A short review of the history, government, constitution, fishery and agriculture of Newfoundland. In a series of letters addressed to the Right Honourable Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.

In writing these letters, leading Irish Catholic politician and merchant Patrick Morris had as his goal "to draw the attention of Her Majesty's Government to the anomalous position in which the British Fisheries of Newfoundland are placed, by the competition of foreigners, and likewise to the unaccountable, and in his opinion unwise and impolitic neglect of the settlement and colonization" of the island (p. [iii]). The three letters brought together here in an 1847 brochure provide Morris' views on Newfoundland's history to 1832 (p.[1]-15), the fisheries (p.[16]-46], and colonization (p. [47]-136).The "Advertisement" (p. [iii]-xvii) is actually an introduction