Comparative State of the Quantities of each of the above Articles exported from the United States, in the Period to which the first Account refers; and of the Quantities of each of the Said Articles imported into the Ports of France in the Period, to which the fecond Account refers.

THIRD ACCOUNT received fince the Report
was printed.

THE following Account of the Number of Veffels which entered the Ports of France, from the United States of America, in the Year 1789, taken from the before-mentioned Report of Mr. Jefferson, has also been received fince the foregoing Report was printed.-This Account will serve to prove, what is cautiously fuggested in the Report of the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Plantations, viz. That British Veffels have a confiderable Share in the commercial Intercourfe carried on between the United States and the feveral Nations of Europe;-for, according to this Account, the British Veffels, that entered the Ports of France from the United States, are above three Times as many, as the French Veffels, that entered the faid Ports from the United States, in 1789; and are above eight Times more than the Veffels of all the other Nations of Europe, and about One-fourth of the Veffels of the United States, that entered the Ports of France, during that Period.-It is probable, that the Share, which British Veffels have in the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and other Nations of Europe, to the South of France, is more confiderable than the Share they have in the Intercourse between the United States and France.

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Statement of the Veffels entered in the Ports of France, from the United States of America, in the Year 1789.

APPENDIX.

(A.)

N° I.

QUESTIONS referred on the 15th October 1789, by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council, appointed for all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, to a Committee of Merchants of the City of LONDON, and to the Merchants and Ship Owners of BRISTOL, LIVERPOOL, and GLASGOW, concerned in the Trade to the United States of America.

QUESTION I.

HAVE the Commerce and Shipping Interest of this Country suffered by the Distinctions, which have been hitherto made by the different Legiflatures of the States compofing the United States of America, in the Duties imposed by them on British or other Foreign Goods, or in the Duties imposed on the Tonnage of British or other Foreign Ships, or American Ships, previous to the paffing the late Impoft and Tonnage Act by Congrefs; and in what refpect and degree?

QUESTION II.

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WILL the Commerce and Navigation of this Country be upon footing under the general Duties imposed by the late Impoft and Tonnage Acts of Congress, than they have hitherto been under the Duties impofed by the Legislatures of the particular States compofing the United States of America?

QUESTION III.

IF it should be thought proper to fubject Goods, brought in American Ships, to the Duties payable generally on Goods brought in Foreign Ships, from which American Ships only have hitherto been exempted, and further to impose a Duty on the Tonnage of American Ships coming to this Country, equal to the Difference they have made in their Tonnage Act between American and Foreign Shipping coming to their Ports, that is, forty-four Cents of a Dollar; would these Measures have the Effect of fecuring to the Shipping of this Country the Share it ought to enjoy in the Trade between Great Britain and the Countries belonging to the United States of America? or would fuch Measures be the Means of inducing the Americans to carry their Produce in their own Ships to the Ports of other Countries, instead of bringing it to those of Great Britain?

IF this Country should now acquiefce in the Distinctions made by the American Congrefs in favour of their own Shipping, to the Detriment of ours, is there any Security, from the Nature and Circumstances of the Trade between the two Countries, that Congrefs will not be encouraged to encrease the Duties imposed for this Purpose, till they have fucceeded in driving our Shipping out of this Trade, though the Duties hitherto impofed may not wholly have that Effect ?

QUES