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Statistics: West Indiaislands; 3d, Wines, liquors, &c. 13,500,000; timber, hemp, iron, and other metals. At the period Statistice. 
4th, Eatables 5,500,000. " of the Revolution, these importations amounted to ™ 
Between 
France and 
Between 
France, and 
Germany, 
Prussia, &c. 
V. The importations from Holland into France, at 
the end of the reign of Louis XIV. amounted to about 
12 millions ; viz. 2,500,000 manufactures, 4,700,000 
$4,600,000 livres, and may be divided into three clas« 
ses: viz. Ist, About 5,000,000 of manufactured articles, 
principally those manufactured of flax and hemp, and 
India muslins, brought by the Danes from their pos- 
sessions in the East Indies ; 2d, 24,000,000 of raw ma< 
terials, particularly copper and lead, through the Hanse 
towns, timber from Russia and Denmark, iron, pitch, 
and tar from Sweden, and hemp ‘and’ tallow from 
Russia ;. 3d, 1,800,000 livres, are wis for dried and. 
salted fish from Denmark and Sweden. The exporta- 
tions from France to these places at the end of the 
reign of Louis XIV: amounted to the sum of 6,800,000 : 
viz. about 856,000 in woollen and linen goods; about 
480,000 in copper, cork, &¢c. ; and about 5,400,000 li- 
vres in eatables, wines, liquors, &c. At the period of 
the Revolution, the exportations from France to all 
these places, amounted nearly to the value of 80,000,000, 
the period of the Revolution, the toFrance and may be in five classes : viz. 1st, 3,600,000 
amounted to about 46,000,000 ; consisting’ of colonial livres in m: ize and manufactures, chiefly for the 
produce, corn, honey, rice, wines, brandies, plums, ju- 
Russian market and the Hanse Towns, and a small 
niper berries, hops, tar, quantity for Sweden and Denmark 2d, About 
baceo, galls, ochre, woad, | turpentine, silk stuffs, gau- 7,100,000 in raw materials, particularly indigo, and 
zes, cambric, paper, soap, glass, leather, gloves, milli- other drags for dyeing, and cotton, for the Hanse 
peeenien Germany, 
oland, and Prussia, into France, —— 
of 9,000,000, prir ncipall in three classes : Ist, 3,700, 
manufactures ; 8,000,000 rawmatecials: and 2,300,000 
towns, Sweden; and Denmark ; 3d, About 12,000,000 
in wines, brandies, &c. ; about one-half of this went to 
the Hanse towns, about a fourth each to Denmark 
and Russia, and only about one-eighth to Sweden ; 
4th, About 2,000,000 in v 3, minerals, and ani« 
mals; and 5th, About 55,000,000 in sugai 
fee from the French West India inds ;* of which 
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VIII. The commerce between the United States of Between 
America and France, owes its existence entirely to the France and 
rupture between them and Great Britain, which termi- A™*tica- 
13,700,000, princi : 
many and ex from France to 
these countries at the end of the reign of Louis XIV. 
amounted to the sum of 14,100,000 in three classes : 
Ist, 5,100,000 of manufactures ; 2d, 2,000,000 of raw 
materials ; 37,000,000 of eatables, wines, liquors, &c. 
At the of the Revolution, the exportations a- 
pedi | mm sum of 95,600,000 livres, and may be 
divided into five classes: viz. Ist, 39,100,000 livres for 
manufactures of various sorts, ially silk stuffs, em- 
broidered with gold and silver, for the different princes 
in Germany, and the rich nobility of Poland, lawn and 
woollen stuffs for the itary possessions of the house 
of Austria in Germany and Flanders ; 2d, 12,900,000 
livres in raw materials, principally wool and coal, a re- 
ion for Austrian Flanders and em 3d, 
Upwards of 10,000,000 in wines, brandies, and vine- 
, for Germany, Poland, and the Prussian ports of the 
Baltic; 4th, 22,000,000 of colonial produce, particular- 
ly sugar and coffee, for the states of Austria and Ger- 
many, and the Prussian ports in the Baltic; 5th, 
11,000,000 in vegetables and animals for Flanders and 
VII. Atthe end of the reign of Louis XIV. theim- 
into France from , Bremen, Lu- 
Denmark, Sweden, Russia, amount- 
Russia, &e, ed only to 300,000 livres, and consisted principally of 
nated in their independence. During the three first 
years after the treaty of amity and commerce between 
the United States and France, concluded in January 
1778, the im ion from them into France averaged 
annually the sum of 2,460,000 livres: viz..136,000 in 
rice and dried cod ; 357,000 in wood, indigo, skins, 
and other raw materials; and 1,900,000 in leaf tobac- 
co. The exportations from France at this period, as - 
mounted to 3,200,000: viz. 191,000. in spiceries ; 
79,000 in wines and liquors ; 33,000 in raw materials ; 
and 2,900,000 in manufactured goods, particularly 
woollen cloths, linen, silk, cotton velvet, hosiery, hats, 
mercery, earthen ware, East India goods, copper uten- 
sils, and warlike stores. The importations from the 
United States to France, from’ 1781 to 1783 inclusive, 
averaged 3,494,000 livres: viz. 69,000 in rice and salt« 
ed cod ; 192,000 in raw materials; and 3,233,000 in 
leaf tobacco. ‘The exportations from France at the same 
period, amounted to 11,500,000 livres, and may be ar- 
ranged under four classes: 1st, About 825,000 livres 
in previsions and groceries; 2d, About 457,000 in wines, 
brandies, &e. ; $d, About 378,000 ‘in raw materials ;. - 
4th, About 9,800,000 in manufactured articles, princi- 
pally of the same description as those uring 
the former period. ~— the average of the three 
years which preceded the French Revolution, the im< 
portations from the United States into France amount- 
ed annually to. 9,600,000 livres, and may be arranged - 
under four heads: viz. 1st, About 600,000 in rice, and 
other articles of food ; 2d, About 900,000 in raw ma- 
terials ; $d, About 700,000 in fish; and, 4th, About..; 
