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FllO,ll THE PRElyCli PAPERS.

PARIS, JAN. followintlmperial Decree,.
additional to theDetrees containing measures againsC
tho maritime system•of England, has init anearel
in the Bulletin of Laws,

'COMMERCIAL DECI44E.
4t Me Palace of the Thuilleries, Jan, 11, 1805%

NAPOLEON, Ex. upon the Report of our Minister
of Finance, Seeing our Decree 3 of the 23d at Nor.
and the 17th of Dec. tan?, with the concurrence of
our Council of State, wu have decreed, and do de-
cree as follows

- Article t. When a Vessel shall enter into a FrOnCh
port, or in that of a country occupied by our armies.,
any man of the crew, or passenger, who shall
tte-
cla;e to the
.Principal of the Custom House, that the
said Vessel came ,from England tor her Colonies, oil
countries ocCupied by English troops, or that the
Vessel hai been visited by any English Ship, shalt
receive a third part of the net prOdnce .of the sale
of the Ship and cargo, if it is proved that his decla,
ration is mita. .

• 2. Ttie Principal of the Castom-house, who shall ,
receive the declaratibn mentioned in the preceding
article, shall,
in conjualion with the Commissary
of the Police, who shall be called on for that pur-
pose, and the two Principal Officers of the Custom'
house, cause each of the crew and passengers to
undergo the separate interrogatory prescritied by
the 2d article of our Decree of the 444 Novcroberi
Ism
3, Any Funaioßary or Agentof Government, wha
shall be accused et:having favoured the contravention
of our Decrees of the 23d of November and 17th of
December, 1807, shall be prosecuted in the Crimi.
nal Court of the Department of the Seihe, which
shall be formed into a separate tributtal for that pars
pose, and, if convieted, punished as, if guilty of high
treason.
.Our Ministers, in their respeatiye deport,.
ments, are charged with the execution of the pre-,
sent Decree:

• (Sigovd)

.NAppripx.

SPANISH InCLARATION.

iuti.tesi te4:le
fyoll assurance of peace,
MAllikiD, JAN. S.—His Majesty on the 3d or thitt
month. issued the following Decree :—" The ahem.
nainabla attack committed by Ettglish:Ships of. \Vat
when four Frigates of the itoyal Fleet, while sailing
nd
the express order of that Goveroment,
were unjustly set'
prised, attacked, and compelled to
ostFrencier, (Jew-
b
mined me to break all conneclion with the British.
cabinet, and to consider •myselt as at war with a
nation which had so iniquitousirvielated the- lam
nations and of humanity. So atrociousan aggresaian
was, a sufficient motive tor breaking all tire heeds
which mite one nation to another, even thot-411 Jt
had not considered what I owe to myself, to.stile,
honour and glory of my Crown? and to• my. belot;e-a
subjects. -Two years of war are elapsed, IttidC.4rOt
Britain has not Moderated her pride, nor ionm,„ccd •
the unjust,domination which she exereis o,.er
seas ; but, on the contrary, c)ntoundieg Ot ell('
Enemies and Neutrals, site has manifested tlic
teal intention of treating them all with. thy'
tyranny.' From these considerations, I detz..rxitted,
in rebruary last year, in to the Wile?. !lc"'
cures adopted by my intimate •Any, the Empetor of
the Feeecit and King. of ITALY, to deClare! f
„4s:
have deelared,. the British files in a state 01 u4"--
ade, in order to see whether that measure would re-
duce the British Cabinet to abdicate its: unjust
art-
prewacy over the seas, and to,coriclude a Seird.va"
durable peace. Far trOiii th•lt, the English Gave!l).;
men( has nqt only rejected p;op9sition ~
li't're made on the part at my uitinifitti
-rOr of •
1.:;11pc l?rance and King of Italx, whert • ull.
redly, •or by themeat:then of dtiferent rot,'
friendly to Engl.:tee, but has also committed .I"'"
mast enormous atrocities and piracies : by its cr,,,):s-
dalaus attack on the city .anti arbour of Coeei's,i;
gen, it has thrown otft he mask,.- and no, Pars"
any longei doubt that-its ihsatiable ambition aseo,‘")
•
tethe exclusive commerce arid naiigatien of la:.
seas. Nothiog call prove tle, more etidently o'l.ll'
the , measures -which that Govounuelit has ..Pi; ,
adopted by its Orders of the t 4th of November las/.
by which it not only declares t4,c.: coasts of France,i
-Spain, and their Allies,'"anll all 'deist:. occupied bidd
the armies of either Power, but has even subjetW.,,
1 the Ships of Neutral Powers, the friends and even
the Allies of England, to the visits of 14nglial crU
zers, and to be forcibly carried into an English Pr.;*
where they are to be obliged to pay a tax f%e
tea" •
cargoes, the quantity-of which is to be deken .
by the English L.egislature authorised 14 ° P-11
•
right of reprisal, to take the 'measures which Arai
appear to me proper to revent the ahuse. which are
•
British Cabinet makes of its power with ieblw tO
Neutral Flags, and to see whether we crtlnot
force it to renounce so unjust a tyranny, I bawait
solved to adopt, and hereby requite that there sil
be adopted, through all my
byStates the same measure'
which have beou takes my ivairiatP•Aliy the