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Reeves, p. 381. Nevertheless, foreign nations frequently complained of this as a distinction against them (Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, p. 10).

Bryan Edwards, West Indies, vol. ii. p. 494 (note).

Coxe's View, p. 318.

American State Papers, Foreign Affairs, vol. i. p. 301. Jefferson added, "These imports consist mostly of articles on which industry has been exhausted,"— i.e. , completed manufactures. The State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, give the tabulated imports and exports for many succeeding years.

Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 333.

Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 291.

My italics.

Chalmers, Opinions, p. 65.

Reeves, pp. 47, 57.

Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 281.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 307.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 304.

Morris to Randolph (Secretary of State), May 31, 1794. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 409. The italics are Morris's.

Quoted from De Witt's Interest of Holland, in Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. ii. p. 472.

Observations on the Commerce of the American States, 1783, p. 115. Concerning this pamphlet, Gibbon wrote, "The Navigation Act, the palladium of Britain, was defended, perhaps saved, by his pen."

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. pp. 296-299.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 474.

West Indies, vol. ii. page 522, note.

Opinions, p. 89.

Macpherson, vol. iii. p. 506.

Ibid., vol. iv. p. 158.

Bryan Edwards, himself a planter of the time, says (vol. ii. p. 522) that staves and lumber had risen 37 per cent in the British islands, which he attributes to the extortions of the navigation monopoly, "under the present limited intercourse with America." Coxe (View, etc., p. 134) gives lists of comparative prices, in 1790, June to November, in the neighboring islands of Santo Domingo and Jamaica, which show forcibly the burdens under which the latter labored.

Chalmers, in one of his works quoted by Macpherson (vol. iii. p. 559), estimates the annual entries of American-built ships to British ports, 1771-74, to be 34,587 tons. From this figure the falling off was marked.

Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, p. 39.

This awkward expression means that the amount of decrease was rather less than half the before-the-war total.

June 18, 1784, substantially the re-issue of that of Dec. 26, 1783, which Reeves (p. 288) considers the standard exemplar.

Reeves, p. 431.

American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 389.

Ibid., Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 301.

Ibid., Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 528.

Ibid., p. 584.

Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. p. 535.

Ante, pp. 77, 78.

Report of the Committee, p. 85.

Ibid., p. 52.

Report, p. 96.

Ibid., p. 94.

American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 47.

Ibid., p. 45.

Ibid., p. 24.

Coxe, p. 171.

Committee's estimate; Report, p. 43.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 472.

Wheaton's International Law, p. 753.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 476.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. pp. 472-474.

Ibid., p. 503.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 522.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. ii. p. 491.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 263.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 265.

Ibid., p. 266.

Ibid., p. 175.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 98.

History of the United States, by Henry Adams, vol. ii. p. 423.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. ii. p. 491.

Ibid., vol. iii. p. 145.

American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 114.

Monroe to Madison, April 28, 1806. American State Papers, vol. iii. p. 117.