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since the general peace of Europe. In the year 1794, the value of exports amounted to 33,043,725 dollars, including 16,848,625 dollars, the value of foreign produce reexported from the country; and the imports from different parts of the world, amounted to 93,020,515, including 46,642,725 of foreign articles, which were in part exported afterwards, leaving the nett result of imports for the consumption of the country, according to calculation, at 88,900,000. The commerce varied but little in the last years of the 18th century; and taking as the scale from that period, the years 1802, 3 and 4, the result, according to the statements of the Treasury Department, (official) is an average of 143 millions of dollars: in exports 68 millions, to wit, 24 to England, 4 to Russia and Germany, 9 to Holland, 12 to France, 7 to Spain, 2 to Portugal, 3 to Italy, 1 to China and Bengal, and the remaining 6 to other parts of the world; in imports 75 millions, to wit, 36 from England, 7 from Russia and Germany, 6 from Holland, 8 from France, 5 from Spain, 1 from Portugal, 2 from Italy, 6 from China and Bengal, and 4 from other parts of the globe.


    not treated as a foreigner." The charge is still more strange, as coming from Don Luis, since he seems to take particular delight in calling the citizens of the United States, Anglo-Americans—a term which can have no other ground of propriety for its application, than the prevalence of English sentiments in the country. T.