Star.
London, England, 1808-02-16 00:00:00

ROYAL DECREE.

Considering that every European nation ought to
co-operate w►th all its m►ght to the triumph of the
cause of the Continent, in a contest which wilt not be
of long dnration, and whose result is not• doubfful:
Considering that our particular duty, as well as the
dearest interests of our people command us to accede
in all points to the deiires of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French, our illustrious Brother, and even to sur-
pass his hopes :
Considering that the indemnity and relief which our
kingdom has a right to demand and expect, depend
entirely upon the powerful intervention oT France

Considering, in fine, that however great the sacri-
fices hitherto made by this country may be, and how-
ever painful its situation, both under the relations of
commerce and those of finance, it is of much greater
interest to dissipate all the doubts that might exist
with respect to our intentions, and to prove to Europe,
in the most signal manner, our attachment, and that of
our people to the common cause ; have decreed, and
do decree as follows :

ART. I. From the publication of the present decree, all the
ports of our kingdom shall be shut against all ships, whatever be
their denomination. Those only are excepted from this disposi-
tion (and provisionally till a new order), of which mention is made
in the second article.

Armed ships of.our Allies are not included in the exclusion
directed by the preceding Article.. They may enter and quit our
ports, and bring in their prizes, by conforming to tho ordnnnances
issued relative to the entrance and departure of ships of war.
111. Ships of the Allies or Neutral Powers, which may enter our
ports to avoid the danger of the sea, shall have no communication
with the interior of our kingdom. They shall be subject to qua-
rantine, and be under the most severe superintendance. The
Commandant of the Port shall make them put to sea as soon as
the weather shall permit.
IV. Fishing-boats are under the direct superintendance of the
Civil and Military Authorities upon the coast. These Authori-
ties shall take care, on their responsibility, that no communication
take place, by means of the fishermen, with the enemy's ships and
other ships. To that end, there shall be placed as a sentinel a sol-
dier on board each fishing-boat. On the return of the boat, the
sentinel shall make his report of what has passed during the fishery,
contrary to the dispositions of the present decree, and the owner
of the boat and crew shall be prosecuted with all the rigour of
the laws.—Gwen at Utrecht, tsd January.
(Signed) LOUIS.
The Dutch official Gazette contains a very strong

Don Joseph Mana de Melo, Titular Bishop of Al-
galva, Inquisitor-General in the Kingdom, Mem-
ber of her Majesty's Council, and her Confessor.
To all the Faithful of the Holy Church, Health, Peace, and the
Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour and God.
" The place of Inquisitor-General of this Kingdom, which we
occupy, (unworthy of it as we are), the holy Episcopal character
with which we are invested, the examplary zeal with which the
most eminent and venerable Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon has just
recommended with so touching an unction, in his last pastoral
letter, the preservation of tranquillity, peace, and Christian union,
necessnry in all times, and above all in the present; all these con-
siderations imposed upon us the duty of concurring on our side,
and as far as we can, in a salutary object, and without which we
cannot hope for any happiness, neither upon earth nor (which
ought more to concern us) in the life to come. We address them
to all the Faithful of the Holy Church, to the Inhabitants of this
City and Kingdom ; we conjure them to be astentive and docile to
the wise and pacific instructions of their venerable father and pas-
tor, in a circumstance which concerns their present fate and their
eternal happine 3. We can do no hing better than to recal to them
the paterwil advice of that great Prelate. Let them consider this
situation In which we are, the favours 'Aids the Divine GOOD.
Ness has heaped upon us, in the midst of our tribulations:
them bless GOD in all flings ; let them adore, with an humble
and contrite heart, the utable decrees of PROVIDENCI, and
let them be grateful for the innumerable benefits we have recei-
ved from his all-powerful hand.
" Let us reckon amongst these signal benefits, the peace and
gaod order which have reigned and do reign in this kingdom since
a great army has come to our succour. We are certain of, our
happiness, if we know haw to profit by it : we enjoy equal secu-
rity!) ,th in our hous-,s and out.
" I.et us not forget that we owe these advantages fo the zeal
and activity-of the General in Chief who commands us, and whose
virtues we have long known ; that tae army which is in the midst
of us is that of his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King
of Italy, Napoleon the Great; that that Monarch has been sent '
by Gon to protect religion and render people happy ; that he will
rur upon us the blessings of peace, if we love each other with fra-
ternal charity—that by that m-tans Religion and its Ministers will
always be respected, and that in fine we shall enjoy all sorts of
happiness if we shew ourselves worthy of such great protection. It
is thus that we ought to conduct ourselves to accomplish faithfully
the precepts of the Lord, who commands us to obey power, not
through fear, but through a duty of conscience.
" Let us incessantly have before our eyes the touching expecta- •
dons which the venerable Pastor of this City and Diocese has ad-
dressed to his flock, and unite them in Charity, and to obtain
peace and repose, of which we have so much need; and because
that object is of the greatest importance, even for the preservation
of the purity of our faith, we conjure all the Deputies of the
Council General of Inquisitions, and other Ministers of the Half
Office, to unite their zeal to ours to maintain and consolidate the
public tranquillity.
" We recommend it, especially to all the religious in general,
and to each in particular, to give in all circumstances the example
of perfect submission, as it becomes the Ministers of a Gott of
Peace, who offer daily the sacrifice of propitiation, and who
ought to be models of evangelical perfection to the people. Wo
exhort them to meal without ceasing the faithful to their duties,
and above all to inspress them with this truth, that there never
can be too much peace and union. And in order that our Father
may recall all the Tribunals of Inquisition in the kingdom, we
have caused it to be stuck up and published in the churches of our
district, in the accustomed form.
" Given at Lisbon, under the Seal the Holy Office, 22d of
December, 1807." -

