proper to make a representation of this circum- 

 stance to Government, and to suggest the propriety 

 of a bounty, small in amount, being offered to 

 British fishermen, in order to afford them some 

 relief frem their peculiar disadvantages, and in- 

 duce them to enter on the turbot fishery, which 

 they are now almost hopelessly attempting. Were 

 some trifling encouragement given them, there 

 is every reason to expect that their superior skill 

 and perseverance would soon render this fishery 

 their own, and allow that excellent fish no longer 

 to be confined as a luxury to the tables of the 

 rich. 



Lastly ; it may be observed, as another general 

 impediment, that the market of this immense me- 

 tropolis naturally induces the body of fishermen 

 to resort hither with their large cargoes of this 

 perishable article, while scarcely any exertion has 

 been made to forward it for the general supply of 

 the interior, nor any sufficient arrangements for its 

 due distribution even throughout the ample range 

 of London and the parts adjacent. 



So powerful an attraction is the London market, 

 that it is not a rare occurrence for sea-ports to be 

 worse supplied than the metropolis, from whence 

 lish is not unfrequently forwarded to the inhabi- 

 tants of those parts. Fish has been forwarded to 

 the London market there purchased, and re- 

 turned for the supply of persons residing at the 

 sea-ports from whence it first came for sale. The 



