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6771. PORTUGAL, Commerce with.—[continued].

[In arranging the treaty
of commerce] we wished much to have had
some privileges in their American possessions;
but this was not to be effected. The right to
import flour into Portugal, though not conceded
by the treaty, we are not without hopes of
obtaining.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. i, 551.
(P. 1786)