a53 on salt duties. Oct. 16 3 
. table source, which will more clearly explain some circumstances 
that are only hinted at here, that are very little known by the pubs 
lic. 
, To Tue Freenoupers or THE County or Inverness. 
‘¢ T-wave the honout to transmit the inclosed, which as 
convenor you will please to lay before the fhire at the 
first_or Michaelmas head court, as it may throw some- 
light on a subject which deeply interests the well-being 
arid presperity of Scotland; and as measures of public u- 
tility fhould be cooly deliberated, they require steadinefs 
and zeal ia their purswit. : 
“ } had the honour to addrefs the fhire on the sub- 
ject of the coasting coal duties—I have now to solicit 
your attention to the consideration of those on salt 5 so 
as to procure, through the solicitation of your member in 
parliament, or other legal mode, such an arrangement or 
commutation of the duties on salt, as may enable meat 
salted cr smoked, and fifh:cured wet or dry, on the coasts 
of the kingdom, to find their way to the home market of 
our cities and manufacturing towns, cured in the whole- 
somest and best manner, for the use of the poorer as well 
as the richer inhabitants. 
-©* Such an arrangement duly obtained will further open ° 
that which has hitherto been locked up, ho matter by 
what oversight, and will complete the circulation which 
must arise from the coasting commerce of this kingdom— 
Coal and lime will go morth,.and’salted and cured: meats 
and fifh come south in return; the numbers of seamen 
will be increased, filheries and cattle-raising promoted. 
- “Tt can hardly be too often inculcated, that.the coasting 
trade i is the first stage in. the nursery, for forming of. sea- 
men. -Old:seamen naturally become fifhermen ; and their 
children, taught by example, thick of getting: their Bredd 
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