Reference
W1/3798
Title
Admiral Sir C M Pole [to Samuel Whitbread II]
Date free text
5 March 1809
Production date
From: 1809 To: 1809
Scope and Content
Canada supplies a large portion of the masts and spars and writer believes the yards for the Royal Navy are chiefly supplied from this source. Orders have been sent to the East Indies for Hemp. Admiral Sir G C Berkeley and the East India Command: he was recalled and the Order about impressing seamen appeared in the same gazette which may be taken as a rebuke. Would not be surprised if much of the timber from Canada came from America, and was smuggled across to Canada for export.
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