PARIS, JANUARY 29.
The Senate yesterday held an extraordinary siding.
We are assured that in thisssitting an organic Sen,iti,s
Gmatunt was presented, for the creation of a new
grand Dignitary of the empire, with the title of" Go-
verncr-General of ,the Department beyond the Alps:"
his prerogatives and functions will be the same as
.those of the Prince Arch. Chancellor and Grand
Elector. He will reside at Genoa. •
ROTTERDAM, JAN. 23.
The English brig of war, the Sparkler, of 20 guns
and 53 men, is wrecked near Terschelling : 36 of the
crew were saved.

HAMBURGH, JAN. 20.
The Prussian Officers who are unemployed have
been put on halffpay. A commission, consisting of •
'a Major, two Captains, and tiiree Lieutenants, has
been appointed for each regiment. All the Officers
of the corps must present themselves individually; and
each, after having given his word of honour, must, un-
der pain of being broke, declare where he has resided
during the war, till he was made prisoner; and like-
wise denounce those of his comrades, if he knows
any who have neglected their duty. Concealment
of faults is to be pnnished as a perjury. The Gene-
rals must present themselves before anothar commis-
sion, in which the King's brothers will Piave a seat.
Every subaltern Officer is authorized to make well-
founded complaints against the General under whom
he has served, and even against any other. The
Generals Wartensleben and Muffling have given in
their resignation The latter retires on a pension.
Several other Generals have been dismissed. In
future, promotions will not be granted, according to
seniority, higher than the rank of a Captain.
LISBON, JULY Is.
Tavern-keepers are ordered not to receive soldiers
after seven o'clock at night. The agio of paper-
money is 25 per cent. The 4000 Spaniards who oc-
cupy Oporto observe the best discipline.
No one has left this city for the Brazils. The head-
quarters of the English factory at Lisbon have been
confiscated. We continue to enjoy the greatest tran-
quillity. The city and inhabitants only furnish the
troops with bed furniture, fire, and candles.

STATE PAPERS.

PRESENTED DY, HIS NIA.TESTY'S COMMAND TO
xviii HOUSES OE PARLIAMENT.

