[251] With flour varying at short intervals from $30 to $18, and $12, a barrel, it is evident that speculation must be rife, and also that only general statements can be made as to conditions over any length of time.
[252] Orchard Cook, of Massachusetts, said in the House of Representatives that 590 vessels sailed thus by permission. Annals of Congress, 1808-09, p. 1250.
[253] N.Y. Evening Post, Oct. 3, 1808.
[254] Ibid., Sept. 2, 1808.
[255] N.Y. Evening Post, Feb. 28, 1809.
[256] Ibid., Sept. 21, 1808.
[257] Ibid., Dec. 8, 1808.
[258] Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, vol. xii. p. 1194.
[259] Lord Grenville in House of Lords. Ibid., p. 780.
[260] N.Y. Evening Post, June 28, 1808.