1. Commerce. What are the articles of their export and import? What duties are levied by them on exports and imports? Do all nations pay the same, or what nations are favored, and how far? Are they their own carriers, or who carries for them? Do they trade themselves to other countries, or are they merely passive?
2. Ports. What are their principal ports? What depth of water in them? What works of defence protect these ports?
3. Naval force. How many armed vessels have they? Of what kind and force? What is the constitution of their naval force? What resources for increasing their navy? What number of seamen? Their cruising grounds, and seasons of cruising?
4. Prisoners. What is their condition and treatment? At what price are they ordinarily redeemed, and how?
Do they pay respect to the treaties they make?
Land forces. Their numbers, constitution, and respectability?
Revenues. Their amount.
Coins. What coins pass there, and at what rates?