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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Navy, notwithstanding the acknowleged'Abilities of its Seamen—Of the Danish Navy, andthe collateral Causes which tended to produce its apparent Inactivity—the Attention of theSovereign applied to prevent its Decay or Diminution.—Comparative View of the differentNavies, and of the Commercial State, of Europe. Page v to xxyni.

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Account of the Improvements made in Marine Architecturtx among the different European Powersduring the first, fourteen Tears, of the Eighteenth Century—The immediate Causes which gaveBirth to them, and produced the extraordinary Augmentation of Vessels in regard to theirTonnage as well as Force.—The Dimensions and Force of the Venetian and Genoese Ships ofIVcr—of those belonging to Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden—Description of the Vessels employed for Mercantile Purposes by those Countries.—The Pre-valence of Fashion pointed out, and the different Principles of Ship-building practised by theArtificers of the Southern, from those of the Northern States—the Reasons which first pro-duced that Distinction, and have still continued to preserve it.—Remarks on the Marine ofSweden, Russia, and Denmark—the original rude State of the Russian Marine, and theFoundation of its sudden Improvement.—Mild Character of Frederick IV. King of Denmark —Similarity between the Danish and Dutch Ships. Page xxix to xxxviii.

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

Condition of the British Navy at the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century—the Augmentationwhich it experienced during the latter Part of the Reign of William III.—its State at the Timeof that Monarch's Death—Recommencement of Hostilities with France, and Account of theBritish Fleet sent on the Expedition against Cadiz—the Failure of that Enterprize—its sub-sequent Success against Vigo—Force employed during the Tear 1704 under the Orders of SirGeorge Rooke and Sir Cloudesley Shovel—Account of the Battle which took place off Malaga —Statement of the British Force employed during the subsequent Tears of the War in the Me-diterranean and the Atlantic—Recapitulation of the Number of British Ships employed in theW*.st Indies, exhibiting the Force and Number of the Vessels on that Station in each particularTear—Remarks on the Civil (Economy and Management of Maritime Affairs during the wholeReign—the Murmurs of the British Merchants in consequence of the pretended Neglect shewnto the Commercial Interest, with other Grievances contained in various Petitions presented tothe House of Peers—Report of their Lordships thereon—Answer of his Royal Highness PrinceGeorge of Denmark to the Remonstrance, with cursory Observations on the whole of theProceedings. Page xxxix to Ixxxvi.

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Conditions of the different Navies of Europe, from the Accession of King George I. in 1714, tothe Commencement of the War between Great Britain and Spain, in 1739 —Revival of theSpanish Marine by Cardinal Alberoni—the Attack of Sicily—Defeat of the Spanish Fleet by

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