The History of Inland Navigations; Particularly Those of the Duke of Bridgwater, in Lancashire and Cheshire and the Intended One Promoted (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1766. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to communicate with the places to which his canal extends, so as to deprive him of any advantages which he may expect from his navigation. Answer. This reasoning directly tends to justify monopolies and exclusive rights, whereas his Grace hath not even the merit of being an original inventor; for the Sankey navigation in the fame country, is a canal, and was made before his Grace's canal was thought of: And further, this argument, if pursued into its consequences, would prove that his Grace, by making his canal, has been a greater enemy to one part of the country, than he has been a friend to the other. Public service, as it is the avowed motive and end, so it ought to be the test of all these undertakings. Wherever that is pointed out, the legislature will concur in carrying the scheme into execution. But his Graces friends ought of all men to be the last in advancing arguments of this fort; which he himself exploded in the case of the proprietors, of the Irwell navigation. The reasoning on which this opposition is founded, is directly repugnant to the principles which his Grace four years ago asserted, as well as to every principle which hath hitherto been allowed to prevail in a nation of trade and liberty. Seasonable CONSIDERATIONS on a NAVIGABLE CAN AL intended to be cut from the River TRENT, at Wilden-Ferry, in the County of DERBY, to the River MERSEY, in the County CHESTER. THE opening a communication between the ports of Hull and Liverpool, and uniting the eastern D and and western seas, must necessarily produce the most: beneficial consequences; but this great and important scheme if practicable] may be effectuated, and all the ends of public utility answered, by making a canal from the river Trent, at Burton, to the river Weaver, near Northwich, in t...