The Customs duties and collected by British Officers from Chinese Goods supply ample Funds, and as their receipt depends on the security of Trade a portion of it may equitably be asked for the purposes of maintaining Chinese... from British subsidy by England.
The payment of the Foreign... for the... of which might be regarded with jealousy by France, and other foreign powers, and the operations of such cruizers might be much impeded unless there were come to a full understanding with the great maritime powers of Europe, Russia, and the U.S. of America by Treaty, and it is a question whether the interests concerned, and the evils caused by the present state of things are not of sufficient magnitude to call for such steps.
My Lords would propose that each power should be at liberty to devote one or more of its vessels, not exceeding a certain size, to the suppression of Piracy, and that for every such vessel the Chinese should pay an agreed sum while the Vessel was so employed.
That each Vessel should be officered exclusively by the nation it represented, and should be under... American – This can only be done by...
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