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Official Value £667,349 fs. 16,684,000
Declared Value £475,883 fs. 11,897,000
Whereas the account given in the French Official
Statement for the year 1829 is fs. 19,142,000
being 2,459,000 fs. more than the Official, and 7,245,000 fs., more
than the declared value reported by the English Accounts.
This, perhaps, is not a great discrepancy than might have
been anticipated on the Accounts of Exports from France. In
that of Exports from England the higher valuation attached
in France to Metals, Minerals, and Machinery, Wool and
other articles forming the principal articles of Shipment
may sufficiently account for the incongruity.
On the recommendation of the Commissioners, the
British Ambassador circulated among the Consular Agents
of Great Britain in France a series of questions, whose object
was to ascertain the effects which the alterations in the
Commercial code of France had produced – the present situation
of the Trade between the two Countries whether legitimate
or clandestine – and the developements of which
it appears susceptible in their different districts, if the Tariffs
were modified with a view to its extension. We shall hereafter
have occasion to refer to some valuable returns and
important suggestions, as the different articles come
under review. On general principles however the Consuls
were
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