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large quantities of Woollens to the Peninsula, were wholly superseded
by articles from other countries, in consequence of French regulations,
compelling a particular mode of manufacture.

We shall have occasion to examine the situation of various
manufactures, in more detail, in the second part of our Report.

Shipping.

The natural capabilities of France, for becoming a country of
large Shipping interest, are of the first order. Having 130 leagues
of coast on the Atlantic, 150 on the Channel, and 90 in the Mediterranean,
that extent (370 leagues) is considerably greater than
any other Continental Nation possesses; while her position, between
Northern and Southern Europe, her numerous ports, and navigable
rivers, are eminently favorable to commercial enterprize.

The Commerce of France has, unfortunately looked to administrative
interference, as its prime auxiliary. This is obvious in all its history,
and, especially in the Shipping department; – but no fair estimate
has ever been presented, of the cost to the Nation, contrasted with the
small comparative benefit to the Merchant, of a determination to
establish a trade not growing out of the course of things, for which, as is
invariably the case in all protecting legislation, some other and more lucrative
trade has been sacrificed. France has sacrifided to a commerce with
less than half a million of inhabitants of her Colonies, one with all the
tropical countries of the world, and with no very satisfactory result,
even

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	364	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f39
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5580
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