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An address to the Right Honorable the First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, upon the visible decreasing spirit, splendor, and discipline of the Navy. With A Proposition for reducing the Guardships to Eight Sail of the Line, and employing Twelve additional Frigates, upon the Home Service, to prevent Smuggling, &c. &c. And A Recommendation to confirm the Navy Lieutenants appointed in the East Indies, and other Foreign Stations, at the Lve of the late War, and who were disbanded upon their Arrival in England, &c. Also, A Dissertation upon the visible alarming Decrease and Consumption of Naval Timber in Great Britain, with correct Estimates of the enormous Consumption in Timber for building the Navy, and particularly East Indiamen, &c. &c. By an officer
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A letter to a Member of Parliament
proposing a plan of regulations for the better and more compleat manning the navy: which will comprehend the following advantages: I. The Abolition of that unnatural Practice of pressing our Seamen. II. The emphatical strengthening of the Power of the Crown. III. The relieving our Merchants from the Danger of losing their Property; and sometimes from the Loss of it, by Sea, in consequence of Pressing. IV. The Abolition of Pressing will be productive of an immense Saving of the Public Money. V. A moderate Increase of our Seamen's Wages will be trifling, when compared with the Savings made by abolishing Pressing; and will not only be perfectly equitable, but political. By Robert Nation; Formerly of the Royal Navy, and late Commander of a private Ship of War