The Griper; Being a Letter to John Harvey, Esq. in Reply to His Ungenerous Animadversions, in a Public Assembly, in the Old Library Room on the 14th O (Paperback)

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. 1830. Excerpt: ... It was stated in a respectable provincial paper in Yorkshire, about the year 1821, the year before, or the year after that year, I cannot say which of the three, that during about six months, say from September to March, or thereabouts, there were two thousand Vessels belonging to various nations, lost by Storms and Shipwreck, in the North Seas; and in those Vessels about twenty thousand human beings perished Those Vessels were of various tonnage, and belonged chiefly to England, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, the Netherlands, and France. Thefollowing Extract will farther illustrate the case of Shipwrecks. "It appears from the New York Shipping Lists, --That the total number of losses and accidents to American Vessels, including Foreign Vessels bound to and from American Ports, the West Indies, or British Colonies in America, and not including the Vessels missing, or wrecks not identified, has amounted in the yar 1828, to 923. Lloyd's Lists for the same year, present a total number of losses and accidents to the British Vessels, including Coasters, Colliers, Steam Boats, Vessels missing &c. of 951. Times, July 13th, 1829. Another Sample of Shipwrecks. "In a Pamphlet that has been published proposing some improvement in Newhaven Harbour, in Sussex, it is stated, that since the year 1799, within the limits of that Port, there have been stranded thirty-nine Merchant Vessels, the value of which, with their Cargoes, amounted to upwards of 630, 000, and twq hundred and one lives have been lost." Bell's Messenger Oct. 19th 1825. To the above deplorable samples might also be added, the Kent, East Indiaman, with a long list of other individual Vessels, even within a short period, retrospectively. Fifty years ago and upwards, some cautio...