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Updated: January 24, 2026

Quoted from De Witt's Interest of Holland, in Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. ii. p. 472. Observations on the Commerce of the American States, 1783, p. 115. Concerning this pamphlet, Gibbon wrote, "The Navigation Act, the palladium of Britain, was defended, perhaps saved, by his pen." American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. pp. 296-299.

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