NOTE.-There was not any distinction made between the Sea-Island and other Cotton, until the year 1805 both are included in the above statement, from 1800 to 1804, inclusive. TABLE No. VIII.-CONTINUED. COTTON-OTHER THAN SEA-ISLAND-pounds. 1806. 1807. 272,134 881,584 3,129,146 3,146,209 491,814 1,068,096 100,869 24,007,799 18,253,840 44,452,049 7,051,592 11,099,482 31,413,132 39,083,587 796,496 4,292,055 228,880 Average price, 22 cts. 21 cts. 20 cts. 15 cts. 15 cts. 14 cts. CHAPTER V. EXPORTS OF FOREIGN PRODUCE. NEUTRAL trade of the United States increased by the wars in Europe-Their trade in foreign produce greater, than in domestic, in 1805, 1806, and 1807 -Quantity of sugar, coffee, cocoa, pepper, and goods paying ad valorem duties exported, in each year, from 1791 to 1814-Quantity of sugar and coffee, and goods subject to ad valorem duties imported from different countries in 1807-Quantity of sugar and coffee exported to different countries, in different years-Average quantity of wines, spirits, teas, cocoa, and pepper, exported in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. THE war between England and France, which began in 1793, soon after the establishment of the present national government, and between England and Spain in 1796, and which continued, with but a short interval, until it involved all the nations of Europe, threw into the hands of the American merchant, no small proportion of the trade of the world. The vast superiority of the naval force of England, rendered the intercourse between the European powers at war with that nation, and their Colonies, extremely difficult. They were, therefore, obliged to depend, in a great measure, upon neutrals to carry on the trade between them, and their distant possessions. The valuable productions of the French, Spanish, and Dutch East and West-Indies, had no other mode of finding their way to Europe, without great risque and expense, but by the aid of a neutral flag. The local situation of the United States, in relation to the West-India Islands, and their long accustomed habits of intercourse with them, naturally threw a great proportion of this trade into the hands of the |