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9074. WEST INDIES, Commerce with. [further continued].

Our commerce with the
West Indies had never admitted amelioration
during my stay in France. The temper of that
period did not allow even the essay, and it was
as much as we could do to hold the ground
given us by the Marshal de Castries' Arret, admitting
us to their colonies with salted provisions,
&c.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. iii, 448. Ford ed., vi, 80.
(Pa., 1792)