and natural operation ; and if; by new regulations, or by any
further relaxation of the present Navigation Laws, new and
Foreign Competitors should be admitted to share in the ad-
vantages resulting from them, they apprehend that the Ma-
ritime Spirit of the Country will decline; that the Capital
of British Owners will lie unemployed, or be employed use-
lessly, while the Shipping of Great Britain will lie rotting in
her Harbours, and her Seamen emigrate to Foreign Countries
in search of employment t, it is, therefore, particularly at
this time, the interest of Great Britain, and the duty of her
Government, to encourage her Maritime Pursuits. The
events of the late War show that many Nations look with a
jealous eye on the superiority we have gained by our Carrying
Trade, and that they are ready to Use every effort to
,partici-
pate iii the benefits of our Navigation, and to rival us, if
possible, on our native element. To counteract these ellorts
with success, we must not lose: the recollection, that, with-
out an extensive Naval Commerce, carried on in British Bot-
toms, we can neither rear nor retain our Seamen, the grand
support of our present pie-eininence, nor preserve our
Country from falling even below -the level of surrounding
Nations." •
We trust this truth will never be lost sight of for a mo-
ment ; but that in this respedi; .as in most others, we may
ever continue to walk-in the good old path of our ancestors.
The Association of owners of British Ships, for the preserva-
tion of their rights, recommended at the close of tins tract,
was formed in iSoz; and the second Pamphlet before us
contains an account of their proceedings at one of their
Meetings in March 1804. It there appears that they had
applied -to the King's Ministers to prevent any direct tax
upon Shipping, as having a tendency to add materially to
the distresses already experienced by the Shipping interest.
To this part of the subject we have not paid sufficient atten-
tion to enable *us to speak with decision, on the policy or
impolicy of such a Tax. But, from the calm and tem-
perate language of these Gentlemen, and from the nature of
their arguments, we have but little doubt that they had good
grounds for their application, which, however, dues not ap-
pear to have been successful. The) here complain of tne
continued suspension of the Navigation Ad, and of the Emi-
gration of our Seamen, many of whom they state to be in the
Service of the American Stares or in that ot our Enemy. This
surely is an object of most serious consideration, and we agree
with the S hip-owners in thinking, that a necessity subsists tor
a Parliamentary Inquiry into time actual State attire Navigation
of Great Britain. Their Committee also preferred a com-
plaint to the Board of Trade, of the inconvenience arising to
the Ship-owners, from the obligation imposed upon them to
take out Licences, and give bonds to the Commissioners of
the Customs, on account of the particular construction of
their Ships. In their Petition to the Board, they indicated
a means by which this inconveniencr. might be removed, and
without any injury to the Revenue ; but the Board rejected
the prayer of their Petition. Some other grievances at in-
ferior moment occupied the attention of the Committee,
who adopted the necessary measures for removing them. The
Thanks of the Society were, most properly, voted to Lord
Shellield, for his Lordship's Pamphlet, reviewed hi our last
Number. This Association appears to us likely to be pro-
duttive of much by watching over one of the most tin-
ali" by calling the attention
portant interests of the Country,
of the 4.egislature and of the Public, to any attempt that
may be made to trench upon the principles et ;islet-11,f our
Navigation Laws.