SECOND ACCOUNT

Received fince the Report was printed.

THE following account (which is published by Mr. Jefferfon, fecretary of state to the United States of America, in the Appendix to his Report of the 1st February 1790, on the cod and whale fisheries, carried on by the fubjects of the faid States) has also been received fince the foregoing Report was printed. It contains an account of the quantity of rice, flour, wheat, rye, and barley, imported into the ports of France from the United States of America, in the year 1789; v being a part of that period in which a dearth prevailed in France, for want of provifions of this nature. This account being only for the year 1789, does not correspond in point of time with the preceding abftract of exports from the United States, which contains an account of the faid exports from August 1789, to the 30th September 1790.-If the periods to which these two accounts refer had been the fame, it would have been poffible to have ftated with accuracy what proportion of the whole of thefe articles, which appear by the first of these accounts to have been exported from the countries of the United States, were imported, according to the second of these accounts, into the ports of France. But though thefe periods are in part different, it has been thought right to add, at the foot of this account, a comparative state of the quantities of each of these articles exported from the United States, in the period to which the first account refers; and of the quantities of each of the faid articles which were imported into the ports of France, in the period to which the second of these accounts refers.

It will ferve to fhew, generally, how large a proportion of the several sorts of grain, exported from the United States, was fent to France during the time that there was so great a want of them in the markets of Europe.

It is proper to obferve, that as the produce of the feveral forts of grain in France is supposed to be, in common years, fufficient for the consumption of the inhabitants of that kingdom, the trade of the United States with France, in all these articles, except rice, must always depend on the season, and confequently be very precarious.

Grain and Flour imported from the United States of America

into the ports of France, in the year 1789; from an official Statement.

Comparative State of the Quantities of each of the above Articles exported from the United States, in the Period to which the first Account refers; and of the Quantities of each of the faid Articles imported into the Ports of France in the Period to which the fecond Account refers.

THIRD ACCOUNT,

Received fince the Report was printed.

THE following account of the number of veffels which entered the ports of France, from the United States of America, in the year 1789, taken from the before mentioned Report of Mr. Jefferson, has also been received fince the foregoing Report was printed. This account will ferve to prove, what is cautiously suggested in the Report of the Lords of the committee for trade and plantations, viz. that British veffels have a confiderable fhare in the commercial intercourse carried on between the United States and the feveral nations of Europe;-for, according to this account, the British veffels that entered the ports of France from the United States, are above three times as many as the French veffels that entered the faid ports from the United States, in 1789; and above eight times more than the veffels of all the other nations of Europe, and about onefourth of the veffels of the United States that entered the ports of France during that period.—It is probable, that the fhare which British veffels have in the commercial intercourfe between the United States and other nations of Europe to the fouth of France, is more confiderable than the share they have in the intercourse between the United States and France.

Statement of the Veffels entered in the Ports of France, from the United States of America, in the Year 1789.

APPENDIX.

(A.)

N° I.

QUESTIONS referred on the 15th October 1789, by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council, appointed for all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, to a Committee of Merchants of the City of LONDON, and to the Merchants and ShipOwners of BRISTOL, LIVERPOOL, and GLASGOW, concerned in the Trade to the United States of America.

HAVE the commerce and shipping interest of this country suffered by the distinctions, which have been hitherto made by the different legislatures of the States composing the United States of America, in the duties imposed by them on British or other foreign goods, or in the duties imposed on the tonnage of British, or other foreign ships, or American ships, previous to the passing the late Impost and Tonnage act by Congress; and in what respect and degree?

QUESTION II.

Will the commerce and navigation of this country be upon a worse footing under the general duties imposed by the late Impostand Tonnage acts of Congress, than they have hitherto been under the duties imposed by the legislatures of the particular States composing the United States of America ?

QUESTION III.

If it should be thought proper to subject goods, brought in American ships, to the duties payable generally on goods brought in foreign ships, from which American ships only have hitherto been exempted, and further to impose a duty on the tonnage of American ships coming to this country, equal to the difference they have made in their tonnage act between American and foreign shipping coming to their ports, that is, forty-four cents of a dollar; would these measures have the effect of securing to the shipping of [A]