IV. A. State of the present tonnage of the shipping of the United States from 1799 to 1802. 1799 203,759 31,595 440,000 675,000 1801 227,214 35,997 595,000 858,000 Nota. In state A, we have only included the number of tonnage of ships belonging to citizens of the United States, and built in the country. The following comparative state (which merely relates to the foreign commerce of the United States) includes the tonnage which has every year entered the ports of the United States. As in this last state, the different voyages made by the same vessel in the course of the year, have been included, it follows that the amount of the American tonnage in the foreign trade, in state B. is superior every year to the American tonnage in the foreign trade in state A. B. Comparative state of the American and foreign tonnage employed in the commerce between the United States and other coun- tries. Total of ton-Proportion of nage in the foreign tonnage to trade be the whole tonnage tween the in Ameri Years. American Foreign tonnage can com- 1790 354,767 251,058 1794 525,649 84,251 1799 626,855 107,583 1800 684,350 122,403 United States and in the commerce between the Uni ted States and other coun- other countries. tries. 605,825 41. 4 per cent. 610,170 13. 8 734,438 14. 6 1801 850,397 157,270 1,007,667 15. 6 1802 800,276 145,519 945,795 15. 4 A. Importation in the United States. 1800, 1801. 1802. in European Madeira and Canary wines and activity of the commerce of the United States The following particulars prove the great ported, there came into the United States : Of this great quantity of wine and sugar im 2,382,477 77,577 105,553 37,234 123,928 132,657 67,418 Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. 2,623,354 1,302,470 |
