The Harbour. STATION. Caroline Roads, one mile and a half to the eastward of the Entrance of the Harbour. Entrance of the Harbour. Kincardine Roadstead. From Gravel Point to the eastward of the Town of Greenock, in the County of Renfrew, to Kempock Point, being the western point of Gourock Bay, including therein Cartsdyke Bay, Greenock Roads, the anchorage at the Tail of the Bank, and Gourock Bay. Rothsay Bay, lying and being within Boyany Point, on the east of the Town of Rothsay, in the Isle of Bute, County of Bute, and Ardmalish Point on the west of the said Town. Oban Bay in the County of Argyle, as lies within Fishinghouse Point on the eastern side, and Currick Point on the western side of the said Bay. The Bay of Tobermory, lying and being within Leidag Point to the south-east, Portmore Point to the north-west, and the Isle of Calve on the east of Tobermory, Isle of Mull, County of Argyle. The Roadstead of Inverary, lying and being off the Town of Inverary, in the County of Argyle, and extending half a mile south-west of the Quay and half a mile north-east of the Quay of the said Town. Lochgilphead Roads, at the east end of the Crinan Canal, lying and being within Ardishaig Point, on the western side of Lochgilphead and Kilmory Point, on the eastern side of the said Loch. BALTIMORE IRELAND. Castle Townsend. At the entrances of the Harbours of Castle Townsend, Balti- Bere Haven BELFAST (Floating Station.) COLERAINE CORK (COVE) West Passage Kinsale DROGHEDA Upper Cove, on the eastern side of the Harbour. Within the entrance of the Harbour, between Blackball Head, to the eastward, and Ferry Point. North Crook, at the entrance of the Boyne. Queenborough In the River Boyne, opposite Queenborough. DUBLIN DUNDALK GALWAY. LIMERICK LONDONDERRY Pigeon-House, between the Harbour Light-House and the end of the North-Wall. Soldiers' Point. To the eastward, or under the shelter of Mutton Island. Greencastle, situate on the north side of Lough Foyle. Ballyheury Bay, or Audley's Town Bay. Oyster Island. THE MERCHANT, SHIP-OWNER, AND SHIP-MASTER'S IMPORT AND EXPORT GUIDE. PART I. GENERAL REGULATIONS AS TO NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE. Whosoever commands the Sea, commands the Trade; whosoever commands the Trade of the World, commands the Riches of the World, and consequently the World itself.— O! fortunatos mercatores.-Hor. Sir Walter Raleigh. IN navigation, considered as part of the skill of a merchant, according to Dr. Johnson, is included not so much the art of steering a ship, as the knowledge of the sea coast, and of the different parts to which his cargoes are sent, the customs to be paid, the passages, permissions or certificates to be procured, the hazards of every voyage, and the true rates of insurances. To this must be added, an acquaintance with the policies and arts of other nations, as well those to whom commodities are sold, as of those who carry goods of the same kind to the same market and who are therefore to be watched as rivals endeavouring to take advantage of every error, miscarriage, or debate." Commerce embraces the whole subject of the traffic and intercourse of nations, and shows how mutual wants, occasioning the exchange of natural riches for the creations of art, unite savage nations with civilised, and spreads moral and social cultivation over the earth. In former times, commerce subdued the steppes of Scythia and the deserts of Libya, and it is now clearing away the primitive forests of America, and draining the waters of Australia. For thousands of years it has pervaded the interior of the ancient world; for centuries it has had its path on the mighty ocean; and of late it has studied how to cut through the Isthmus of Darien, to break through the ice of the poles, and by steam to circumnavigate the globe. The regulations of the most general nature only are introduced under this Title. Under subsequent Titles in Parts I., II., III., the Duties, Drawbacks, and Bounties on every species of goods, Imported, Exported, or Carried Coastwise, together with all regulations appertaining to each article, will be given in alphabetical order.-Ed. B 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 54. Goods of NAVIGATION ACT. THE several sorts of goods herein-after enumerated, being the produce of Europe; (that is to say,) masts, timber, boards, tar, tallow, Europe, 2. hemp, flax, currants, raisins, figs, prunes, olive oil, corn or grain, wine, brandy, tobacco, wool, shumac, madders, madder roots, barilla, brimstone, bark of oak, cork, oranges, lemons, linseed, rape seed, and clover seed, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom to be used therein, except in British ships, or in ships of the country of which the goods are the produce, or in ships of the country from which the goods are imported. (a) Goods of Goods, the produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported Asia, Afic from Europe into the United Kingdom, to be used therein, except the from Europe, goods herein-after mentioned; viz. or America, 3. Goods of Asia, Africa, in foreign Goods, the produce of the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, which may be imported from