REASONS Humbly Offered to the High Court of Parliament, For Suspending that Part of the Act of Navigation (during the War with France) which obliges the Master, and three Fourths of the Mariners (of his Ship) to be English.  
I. BY allowing all English Ships (during the War) to be Man'd with Foreigners, (who shall not be liable to be pressed) the King will have those of his own Subjects now employed in Merchant's Ships, wholly in his own Service; by which his Navy will be supplied in time, without the necessity of staying for the Men that are Abroad, as heretofore, to the great Danger of the Nation.  
II. The Ships which now lie by the Walls for want of Men, will then be Employed, and Trade with a little assistance of Convoys, have its free Course again, to the great encouragement of the Subject, and enabling them to a cheerful Payment of their Taxes.  
III. By the Trade of the Nation, the King's Customs will be greatly increased, and by consequence the Burden on the Lands lessened.  
iv The necessity which Merchants are now under, of employing Foreign Shpis, so much to the Prejudice of the Nation, and Advantage of Strangers, will then cease; for these Foreign Ships will not now serve in any considerable Voyage, for less (suppose) than a Thousand Pound, which Thousand Pound, except about one Hundred Pound, is all carried out of the Land; whereas if our own Ships (which now lie by the Walls for want of Men) were Employed, this Money would all remain in the Country, except some small matter which the Seamen save out of their Wages, and it's much if it amount to Thirty or Forty Pound: Which considered, whether will it not be more to the Advantage of the Nation, to Employ English Ships Man'd with Foreign Seamen, then Foreign Ships, who taking the advantage of our want of Men, demand, and at this time actually have more than double the Freight which our own Ships would serve us for, if they might but be so Man'd.