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Brazil at 16 1-2 cents per 100 lbs. American. The 



revenue derived from the above quantity oi'Aineri- 



can tobacco may be estimated at about §11)500. 



Great Britain. 



The averan;e direct exportation ofour tobacco to 

 that country lor ilie said three years has been 28,- 

 773 hogsheads. The annual average consumption 

 may be estimated at 18,000 hogsheads American 

 tobacco, which, by tfie calculations in the statement 

 before relerred to, render a gross revenue of.^'17,- 

 275,700. The duty of 3 shillings sterling per 

 pound, equal to 72 3-4 cents, is enormous, and, if 

 put on for sake of revenue, there is no doubt that it 

 defeats its own object ; lor it cannot be doubted 

 that, if this duty should be greatly diminished, 

 Great Britain would be a gainer in the net revenue 

 collected from it, inasmuch as it would necessarily 

 lead to a proportionately increased consumption. 



Great Britain should take into consideration that 

 there is no duty levied in the United States on any 

 of her produce or manufactures which CiUi in any 

 manner be compared with the pnormons duly of 

 72 3-4 cents per pound, or over 800 per cent." on 

 our tobaccoes ; [and that this duly weighing par- 

 ticularly heavy on those sections ofour country 

 which have been the moi-t favomhly disposed to a 

 low rate of duties in the United Siates, and it cer- 

 tainly becomes an important question for Great 

 Britain to take inio serious consideration whether 

 she can expect that those sections of our country 

 will continue to be liivorably disposed to low rates 

 of duties on British produce and manid'.ictures 

 should the government of that country continue to 

 levy such an enormous duly on one of the principal 

 staples of American industry.] 

 France. 



The same observations may be applied to 

 Frai CO as to Great Britain. In France, the 

 monopoly ol" the Regie weiirlis still heavier on our 

 tobacco iniereste ; lor, whilst in England there are 

 18,000 hogsheads consumed, in France, having a 

 greater population, not much more than one-half 

 of that quantity is consumed. 



hy the statement already referred to, it will be 

 observed that the profits resulting from the mono- 

 poly paid into ihc French treasury by the Regie, 

 in 1837, amounted to over eleven millions of dol- 

 lars. Th°se were the net profits, and if the ex- 

 penses of the Regie, which are very great, should 

 be added to that amount, (here is no doubt that the 

 gross revenue would be fifteen millions of dollars ; 

 and, as a considerable proportion of American to- 

 bacco is employed principally to mix with the 

 native tobacco, in order to render the quality of 

 the manuliictured article more valuable, it may 

 iheretore saleiy be esiimated that the revenue 

 derived from France, either directly or indirectly, 

 from American tobacco alone, amounts to five an.i 

 a half millions of dollars, being probably more 

 than double the amount of revenue obtained by the 

 United Slates from all the importations into this 

 country from France. 



Spain. 

 ^ In that country a monopoly of the Regie exists. 

 The average exports li-om the United Isiaies, as 

 will he seen by the statement already relijrred to, 

 were 1,723 hogsheads. There were also exported 

 from England in 1837 about 1,150 hogsheads of 

 Americiui tobacco. Large quantities, it is pre- 

 sumed, arc also smuggled from Gibraltar; so that 

 the total annual coiisumpiion of American tobacco 



may be estimated at about 5,700 hogsheads. 

 From information before the committee, it is be- 

 lieved that the gross revenue derived from the 

 Regie may be safely estimated at eight millions of 

 dollars; and, as the American tobacco employed 

 is in the proportion of about five-eighths of the 

 whole, the gross revenue d(!rived Iherefrom may 

 be esiimated at about five millions of dollars from 

 American tobacco. 



Portugah 

 In that country a monopoly by the farm (that 

 is, the right to deal in the article under a license 

 sold by the government) exists. The direct 

 average exportations were only 77 hogsheads, but 

 the average exportations of our tobacco from En<r- 

 land to Ptirtugal may be estimated at about SO 

 hog^iheads. The leaal importations into that 

 country may therefore be estimated at about 363 

 hogsheads annually. 



The net revenue derived from tobacco through 

 the farm was, a few years ago, as follows : 

 Amount of the lease to the farm, or per- 

 sons nr company obtaining the license 

 for the monopoly, per year $1,400 000 



Amount of the import duly 195,116 



But to the aforegoing there should al?n he 

 added to the amount which the farm 

 has a'so to pay to the o-overnment for 

 pensions to the former officers of the old 

 tobacco administration 24,677 



81,620,093 

 And, as the quantity of American tobacco legal- 

 ly consumed, was about one-third of ihe whole 

 manufactured, the net revenues from American 

 tobacco may be estimated at about ^540,000. Al- 

 thoush tobacco can only be admitted on account of 

 the farm, yet it is subject lo a duty of %S 36 on 

 American and $6 27 per 100 lbs. on Brazil. 

 Italy. 



Throughout Italy monopolies of tobacco exist, 

 either being a Regie of the stales, or it is farmctl 

 oul by the frovernmcnt. 



In Sardinia, it is a Regie, and the profits from 

 the monopoly must be very great. 



In the Roman statps it is also a Regie. The 

 consumption ofAmerican tobacco may be estimat- 

 ed at about .300 hogsheads. The profits are un- 

 questionably great. 



In Tuscany it is farmed our. The consumption 

 of A merican tobacco may be esiimated at about 

 425 hogsheads, and the profits from the monopoly 

 fi-om that quantity at about 8140,000. 



In Parma, the American tobacco is employed in 

 making the first class ofsnufT, and the consumption 

 may be esiimated at about 130 hoirsheads. In 

 1834, the Government obta'ned a gross revenue 

 of about .8106,460, from all qualities oftobacco. 



In Naples, it is firmed out. The quantity of 

 American tobacco may be estimated at about 400 

 hogsheads and Ihe revenue derived through the 

 liarm at about 8400,000. 



In Ihe Austrian dominions, wiih the exception 

 of Hungar\-, it is a Regie. The consumption of 

 American tobacco may be esiimated at about 4,000 

 hogsheads, which is partly imported into Trieste 

 direct !rom the United States, but the greatest 

 proportion is obtained from the entrepots of Hol- 

 land and the Hanse Towns. The profits derived 

 ihrcugh the Regie m.ust be very groat. 



