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Fisheries

The Fisheries of France were made during the last Session, the subject
of Inquiry by a Parliamentary Committee, the result of which
was a recommendation that a premium should be granted
by the Government to make up to the Merchant all the difference
between his position, and that of his rivals of other Nations
or in other words, that the public should remunerate him
for all the risks and consequences of his adventure,
when engaged in unfavorable competition with others –
The premiums granted by the French Government did, in
fact leave no risk to the adventurer. In many cases they
paid the whole expense of outfit, voyage, and return – a profit
was under every circumstance secured to him, even though
he brought no cargo home, he suffered no loss – and the
risk of the loss was, also, every circumstance being on all occasions borne
by the public; The spirit of this legislation was intended to encourage the encouragement
the shipping trade.

The present Government have sought to relieve the Country
from some of the consequences of such a state of things.

There was a period when the French Fisheries were in a
prosperous state, and indeed when protected by enormous
pecuniary sacrifices on the part of the Mother Country, but
in consequence of the local position of the French Colonist
who possessed a large extent of the Northern American Coast, and carried
on their fishing adventure with extreme economy. The
French Nations were in the progress of time, deserted or
conquered

Identifier: | JB/015/531/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	531	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f216
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wise 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	pasha of egypt
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5747
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