DENMARK.
from M. Rist to Lord Viscount limick, Mardi 9,1807.
undersigned Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty
are of Denmark, in transmitting in due time to
art the note, by which his excellency Viscount
:k acquainted him, on the 10th of January, with
:der in Council issued by his Britannic Majesty,
iting all commerce between the different ports
enemy and those subject to the influence of the
h Government, foresaw at that time the deep
oainful impression which that Order could not
produce upon the Court of Denmark.
has this moment received its orders, to express
Ministers of his Britannic Majesty the surprise
grief which the Court of the undersigned has
taking notice of a resolution, which, founded 'I
a principle in itself inadmissible, attacks one of
hid sources of the commercial prosperity of Den-
and seems to give a blow, as direct as it is un-
oked, to her most sacred rights and to the trea-
ohich connect her with Great Britain. He has
atect the orders of his Court, to detail to his Bri-
ic Majesty's Government the fatal consequences
is measure, and finally to require its suppression.
he undersigned, in acquitting himself of these or- I
to his excellency Viscount Howick, takes the li-
:ar of demanding from him all the serious atten.ll
which the importance of the object requires, for
exposition ; which will be dictated by that frank-
and moderation (worthy of an independent Go-
anent, and one friendly to Great Britain) by
tch the Court of Denmark has been constantly ac-
ced in her proceedings and discussions with that
I .e.• don.
Of all Courts, whose duty and interest it is to de-
Id the rights of neutrality, that of the undersigned •
:ailed upon to do so on this occasion more pee_icu-
ly, as well by its situation, as by the nature of the ,
Order in Council in question. It is against her
gists principally principally that it is directed ; her subjects chiefly
will suffer by its consequences. Almost exclusively
possession of the advantageous coasting trade be-
veil the different ports which will henceforward be-
rme inaccessible to them, they are menaced with the
teprivation of a branch of their navigation, which has
occupied until the present time hundreds .of vessels,
housands of sailors and industrious workmen, and
:onsiderable capitals. Henceforth, the Mediterranean
rill, for the most part, be shut against their enter-
prizes : a voyage from Hollandto France, from Italy
to Spain, from the Hanse Towns to the ports of the
Mediterranean, will render their vessels and their car-
,pes subject to confiscation. Excluded florn the
greatest part of the ports of the Continent of Europe,
it is wished that they should renounce, not only the
:onsiderable advantages which the neutrality of their
flag insures them in carrying on the coasting trade,
but also the continuance of an essential part of their
direct and legitimate commerce with the ports above
mentioned. After having sold the produce of their
country, planks, fish, or corn, in one of the northern
ports of Holland, France, or Spain, they will be obli-
ged to return in ballast, because they will not be al-
lowed to seek, in the southern ports of those countries,
and of Italy, such merchandize as the countries of the
North have occasion for, and which can alone pro-
duce returns said:2:l4 advantageous to reimburse
the expences of their voyages. In order to procure
salt, wines, brandy, and oil, it will be necessary for
them to sail from Danish ports for the most part in
ballast, in order to fetch them from .the ports of the
Mediterranean; if they do not prefer, which, accord- •
ing to all appearance will be the case, to renoubecome,
nce al-
together a traffic, which would henceforward
a ruinous speculation.
And how can the subjects of his Danish Majesty
be deprived of their legitimate traffic, of one of the
principal branches of their industry ? By what right
can they be stopped in the pursuit of a peaceable oc-
cupation, the exercise of which is guaranteed to them
by the public law of nations, and by the sacred faith
of treaties ; which insure to Denmark, on the part of
Great Britain, the unlimited liberty of the seas in all
cases in which Denmark has not herself consented, by
express stipulations, to renounce the exercise of a part
of her rights ? •
They will be so deprived;according to a principle
of retaliation, not against Denmark, for she has never
swerved from the strict execution of her treaties, -or
from her duties towards England ; hut against athird
power, whose example Great Britain seems but too
ready to tisllotr, in order to render the stipulations of
treaties, and the pacific relations between states subor-
dinate to a right of war, indefinite in its principle,
unlimited in its extent, incalculablein its consequences,
but completely foreign to and by no means binding on
a neutral power, independent, and protected by so-lemn I
ane 'recent treaties.
The undersigned has received express orders from
his Court to declare; in its name, that it regards the
right of retaliation, upon which the Order in Council
of his Britannic Majesty is founded, as absolutely in-
admissible, in its principle and in its consequences.—
To establish this right, it would he necessary to begin
by destroying Ow tifst notithls of general and public
law. It must he intendedio lay down as a principle, that
every power has a right, arbitrarily to renounce en;',
gagern.nts, and tederognte from solemn stipulations
with another power, for no other reason, than that its
relations with a third power have changed their cha-
racter. It must be intended to insist that the privi-
leges, interests, and property of a neutral nation, are
at the 'disposition of : every other power, although con-
nected with it by treaties, as soon as the course of
event, or the inclination of trust power should engage
her bi a war entirely foreign to the neutral nation.
The palpable inconsistency and falsehood of such
reasoning., cannot be equalled but by its fatal conse-
quences with !Tercet to society. It cannot escape the
penetration of his Britannic Majesty's Ministers, that
a principle, which would render the relations and mu-
tual obligatione between o countries dependant up-
on any acts whatsoever of a third power, or rather
which would constitute a state of war, the supreme
rt::.tulator of all the relations ofliuman society, would
destroy the very basis of that society, in order openly
t sanction the right of strength, and, in the end, to
pave the way for that of universal anarchy.
This (the undersigned regrets to avow it) is never-
theless the tendency of die teinciple upon which the

