Collection of Interesting And Important Reports And Papers On the Navigation And Trade of Great Britain, Ireland, And the British Colonies in the West Indies And America..

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. N. Atcheson, compiler. cf. Allibone, Crit. dict. of Eng. lit The two reports reprinted in this volume were framed by the Earl of Liverpool, President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations. cf. Introd. p.xiii Introduction: On the navigation and trade of Great Britain, &c. &c.--A state of the allegations and evidence produced, and opinions of merchants & other persons given to the Committee of council; extracted from their report of the 31st of May 1784...purporting to show the distressed state of His Majesty's sugar colonies...and the neccesity of allowing a free intercourse between the sugar colonies and the United States of America, in American bottoms. Printed in the year MDCCLXXXIV; and reprinted by order of the society of ship-owners of Great Britain. 1806.--A report of the Lords of the Committee of privy Council, appointed for all matters relating to trade