places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar: Goods, the produce of Asia or Africa, which (having been brought into Goods, the produce of places within the limits of the East India Goods taken by way of reprisal by British ships: Bullion, diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds, and other jewels or preci ous stones. Goods, the produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imor America, ported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein, in foreign ships, unless they be ships of the country in Asia, Africa, or America, of which the goods are the produce, and from which they are imported, except the goods herein-after mentioned; viz. ships, § 4. Manufactur Goods, the produce of the dominions of the Grand Signior, in Asia or Africa, which may be imported from his deminions in Europe, in ships of his dominions: Raw silk and mohair yarn, the produce of Asia, which may be imported from the dominions of the Grand Signior in the Levant Seas, in ships of his dominions : Bullion. All manufactured goods shall be deemed to be the produce of the ed goods, § 5. country of which they are the manufacture. Imports from Guernsey, No goods shall be imported into the United Kingdom from the &c. Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, except in British ships. (a) For the sake of perspicuity this regulation is digested under the names of the several articles in IMPORTS.-Ed. 54. No goods shall be exported from the United Kingdom to any British 3 & 4 W. 4. c. possession in Asia, Africa, or America, nor to the Islands of Guernsey, Exports to Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, except in British ships. British possessions, § 7. No goods shall be carried coastwise from one part of the United Coastwise, Kingdom to another, except in British ships. § 8. tween No goods shall be carried from any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Trade beAlderney, Sark, or Man, to any other of such Islands, nor from one Guernsey, part of any such Islands to another part of the same Island, except in Jersey, &c. British ships. § 9. No goods shall be carried from any British possession in Asia, Africa, Trade between Bri. or America, to any other of such possessions, nor from one part of any tish possessions in Asia, such possessions to another part of the same, except in British Ships. &c. § 10. No goods shall be imported into any British possession in Asia, In what vesAfrica, or America, in any foreign ships, unless they be ships of the sel, imports country of which the goods are the produce, and from which the goods possessions, are imported. into British § 11. tish ship and manned, § 12. No ship shall be admitted to be a British ship unless duly registered What a Briand navigated as such; and every British registered ship (so long as how navithe registry of such ship shall be in force, or the certificate of such gated and registry retained for the use of such ship) shall be navigated during the whole of every voyage (whether with a cargo or in ballast), in every part of the world by a master who is a British subject, and by a crew, whereof three fourths at least are British seamen; and if such ship be employed in a coasting voyage from one part of the United Kingdom to another, or in a voyage between the United Kingdom and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or from one of the said Islands to another of them, or from one part of either of them to another of the same, or be employed in fishing on the coasts of the United Kingdom or of any of the said Islands, then the whole of the crew shall be British seamen. &c., although All British-built boats or vessels under fifteen tons burthen, wholly Navigation owned and navigated by British subjects, although not registered as upon rivers, British ships, shall be admitted to be British vessels, in all navigation not regisin the rivers and upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, or of the tered, § 13. British possessions abroad, and not proceeding over sea, except within the limits of the respective colonial governments within which the managing owners of such vessels respectively reside; and all Britishbuilt boats or vessels wholly owned and navigated by British subjects, not exceeding the burthen of thirty tons, and not having a whole or a fixed deck, and being employed solely in fishing on the banks and shores Newfoundof Newfoundland, and of the parts adjacent, or on the banks and shores land fishery, of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the north of Cape Canso, or of the islands within the same, or in the trading coastwise within the said limits, shall be admitted to be British boats or vessels, although not registered, so long as such boats or vessels shall be solely so employed. &c. All ships built in the British settlements at Honduras, and owned Honduras and navigated as British ships, shall be entitled to the privileges of ships, § 14. British registered ships in all direct trade between the United Kingdom or the British possessions in America and the said settlements; provided the master shall produce a certificate under the hand of the superin |