resolutions 'adopted by the French Giviernment
Against the commerce of Great Britain are cited, as
motives to induce his Britannic Majesty to Set aside
the treaties subsisting between England and Denmarlt,
and especially that of the 17th of June, 1801, which
parantees to tit atter Power, in the case expressly'
foreseen of any niaritime war whatever, the entire li-
berty of its commerce, with the exception only of
those restrictions mentioned in the third article. This,
is the spirit of a measure, which inflicts upon the corn •
coerce of Danish subjects the most severe wound of \
which the history of neutrality offers an example.
The undersigned does not apprehend that he has i
said too much in advancing this assertion : he has done
so purposely, entirely foreseeing that the French De-
cree of the 21st November, 1806, together with all its
pernicious consequences to the commerce of neutrals,
will be cited to invalidate it. The undersigned would
have esteemed himself fortunate, if he could have
avoided the necessity of making a coMparison between
the two measures, or of drawing a parallel between
their effects, more or less pernicious to the commerce
of Denmark ; but the weighty and important nature
of the task which he has to fulfil imposes this duty
upon him. He will, however, in order to make the
Ministers of his Britannic Majesty acquainted with
the measure of the impression which these two De-
crees, in opposition to each other, must have produced
in Denmark, content himself with stating_ that, ac-
cording to the official explanations which the under-
signed has just received from his Court, the French'
Decree does not, as we were led to suppose from its
expressions, bear upon all vessels carrying on com-
merce with England, but only upon those which,
coming from an English port, are desirous of entering
a port of France ; that it enacts tila confiscation of
those vessels only which refuse to submit to the noti-
fication of the Decree at their entry into one of the
said ports, or which arc desirous of concealing their
having lately put into a port of Great Britain ; that
therefore the provisions of the French Decree, a great
part of which cannot from their nature be carried ,
into effect, have not as yet caused any sensible in-1
terruption to the commerce of Denmark with Great
Britain. -
The undersigned must also observe, that the De-
cree of the 21st of November, limited as it is in its
application, turns evidently against France herself
and her Allies, or at least obliges them to participate
in the greatest part of the evils and annoyance directed
against the commerce of neutrals : that it therefore
seems to carry with it the guarantee of its lenient ex-
ecution, and probably of its short duration.
The undersigned feels it his duty to add, that his
Court nevertheless has made urgent representations to
the French Government against a measure, the prin-
ciple of which it cannot but consider as a direct and
manifest violation of its rights : that, far from being
willing or able to acquiesce in it, his Court thought
that it employed the best -.weapons which its situation
and the justice of its cause afforded, when it protested
solemnly against the subversion of principle and the
contempt of the law of nations, of which this Decree
gives so fatal an example.
But the greater the disgust _ of the Court of the un-
dersigned at the spirit of the decree of the 21st No-
vember, and particularly at the motive alleged fur its
justification, namely, that of retaliation, the more pro-
found was its regret on seeing Great Britain, in her
late • measure, follow the footseps of her enemy, and
take advantage of his example to sanction a doctrine,
the principle of which seems more to be feared in it-
self, than the more or less enlarged scale of the regu-
lations which determine its effect and extent.
The Court of Denmark cannot dissemble her ap-
prehensions, that the French government will reckon
among its triumphs, the having engaged England in'
measures which, while they justify its own proceeding,l
necessarily weakened the ties of Irian: hip which at-
-1
tached the neutral nations to Great Britain ; and thatit
will find in the Order in Council of his Britannic Ma-
jesty a new motive, or at least a pretext, not only for
persisting in its. fatal measures, and for enforcing
their eormant rigour, but also for augmenting, if pos-
sible, its original violence, and completing the ruin of
nations, which until the present time had preserved
the blessings and the prosperity of peace. The un-
dersigned abstains, but too willingly, fromsompleting
the terrible picture which the perspective of such a
contest appears to present.
Authorised to declare in the most precise manner,
that the Court of Denmark can never acquiesce in
any degree in the Order in Council of his Britannic
Majesty, which has been communicated to the under-
signed on 10th of January, nor consent that her ves-
sels should be treated in conformity to it, and to pro-
test formally against its principle and its consequen-
ces ; the undersigned, however, feels pleasure in trans-
mitting to his excellencey Viscount Howick, and in
partaking the hopes of his Court, that his Britannic
Majesty will not give effect to the resolution in ques-
tion ; but eiat, by suppressing it, he will continue and
cement the relations of amity and good understanding
which attach to his interests the Court of Denmark,
whose constant efforts have been directed to the obser-
vance of her engagements and to the preservation of
her relations with Great Britain.
This hope receives additional vigour from a know-
ledge of the liberal way of thinkingacting and of the
enlightened Minister to whom the undersigned has
the honour to address these representations in favour
of neutral rights, which nave already more than once
found in him their advocate.
The undersigned has the honour to offer to his ex-
cellency Viscount Howick the assurances of his high
and respectful consideration.
(Signed)
Lunatic, March 9, 1,107.
Nan: from Lord Hotmcic to Mr.RTIT, March 17, 18tY7.
Foreign !Nice, Match 17, 1807:
The undersigned, his Majesty's principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has•the honour to
infirm M. Rist, that he has lost no time in submitting
t 9 his Majesty's Government his Note of the 9th in-
stant ; and that it has received all the attention which
the magnitude of the subject, and the various and
important considerations which it involves, certainly

