The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Vol II

282

Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. 368, 535.

283

Porter's Progress of the Nation, part ii. p. 171.

284

Porter's Progress of the Nation, part ii. p. 171.

285

Chalmer's Historical View, p. 307.

286

Porter, part ii. p. 173. The Naval Chronicle, vol. xxix. p. 453, gives an official tabular statement of prize-vessels admitted to registry between 1793 and 1812. In 1792 there were but 609, total tonnage 93,994.

287

Chalmer's Historical View, p. 351.

288

The amounts given are those known as the "official values," assigned arbitrarily to the specific articles a century before. The advantage attaching to this system is, that, no fluctuation of price entering as a factor, the values continue to represent from year to year the proportion of trade done. Official values are used throughout this chapter when not otherwise stated. The "real values," deduced from current prices, were generally much greater than the official. Thus, in 1800, the whole volume of trade, by official value £73,723,000, was by real value £111,231,000. The figures are taken from Macpherson's Annals of Commerce.

289

The French will not suffer a Power which seeks to found its prosperity upon the misfortunes of other states, to raise its commerce upon the ruin of that of other states, and which, aspiring to the dominion of the seas, wishes to introduce everywhere the articles of its own manufacture and to receive nothing from foreign industry, any longer to enjoy the fruit of its guilty speculations.—Message of Directory to the Council of Five Hundred, Jan. 4, 1798.

290

Message of Directory to Council of Five Hundred, Jan. 4, 1798.

291

The act imposing these duties went into effect Aug. 15, 1789. Vessels built in the United States, and owned by her citizens, paid an entrance duty of six cents per ton; all other vessels fifty cents. A discount of ten per cent on the established duties was also allowed upon articles imported in vessels built and owned in the country. (Annals of Congress. First Congress, pp. 2131, 2132.)

292

Am. State Papers, vol. x. 502.

293

Ibid., p. 389.

294

Ibid., p. 528.

295

Ibid., p. 584.

296

Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. 535.

297

Am. State Papers, vol. i. 243.

298

Annual Register, 1793, p. 346*.

299

Am. State Papers, i. 240. A complete series of the orders injuriously affecting United States commerce, issued by Great Britain and France, from 1791 to 1808, can be found in the Am. State Papers, vol. iii. p. 262.

300

Am. State Papers, i. 240, 241. How probable this result was may be seen from the letters of Gouverneur Morris, Oct. 19, 1793, and March 6, 1794. State Papers, vol. i. pp. 375, 404.

301

Am. State Papers, vol. i. p. 679.

302

Wheaton's International Law, p. 753.

303

Monroe to the British Minister of Foreign Affairs. Am. State Papers, vol. ii. p. 735.

304

Reply to "War in Disguise, or Frauds of the Neutral Flag," by Gouverneur Morris, New York, 1806, p. 22.

305

Russell's Life of Fox, vol. ii. p. 281.

306

Letter to Danish Minister, March 17, 1807. Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. x. p. 406.