[12] .... More significant than these clearances were the arrivals. The British seem to have settled upon New York as the best port for the bulk of their 'dumping' of manufactures. It seemed better for their purposes than Boston,where the British had played upon the anti-war feeling by tolerating a reasonable amount of leakage and which consequently had not been deprived of European goods to the extent of New York. New York's central location made it preferable to the ports to the southward, which had also been rigidly blackaded and where imported goods were likewise scarce and prices high. ...