Excerpt from The Substance of the Reply of William Harrison, Esq.: Before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on East India-Built Shipping, on Tuesday, June 28, 1814, in Reply on the Whole Case I call this to the recollection of the committee, because I have been accused of representing myself as the advocate of private claimants, upon grounds of public policy, without having shewn that the public and private interests are necessarily connected I am compelled to explain, therefore, once more, the nature of the questions which the committee are called upon to decide. If no foundation has been laid upon public grounds for asserting the claims of my clients to the attention of the committee the inquiry is not such as I have represented it. But if I have proved that the public interest is deeply concerned in maintaining to the full extent every branch of ship-building in Great Britain, I have established my original proposition, that great public and national objects render it absolutely necessary (as I undertake to shew it is, ) to continue the established policy of our laws for the protection of ship-building in this country, and to prevent its being trans ferred even to our own dependencies. And as to my learned friends, who stated in the outset, that they did not seek for monopoly, but only asked for competition I shall be able ultimately to shew, that monopoly and not competition is the ground upon which they rest their case; that they speak of competition, and prove that nothing will satisfy them but a measure which will end in our complete exclusion. Such, Sir, is the nature of the ques tions between us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.