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 Indian productions and manufactures." The expression was, on reflection, deemed to be too general, and it was agreed to specify the prohibited articles, and accordingly "cotton" was inserted as a West Indian production; the cotton then used in the United States being almost wholly brought from the West Indies. A few months prior to Mr. Jay's departure for England, Mr. Jefferson, the Secretary of State, in a report to Congress on the commerce of the United States, enumerated the exports of the country, but made no mention of cotton. It was not, in fact, then known as a production of the United States, although it now requires for its transport a greater amount of shipping than almost any other article in the whole range of commerce.

The treaty so satisfactorily concluded between Great Britain and the United States, having been undoubtedly a successful effort of diplomacy in bringing together two nations which had been torn asunder by revolution, was viewed in France with the most profound alarm and indignation. The resentment of the French scarcely knew any bounds. They were full of the idea that the Americans owed their national independence to the aid rendered by them to the revolted colonies, a support which, as already explained, was furnished with a view less to promote the cause of freedom in the United States than to aim a blow at the maritime power of England.

So loud and clamorous were the complaints against the treaty, that if the voice of the French had been