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ECONOMY AT SEA. 



Should induce 

 the trial of the 

 patent plan, 

 in doing which 

 there is no riflt] 

 as its fuf' 

 ficiency has 

 been proved. 



No public 

 money required 

 to make ex- 

 periments, 

 they have been 

 already made 

 at the expence 

 of the owners 

 of the ihip. 



The perform- 

 ance of the /hip 

 at fea cannot 

 be miftated on 

 account of its 

 publicity. 



The Captain's 

 letter relative 

 to the voyage 

 eut. 



depend on the dock yards of Ruffia for the bulwark of the 

 Britifli nation, for the defence of its liberties, and of its politica} 

 exiftence, and this at a time when our crafty and implacable fo^e 

 has got pofleffion of nearly all the forefts of the reft of Europe, 

 and is making the moft prodigious exertions to out-numbec 

 our navy. 



If my plan of (hip-building tends in fo great a degree to 

 diminifti ihofe difficulties, and even dangers, as is ftated above, 

 is it not worthy of a trial at leaft, even if fome rifle was run 

 in that trial? but when no rillc is run, when the plan has 

 been proved, the moft fcrupulous economift of the public 

 wealth can flart no ohj'^clion to that trial of it in the navy, 

 that the public neceffiiy for fonae expedient to fupply timber 

 for its ufe fo loudly calls for. 



We a(k no drafts on the public fource to try experiments 

 on the fubject, thefe have been already cempleatly made at 

 our own expence, and all we demand is our country to con- 

 defcend to reap the fruit of our exertions ; if flie does, we 

 fliall rely on her generofity to recompence us, convinced that 

 flie will have ample proof that we have deferved it; but 

 fliould this not be the cafe, we will not reft contented with 

 having difcharged our duty, in doing the moft we could to 

 ferve her ; which if we fiiould be fo happy as to effect, we 

 will never regret our trouble or coft. 



Having thus ftated the claims which the fubje6l has to pub- 

 lic attention, 1 (hall proceed to relate the performance of 

 the fliip at fea, which, as flie failed ii> company with a large 

 convoy both out and home, is a matter of too public a nature 

 to admit any miftatement I might with to make, which God 

 knows is far from my defire. 



On the 22d of Auguft, 1804, The patent fliip Economy 

 weighed anchor ofFGravelend, with but a fmall cargo aboard, 

 as is ufual for fliips outward bound to her deftination, and fet 

 fail on her voyage to Trinidad and Grenada; and on the 14th 

 Odtober following arrived at Grenada ; her performance on 

 this voyage is bed ftated in her Captain's own words, in the 

 following extrad from a letter to Wm. Lufhingtop, Efcj* 

 London. 



SIR, Grtnada, Oa. 15th, 1804.. 



I have the plcafure to inform you of the fiiip Economy's 

 falc arrival here yefterday evening. We had a fine paftage, 



and 