J. ItIST.

require.
It is much to be wished that-the Danish Govern-
meat, before it, had suffered itself to indulge iu the
representations contained in the above Official Paper,
had considered with more calmness die nature and
objects of the Decree of the French Government of
the 21st of November last, and the Order in Council
\Nhich, in consequence of that Decree, has been is-
saed by his Majesty.

The Undersigned is under the necessity tf tlink
calling: in the outset, • the attention of the Danish
Minister to the original state of the question ; be-
cause M. Rist, in his .ettlence both to the Decree or
the 21st November, 1806, and to his Majesty's Order
in Council, seems to have misconceived theft_
and effect of both ; uniformly exCusing and
ing the one, and in no less a degree heightening aces
nd
aggravatin the supposed tendency and conseque
of the Other.
By the Decree of the 21st November, which upon ,
the falsest allegations is justified by the principle of
retaliation, the enemy has presumed to declare th
he
e
British Isles in a state of blockade, prohibiting at t
same time all commerce with them, and all trading
in English merchandize ; and by the same instru-
ment the Prize Courts of France are directed to en-
force these regulations. Neutrals are consequently
interdicted from all commercial intercourse with
Great Britain, and all trading in her commodities.
The French Government, in adopting, a measure
at one so violent in itself, and of such injustice with
respect too the consequences which must necessarily
have been expected to result from it, committed a
tnanifest act of hostile aggression (though imme-
diately directed against Great Britain) against the
rights of every State not engaged in the war, which,
if not resisted on their part, must unavoidably deprive
them of the privileges of a' fair neutrality, and must
suspend the operation of treaties formed fur the pro-
tection of nen- tral rights, thus fundamentally violated
in their first and most essential principles.
The injury which would be
.sustained by Great
Britain, if she suffered her commerce with foreign
nations to be thus interdicted, whilst that of the ene-
my with them should remain unmolested, is so ma-
nifest, that it can require no illustration. It never
could haire been pret;urtied that his Majesty would
submit to such an injury, waiting in patient acqui-
escence till France might think proper to attend to
the slow and feeble remonstrances of States not en-
gaged in the war, or that he should forbear to take
immediate steps to check the violence of the enemy,
and to retort upon him the evils of his own in-
justice.
Had his Majesty at once determined to exact the
• full measure of retaliation to which he was justly
entitled, (and which nothing but the most generous
regard for the commercial interest of neutral powers
could have induced him to forego) let Denmark re-
flect upon the effect which such a determination would
have had upon her commerce, taking into her conside-
ration at the same time the means which Great Britain
possesses of enforcing it, and then let her compare it
with the measure of forbearance and lenity which has
been adopted.
His Majesty would unquestionably have been jus-
tified in resorting to the fullest measures of retalia-
tion, in consequence of this unparallelled aggression ;
and other powers would have had no right to com-
plain, if the King had immediately proceeded to de-
clare all the countries occupiedby the enemy to be in a
state of blockade, and to prohibit all trade in the pro-
duce of those countries ; for, as the French Dec: cc
expresses it, the law of nature justifies the employing
against the enemy the same arms which he makes use
ot. If third parties suffer from these measures, their
demand and reparation must be made to that country
which first xiolates the established usages of war, and
the rights of neutral states.
The British Government, however, was neither
hasty nor rigorous in its measures. His Majesty
waited nearly two months before he had recourse
even to the mitigated measure of retaliation, which a
due regard for the dignity of his Crown and the in-
terests of his subjects has at length exacted from

