OBSERVATIONS 



Public Right of Fishing in Public Navigable 

 Rivers in general, and the River Thames in 

 particular. 



SEVERAL Informations having within these 

 few years past been laid against persons for 

 Fishing in the River Thames, by others calling 

 themselves Proprietors of fisheries in that ri- 

 ver, have occasioned an enquiry into the rights 

 or claims of each party : and the object of the 

 following sheets, is to submit the different au- 

 thorities extant on the subject to the judgment 

 of the reader, previously premising, that those 

 authorities are intended principally to apply 

 to that part of the River Thames not within 

 the jurisdiction of the City of London. 



Before, however, we enter on these authori- 

 ties, it may not be amiss to examine what 

 each party claims as a right. 



