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ade, it is necessary that the place should be invested
with a sufficient number of vessels that are sta-
tioned to prevent any communication with the
Port blockaded, and he contended Out or.e
vessel was not sufficiait to constitute a block-
ade. • He argued, that there was no rit,ht in this
or any other country to older a blockade, but foe
the purpose of annoying an enemy in warfare,
and not in cases of cemmeree, and to interfere in
the trade ro- neutrals, except for our own safety.
He argued at considerable length, the great hard-
ships of owners'of neutrals, and if there Was not
a free passage for them, theirs was a strong
CV! for compassion. To induce the penalties of
a breach of blockade, there should ha proof both
of an actual blo. kade then existing, and of the
Attel or presumptive knowledge, of the blockade,
by the party charged wigs violating it ; and the
Learned Doane contended, there was no proof in
this case. Officers and others, employed to carry a
blockade into effee, cannot, at their own pleasure,
and for their own profit, vary and extend the opera.
Lion which has been notified by the Government
from which they derive all their au-hority. The no-
tification of a blockade having the drat of a penal
law, ought to be stiir.ly construed in favour of those
upon whose property a disobedience or neglea of it,
even by their Agents, is so heavily to fall ; and the
public notice given by His Majesty's Government
to the Danish Minister, did not either in words,
or even an any fair interpretation to be collefted
from the motives there assigned for the existence
of the blockade, contain any prohibition of en-
trance by the Vlie Passage. His Majesty's Govern-
ment, after the blockade of the Texel was declared,
continued to give licenses to Neutral ships, to
go from this country throligh the Vlie Passage, and
fifty-two licanles were granted. A pnblie notice
does not carry with it conclusive proof, however it
n.ay afford some presumption of an actual blockade ;
and from the evidence in this cause, it appears, that
no aaual blockade of the Vb. Passage tl.en existed.
The case occupied the attentiun•of their Lord-
ships from teo o'clock till near four, when the Coun-
sel for the Appellants baring finished, their Lord.
ships consulted for a few minutes, and deferred their
decision upon the question to a future day.
N.B. The decision of this important question was
considered so great, that the late Ministers, and all
the Members of the Privy Council were summoned
to attend. The following were present—Earl Cam-
den, the President ct the Conned, the feed
Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, the Dike of
Montrose, Viscount Castlereagh, and two others.
The American Amba.sadors attended, and paid
very great attention to the whole of the proceeding.

NA F 4 L TALLIGENCE.

POatiMOVTIII, MAY SI.

Arrived His Majesty's ship Pyle. with a convoy.
from the Downs; Medea. Maine ; irrnar, Smith ;
and the Ihnjaviim, —, (the latter with the loss of
toremast, and other (iamage) from Plyneeetth ; from
whence they sailed on Wednesday' lam, ander con-
voy of His Majesty's ship Cereline. with several
other transports. and have experienced very Wavy
gales. Dropped down to St. Helm's, His Majesty's
s,:ip Muntaglie.—Wind E.

PLYMOUTH. MAY 30.
Yesterday arrived the firdtraii, from. Portsmouth,
and the jamaira frigate. Capt. Dick.
This darsailed the Cher brig, with a convoy of
villual!ers for the fleet off Brest, Sm.—Cold rain,
and almost a gale to the Northward.
FALMOUTH, MAY 8.

Arrived the American schooner and
Itichardon, from Baltimore, laden with entice, with
damage.

Sailed the Qareoe CL,rlms pada*, Mudge, With
Mails for the Leeward Want:b.—Wind E.N.E.

DIAL. MAY 31.

Arrived His Majesty's ship. Desperate, from a
cruise, and sailed again with the Otter and Maitre,
for the French coast.—Wind E.
DOVRI 11• 31.
Fu May, about the middle of the day,
day, to Sa-
turday about the same time, when it began to clear
up, we had a very heavy gale of wind from the N.E.
accompanied with a very heavy fall of rain during
the whole time; during which, four or five mackrel
boats, with their nets. and every thine. complete for
the stator:, were driven from their moorings off Deal ;
there was no person on board at the time, nor could
possibly get off, the sea running.so very high: one of
them drove past here yesterday,bottom up, which was
picked up and towed in in the evening. The Friends
Hoy, of Folkestone, Spicer, from London, was on
shore at I lythe, delivering when the gale came on,
she was in consequence driven up and beat to pieces.
Yesterday, in the afternoon, two ships drove past here
from the Downs, having parted from their anchors.
As soon as the gale abated, the privateers from the
French coast made their appearance, as signals for
the same were hoisted on the hill near the South Fore.
land, and remained a considerable time. They were
most likely in expectation, after the gale, of picking
up some lame ducks. The Mary. of this port, Wil-
kinson, is arrived here from Memel, with a cargo of
timber.

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