Observations on the Marine of France / [Anon].

  • William Mildmay
Date:
[1761?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the Marine of France / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be underflood not to include the Ships that .are bound to the JVeft Indies, who fometimes cal] at Louijbourgh and Quebec, to exchange Part of their Lading for Lumber, with which they make a trading Voyage to the Weftern Ifiands, and bring back their Cargoes of Sugar to Europe ; for thefe are more properly to be numbered in the Lift of the IVeft India Ships, and not as Ships employed in the diredt Trade between France and Canada. I do not mean by this to depreciate the Merit of the Enterprize, or the Glory of thofe by whole Perfeverance and Courage the Conqueft of this Country has been obtained; from whence we now are in Hopes of procuring the whole Dominion of the Diftridt lying behind our own Settlements, who confequentiy will be free from being any more alarmed by French Encroachments or fcalping Sa¬ vages. This End being obtained, I would pre¬ fume to recommend it for the Future, as a Point of true Britijh Policy, never to enter into Difputes with France about Territories where Trade is not concerned; nor even to attempt the procuring of Trades, where no Shipping is employed : The French continental Trades, in North America, fhould not therefore be fo much the Objedl of our Jealoufy, as their Fifheries and Sugar Trade, which, as they employ a large Navigation, may encreafe and ftrengthen the naval Power of France. Since then France can be formidable to us only by its Marine, let us make ufe of our own, to dif- trefs theirs •, let us maintain our prefent Superiority at Sea, by exerting our Strength only upon that Element, where we are fuperiour : Let us particu¬ larly avail ourfelves of it in thole Parts from whence France
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