322 A. D. 1794. 



The citizens of the United flates may be concerned in any branch of 

 foreign trade, whether carried on from their own, or any other, country ; 

 except the Have-trade, which is abohftied in all the ilates, with one fmall 

 exception * f . 



Manufadures are reprefented as advancing rapidly in America. Ai'k- 

 wright's fpinning mills, and the fpinning jennies, were tranfplanted to 

 the United ftates very foon after their firll appearance in this country : 

 and they alfo have mills and machinery for fpinning flax, hemp, and 

 wool. Eefides mills for grinding corn, the original, and for a long time 

 almofl the only, manufadure of Britifh America, there are great num- 

 bers of falling mills, faw mills, oil mills, gun-powder mills, paper mills, 

 fnuff mills, &c. They have machinery for rolling iron, copper, and 

 brafs, into flieets ; for making pig iron, bar iron, and Heel ; for flitting 

 iron ; making nail-rods, &c. and fleam engines have been introduced 

 with improvements by Mellieurs Rumfey and Fitch, citizt,ns of the 



United flares Their breweries were now fo flourifl:iing, efpecially in 



Philadelphia, that the importation of foreign malt liquor was reduced 

 to a mere trifle, and much more was exported than was imported. — 

 The diflilleries, whereof the greateft number are in Maflachufets bay, 

 were fo much increafed, that the quantity of home-made fpirits was 

 double that of the imported : and the quality, which formerly was juft- 

 ly reckoned very indifferent, was greatly improved. The American 

 rum was formerly made entirely from melaflis imported from the Weft- 

 Indies, and chiefly from the French iflands, whereof no lefs than 

 7,194,606 gallons were imported in the year ending in September 1791 ; 

 but that importation was tmufually great. Since the chief fource of 

 that fupply has failed in confequence of the calamities of the French 

 colony of S\ Domingo, the American diftillery has been in a great 

 meafure fupplied from grain, and alfo from fruit, a very good fpirit be- 

 ing diftilled from cider, and a moft excellent one from the juice of 

 peaches, which grow luxuriantly in almofl every part of the middle 

 flates. The annual quantity made from grains and fruits, chiefly in the 

 middle and fouthern flates, was now eftimated at four millions of gal- 

 lons X- In the diflillery from melafles Maflachufets bay greatly exceeds 



* The above is chiefly taken from a comparative • the United ilates are employed (1795) in the 



contrail of the reftrictions laid by Great Britain ' importation of negroes to Georgia and to the 



on the commerce of the United ilates, with the ' Weft-India ifles.' \_Travels by the duLe ds Rech:- 



fyilem adopted by them in their commercial inter- foucauk L'lanccurt, V. ii, /. 2y2 t^' Englifli tranjla- 



courfe with foreign countries, and efpecially with /ion.] The duke marks the merchants of Rliode 



Great Britain. We mull keep in mind, that it iiland as the conduftors of this ' accurfed traffick', 



was drawn up by Mr. Coxe in order to combat which they are determined to perfevere in til! the 



the opinion that indulgences had been granted by year iScS, the period iixed liy the conftitntion for 



Great Britain to the commerce of the United the final abolition of it : but they (hip only one 



ilates, before he knew any thing of the treaty of negro for every tun of the burthen of their veffels, 



19"* November I794; and that many points of which are moreover fmall ones, 



the contrail may in fairnefs and propriety be afcrib- J Apple brandy and peach brandy were made 



ed to the diiferent circumftances of an old eilab- before the revolution ; but they could not then be 



h'lhed country, and a young rifing one. confidered as articles for fale. 



■\ ' Nearly twenty veflcls from the haibours of 



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