quoted by Sir E. Selby Sucyth
the ques
ale
alove, without carriage
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those of
accumsition.
The Committer have in all their estimates
Monciably
included both
The Committer she no objections to the employment
of a certain mumber of
auxiliaries for use
these cocevented gunst
against boats or swall
craft, but they desire to point
desire to point out that they
Cannot be regarded
as
as substitutes for the wrought
non ques of the same calibre, much less for
the armour
and they piercing of tou guns ; and
desire to Express a decided opinion that Coast
defences unprovided with orduance of greater
power, would be not
not merely
but altogether illusory
little value.
less efficient,
of
and practically
The Committee are mable to comeur in the opicmon quoted in the Report of the Committee of the Privy Council that the guns they have recommended would require to have small
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