Statement shewing the value of exports, the growth, produce and manufacture, of For eign Countries, from each State and Territory, annually, from the 1st of October, 1802, to the 30th of September, 1816. 1803. 1804. 1805. 1806. 1803, 1808. 1809. States und Territories.{ TABLE No. III. New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, 3,191,556 8,580,185 15,384,883 13,709,769 16,400,547 3,243,620 4,232,798 7,363 5,123 110 8,288 50.071 340,466 517,315 3,504,496 6,851,444 9,397,012 13,809,389 12,055,128 2,946,803 4,810,883 374,319 151.580 70,683 41,541 280,556 1,371.022 5,213,099 7,450,937 10,919,774 10,282,285 1,956,114 4,056,369 32,938 294,303 184,865 154,386 Virginia, 151,441 395,098 660,985 428,709 83,026 367,713 3,381 21,765 18,349 107,664 North Carolina, 26,296 9,142 12,469 3,576 4,229 160 South Carolina, 947,765 2,309,516 3,108,979 2,946,718 3,783,199 260,402 385,972 Georgia, 25,488 74,345 43,677 34,069 Indiana Territory, 32,476 17,320 Michigan do. Mississippi do. Orleans do. Total, 4,650 208,269 1,033,062 1,530,182 1,159,174 723,390 13,594,072 36,231,597 53,179,019 60,283,236 59,643,558 12,997,41420,797,531 197,621 PREFACE. In giving a sketch of the history of the Greek Revolution, the author has endeavored to sketch an introductory view of the rise and progress of the Turkish empire, from its origin down to the commencement of the Greek Revolution; in order to give the reader a full view of this most interesting and important subject. This will comprise the period of the first chapter. The author has arranged the work into annual periods, and introduced each chapter with a brief summary of the events of that year, in order to open the subjects more clearly to the reader. This summary is supported by extracts from the most authentic sources, relating the several occurrences and events of the revolution, and the order of time in which they took place. The author has chosen this mode, because the several accounts are often so vague, and contradictory, that could not feel himself justified in becoming responsible for their correctness, any further than by a general sum mary. But even this view of the subject, it is presumed, will go very far to gratify that lively interest and feeling, for the success of the Greeks, which so strongly impresses the public mind throughout the United States. In addition to this, the author has endeavored to throw all possible light upon the subject, by introducing into the work sundry letters from several distinguished men, resident in Greece, which describe minutely and feelingly the situation and sufferings of that oppressed, and wretched people. SKETCH OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION. We have long been anxious to make some observations on Greece. The national interest felt in the fates of the country, the deep political questions involved in the contest, and the formidable probability that the insurrectionary war may light a flame that will spread through Europe, urged it upon us. But there was a general deficiency of facts; the friends and enemies of the cause had equally given themselves up to romance, and it was essential to truth to wait until those mutual misrepresentations had been, in some measure, cleared away. This has been lately accomplished; some travellers, led only by a rational and intelligent curiosity, have within a short period visited Greece. Their works are now before the public, and from those sources, and such others as our personal knowledge might supply, a general view of the question may be formed free from romance, partiality or fiction. We disclaim all enthusiasm. Yet we do not hesitate to pronounce the cause of Greece the cause of human nature. We allow the greater part of the imputations on the Greek character-that it is rash, given to quarrel, suspicious, inconstant, and careless of blood. But the Greek has not had his trial. He has been for almost five hundred years, a broken man. His place of birth has been only a larger prison; his education the bitterness of heart, the subterfuge, the sullen treachery, and the furious revenge of the slave. What estimate can we form of the strength and stature of freedom from this decript and barbarous servitude? Even the vices of the character may be an indication of the vigor of its capabilities. The perversion of the best things is the worst. The fiery element that, in its rage, lays waste the land, is the great and exhaustless instrument of comfort and abundance. But the question may be decided at once we know what the Greeks have been ! If they are now barbarians, we must remember that they were once the lights of the world. But the Turk is a barbarian. All his vices are thoroughly and incurably barbarian. He is habitually tyrannical, passionate for plunder,and a lover of blood,his tastes are barbarian, extravagant splendour, gross indulgence, savage indolence of mind and body; he enjoys none of the resources of civilization; he has no national literature; he cultivates no language; he produces no picture, no statue, no music. Greeks are his linguists and the navigators of his ships; foreigners discipline his army, and carry on his diplomacy. He resists the civilization of Europe with utter scorn, and even when forced upon him by circumstances, he resists it till its nature is changed, and he is again the Turk of Mahomet the Second; he answers religious conviction by the dagger. He sits among the nations with no other instinct than that of the tiger, to seek out his prey, and having found it, to gorge and sleep. Yet no nation on earth has had such advantage for the most consummate civilization. It has been seated in the central region of the temperate zone; the master of its central sea on all its borders from Syria to Italy on the one side, and to Mauritana on the other. In the richest, most magnificent and inspiring realm that ever |