Impressment

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A narrative of some sufferings, for his Christian peaceable testimony , by John Smith, late of Chester County, deceased. To which is annexed, An account of the sufferings of Richard Seller, of Keinsey, Great Britain.
Smith, John 1681-1766.Date: 1800
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A practicable plan for manning the Royal Navy, and preserving our maritime ascendancy, without impressment : addressed to Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth / by Thomas Trotter.
Thomas TrotterDate: 1819
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Letter from the secretary of state , inclosing abstracts of all the returns made to him by the collectors of the different ports, of registered seamen, and of impressed seamen; together with a report, exhibiting abstracts of the communications received by him from the agent employed by virtue of the "Act to revive and continue in force certain parts of the act for the relief and protection of American seamen, and to amend the same," made in pursuance of the said act. 12th December, 1800, ordered to lie on the table. Published by order of the House of Representatives.
United States Department of StateDate: 1800
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A military dissertation , containing a plan for recruiting the British army, and improving its establishment. Dedicated by Permission to His Majesty. To which is added a second plan, for manning the navy, by a Mode which will prove at once more effectual and more popular, than that hitherto pursued; and by which, the number of Seamen will be encreased to such a degree, as will prevent a future Scarcity of them in all such Emergencies, as the present. Also a third plan, For Recruiting the East India Company's Service, without having recourse to the worst of all measures, that of Kid-Napping. By Colonel Stuart Douglas.
Douglas, Stuart d. 1781.Date: 1781
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The sailor's happiness , a scheme to prevent the impressing of seamen in time of war. Dedicated to the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, first lord commissioner of the Admiralty.
Philonauta.Date: 1751