INDEX OF TRACTS. .... 1793 1. On Wet Docks, Quays, and Warehouses for the Port 3. Letter to a Friend on Commerce, Free Ports, and 4. Examination of W. Vaughan, Esq. in a Committee of 1795 1796 5. Reasons in favour of the London Docks, printed in 1795 1. Plan of the London Docks in Wapping, with a Cut to 1794 2. Plan of the London Docks in Wapping, with a Cut to 1796 3. Section of the River, Locks, Basins, and Docks in 1796 N.B.-The Plan, No. 1, differs a little, in form of the Dock A and C, from the plan as stated in Mr. Powsey's Plan, 1794. : N.B. As only a few copies of some of the minor Tracts relating to the Docks now remain on hand, and as the Docks have been long since completed, it has not been deemed expedient to reprint them. CONTENTS. PREFACE. HE following observations were drawn up for private communications, but for convenience, some copies have been printed, to circulate in private channels where they may be thought useful. The object has been to remove prejudices, to quiet claimants, and to unite great leading and commercial interests in an application to Parliament for the creation of Docks, as one of the best securities and encouragements to our commerce, and prosperity to our country. The growing distresses in the port of London require some remedy, and there never was a better opportunity than the present, for mercantile and city interests to join in an application. If private meetings were formed to propose and digest plans, and also to influence leading interests in favour of them, government would not be adverse to improvements, and their sanction would lessen oppo sition. The proposed schemes are submitted with deference, and will be found, perhaps, on the whole, to unite the greatest number of benefits with the fewest inconveniences, and, finally, with the least expense. If otherwise, it is hoped that the neces A 2 sities |