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5718. NAVIGATION, French and English hostility.—[further continued] .

The countervailing acts
of Great Britain, now laid before Congress,
threaten, in the opinion of merchants, the
entire loss of our navigation to England. It
makes a difference, from the present state of
things, of five hundred guineas on a vessel of
three hundred and fifty tons.—
To Horatio Gates. Washington ed. iv, 213. Ford ed., vii, 205.
(Pa., Feb. 1798)