Excerpt from The Defence of Great and Greater Britain: Sketches of Its Naval, Military, and Political Aspects; Annotated With Extracts From the Discussions They Have Called Forth in the Press of Greater Britain; With a Map As a Royal Commission, limited in its nature and local in its constitution, is now sitting to investigate portions of the subject of the following pages, I am induced to lay them before the general reader. In doing so I venture to offer the facts they contain to the earnest attention of those whose broad national sympathies and instincts are superior to the provincial prejudices of political partizanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.