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made to both Belliger:nts for a
respective edicts; but the terms
made, were widely different,
required a revocation only of the
Decrees, although many edicts,
neutral commerce of the United
Iromulgated by that rower. No
Ided, bat the Berlin and Milan
;yoked, should not, under some
ystablished ; and a direct engage-
that upon such revocation the
lent would take part in the war
tin, if Great Britain did not imme-
Orders. Whereas no correspon-
was offered to Great-Britain, of
red, not only that the Orders ip
repealed, but that no others of a
lci.be issued, and that the block-
should be also abandoned. This
ied and enforced according to ac-
, had not been objected to by the
the time it was issued. fits provi.
:ontrary represented b the Arne,
went in London at the time, to
ted, as to afford, ►n his judgment, 4
ly disposition of the British Cabi,
cited States.

•
was thus called upon to abandon one
'ant maritime rights ; by acknow.
of blockade Itfuestion to be one
:h violated the commerce of the
tough it had never been so tons',
sous negociations ;—and although
to United States had recently con,
the Non-Intercourse Act, op the
Orders in Council being revoked;
admitting these Orders to be the
11 within the contemplation of the
le acted.

hostile to Great Britain could not
ibly encouraging to the pretensions
by thus alledging that the blockade
‘s illegal, the American Govern.:
i4ed, so far as depeuded on them,

iition had been made, the French
ign Affairs, if not in concert with
at least in conformity with its
dated the sth of August, 1810,
the American Minister resident at
the Berlin and Milan Decree; were
their operation would cease from
!mber following, provided his Ma-
his Orders in Council, and re.
inciples of blockade or that the
cause their rights to be respect-
!by, that they would resist the re,
of Great Britain.
khough the repeal of the French Decrees thus
wiped was evidently contingent, either on coo-
ls to be Made by Great 'Britain (concessions
ich it was obvinus Great Britain could not sub.
ir on measures to be ;:dopted by the Vnitedl
of America ; the American President at once i
lered the repeal as absolute. Vnder that pre-
the Non-importation Act wits strictly enforced !
A Great llritain, whilst the ships of war, -and i
;ant ships of the enemy, were received into the I
as of America.
American Government, assuming the repel
, French Decrees to be absolutes and effectual,
Post unjustly required Great Britain, in conformity '
o her declarations, to revoke her Orders in Council.
The Britith Government denied that the repeal')
chick was announced in the latter of the French Mi.l
lister for Foreign Affairs, was web as ought to sa.,
isf.y Great Britain ; and in prder to ascertain the
.rue character of the measure adopted by Frances the
.rue
of the United States were called upon
iit; produce the instrument, by which the alledged re-
al of the French pectfts shad been effected. If
Giese Decrees were really revoked, such an instru.
inent must exist, and no satisfactory reason could be
aiven for withholding it.
At length, on the 21st of May, 1812, and not he-
lve, the American Minister in London
s copy, or at least what purported to be a copy, of
such an instrument.
It professed to bear date the 28th of April, 1811,
long subsequent to the dispatch of the French Minis.
wen of Foreign Affairs of the sth of August; 4810, or