him. •
Whether in the mean time any such steps were
taken by Denmark as were required by the insult
which had been offered by the enemy to her sove-
reignty and independence, and the injury done to her
neutral riOts; this Government is altogether ignorant.
All that is known here is, that a formal communica-
tion of the Decree of the 21st November was made
by the French Minister at the Court of Kiel. The
answer of the Danish Government has not transpired,
.but no intention of resistance has appeared in any
public document, or in any steps taken by the Danish
Governmert : whilst, on the other hand, it has ob-
served a conduct not apparently calculated to enforce
the respect due to the rights of a neutral nation, nor
in consistency with the character of a power determi-
ned equally to resist any measures affecting these
rights, from whatever quarter they might proceed.
The troops which were stationed at Holstein,
while those of the Allies were near that frontier, have
been immediately withdrawn on the approach of the
French army ; and the general intercourse between
this country and Husum, never refused in any for-.
mer war, has been the subject of continual complaint
and remonstrance on the part of the Danishh Ministry.
Having made these preliminary.observations, it will
be necessary to enter into a candid and dispassionate
investigation of the general nature and effect of the
Order in Council of the 7th January, of the causes
which produced it, and of some of the principal ob-
jects which it had in view. In doing this, the un-
dersigned is first left to consider the probable extent
of its operation,* as it affects the carrying and direct
trade of Denmark, and of caber neutral powers ; and
this will be the more nesessary with regard to the
latter and more important description of commerce,
inasmuch as impediments are supposed to be thrown
in the way of it by the Danish Minister, which have
no real existence, and which the cases assumed by
him in his official Note, are very far from establish-
ing. From the natural, obvious, and equitable con-
struction of the instrument in question, it will be seen
that -these cases .are altogether exempted from its ope-
ration. For wherever it can be shewn that a Danish
or other neutral vessel, after having delivered her
outward cargo, or any part of it, at one of the ports
in possession of France or her Allies, or occupied by
that Power, shall Lona Pe propose to proceed to
another, solely for the purpose of shipping a cargo,
consisting of such articles as she may require for her
homeward voyage, it is clear that such vessel would
not be considered in our Court of Prize as liable to
the penal consequences of the Order. In framing the.
Order of Council 'of the 7th January, his Majesty's
Government has indeed studiously endeavoured tcd
avoid distiessing nations not engaged in the war.
ii
The Neutral is still at liberty to carry his own pro.
ducts to a market in hostile countries, to:procure
from thence articles for his own consumption, and to
engage in mercantile speculations, from hostile coun-

.
tries to othet neutral countries, cir ti tLet 1,1,..!;:ai
islands. 1 ,
The obsect of th?. Order cf Orancil was, topm.,
the enemy from carrying on his 'Coasting trade tl;r„,411
the means of neutral bottoms, at a time wiwil
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comparatively
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and hardly entitled to the characterof neutral ..:ctr.m z;lt:
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is carried on by 11:s own navigation. Eve;: flit 0.1,„
in
t() liseipains, 11-ahitileril),l)lln 16gLitelledi.,
terranean, in time of peace, chietly
ga.tion of thu.se countries respectively.
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It is principally from the success of the British rni;
ritime force, v.iiirlr has almost annihilated the /1,6
gation of the enemy, that the ships of Derlrook ati,
other neutral States are employed as carriers from'
hostile port to hostile port, in order to rzliot till
enemy from his distress ; and it is notorious
• trade thus carried on, is supported by the shaemq.
misconduct of neutral merchants, who lend tixit
names for a sniall per-centage, not only to ccver thi
goods, but in numberless instances to nue:l:. ;he fli,ps
of the enemy.
The Danish Minister, in his Note, seems indeed,
so intent upon asserting neutral rights, as apparevdy
to forget that there also exist corresponding neut 4
duties.
Neutrality, properly considered, does not consist
in taking advantage of every situation bemel
Belligerent States, by which emolument may amp,
to the neutral, whatever may be the conseqenccs
either Belligerent party—but in observiug a st-*
honest impartiality, so as not to afford advantage,
the war to either, and pattiularly in so far reset.
ing its trade to the accustomed course, which is'r'
in time of peace, as not to render assistance to
Bellegerent in escaping the effect of the other's'

