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63 ports of the belligerent powers, but the produce and merchandize of foreign countries, to the different markets of Europe and America. The value of their exports in 1791 amounted to 19,012,041 dollars, including two or three millions, the value of the produce and merchandize of foreign countries introduced into the United States and thence again exported to the markets of other nations; and the value of imports for the consumption of the country, amounted to 19,082,828. In proportion as the war became more general in Europe, and the necessity of maintaining large armies and fleets required an extraordinary and enormous consumption, the commerce of the United States increased with astonishing rapidity; and, with the exception of what it suffered during the embargo, and the war which the government undertook against Great Britain, to please Napoleon, it did not decline till