'r..'=ig even the day named therein, vie. the Ist November
effectual manner, the measure of I Allowing, wen the operation of the French Decrees
by declaring, in an Order in tams to 'eeaik. This instrument expressly declared,
rte the Ilth of November, 1807', that dime" French Decrees were repealed in conse.
should proceed to France, or quence of the American Legislature having, by their,
ies from which, in obedience to Act of the Ist March, 1811, provided, that British
:e, British commerce was exclu- ships and merchandize should be excluded from the
:ping at a port in Great Britain, ports and harbours of the United States.
At the same time kis Majesty By this instrument, the only document producedl
ness to repeal the Orders in Coun- by America as a repeal of the French Decrees, it ap-
' Shou'iel rescind her Decree;, and pears'beyond a possibility of doubt or cavil, that the
I med principles of maritime war- alledged repeal of the French Decrees was coruli-
isequent period, as a proof of his tional, as Great Britain had asserted ; and not Aso-
sire to accommodate, as far tio lute or final, as had been maintained by America;
measures to the convenience of that they were not repealed at the time they were
peration of the Order's in Coun- stated to be repealed by the American Government :
issued in April, 1809, limited that they were not repealed in conformity with a
tnce, and of the countries sub- proposition, stimultaneously made to both Bellige-
(ate dominion. rents, but that in consequence of a previous Act On
:e, OppresiiOnt and tyranny 7 can the part of the American Government, they were
or even checked, if the Power repealed in favour of one Belligerent; to the prejudice
;justice is exercised, be debarred of the other : that the American Government having
aod adequate retaliation; or, adopted measures restrictive upon the commerce of
the retaliating Power, are to be both Belligerents, in consequence of Edicts issued
of just offence to neutral na- by both, rescinded these measures, as they affected
measures of original aggression and that Power, which was the aggressor, whilst they
be tolerated with indifference, sub- put them iq full operation against the party n-
,placrncy. grieved ; although the Edicts of both powers con-
-of the United States did not fail tinued in force ; and lastly that they excluded the
Ist the,Ordprs in Council of Great ships of war, belonging to one Belligerent, whilst
they knew, that these Orders they admitted into their ports and harbours the ships
the Decrees of France, which of war belonging tel the other, in violation of one of
'm, were repealed, they resased the plainest, and most essential duties of 4 Neutral
to resist the conduct of froth Nation,
4of requiting France in the first Although the Instrument thus produced was by
her Decrees. Applying roost un. no means that general and unqualified revocation of
sure of resentment to the antes- the Berlin and Milan Decrees, which Great Britain
aggrieved, they adopted mea- had continually demanded, and had a full right to
resistance against both—a system claim ; and although this Instrument, under all the
, however varied in the successive circumstances of its appearance at thatmoment, for
Non,lntercourse, or Nornimpor- the first time, was open to the strongest suspicions
ly unequal in its operation, and of its authenticity ; yet as the Minister of the United
against the superior commerce States produced it, az purporting to be a copy of the
of Great Britain. Instrument of revocation, the Government of Great
zy towards France was obsess*? Britain, desirous of reverting, if possible, to the an.
iations, as in their measures of cient and accustomed principles of Maritime War,
determined upon revoking conditionally the Orders
in Council. Accordingly in the mouth of June last,
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was pleased
to declare in Council, in the name and on the behalf
of his Majesty, that the Orders in Council should be
revoked, as far as respected the ships and property
'of the United States from the Ist of August follow-
iog. This revocation was to continue in force pro-
vided the Government of the United States should,
within a time to be limited, repeal their Restrictive
Laws against British commerce. His Majesty's Mi-
nister in America was expressly ordered to declare
to the Government of the United State;, that
" this measure had Iven adopted by the prince
Regent in the earnest wish and hope, either that
the Government of France, by further relaxations
of its sy,stem, might render perseverance on the part
of Great Britain in retaliatory measures unnecessary,
or if this hope should prove delusive, that his Ma-
jesty's Government might be enabled, in the absence
lof all irritating and restrictive regulations on either
side, to enter with the Government of the United
States into amicable explanations, for the purpose of
ascertaining whether, if the necessity of retaliatory
measures should unfortunately continue to operate,
the particular measures to be acted upon by Great
Britain, could be rendered more acceptable to the
American Government than those hitherto pursued."
In order to provide for the contingency of a De-
claration of War on the part of the Uniivd States,
previous to the arrival in America of the said Order
of Revocation, Instructions were sent to his Majesty's
Minister Plenipotentiary accredited. to the United
States (the execution of which instructions, in con-
sequence of the discontinuance of ,Mr. Foster's func-
tions, were at a subsequent period entrusted to Ad-
miral Sir John Borlase Warren), directing him to
propose a cessation of hostilities, should they have
commenced ; and further to offer a simulraneons re-
peal of the Orders in Council on the one side, and of
the Restrictive Laws op British ships and commerce
en the other.
They were also respectively empowered to acquaint
the American Government, in reply to any inquiries
with respect to the blockade pf May, 1806, whilst
the British Government must continue to maintain its
legality, ti that in point of fact this particular block.
ade had been discontinued for a length of time, having
been merged in the general retaliatory blockade of
the enemy's ports under the Orders in Council, and
that his Majesty's Government had no intention of
recurring to this, or to any other of the blockades of
the enemy's ports, founded upon the ordinary and
accustomed principles of Maritime Law, which were
in force previous to the Orders in Council, without a
new notice to Neutral Powers in the usual form."
Th: American Government, before they received
intimation of the course adopted by the British Go-
vernment, had in fact proceeded to the extreme mea-
sure of declaring war, and issuing "Letters of
Marque," notwithstanding they were previously in
possesuion of the Report of the French Minister for
Foreign Affairs, of the iqth of March, 1817, pro.
toulgating anew the Berlin and Milan Decrees, as
fundamentel laws of the• French Empire, under die.
false and e;travagant pretext, that the monstrous
principles therein contained were to be found in the
Treaty of Utrecht, and were therefore binding upon
all states. From the penalties of this code no nation
was to be exempt which did not accept it, not only
as the rule of its own conduct, but as a law, the ob.
servance of which it was also required to enforce upon
Great I,lritain
In a Manifesto, accompanying their Declaration
of Hostilities, in addition to the former complaints
against the Orders in Council, a long
.list of griev-
ances was brought forward—.some trivial in them-
selves, others which had been mutually adjusted, but
none of them such, as were ever before alleged by the
American Government to be groonds for war,
As it to throw additional obstacles in the way of
peace, the American Congress at the same time
passed a law, prohibiting all intercourse with Great
Britain, of such a tenous as deprivo.d the Executive
Government, according to the President's own con-
struction of that Act, of all power of restoring the
relations of friendly intercourse between the two.
States, so far at least as concerned their commercial
intercotise, until Congress slioltld4assemble.
The ?resident of the United States has, it is true,
since proposed to Great Britain an Alpistice ; not,
however,' on the admissiviti gist thc came of was

