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forded, cod, soles, turbot, salmon, &c.; and 

 they state that the demand appears to be limited 

 only by the price. They have received the fish, 

 with little variation, regularly two days in the 

 week. The Committee have succeeded at this 

 place certainly beyond expectation, and attribute 

 much to the excellent and judicious arrangements 

 which are made for the success of the plan by the 

 gentlemen of that town. The same success must, 

 however, be attainable by the same means in the 

 many other towns which are in like circumstances. 



The Committee cannot pass this subject without 

 acknowledging the benefit of a special exemption 

 from post-horse duty, after the thirty-first day of 

 January last, of all horses solely employed about 

 the conveyance of fish, as another proof of the 

 interest taken by Government in this important 

 subject, and of their obliging attention to the ap- 

 plications of the Committee. 



The Committee have thus pointed out some 

 of the hinderances to this source of national 

 prosperity, and the principles and measures of 

 encouragement which they have adopted for the 

 relief of the fishermen, and for the benefit of the 

 community. They have, perhaps, stated enough 

 to establish the practicability of extending this 

 important good to all classes, both in the me* 

 tropolis and the interior, and they now sum up their 

 Report by earnestly appealing to the British Public 



