American Encroachments on British Rights: Or, Observations on the Importance of the British North American Colonies and on the Late Treaties with the United States: with Ramarks on Mr. Baring's Examination; and a Defence of the Shipping Interest from the Charge of Having Attempted to Impose on Parliament...J. Butterworth, 1808 - 250 pages |
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... British ships in the direct trade with the United States Decrease of ship - building in Great Britain . ib . • xlviii li liii Iv • Ivi ib . • lvii Origin of the new or suspending system The several statutes vi CONTENTS . Page.
... British ships in the direct trade with the United States Decrease of ship - building in Great Britain . ib . • xlviii li liii Iv • Ivi ib . • lvii Origin of the new or suspending system The several statutes vi CONTENTS . Page.
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... statutes on which the same was founded On their operation and ruinous effect + Depressed state of British shipping in 1801-2 On the impolicy of rapidly discharging seamen from the navy at the close of a war Remarks on the defence of ...
... statutes on which the same was founded On their operation and ruinous effect + Depressed state of British shipping in 1801-2 On the impolicy of rapidly discharging seamen from the navy at the close of a war Remarks on the defence of ...
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... statute of the 7th and 8th of * See Parkinson's American Farmer , p . 365 , who admits its very valuable qualities , but says it is not of so much use but where the land is by nature rich or dunged . William the 3d , c . 22 , s . ( vi ) ...
... statute of the 7th and 8th of * See Parkinson's American Farmer , p . 365 , who admits its very valuable qualities , but says it is not of so much use but where the land is by nature rich or dunged . William the 3d , c . 22 , s . ( vi ) ...
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... state of Massachusets , " * See also the subsequent statutes and orders of council in Reeves's History of Shipping , 2d edition , 1807 , respecting colonial trade . C which would have secured the carriage of this article to ( xvii )
... state of Massachusets , " * See also the subsequent statutes and orders of council in Reeves's History of Shipping , 2d edition , 1807 , respecting colonial trade . C which would have secured the carriage of this article to ( xvii )
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... statute is doubtful ; the act of 7th and 8th William 3d . c . 22. s . 2. has been confirmed by several subsequent and very recent statutes , and the same has not , it is believed , been inter- fered with by any of the orders of council ...
... statute is doubtful ; the act of 7th and 8th William 3d . c . 22. s . 2. has been confirmed by several subsequent and very recent statutes , and the same has not , it is believed , been inter- fered with by any of the orders of council ...
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Page 247 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 66 - Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 66 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also, that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use ; (but not to dry or cure the same on that island ;) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks, of all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 66 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 65 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 65 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page cxvi - America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony...
Page 65 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 66 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 68 - The solemn ratifications of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall be exchanged between the contracting parties, in the space of six months, or sooner if possible, to be computed from the day of the signature of the present treaty.