1 iiiinite
'Prance, in a more efTe
her own injustice • bi
Council, bearing date
that no neutral vessel
to any of the countrie!
the dictates of France,
led, without first touch
sr her dependencies. •
intimated his readiness
- fil, whenever France sl
return to the accustoms
are ; and at a subset
Majesty's sincere desk.
›ossihle, his defensive i
Neutral Powers, the op
:11 was, by au order i:
o a blockade of Franc
ilet,4 to her immediat
systems of violence,
lever be suppressed, o
against which such ill
✓om the right of frill
f the measures of th
:onsidered as matters
jells, whilst the measc
riolence are, to be to
uission, or complacrn
The Government of
o remonstrate against
lritain, Although tl
could be revoked, if
lad, occasioned them,
it the same moment
lelligerents, instead o
nuance to rescind her
Way the same measut
or, and to the party
urea of commercial re!
►f resistance, which, h
acts of Embargo, Ni
ation, was evidently
wipcipally levelled al
tAd maritime power o
The same partiality
Me, in their pegociai
aimed resistance.
1 Application was,m:
*vocation of their TI
A which they were ms
Of Prance was rec
Derlin and Milan Di
kTosair violating the i
Pates. had been pro
security was 4.mand
Pecreesl even if revs
*her form, be re-est
men; was eftered, tl
American Governme
against Great Britain
diately rescind her 0
Oing engagement wa
whom it was requires
Council should be re
similar nature should
p 0 pf May, IBM sl
lockade, establisheC
Oustomed practice, h
%sited States at the
Signs were on the co
opn Minister reside
baye been so framed,
proof of the friendly
alet towards the Unh
Great pritain was
ictf her most import a,
edging the Order o
f the edicts which
nited States, althoi
,erect in the previm
President of the
nted to abrogate t
, e condition of the (
1e
thereby distinctly act
einly edicts which fell
aw, tinder which he
( A proposition so h
but be proportionabl:
' • the enemy. As by
Fif May, 1806, was
ment virtually justifi
the French Decrees.
After this proposit
Minister for Foreigr
that Government,
views, in a dispatch,
and addressed to the
Paris, stated that the
voiced, and that th
Ile Ist day of Noven
sty would revoke 1
ounce the new prin
jnited States would
:d ; meaning thereb,
Aliatoty measures of
Although the repe
innounced was evide
,ssions to be Made
4;) which it was obvic
nit) or on measures
hates of America ;
:onsidere the repeal
ence the Non-impor
gainst Great lAritai
aerchant ships of thi
larbours of America
The American Gc
I if the French Decree
Post unjustly requiri
o her declarations, ti
The Britith Goveri
chicle was announce
lister for Foreign A:
;di, Great Britain