Star.
London, England, 1810-08-18 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18.
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Long Ann. 18 9.161

Monitturr to the 10th instant arrivediast night, the
contents of which are extremely interesting. From

the Paper of the Bth, we subjoin the Decree relating
to the importation of certain articles of colonial pro-
duce ; and, from that of the following day, a letter

t' General Anali tioxa, on the subject of the mis-

tnderstanding between France and the United States.
We are sorry to be obliged to remark, that neither
the Decree nor the Letter contains a single sentence

acknowledging, either in fact or in substance, that
NAPOLEON has abandoned, or means to depart from

his system : on the contrary, we find in both a re-as-
sertion and vindication of his original principles.

The Decree now given differs materially frepi the
copy first received, and seems to have emanated en-
tirely from the Emperor himself. It is true it sanc-
tions the importation of colonial produce ; but upon
an implied, though not an expressed understanding,
that the previous laws, whether restricting or regula-
ting importation, are to be rigidly maintained. The
articles imported, if suspected to come from an ene-
my's port, or to be enemy's property, produce, or ma-
nufacture, are liable to a strict examination, and to

confiscation in case they shall be found to be falsely
described. There is no great commercial facility in

this.

The letter to General ARMSTRONS announces the
conditional revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees.

They are to cease to be in force after the Ist of No-
v2niber, upon either of these two conditions—that we
shall revoke our orders in Council, and renounce the

new principles, of blockade ; or, that the United States
shall cattle their rights to be resfierted by us. 'The
meaning of this is, that we must either renounce the
rule of the war of 1756, and limit our rights of sei-
zure and detention to vessels entering ports under
strict blockade ; or that America is to go to war with

us, for the purpose of asserting what, in the present
maritime code of France, is called the right of neu.
trals. There is nothing new, therefore, in this offer
of the French Government. The same proposal has
been made more than once to the American Minister.

Trance has repeatedly declared that she would revoke
the Berlin and Milan Decrees, provided we reLcirided
our Orders in Council. The British Government,
mutatis mutandis, has made the same declaration. Now
the only question for consideration is, does this pro-
pc:4al of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
amount to that kind of absolute renunciation which
should induce our Government to re.citid its Orders
in Council ? We think not. Nay, NAPOLEON expects
more. He has attached to the performance of his
part of the arrangement a condition, which must
prove very embarrassing to our Ministers ; -namely,
that of renouncing those principles of blockade, to the
vigorous assertion of which we owe, in a great degree,
our maritime ascendancy.

Again we are to observe, that the Berlin and Milan
Decrees are not de facto d instanter repealed. No, that
event is deferred to the Ist of November ; before
which time NAPOLEON no doubt expects that our Or-
ders in Council will have been rescinded (and so
spare him the humiliation of having been the first to ,
give way) ; or that the United States, in consequence
of this liberal offer, will have &elated war against
this country.
The letter, in other respects, is as insidious a com-
munication as ever issued from the French Govern-
silent. Its object rather appears to be the encourage.'
meta of the war or French faction in America, than
the arrangement of a debated point of policy. The
sequestration of the American vessels in the French
ports, is stated to be a necessary consequence of the
measure that followed. We can find no offer here to
restore these ships; that, we presume, will depend on
the part that the Government of the United States
will, in consequence of. this invitation to throw down
the gauntlet to us, think proper to adopt.
PAnb, AUGUST 7.

His Majesty issued on the sth August, at the Pa- .I_
lace of Trianon, the following Decree :
n Art I. The duties upon the importation of the
undermentioned goods and merchandize are settled as i
follow :
By metrical quintal : the cottons of Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam,
Demerary and Georgia, long staple, 800 francs; levant cottons,
t•nported by sea, 600 fr. ; the same by land, through the Offices
at Cologne, Cublentz, Mayence, and Strastourgh, 500 fr.; cottons ,
from all other places, tho>e from Naples excepted, 606 fr.; those
from Naples, the old duties. Raw sugar. 300 fr. ; clayesl or loaf
sugar, 400 fr ; Hyson teas, 900 fr.; -green teas, 600 fr.; all other ,
teas, 150 fr.; indigo, 930 fr. ; cocoa, 1000 fr. ; cochineal, 2000
ft. ; white pepper, 600 fr. ; black do. 400 fr.; common cinna-
moa, 1400 fr.; fine do 2000 fr.; clove-, 600 fr.; nutmegs, 2000
fr. ; mahogany, 50 fr. ; Pernambucco wood, 0 fr.; Campeacily
do. 50 fr.; dye woods ground, 100 fr.
" Art. IL When the custom-house officers suspect
that the declarations concerning the species or quali-
ties are false, they shall send specimens to the Direc?