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[109] This may appear unintelligible: while actually masters they could not, it is true, be taken; but Mr. Henley said they might be, while changing from one ship to another, and that he knew of instances in which mates had been impressed, placed on board a man-of-war, and kept there for seven years.
[110] While the second reading was under discussion, ministers did not present the papers from the United States, in which the coasting trade was reserved. They discreetly kept the secret up to the last moment before the division. Had the Bill thrown open the whole coasting trade, we now know the Americans would have declined to reciprocate.
[111] This is quite true, but the reader has had this fully accounted for by the antagonistic interests of the non-navigating and navigating States. The opposite feeling was disclosed in the very first debates of the Republic.
[112] The entries and clearances of foreign vessels in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom are quite insignificant.
[113] In the ‘Shipping Gazette,’ March 17, 1849, there is a list of the 51 members of seaport towns in the United Kingdom who voted in favour of the Bill. Mr. Hudson, Sunderland; Mr. Barnard, Greenwich; Lord J. Stuart, Ayr; and Lord J. Chichester, Belfast, were absent.
[114] The Amendment would occupy two pages; it will be found in ‘Hansard,’ vol. ciii. p. 1206.
[115] Vide Letter of Mr. Crampton, 18th February, already referred to.
[116] At the head of the London petition were the names of Thomas Baring; Charles Baring Young; Fred. Huth and Co.; Ransom, Norton, and Co.; Palmer, McKillop, and Co.; H. Davidson; Masterman, Peters, and Co.; Spooner, Atwood, and Co.; Fletcher, Alexander, and Co.; Bosanquet and Co., &c.
[117] “Let us be first Venetians, and then Christians.”
[118] Yes! But they lost their seats by it.
[119] Literally, “You can’t retrace your steps.”