iii.
Particulars of Port-charges at Dunkirk on a Foreign Ship of the burthen of 100 Tons, from a Coasting voyage (i. e.) English,
Dutch, Danes, Swedes, Americans and others . . .
Manuscript on 2 leaves folio (paper watermarked
I Gater), cut and folded to fit the quarto volume.
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iv.
Arrêt du Conseil d’État du Roi, concernant le commerce étranger dans les îles Françoises de l’Amérique. Du 30 Août 1784 .
. .
[A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
m. dcclxxxiv
.] [1784.]
4to. 6 leaves, the last a blank, caption title, imprint at the end.
Jefferson mentioned this Arrêt, and those of the 18th and 25th of September, 1785 (no. viii and ix in this collection), in
a letter to the Count de Vergennes (see no. vi), dated from Paris, November 20, 1785: “
. . . for the Arret of the king’s council of August 30. 1784. furnished an example of such a discrimination between foreigners
and natives importing salted fish into his Majesty’s dominions in the West-Indies; by laying a duty on that imported by foreigners,
and giving out the same in bounty to native importers. this opinion shews itself more remarkeably in the late Arrets of the
18
th. and 25
th. of September, which increasing to excess the duty on foreign importations of fish into the West Indies, giving the double
in bounty on those of natives, and thereby rendering it impossible for the former to sell in competition with the latter,
have in effect prohibited the importation of that article by the citizens of the United States . . .
”
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v.
Arrêt du Conseil d’État du Roi, qui accorde différentes faveurs au Commerce du Nord. Du 25 September 1784 . . . [A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1784.]
4to. 2 leaves, signed Le M.
al de Castries, caption title[,] imprint at the end.
Charles Eugène Gabriel, Marquis de Castries, 1727-1801, became Maréchal de France in 1780. As minister of marine he was in constant correspondence with Jefferson, the
minister plenipotentiary.
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vi.
Arrêt du Conseil d’État du Roi, qui renouvelle les anciennes défenses d’introduire dans le Royaume, aucunes Toiles de coton
& Mousselines venant de l’Étranger, autres que celles de l’Inde apportées par le commerce national: Et interdit le débit des
Toiles peintes, Gazes & Linons de fabrique étrangère, sauf le délai fixé pour celles existantes dans le Royaume. Du 10 Juillet
1785.
[A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
m. dcclxxxv
.] [1785.]
4to. 4 leaves, signed at the end by Gravier de Vergennes; caption title, imprint at the end.
Charles Gravier de Vergennes, 1717-1787, Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, was in constant communication with Jefferson as minister plenipotentiary.
Jefferson expressed an opinion of him in his autobiography:
. . . the Count de Vergennes had the reputation with our diplomatic corps of being wary & slippery in his diplomatic intercourse;
and so he might be with those whom he knew to be slippery and doublefaced themselves. as he saw that I had no indirect views,
practised no subtleties, meddled in no intrigues, pursued no concealed object, I found him as frank, as honorable, as easy
of access to reason as any man with whom I had ever done business; and I must say the same for his successor Montmorin, one
of the most honest and worthy of human beings . . .
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vii.
Arrêt du Conseil d’État du Roi, concernant les marchandises étrangères, prohibées dans le Royaume. Du 17 Juillet 1785 . .
.
[A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1785.]
