71
My italics.
72
Chalmers, Opinions, p. 65.
73
Reeves, pp. 47, 57.
74
Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 281.
75
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 307.
76
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 304.
77
Morris to Randolph (Secretary of State), May 31, 1794. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 409. The italics are Morris's.
78
Quoted from De Witt's Interest of Holland, in Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. ii. p. 472.
79
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."
80
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. pp. 296-299.
81
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 474.
82
West Indies, vol. ii. page 522, note.
83
Opinions, p. 89.
84
Macpherson, vol. iii. p. 506.
85
Ibid., vol. iv. p. 158.
86
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.
87
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.
88
Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, p. 39.
89
This awkward expression means that the amount of decrease was rather less than half the before-the-war total.
90
June 18, 1784, substantially the re-issue of that of Dec. 26, 1783, which Reeves (p. 288) considers the standard exemplar.
91
Reeves, p. 431.
92
American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 389.
93
Ibid., Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 301.
94
Ibid., Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 528.
95
Ibid., p. 584.
96
Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. p. 535.
97
Ante, pp. 77, 78.
98
Report of the Committee, p. 85.
99
Ibid., p. 52.
100
Report, p. 96.
101
Ibid., p. 94.
102
American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, vol. x. p. 47.
103
Ibid., p. 45.
104
Ibid., p. 24.
105
Coxe, p. 171.
106
Committee's estimate; Report, p. 43.
107
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 472.
108
Wheaton's International Law, p. 753.
109
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 476.
110
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. pp. 472-474.
111
Ibid., p. 503.
112
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 522.
113
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. ii. p. 491.
114
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 263.
115
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 265.
116
Ibid., p. 266.
117
Ibid., p. 175.
118
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 98.
119
History of the United States, by Henry Adams, vol. ii. p. 423.
120
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. ii. p. 491.
121
Ibid., vol. iii. p. 145.
122
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 114.
123
Monroe to Madison, April 28, 1806. American State Papers, vol. iii. p. 117.