Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-12-16
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I'M, humber of gun boats for the protectFc
oy our po,ts and haybors.
81 .[ceKTINUEDs
Mr.. Ey1zvninshield said that here We
+ ONE Inconsistency 10 the observations 9
/ M d ep,le N an IRON Pennsylvania: he ba'
aid pun boa.s would be useful with tn
aid oflaree vessels, and At the same i'm
said thatshey were entirely useless 10 50
nouns 81 rivers and derp waters, ~
Milnor explained sha, he had meant The.
would be useless when aeliGg a.ene. r.
Mr.. C.eaaid he had formed a ye:v dttsr
ent opinion indeed from that expiessed b.
,he-eeo,le man from Pennsylvsnia with re
spect 10 pun boats. II, was well know
tha, no longer ago than The year befor'
last, this government had emploved eIbh
or Ten gun boais to assis. 10 the attack Q.
Tripoli they all crossed the Atlantic i.
safety, excep, one beat. Although ,he,
did not come into the attack en- Ttipoli
because peace was prems.urely corclud
I ed. yethe himsclf had heard the late com
modose Prebble say, thai withcns tt:em
the squadron would &C: have been compe.
len, 10 have made an eAeetuai assault or
the city. These boats sheo kept tie see
ia very tempesiuous weather, afsct which
The d:spagches from the commanding & fiji
Ger had announced. He believed tia. they
would 40, al his sime adops better mode
Of defence than tina. pyspcsed by the bill.
lie should be very sorsyso see The prepos-
ed number reduced, because he believed
they would rerder important services, II
at any time cur ports or hafbors Should Dc
attacked. These gun boa.s were no, bears
tha, would sink the riomen! they got ip.o
rough water they were bosts Of so OF 20
,ous burden, which might navigate the
globe with safety He spoke from expe-
rimrn,al knowledge The gentleman surely
tirl not mean to say they could no, swim
10 Mr.. C'sopinion there could be DO be'.
ter system CT defence IN aid of forlificati
ons. than tha. proposed by the bill.
Ia regard to the expence, the SD merecs,
sary for gon boats, after striking on, the
number SO, would nor be equal 10 the ea
pence of one sipgle frigate. lie should
10, now discuss the subject of naval essab.
lishmsnts, for il was not before the house !;
une- :. Gid come into consideration, be
should take the liberty OF sayTug oonrrunpg
npouit.
81 Mr.. C. said he thought he had under
STOOD the gentleman 10 Rave said, liar #
they had been in possession, OF these gun
boats at The tine Of the sggrs ssion, they
would not have rendered auy service 90
the country. Mr.. c. differed with The
gentleman totally be thought if th4y had
few gun bosts 10 the neie hboshood Of
Norfolk, they would 10 longer see British
armed vessels riding there with irpuniy
he conceived that grn boats could drive
them ou, Of cur waters. He hoped the
number would not be reduced it the num-
Der were 10 he altered, II shoald be incfeas.
ed. Il the gentleman had any proposition
,o make FIR building a large or small navy.
he could bring It forward any time tefe
after.
4Mr Blouf,t presumed the gentleman
would admit as certainty, thssis was sEe
dn,y Of The house to provids etfeciua! pro
lection. The selec, committee hayiFg de-
1ermiped 10 their own mind, that the h.st
system of detence would be composed by
Notifications and gun boats, had enqairet
wha, humber would be Of use The an
swerto this enquiry was already before
the house it was stated that the Uaised
States had already 50 gun boats that 2t17
were the whole member which might be
usefuly ernployeds consequently that 1873
were vaot,ng. IF. were Tic object of