The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-26


Lieutenant nIaury and sA'e shipowners' As
ISOLATION.
The following correspondence kNok place bet weei
tne Association Of Liverpool Shipo>yners and Lieut.
Maufy shortly prior to the return sf the latter gen
LwnIrool SHPowErSs ASA,mAros,
October 8, 1858.
Liverpool Shipowners' Association at special eetng
called for this object to express To you their high appre
citation of your talents and the labors and
researches remarkably evnced ia the splendid charts
OF the winds and currents The publication of these Illus
traed charts great boon conferred the practical
navigator and entities you to the gratitude and respect
OF not only every maritime nation but of all interested in
the deyeopement Of science closely allied to
merce The committee also desire express their graft
tude to the Government Of the United States for the IL
berality with which these charts distributed gra-
tuitousy to the commanders of ships of all naton In
the name OF the committee beg TO wish you health and
long life to pursue your useful scientific iabors and
pleasant and prosperous passage the Atlantic
have tue homer to be- sir your most obsdient servant
Ia the absence Of the Chairman.
To Lieut.. HAvRY U. $. NJ, 60. ~
IIyKRrooI, October A. 1853
SiR:-l have had the honor to receive the communica
on OF October 1883 which you have been kind to
address me- in behalf Of The Committee of the Liverpool
shipo~ners Association, making known in highly hat-
terng terms the appreciation which the committee
pleased to set upon my humble labors.
The swell done" Of the Shipowners' Assocssn OF My-
erpoo affords peculiar grathcaton not because my
poor labors are entitled TO the prase which the asoca
ton has been pleased to bestow upon them but because
shipnasers Of all other classes perhaps have the deep
est interest in the result of those abo and because the
hhpowners oil this renowned place OF trade have judged
Them 10 be worthy or commendaton
1t srue that have had much at heart to lessen the
dangers o the and to facilitate mariner his
way to and fro across it, and if degree of
have followed the undertaking to accomplish much,
cannot forget the source to which that success is mainly
attributable II is not sir attributable to the work Of
my hands but to the hearty good WILL to the ready the
wig cooperation which | have always found at the
hands of skpm and owners whatever be their flag
whatever to n
has been brought.
For ths last fifty years many members of this
citation slpo donbt recoect there has been constant
and steady improvement in navigation, tending all the
while to lessen the dangers Of the and to quicken the
fore perhaps, pardon me, and ge along-with alto
while pass hastily in review of the most srking
of those improvements, and the most obvious OF the
agencies which have brought them about
think that en- are yet in their prime of life who will
recolect the time when monster ship (as she
then thought TO be OF between 500 and 600 ous was
bu 1t here In Liverpool and had to lie in the DOCKS
months not years, serving as play yard for boys be
she too big to be furnished with cargo Contrast
If please the size OF that ship with the size of
that are now sailing out of Liverpool and though you
will find them three four times large yet the de-
mand il for larger ones STILL
When Warren Hastings went to India he had passage
of ten months, and /. considered that he foru
nate in not having longer time. Under canvass that
passage has in times accomplished in 90 100
days. and that ship and master who should have
passage Of ten months to India would both lose caste
Therefore, in contrasting ships and the state of nsvi
should mo-, though find much attribute to the
ingenuity skill and enterprise of man. forget that much
is also due to the inestmabe blessings of Teace; which,
almost unperceved, like the dews of heaven, have
been falling upon us during the while,
The time is not beyond the memory of living men
when commerce and the condition of the wsrld
such that ships required to sail in convoy under the
wing of armed cruisers And in that day the best
chant ships were only company keepers Then neither
builder owner had any motive to expend in the
sruction of ship dollar for the sake Of speed. In
the feet the speed of the sowest regulated the speed of
ALL and therefore the dollar expended for capacity
for cargo rather than for speed. We in models of
those days. and in their clumsy proportions the most
eloquent expression of this fact
Then peace with its benign and invigoratng in
fuences other occupations found for oil war,
and the mercbannan left free pursue his ia
his own way her time and accs riding to her ow
convenience and abilities Then there was demand 70
speed in the merchant vessels the ingenuity of builder
was taxed, and the strong arm OF the mechanic
brought into requisition to execute the behests 0
science to satisfy this new demand Of commerce.
Here permit me 10 pay tibute 10 the mechanic for
without him science with all its lights practical
thing, would be nulityscicnce wills, the mechanic
executes.
Astronomy, the highest and most perfect department
Of science, il you please, is eppndent upon the
chanic for her acbieveme e j. the shpowrer his
vessel for freghts. Without instruments astronomy
would commerce without vessels SO the mechanic
with bis sturdy arm heard the new call upon him. and
hastened with his usual alacry TO satisfy It, Beticr
ships were launched quicker voyages made and thus the
remote corners of the earth lifted up. brought
closer together and set down nearer esch oher for to
the business those places brought nearer 10
gether when the time occupied TO pass between them
is shortened.
In the meantime an improvement in the instrument
and implements of navigation took place. and the nay
gator Was furnished by that same combination oil
science, ingenuity, skill and contrivance which has
supplied him with better ships, with better instru
ments for navigating those good ships; that the
dangers Of the lessened, the rates Of in
surancc went down, and commerce with free
sweep of wing sped her way the And thus
if time permitted-for am making ready TO embark Cor
my home in the morning. might point to agency after
agency, and after cause which, this shacsle
that eter has been stricken from the wings commerce.
has caused to ncrease and multiply, present
ing in her proportions grandeur and perfection precisely
she has made advances towards perfect freedom OF
trade for certainly those influences the agents Of
free trade which brought down the passage to India from
three hundred to hundred days which lessened the
rates OF Insurance and which have enabled ship
do much in year three ships could 10 then. t
Is tho making TO grow three blades OF grass the
where hut ew before.
better knowledge Of the laws Of dynaucs and of re.
sstance to solid bodies moving through water called also
for better knowledge of the winds and the currents by
which the passage OF those bodies ~ their ports OF det
nation 10 be controlled and hence that system
of research which has given 10 the 'cars of t-
winds and currents which you pleased 10 regard
great boon conferred the practical navigator II
thus appears that science has kept abh is keeping
wachiul eye upon the afrrs Of mon; that she comes
with her lights his relief at the right time and in The
right way; aud moreover admonishea by this has
~ that science is apt 10 to his relief in
times Of peace. / know Of class OF upon whom
the ealanites OF maritime would fan heavily
more suddenly than upon the shipovner. Hoping
therefore SIR that you and your associates may be bless
ed with the continuance OF peace within your border;
through mary long years, and thanking you most heartily
your good wishes and expressions of lrlness permit
in the iomely but sincere language OF the sailor, tC
express the hope that llat sweet Little cherub which
SIS up a0lt viii long continue tc watch you and
yours. have the honor 10 be, You're, tTgly
~ /. MAtkf, Lieut. L. : ~
Romu RtvnlS, F,Q,
Committee Liverpool SlIowner. Association
Police Intelligence.
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