I. Sources and Amounts of Rice Imports into France, 1788
I. Sources and Amounts of Rice Imports into France, 1788
| Importation de Riz pendant l’année 1788 | ||||
| Quintaux | ℔ | |||
| D’Espagne et les Etats en dependans | 61. | 44 | ||
| Du Portugal | 36. | 5 | ||
| Du Etats du Roi de Sardaigne | 41,363. | 90 | ||
| De Génes | 11,176. | 60 | ||
| Du Milanois et Toscane | 695. | 50 | ||
| Etat Ecclésiastique | 60. | 4 | ||
| Naples, Sicile et Parma | 1. | 77 | ||
| Venise | 243. | 88 | ||
| Le Levant et l’Empire Ottoman | 24. | 71 | ||
| L’Angleterre | 15,127. | 55 | ||
| La Hollande | 3,342. | 73 | ||
| Les Etats-Unis de l’Amerique | 7,193. | 44 | ||
| Les Etats de l’Empereur en Allemagne et Flandre | 2,227. | 76 | ||
| Les Suisses, ses Alliés et Geneve | 53. | 50 | ||
| 81,608. | Qx. | 87 | l. | |
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 46: 7806); in a clerk’s hand, with notation at foot of text in TJ’s hand: “furnished me by M. Dupont”; endorsed by TJ: “Rice. Importation of into France.” Tr (DLC: TJ Papers, 46: 7805); in Short’s hand; endorsed by TJ: “Rice.” PrC from another Tr (DLC: TJ Papers, 52: 8809). Copies of these statistics were forwarded not only to Izard but also to Rutledge, Ramsay, and Cutting (see under 18 and 24 Sep. 1789).
There are in DLC: TJ Papers other notes by TJ bearing on consumption, cost, &c. of rice: (1) A memorandum showing the consumption of rice in Paris, as follows:
| “1782 | 311,132£ |
| 1783 | 356,661 |
| 1784 | 1,090,068 |
| 1785 | 704,706 |
| 1786 | 949,341 |
| 3,411,908 |
Le Cinquieme 682,381 ⅗” (same, 236: 42389; endorsed by TJ: “Rice. Consumption of it in Paris”). (2) A memorandum on costs:
- “Rice in Carolina 10/ sterl. the Amercan 100 ℔.
- At Nantes 16.₶ the French 100 ℔.
- At Havre 22.₶
- At Paris 50₶ retailing price
- At Bourdeaux 23.₶ the French 100.℔
- Rice cost in Carolina the beginning of 1787. 15/6 sterl. the American hundred”
(same, 36:6201). It is possible that these estimates were obtained in 1787 for use at that time (see TJ to Rutledge, Drayton, and Izard, under 14 and 30 July, 1 Aug. 1787; also notes on the rice trade printed under 15 July 1787).