A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an Historical View of the Trade of the Port of London, and Suggesting Means for Preventing the Depredations Thereon, by a Legislative System of River Police

The Subject is in many respects new; while the Details which are given will be found interesting in no common degree; inasmuch as the renovation of the Morals of a numerous body of Individuals, and the protection of vast masses of Commercial Pro perty against Fraud and Depredation, is the principal object in view.

In discussing a great variety of topics, which will come under the review of the Reader in this Trea tise, almost every rank of Society will find beneficial Information but particularly those Classes who are concerned in Navigation and Commerce, 'and who follow Nautical Pursuits.

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