trade or intercourse carried on by sea between ports or places of the same country. This is regulated in different countries by particular laws; and it has generally been the custom to exclude foreigners from all participation in the coasting trade. This policy was adopted in England in the reign of Elizabeth, or perhaps earlier; was perfected by the navigation acts of 1651 and 1660; and these again were succeeded by a vast number of regulations at different times, which have all been much simplified by act 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 107. (See M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary).