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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>REASONS Again&s;t the BILL For making the Rivers</HI> AYRE <HI>and</HI> CALDER <HI>in the</HI> We&s;t-Riding <HI>of the County of</HI> York; <HI>Navigable.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Shewing that the &s;ame will not only utterly ruine the Trade of the City, and great part of the County of <HI>York,</HI> but will likewi&s;e de&s;troy much of the Coal Trade, from <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Sunderland;</HI> and be pre|judicial to Navigation, and breeding of Seamen, and can be in no &s;ort beneficial to the Nation in general, or Manufactures thereof; tending only to the pri|vate Advantage of the &V;ndertakers.</P>
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<OPENER>Humbly Offered to the Con&s;ideration of the Honourable Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</OPENER>
<P>THIS <HI>BILL</HI> being founded upon the like Popular Preten|ces, with that, which was lately Brought in for the making the River <HI>Dun</HI> Navigable. Several of the Rea&s;ons again&s;t that Bill, are directly Applicable in this Ca&s;e: As to All, but what is now Pretended for the encrea&s;e and encouragement of the Woollen Manufacture.</P>
<P>As to which the only Rea&s;on or Argument Pretended, Is, That by making the&s;e Rivers Navigable, the Carriage of Cloth will be Cheaper than heretofore, by Land Carriage; and more Cloth Vended.</P>
<P>In An&s;wer to which, it is to be Con&s;idered, That the Way of Car|riage from <HI>Leeds</HI> (which is the Chief place of Manufacture) to <HI>Hull,</HI> is either by the City of <HI>York,</HI> or <HI>Selby:</HI> And till of late years, the con&s;tant Carriage was by <HI>York,</HI> and at this time all the Merchants of <HI>York,</HI> bring thither by Land Carriage, all their Cloth from <HI>Leeds,</HI> which co&s;ts
<PB REF="2">about Six &s;hillings, for the value of One Hundred Pounds worth of Cloth to <HI>York,</HI> and Eighteen pence from thence to <HI>Hull.</HI> And the Undertakers under this Bill, declare that they expect at lea&s;t Five &s;hillings and Six pence for Carriage of the &s;ame Quantity of Cloth, by their New inven|ted Water Carriage, which is only about Two &s;hillings &s;aved in One Hundred Pound, and that is &s;o incon&s;iderable a Charge, as cannot upon that account hinder the making and Vending of more Cloth.</P>
<P>But the De&s;ign of this Bill, tending to the utter De&s;truction of the Trade of the City of <HI>York,</HI> by making u&s;e of &s;uch New Rivers for the Carriage of other Commodities, which heretofore came to, and were Vended there: The Argument will Lye in Competition of Place, whether <HI>Leeds</HI> or tho&s;e Adjacent parts, who&s;e Trade hath been found|ed fir&s;t and advanced by the Merchants of <HI>York,</HI> and thereby Grown up to be Opulent, &s;hall be Encouraged to take all the Trade to them|&s;elves from <HI>York</HI> (&s;o Ancient as to be Reputed the &s;econd City of the Na|tion) the &s;upport of which is only by Trade and Benefit of the River <HI>Ouze,</HI> the Tide of which River (in Ca&s;e of &s;uch New Rivers which come in nearer towards the Sea by Ten Miles) will be Lo&s;t, or &s;o Le&s;&s;en|ed, that it cannot be Po&s;&s;ible for <HI>York</HI> to have any Water-Carriage at all.</P>
<P>The City of <HI>York</HI> &s;tands as the Center of the whole County for Trade, and there is yearly &s;ent from thence, for the City of <HI>London</HI> and beyond the Seas, above 40000 Firkins of Butter; many Thou&s;and Quar|ters of Corn, and Rape Seed; and Great Quantities of Lead, Tallow, and other Commodities, all of the Growth and Product of that County; which cannot be otherwi&s;e tran&s;ported but by the River of <HI>Ouze,</HI> &s;o that to Prejudice the &s;aid River, will in Con&s;equence not only De&s;troy the &s;aid Trade of the City, but al&s;o great part of the County will &s;uffer in not Vending the &s;aid Commodities.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the Merchants of the City of <HI>York,</HI> vend mo&s;t of their Foreign Commodities to <HI>Lanca&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Che&s;hire,</HI> which Enables them the more in Trade, and this will be al&s;o utterly lo&s;t to them, and gained to <HI>Leeds,</HI> by making the River <HI>Aire</HI> Navigable, and that but only by coming nearer to tho&s;e Counties by about Twenty Miles Wa|ter Carriage, and putting the City of <HI>York</HI> in &s;uch Condition, as not to have any Water Carriage for them&s;elves.</P>
<P>And whereas it may be Pretended that the Making of tho&s;e Rivers of <HI>Ayre</HI> and <HI>Calder</HI> Navigable, would be for the encouragement of Navi|gation, and Breeding of Seamen&mdash; It is &s;o far from any Colour of Rea&s;on, That there Lying &s;o many Collieries, upon the &s;aid Rivers of <HI>Ayre,</HI> and <HI>Calder;</HI> The making of them Navigable will enable the Undertakers, to fell tho&s;e Coals &s;o Cheap, that no Ships can Afford to bring any Coals from <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and <HI>Sunderland,</HI> to Sell within the Rivers of <HI>Humber,</HI> and <HI>Trent,</HI> where above Two Hundred Ships Lading are Sold Yearly; by which Means &s;uch Part of that Naviga|tion and Trade, which is the Great Nur&s;ery of Seamen, will be lo&s;t.</P>
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