20 leaves.
Sent to Jefferson by the author, who wrote from Whitehall on May 14, 1791: “Sir John Sinclair’s best Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Has the honour of inclosing some papers of which he requests Mr. Jefferson’s
acceptance. In regard to the Corn Laws, they will not probably agree, but he sincerely wishes at the same time that some commercial
arrangement could be entered into between the two countries.”
Jefferson replied from Philadelphia on August 24: “
I am to acknolege the reciept of your two favors of Dec. 25. & May 14. with the pamphlets which accompanied them, & to return
you my thanks for them. the Corn law, I percieve, has not passed in the form you expected. my wishes on that subject were
nearer yours than you imagined. we both in fact desired the same thing for different reasons, respecting the interests of
our respective countries, & therefore justifiable in both; you wished the bill so moulded as to encourage strongly your national
agriculture. the clause for warehousing foreign corn tended to lessen the confidence of the farmer in the demand for his corn.
I wished the clause omitted that our corn might pass directly to the country of the consumer, & save us the loss of an intermediate
deposit, which it can illy bear . . .
”
Other works by Sir John Sinclair occur in this catalogue, see the Index.
[3594]
Not listed by Jefferson.
Considerations, on the expediency of admitting the importation of Irish Corn into Great Britain, when the prices are below
the rates at which the importation of Corn from other foreign parts on the low duties is allowed.
Without name of place or printer,
March 1791.
Folio. 2 leaves (folded to fit the 8vo. volume); caption title on the first leaf and the title as above printed on the verso
of the second, otherwise blank. Paper watermarked
GPatch on the first leaf and with
Britannia on the second.
[3595]
4.
---------’s Statistical acc
t. of Scotland.
SINCLAIR,
Sir John.
Specimen of the Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes.
By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
Edinburgh:
m,dcc,xci
. [1791.]
28 leaves. 2 folded plates by Fred
k. Birnie. The Advertisement is dated Edin. Feb. 3. 1791, and states that
The following Sheets are Part of a Volume, which will be ready for Publication by the meeting of the next General Assembly
. . .
This and the next following tract were sent to Jefferson by Sir John Sinclair, who wrote from Whitehall on May 18, 1792: “I have the honour of sending you some papers, which, I hope will give you pleasure. I wish we had a statistical survey of
America, similar to the one I am now carrying on in Scotland, were it even to begin with the ensuing Century. If you retranslate
the Prospectus into English & print it, a spirit to that effect may be roused . . .”
A presentation inscription on the title-page has been almost entirely cut away.
Sir John Sinclair was responsible for the introduction of the word
statistical into the language, see no. 746.
[3596]
5.
the same in
French.
SINCLAIR,
Sir John.
Prospectus d’un ouvrage intitulé: Analyse de l’État Politique d’Écosse, d’après les rapports des Ministres de chaque Paroisse;
contenant la situation présente de ce
