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in 1810. Our exports of tobacco were 

 twenty thousand hogsheads more in 1810, 

 but we received twenty dollars a hogshead 

 less. Flour was an exception, being fifty 

 cents a barrel more in 1810. 



Now it was the domestic exports that 

 really constituted the trade of the United 

 States for the two years. The mere fact 

 that twenty or thirty million dollars' worth 

 of sugar and coffee was landed in our ports, 

 and then transhipped to the Continent, is 

 not such a great factor. Of course, there 

 was the profit of entrepot, but the great 

 object was to get the vessels out of the 

 United States as soon as possible, and, had 

 it been allowed, these cargoes of sugar and 

 coffee would never have been landed in the 

 United States, and never have figured as 

 exports or imports. 



If, however, the loss of thirty-five million 

 dollars' worth of foreign exports in 1810, as 

 compared with 1807, meant a loss to the 

 carrying trade of the United States in pro- 

 portion, then, indeed, the loss would be a 



