Excerpt from Report of a Committee of the Lords of the Privy Council on the Trade of Great Britain With the United States: January, 1791 HE following report is printed from a manuscript T found among the Jefferson Papers deposited in the Department of State. Its history is unknown. A letter press copy of an abstract of the report in the same collection, describes it as a report made to the Privy Council, and handed to the King, (a few copies of which were printed off for the members of Cabinet, and called in again by a sudden order of Council) communicated in a letter dated London, 15th June, The date, subject-matter and manner of treatment tend to show that, in all probability, it was prepared to enable the British Government to pass upon the advances for a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and the United States which Washington made in 1789 - 390 through Gouverneur Morris, advances that were rejected by the English Cabinet, (american State Papers (folio) Foreign Affairs, Vol. Jefferson speaks of this report as a document of authority (works, vii, Mr. Haswell, Chief of the Bureau of Indexes and Archives, tells me that the copy is in the handwriting of Mr. Remsen, Jr., who had held office under the Continental Congress and was the first under-secretary in the Department when Jefferson was Secretary of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.