An address to the Right Honorable the First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, upon the visible decreasing spirit, splendor, and discipline of the Navy. With A Proposition for reducing the Guardships to Eight Sail of the Line, and employing Twelve additional Frigates, upon the Home Service, to prevent Smuggling, &c. &c. And A Recommendation to confirm the Navy Lieutenants appointed in the East Indies, and other Foreign Stations, at the Lve of the late War, and who were disbanded upon their Arrival in England, &c. Also, A Dissertation upon the visible alarming Decrease and Consumption of Naval Timber in Great Britain, with correct Estimates of the enormous Consumption in Timber for building the Navy, and particularly East Indiamen, &c. &c. By an officer.

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M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]