The Substance of the Speech of William Harrison, Esq. PDF Download

Author: Robert Peel
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ISBN: 9781332201723
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Excerpt from The Substance of the Speech of William Harrison, Esq.: Before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on East India-Built Shipping, on Monday, April 18, 1814 I will also shew, that if it is a question of comparison between those interested in the building of ships here, and those interested in the building of ships in India, there is no doubt that those who are interested in building ships in this country have superior claims to protection; that no danger can arise from permitting them to carry it on as they have done hitherto; but, on the contrary, public necessity, public interest, the state of our navy, the future ship-building throughout the kingdom, and all those circumstances which call for your attention, imperatively demand that if it is necessary that the present laws should be altered, they should be altered to give them additional protection; that this is the line which parliament must take, and that instead of enacting any thing to prevent the ship-builders in this country from carrying on their trade to the same extent as hitherto, it is absolutely necessary that the navigation acts should be so altered as to exclude from the trade between India and Great Britain any ships built in India as British registered ships, I state it broadly, largely, and generally; because I am satisfied, in the course of my address, and in the course of the evidence I shall offer, I shall establish to demonstration, and beyond contradiction too, that they are entitled, not on their own account only as individuals - for individuals' interests must always give way to public policy but on grounds of public policy - itself, which imperiously demands, that the India shipping should be excluded, that the building ships there must be confined to the local trade of that country, and must not be allowed to interfere with the shipbuilders here. Sir, in order to make out this case, I must proceed to shew what is the nature of the establishments for ship-building in the river Thames, upon what particular trade it is they have hitherto maintained those establishments, and kept them up to their present extent, how they have been interfered with by ships being permitted to come from India, what effects must be produced if this bill passes into a law; and, in order to shew the consequences that will arise, I must also exhibit to the committee the situation in which these gentlemen have stood in affording the assistance they have to the navy of Great Britain in time of war, and the importance they are of to the very existence of the navy ill time of peace, which will prove that they cannot be interfered with without danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.