Anticipation; Containing the Substance of His M---------Y's Most Gracious Speech to Both H------S of P----L-T. on the Opening of the

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1778 edition. Excerpt: ... From this historical deduction, I cannot but think, Sir, navigation highly necessary, highly favourable to liberty. If, Sir, I wanted any additional reason for opposing'the address, it would best arise 'from the shameful neglect and/ inattention 'to those brave and humane French officers, (particularly the Captain of the Licorne, ) lately on their parole at Alresford, half of whom, indeed, ministry have cruelly suffered to run away. Besides, Sir, let us advert to the wretched deficiency in our late naval equipments. I have it, Sir, from undoubted authority, that the several ships crews laboured under a total deprivation of Tobacco. Tobacco! that staple commodity of our once flourishing subjects, now, alas, our avowed enemies, in Virginia, and the Southern colonies.--Sir, not only the quota of Gin was miserably retrenched, but adultery, so congenial to the JSJoah of this day, pervaded every keg in the Royal Navy.--Sir, I myself know it for & fact, that the speaking trumpet of the Albion was sent out in so wretched a condition, tjbat, that, in haling a fishing-boat, (I believe a cod-smack) off Stilly, the second mate cracked his pipe, and half the crew have been hoarse ever since--some os your ships, Sir, wanted their complement of Chaplains: --.and in others, I will not say that I know there were not surgeons, but I will say, I do not know that there were. Sir, more fatal.consequences have arisen from a strange neglect of vegetables--Potatoes, radically rotten!--Carrots, diabolically dry!--Turnips, totally tough!Parstjips, pitifully putrid! ------Scurvy Sir, Scurvy, like the angry Daemon of Pestilence, has lighted up everlasting bon-sires in the blotched brows and cicatracious cheeks of your scarified seamen; so that every crew has flashed..