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5463. MONOPOLY, Whale oil.—[continued].

On the subject of the whale fishery, I enclose you some observations
I drew up for the ministry here, in
order to obtain a correction of their Arret of
September last, whereby they had involved
our oils with the English, in a general exclusion
from their ports. They will accordingly
correct this, so that our oils will participate
with theirs, in the monopoly of their
markets.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. ii, 538. Ford ed., v, 60.
(P. 1788)