for their support and co-operation, and entreating 

 them to reflect, whether the zeal which so long 

 distinguished them for promoting the success of 

 their own fisheries, and the important interests 

 connected with them, should now be permitted to 

 droop or to expire. The object of this appeal 

 relates to assisting our fishermen in their career of 

 toil and hardship ; augmenting our naval strength, 

 and maintaining its superiority ; increasing the 

 general supply of food, by an article which seems 

 the common birth-right of an islander ; rendering 

 the benefit accessible to the lower and needy class 

 of society ; keeping open an inexhaustible re- 

 source in any emergency of want ; and, in short, 

 daily doing good to all without exception. As 

 long as the Public shall continue to provide the 

 Committee with the necessary means, they will 

 not relax their exertions; and they particularly 

 invite every person into whose hands their Report 

 may fall, to use any influence he may possess in 

 any country towns in order to induce some re- 

 spectable inhabitants to take the trifling pains of 

 making the arrangements above suggested, for 

 the benefit of themselves and their neighbours. 

 After the offers which the Committee have made, 

 for furnishing parts contiguous to London, and 

 so large a part of the country, with a supply of 

 this invaluable article of food, should the evil so 

 justly complained of still exist, it must be because 



