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Author: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.
Title: The commerce of America with Europe; particularly with France and Great Britain; comparatively stated and explained. Shewing the importance of the American Revolution to the interests of France, and pointing out the actual situation of the United States of North-America, in regard to trade, manufactures and population. / By J.P. Brissot de Warville, and Etienne Claviere. ; Translated from the last French edition, revised by Brissot, and called the second volume of his view of America. ; With the life of Brissot, and an appendix, by the translator.
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Print source: The commerce of America with Europe; particularly with France and Great Britain; comparatively stated and explained. Shewing the importance of the American Revolution to the interests of France, and pointing out the actual situation of the United States of North-America, in regard to trade, manufactures and population. / By J.P. Brissot de Warville, and Etienne Claviere. ; Translated from the last French edition, revised by Brissot, and called the second volume of his view of America. ; With the life of Brissot, and an appendix, by the translator.
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793., Clavière, Étienne, 1735-1793., Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812, tr., Scoles, John, 1772?-1853, engraver.
New-York:: Printed and sold by T. and J. Swords, no. 99 Pearl-Street., --1795.--
Subject terms:
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. -- (Jacques Pierre), 1754-1793 -- Portraits.
United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
United States -- Commerce -- France.
France -- Commerce -- United States.
United States -- Commerce -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Commerce -- United States.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF J. P. BRISSOT.
Of Brissot's Writings; and particularly of this Work.
Report against Brissot, and the other arrested Deputies; made October 3, 1793.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION,
THE COMMERCE, &c.
CHAPTER I. Of External Commerce; the circumstances which lead to it, and the Means of assuring it to a Nation.
CHAPTER II. Of External Commerce, considered in its Means of Ex|change, and its Balance.
CHAPTER III. Application of the foregoing general Principles to the recipro|cal Commerce of France and the United States.
CHAPTER IV. That the United States are obliged by their present Neces|sities and Circumstances to engage in foreign Commerce.
CHAPTER V. Of the Importation to be made from France into the United States, or of the Wants of the United States, and the Productions of France which correspond thereto.
SECTION I. Wines.
SECTION II. Brandy.
SECTION III. Oils, Olives, dry Fruits, &c.
SECTION IV. Cloths.
SECTION V. Linens.
SECTION VI. Silks, Ribbons, Silk Stockings, Gold and Silver Lace, &c.
SECTION VII. Hats.
SECTION VIII. Leather. Shoes, Boots, Saddles, &c.
SECTION IX. Glass Houses.
SECTION X. Iron and Steel.
SECTION XI. Jewellery, Gold and Silversmiths' Articles, Clock-work, &c.
SECTION XII. Different Sorts of Paper, stained Paper, &c.
SECTION XIII. Printing.
SECTION XIV. Salt.
SECTION XV. General Considerations on the Catalogue of French Impor|tations into the United States.
CHAPTER VI. Of the Articles which Independent America may furnish in return for Importations from France.
LETTER Addressed to M. Jefferson, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of France.
EXPORTS OF AMERICA.
SECTION I. Tobacco.
SECTION II. Fisheries, Whale Oil, &c. Spermaceti Candles.
SECTION III. Corn, Flour, &c.
SECTION IV. Masts, Yards, and other Timber for the Navy.
SECTION V. Skins and Furs.
SECTION VI. Rice, Indigo, Flax-seed.
Indigo.
Flax-Seed.
SECTION VII. Naval Stores, such as Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine.
SECTION VIII. Timber and Wood, for Carpenters and Coopers work; such as Staves, Cask-heads, Planks, Boards, &c.
SECTION IX. Vessels constructed in America, to be sold or freighted.
SECTION X. General Considerations on the preceding Catalogue of Im|portation▪ from the United States into France.
CONCLUSION, And Reflections on the Situation of the United States.
APPENDIX; CONSISTING OF AUTHENTIC PAPERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Added by the Editor
Return of the whole Number of Persons within the several Dis|tricts of the United States, according to "an Act providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States;" passed March the 1st, 1791.
Schedule of the whole Number of Persons in the Territory of the United States of America, South of the River Ohio, as taken on the last Saturday of Jaly, 1791, by the Captains of the Militia within the Limits of their respective Districts.
description of population
Observation on the Population of America. Written by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Printed at Philadelphia in the 1755.
Of the Western Territory.
Thoughts on the Duration of the American Commonwealth.
A state of the Commercial Intercourse between the United States of America and Foreign Nations. Written in the Month of June, 1792. By Thomas Jefferson, Esq Secretary of State to the said United States.
2d. In the West-Indies.
3d. In the Article of Navigation.
recommendations
The following are some of the principal Articles of Ex|portation from the United States of America during the Year ending in September, 1792.
Of the Civil List, and Revenue of the United States.
list of expenses
The Revenues.
Estimate of Expence for the Year 1794.
Expences of the Executive Department.
Legislative Department.
Treasury Department.
Department of State, including Foreign Affairs.
Department of Wr.
Commissioners for settling Old Accounts.
Incidental and Contingent Expences.