lilies.
The duty of a neutral is, ‘g ftril intePlonere
torte imminetzte hottem err fare," and yet k is manifest
lending a neutral navigation to carry on the
trade of the enemy, is in direct contradiction
ah fiaition of neutral obligation, as it is, in effect, .
rescue the commerce of the cuerny from the dims
•to which it is reduced, by the supericrity of the&
tish navy, to assist his resources, acd
Great Britain from bringing him to lease]
of reace.
To put a stop, therefore, to this species
a measure which might easily have been
without reference to the late conduct cf Fr;'
eveit if the Danish navigation were. likel•
some inconvenience from it, there would t
just ground of complaint ; but when it
step in the way of retaliation which has lit
adopted on tin, part of the British Gov(
Majesty's forbearance and magnanimity
eminently cot. picuous.
If, after all, the probable consequences
sure are contemplated with any degree of
will appear rather likely to provebenefici
wise to the Danish nation. The product
tile countries will of necessity find their
tral countries, not only for consumption
exportation—Denmark will then become
trepot ; her navigation will not have the
ment ; the real bona ide commerce of her
be extended, and her revenue at the saint
considerably benefited.
The enemy, it is true, will suffer by
price which he must pay For the articles
ports, when obtained by this circuitous
the reduced price at Which he will be obi
pose of his.exports, as well as by the
culty of covering iris commerce under
But it is presumed that these considerations
furnish any just cause of complaint
Denmark, the real trade of which coon
probability, be eventually rather benef
posed to any injury from the measure
Upon the whole, the undersigned
declare to M. Rist, that his Maje.ay
to revoke the Order in 'Conned of tit
till France shall not only havede.siste,
the Decree of the '2lst November, but
licly and formally repealed it. Shoalt
here to the resolution she has expressed
unjust pretensions of the enemy, and •
cere disposition
.to maintain a real and
trality, it is very farfrom his Majesty
to deprive hi r of any of the ads an a)
belong to that relation ; but if Ullfin
appear that this neutrality consists ii
and displays itself only in remonstrai
against such measures as his Majest
rised to adopt, in support of the dign
and the interests of his subjects,
ai
hand in the -most complete and tit
escence in every demand which the
proper to advance, the King would ,
as wanting in the regard which he ow,
nour and the welfare of his dominioi
taking, on his part, such measures
sary to secure both against the injin
cessarily arise from the continuance
on the part of the Danish Governmi
(Signed'

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. PARLMMENTARr PRO,

HOUSE OF COMMONS, PEI
Mr. lENKINSON presented a list of .-
managing the Royal Naval Asylums—Ordered
Mr. Nt'ILBF.I2 FORCE presented a Petit;-
confined in the gaols of Wakefield and
praying relief.—Ordered to lie on the Table.
The Secretary of the African Company
of Receipts and Disbursements.—Ordered
The SECRF.TARY at WArt brought
Committee appointed to try the merits
Election, which stated that John Jeffery,
and that as to the other Member the etc
moved, that a new writ be issued for P,
eh ction of one of the Members being de.
Mr. LI lcu, the Clerk at the Table, read
Fuller, in which it was stated, that he
his seat against the Petitions of either Mr.
holders who had petitioned at,:ainst
were then ordered to be taketilmo consider
24th of March.
Mr. FOSTER brought up a Bill to enal
nooth College, in Ireland, to enlarge the
the benefit thereof, winds wss read
rer.d a second time.

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PROCEEDIII7GS.
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list of the Cm; •
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Table.
onmany presentee
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brought un the Repast
merits of the Poole
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