Letters to the Hon. Francis Lemieux : chief commissioner public works, on Canadian trade and navigation, and to the citizens of Montreal, on the commerce of the city and the means of its further development

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  Letters to the Hon. Francis Lemieux : chief commissioner public works, on Canadian trade and navigation, and to the citizens of Montreal, on the commerce of the city and the means of its further development

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  On the changed opinions, since 1848, of the Montreal Board of Trade, respecting a canal to connect Lake Champlain with the St. Lawrence

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  Statements on the great utility of a circular and other inland, &c. canal navigation, and drainage; : with the great interest locally arising therefrom, to the improvement of agriculture, cattle, manufacture, commerce, and fisheries, of Britain and Ireland. : Also, the present reduction of the prices of grain; and further improvements attending the growth of wheat, and use of oats in bread. : With the general advantage arising therefrom, to the land-owner, occupier, and the community at large, of the United Kingdom. : Shewing, likewise, the great revenue that might accrue to Government from such, without the least expence to state or subject

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  Second Project.This intended project of joining a grand naval Estabilshment at Bridge Town is proposed with the view of making the island of Barbados the chief point of all naval and military operations in time of War, to afford safe ports to ships in case of distress, pursuit of an enemy; and to contain most of the Merchant Vessels, trading in the West Indian Seas, in the Hurricane months; by which means, the Commerce of Barbados must we presume, increase greatly, and would certainly make Bridge Town, the Mart of the West Indies; it would also be the means of creating a New Source of Trade with Spanish America if proper Encouragement were given to Merchants who would forward the Establishment such a benificial Trade. by. Capt. F. de Barrallier. H.Q. 101st Regiment

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  Kashnor notes, "A secretly printed map. The map relates to a project for making Bridge Town the Grand Naval Establishment of the West Indies in time of war. The notes show that the project, if carried out, would make Bridge Town the mart of the West Indies." MS note: 742 (on backing). Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 742 (on backing).

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  Atlas maritimus & commercialis; or, A general view of the world, so far as relates to trade and navigation describing all the coasts, ports, harbours, and noted rivers, according to the latest discoveries and most exact observations. Together with a large account of the commerce carried on by sea between the several countries of the world, as likewise of all inland trade by means of navigable rivers; the rise, progress, and decay thereof, in its various branches; with methods for farther improvements. To which are added sailing directions for all the known coasts and islands on the globe; with a sett of sea-charts, some laid down after Mercator, but the greater part according to a new globular projection, adapted for measuring distances (as near as possible) by scale and compass, an dauthorized by letters patent under the great seal of Great-Britain. The use of the projection justified by Dr. Halley. To which are subjoin'd two large hemispheres on the plane of the equinoctial; containi

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  The jury-man charged; or, A letter to a citizen of London. : VVherein is shewed the true meaning of the statute, entituled, An act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles. As also, the false glosses and intrepretations detected. And it is evinced by undeniable reasons that the Quakers and others that are ordinarily committed to prison, by justices of the peace and chief magistrates of corporations, upon that statute, are not guilty of the breach of it; and yet in reason it is impossible to convict any man among us of being present at a meeting, under pretense and colour of any exercise of religion in other manner than is allowed by the lyturgy or practice of the Church of England, except those that in their meetings are manifestly seditious or otherwise notoriously wicked. And that that juryman that finds any other person guilty, is himself guilty of perjury, and liable to the vengence of God upon his family and trade, body and soul, in this world and that to come

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