[326] Moniteur, An v. pp. 164, 167.
[327] March 1, and October 8, 1793. Ibid.
[328] Speech of Lecouteulx; Moniteur, An v. p. 176.
[329] Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. 463.
[330] Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. 413, note.
[331] Of the imports into Germany, three fifths were foreign merchandise re-exported from Great Britain.
[332] These figures are all taken from Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv.
[333] See Am. State Papers, vol. x. p. 487.
[334] The importance of the West India region to the commercial system of Great Britain in the last decade of the 18th century will be seen from the following table, showing the distribution per cent of British trade in 1792 and 1800:—
| Imports from, | Exports to, | |||
| 1792. | 1800. | 1792. | 1800. | |
| British West Indies | 20 | 28 | 11 | 10 |
| United States | 5 | 7 | 17 | 15 |
| Russia | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| Germany and Prussia | 5 | 12 | 9 | 31 |
| France, Belgium, and Holland | 8 | 4 | 15 | 12 |
| Mediterranean | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Spain and Portugal | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Ireland | 13 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
| Asia (not Levant) | 14 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Miscellaneous | 10 | 11 | 14 | 9 |
| —— | —— | —— | —— | |
| 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |