The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

FEB. 21.

: li. Si.ips of rite Aries or Neutral Powers, who may enter
Piri: to avoid the danger of the sea, shall blare no contain-
ith the i.iterior of our Kingdoin.—They shall be sub-
jected to quantal hie, and be under the Inuit severe stiperinteud-
once. The Commandant of the Port shall make them put to sea
as soon a: the weather shill permit.
IV. Fil,!ting-boats ttre under the direct superintendance of the
Civil and Military Authorities upon 'the coast. These Autho-
rirrs shall take care, on their respobsibility, that no communi-
c,mon take place, by means of the &berme'', w ith the cuesay's
61::ps aod other ships. To that rod, 'there shall he placed, as
a a soldier on board each fishing-boat. On the return
of tae boat, the tetttinel shall make his report of what has pas-
sea durin4 the fishery, contrary 'to the dispositious of the present
Decree, and the owner of the boat and crew shall be prosecuted
with all the rigour of the laws. Given at Utrecht, 23d Jan-
uary, LOUIS.

r9itTUGAL
DECREE OF GENERAL JUNOT.

THE GOVERNOR OF YARtS, FIRST ♦IL-DE-CAMP OF lIIS
Mk3ESAY TUE EMPEROR AND EINO, GLTIEItALIS ciitEr.
IN 111 E NAME (►F HIS MAJESTY, THE EMPEROR Or THE
FREN elf, KING OF ITALY.
Considering, that under the pretext of hunting or shooting,
RFso,sinat ions are daily committed ; and it being the Intention of
►.he General in Chief to cause the game to be destro.ved in a re-
cular manner, iu places where it can be hurtful, Decrees as
follow s
It is universally prohibited to carry fire-arms, or hunt or
ott,„t throughout the u hole extent of Portugal, and in particu-
rin stick di►tricts as are reserved by the Crown. Every indi-
vidual. not in tl►c service, who shall be found armed with a gun
or pistol, hunting or shooting, without having obtained leave
t;eneral Iletaborde, Commandant of Lisbon, to do so, signed
by hint and confirmed with his seal, shall bst considered as a
samnt, and highway assassin, and tried as such by a Military
committee, which shall be organised fur that purpose. The
t'ottwil or Itezeucy, and the Commissary of the French Go-
vernment, as well as the Commandant Generai of Lisbon, and
the Judges of all classes, arc charged with the Lxecutiou of the
present Decree.
(Avert in the Palace of the Ilead-Quarters in Lisbon, the 4th
December, 1807. JUNOT.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
no \DAV, FEB. 15, 1808.
Ilse Bill for regulating the Issue of Exchequer Bills was
read a first time.
Loan .Ia:et:LAND, pursuant to notice, called the attention of
the House to the Order in Council of the 1 lth of November,
tt it h its subsequent comments and explanations. He contended,
that they %ten., in their general principle, an infraction of the
law of nations, and, in many of their provisions, a breach of
the municipal law. War did not give either of the belligerent
parties a right to remedy the evils inflicted by the other, by
violating the lawful commerce of the innocent neutral. The
Orders were equally objectionable in point of expediency and
policy, in a general point of view, and at the particular season
se lien they were adopted. His Lordship entered minutely into
.arinus hearings of the Orders, arguing for the propriety
adopting the motion with which he concluded, viz. " that
tttey ,hould be taken into consideration in a Committee of the
I, hole liouse."
L ow) h ern tr asr contended, that the Orders were not only legal
hut expedient and neee,.sary; and under all the circumstances
cf the ease, his Lordship argued, that this principle could :tot
more effectually acted upon, than by the Orders in Council.
Latta rat6Hl3ll? referred to the dicta of Sir Geo. Lee, Lord
Mansfield, Sir W. Scott, •Sce. to prove, that the decisions of
our Courts of Admiralty are to be regulated, not by the Orders
of Gocernment, hut by the Law of Nations, and the enactments
of the Legislature, founded upon an ell planittor of t hat law.
lie entered at considerable length into the consideration of
tie Order of January 1507, and contended, that it was strictly
R :Jilin the limits of the Law of Nat' s, and the rule of 1756.
THE Imre') rti (vet: LLo n argued, that a war measure, only
11;cl:tent:illy affecting questions of commerce, had never been he'd
to be illegal. lie approved of the Order of January., 1601, but •

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thought it did not go far enough. Ile contended, however, thi,t
Luis Order, and a previous one, placing the coast from Brest to
the Llbc in a sotto of blockade, was foutyled precisely nn the
same right of retaliation on which the Orders of November het
proceeded.
The motion was supported! by Lords King, Grenville, Lauder.
dale, and Sidmouth, and opposOd by Lord ilawkesbury. A di-
% iion then took place, when the motion was negatived by 106 to
:b, proxies iucluded.--Adjourued.

Trr.SDAV, t•i:a. 16.
Lord Onsluw• took the oaths and hi, seat.—Adjourned.

THORSDA Y, Fi:u. Is.
The Exchequer Bills issue Regulation Bill went through a
Committee.
The Malt Duty and Brazil Trade Bills were received from
the Continuos.
Lord Carlisle gave notice, that this day ce'nnight be should
bring forward a motion relative to the late Order, in Council.
The Bills brought np from the Commons were read a first
time ; and the Brazil Trade Bill being ordered to be printed,
Luny Garcx V ILLS requested that due notice might be given of
its second reading.
Lula. L4VDEEDALE gave notice, that he should, on Tuesday
next, move the second reading of the Retersionary Cram. Pro-
hibition Bill.
Loon GRENVILLE moved for a copy of the Instructions sent
to the Commissioners of the Customs, for carrying into effect
the Orders in Council of November last.—Ordered. Ills Lord-
snip then observed, that the Order of the II th of November
professed to be immediately founded upon information received
by Ministry, that the Decree of the French Emperor had' re.
cently been executed with increased rigour. As this averment
was at variance with the communication from the American
Minister on the 18th of October, and with all the accounts which
he had been able to collect from any quarter, respecting the
execution of the Decree alluded to, he conceived it necessary
to the satisfaction of Parliament and the justification of Minis-
ters, that the bubstante and dates of such information as they
received upon this subject, should be laid on the table.
Loan ILIWICEtIIVEN opposed the motion, and said, it could
scarcely be supposed that, iu the present state of the Continent,
Ministers had received information in an official shape; and
it would be productive of the most serious injury, both to the
public service and to individuals, were they to disclose the corn.
munications of secret agents or of commercial houses, who
might occasionally communicate to Government facts of im-
portance to the interests of their country. In the present in-
stance, there was the less cause for any such disclosure, as the
answer of the French Emperor to M. Regnier was matter of no-
toriety in this country by the middle of Octsiber.
Loup ALICACLAND argued in support of the motion.
TM: DUKE nr 3foNTROSE hoped his Majesty's Ministgrs
would not have the weakness to surer themselves to he provoked
to make a disclosure of the nature required of them.
A division took place, and the motion was carried by a ma-
jority of 17 to SS.
LORD Si».vo urn addressed the House on the snhject of the
Danish Navy. From the Proclamations and Stimmouses of our
Commanders, their Declaration on leaving Zealand, the Ueda-
! ration of War itself, and the admissions of bis 3latjesty's Mini-
sters, he argued, that the seizure of that navy was justified only
on the grounds of inevitable necessity, arising out of the law of
self-preservation, and that Denmark, the victim of this unfortu-
nate urgency, was still regarded as a friendly and neutral Power.
Il is Lordship concluded with proposing a Resolution for an
Address to leis Alajesty, praying, that the ships taken at Copen-
hagen might be kept in such a state as not to preclude, or put to
hazard, the possibility of their being restored, on the conclusion
of a general peace.

Lotto aoaiNunoN said, the only effect of such a Resolution,
if acceded to, would be to fetter the hands of Ministers when
the) came to negoeiate for a general peace.
Lonn ELLENNOROURII contended, that, admitting the al-
ledged necessity of the seizure, it was incumbent on this country
to restore the Danish fleet.

Mr. Lotto en 4NcEr.Lon said, that if his Noble and Learned
Friend really viewed the matter as he bad just stated it, he was
fur doing justice only by halves. He ought to move for the in-
stant restitution of the Danish fleet.

Lotto //.4enowns• justified the ceizure of the Mulish shire
upou general grounds, and pariicularly on the precedent of 1756.