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mister Room Whitehall

10 August 1878.

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been adopted by the

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+, appears to the Committer

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therein is at variance

nd is in their opinion

meet the defective

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to point out at the

sion as to the degree of Hantic seaboard of the : to derive from the

a

misapprehension

shole of these proposals,

intaut bearing upon

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When the proposal of a fleet of anned Cruizers for the protection of these courts first flame before the Committer, they replied on the

$ 18th May, that the question was in their opinion

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the for the Admiralty to decide - they had

however in the course of their enquiry ascertaines the views of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 1 to be, that looking to the extent of the coasts of Great Britain as well as of the British Colonies,

And the wide dispersion of the latter over all parts of the world; it would be quite impossible to provide by Naval means for the defence of coena port; as in time grour, the ships of H. M. Fleet would be fully engaged _ in addition to their other duties, in protecting

sea;

Commerce at

and it would be impracticable

on an

Emergency to fit out opecial cringers to a sufficient or nearly sufficient extent to pustect

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