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for an address to H. M. upon it, but the Report being made it was suffer'd to lye dormant, & instead of it another address Voted that H. M. would please to give orders for laying an Embargo upon all Ships except those carrying provisions & ammunitions to the Plantations; the Merchants on the other hand were in the utmost distress for want of hands to navigate their Ships, had petition'd Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill suspending so much of the Act of Navigation as should enable them to employ Foreign Seamen; this oblig'd the House to