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on other cotton of about sixty cents per pound,
amounting to three or four times. thta on _ dial
cost n the United States. And as to tobacco,
the French Minister, here,
.onjheag3d.July, 1811,
informed our Croaernment that it• Was underarm
Administration pea rel;ie) in France; the Adminis-
tration (he sava) is the only consumer and can
purchase only,the quantity necessary for its cnn-
sumption; Aftd by other regadations not more
than one fifteenth of all the tobacco consumed in
Frsnce, can. be of fOreign growth. - The ordinary
quantity of tobacco annually consumed in France
is estin„,ted at 30,00 Q hogsheads, leaving only
abput bOgsheads of foreign tobacco to be
purchased in France.
In additicin to these impositions and restric-
tions, the importer is not left at liberty with re-
spect to his return cargo. By other edicts; he is
compelled to vest the avails of his hnpnatations,'
if, after paying duties and seizures, any remain,'
in such articles of• France produce and manufac-
ture, as the French Government thinks proper to
direct. Two-thirds at least• must he
.lai4 out in
silks, and the other third in wines, bl'abdies, and
other articles of that cOuntry.--TO shew that this
account of our commercial relations with France
doei not rest on doubtful authority, the Under-
signed would refer to the statements and-declaraa
tions of our Government on this subject. In a
letter front-Mr. Smith , 'the late Secretary of State,
to.the Minister of France here, on the 18th be--
cernber, 1 810, speaking of our trade -6 that coun-
try, muter its regulations, after the pretended re-
peal of the Decrees, Mr. Smith says—" The re-
strictions of the Berlin and Milan Decrees had the
effect of restraining the American merchants from
sending their vessels to France. The interdic-
tions in the system that has been substituted,
against the admi,sion .of American products, will
have the effect of imposing upon them'atvequal
restraint:
If then, for the revoked decreesimunicipal
laws', producing the same commercial effect, have
been substituted; the mode onliv, ands not the
rErasure, r has undergone an alteration. And,.
however true it may be, that the change i§ lawful
in form, it is nevertheless, astrue, that it is essen-
tially unfriendly, and that italoes not at all-comport
with the ideas inspired b your letter of the 27th
ult. in which you were pleased to: declare the
distinctly pronounced intention-of. Ms' Imperial
Majesty' Of favouring the commercial relations
between France and the United States, in all the
objects of traffic which 'Mall evidently proceed
from.their agriculture-or manufactures:
`' If France, by her own acts, has blockaded
up her ports against the introduction of the pro...
ducts of the United States, what motive has this
Government, in a discussion with a third power,
to insist on the. privilege of going to France I'7-
Whence the inducement, to urge.the annulment
of a blockade of France, when, if annulled, no
American cargoes could. obtain a market in any
or her ports ? In . such a state of things, a
blockade of the coast of France would be to the
United States as unimportant as would be
blockade of the coast of the Caspian Sea.
" And, .so far has the French Emperor been
froM relaxing, in whole, or in part, these ndicaus
regulations as to us, in "consequence of our sub-
mitting to give up our English trade, that they
have been made a subject of special instructions
to the Minister who has, been sent to the Court of
France. •,
Mr. Monroe, in his letter of instructions to
Mr. Barlow, of july 26', 1811, says, Vona_ early
and particular' attention will be drawn -to the
great subject of the: commercial relatiOn which is
to subsist, in future, between the.trnited .States,
and France. The President expects that the con
merce of the-United States will be placed, in the
ports of France, on sue'n.a.footing as to afford it
a fair market; and to the industry. and enterprize
of their citizens, a raasonahle encouragement. 7--
An arrangement to this effect .was looked for,
immediately..-after: . the revocation of the de-
crees, but it
.appears:•from. the documents in
this department, that thata was not the case on
the contrary, that °lir; commerce has been sub-
jected to the greatest discouragement, or' rather,
to the most oparessiverestraints ; that the vessels
which carried coffee,,sugarr&c. though sailing di-
rectly from the. United States to a French port,
were held in a state of sequestration, on the prin-
ciple that the trade was prohibited, and that the
importation of. these articles was not only unlaw-
ful, but.criminal 5. that even the .vessels which
carried the unquestionable productions of the
United States were exposed to great and expensive
delays, to tedionS investigations in unusual forms;
and to exorbitant duties. short, that the ordi-
nary usages of commerce between friendly nations
were abandoned.'
" Again Mr. Monroe,. in the agile letter, says,
If the ports of France, and her allies are not
opened to the commerce of the United States,
on a liberal scale and on fair conditions, of what
avail to. them it may be asked, will be. the reyoca-
bon of the British Orders in Council ? In con-
tending for the revocation .of these OrderS,.ao far
as it was an object Qf interest, the United States
had in view a trade to the Continent. It was a
fair legitimate okject,, and worth contending for,
While France- encouraged it. But if sheahnts her
• •
ports .on our commerce, Qr Intruen it withheavy
duties, thot motive is at an end.'
, .
" lie again-says., You will see the injustice;
and endeavour, to preyent the neoessitrof baing-
ing in return for American cargoes .sold in France,.
an equal. amount in tie produce or. manufactnres
of that country. No such obligation is .inaposed
on French merchants trading taatheUnited States:
They enjoy the liberty of selling their cargoes for
. cash, and taking, back what they,Pleased from, this
Country in return. It is indispensable that the
trade be free 5-that all American: citizens ,engaged
in it be placed on the same footing and, with
this view, that the system of carrying it on by li-
censes granted by French agents, he irnmediately
annulled: .
" The dispatches -from Mr. Barlow, by the
Hornet,'most:Clearly slim, that the expectatiohs
of our Government have not only not been re-
• "alized, but that even the promises obtained by our
Minister, are.of a very unsatisfactory nature. In-
deed, while Buconaparte is 'sending armies to the

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