The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    203/296 (page 189)
    at a confiderable expence for fo doing. There are many other deficiencies in our laws, relating to maritime affairs, and which would probably have been long fince corrected, had we any Tea¬ men in the Houle of Commons, Not that I would infinuate that the legifla- ture wants a fupply of many gentlemen in the fea-fervice : but, as thefe gen¬ tlemen are, by their attendance in the houfe, unfortunately prevented from ever going to fea, and there learning what they might communicate to their landed brethren, thefe latter remain as ignorant in that branch of knowledge, as they would be if none but courtiers and fox-hunters had been ele&ed into parliament, without a fingle fiih among them. The following leems to me to be an effedt of this kind, and it ftrikes me the ftronger, as 1 remember the cafe to have happened, and remember, it to have been difpunifhable, A cap¬ tain of a trading veffel, of which he was part-owner, took in a large freight of oats at Liverpool, conngifd to the market