The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-31 00:00:00

COLOVAL PRODUCE.

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HAMBURCOII OCT. 12.—The Director of the
French Customs has communicated to the Senate of
this city the following Imperial, French Decree,
and has requested that they would make known the
same t

COPY OF Alt IMPERIAL DECREE, DATED AT TILE

PALACE* OF FuNTAINDLCAU, OCT. 2, 1810.
" We, Napoleon, Emperor of the. rench, King
of Italy, ,Protector of the Confedektion of the.
Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, hate
decreed and do decree as followit—.

" Art. 1. The produce and merchandise mentioned in the
tarif annexed to the present Decree, which shall enter Meck-
lenburg, Laueuburg, the Hanseatic Towns, and all the coun-
tries errnprehended between the sea and the line 6f our cus-
toms. from ltbees upon the Rhine to the Hattie, are subject to
Cie duties upon entry laid down in theenirt (aril. whether they
enter in virtue of licences of permits, .or are the proceeds of
prizes, confiscation, or seisure.
" 2. The said prOdace or merchandise at present existing in
the said countries shall be subject to the said duties.
" $. The proprietors or consignees of the said produce and
mercharidise shall be bound to make declaration of the same,
within ten days after the publication of the present Decree,
wider penal yof confiscation. They shall pay the said duties.
either in specie, or with good bills payable in three months.
" 4. At the expiration of the term above fixed far giving in
declarations, the custom-house officers shall make the neceSsary
visits and searches, in order to discover the produce and mer-
chandise which shall not have been declared. They Shall be
allowed a fifth of what is produced by the sale of such as they
shall. have discovei•ed and seized.
" 5. • Every individual who shall discover to the cottom-
. hiMse-tifficers the places where the goods withdrawn from d-
claratiOn are deposited, shall receive a fifth of the pronuce of
their sale.
" 6. The military authorities are required to lend nssistance
to the custom-house ofti:.iers, on the denhuid of the chief of each
•
detachment.
" 7. Our Dirac!or-General of the Customs shall give the ne-
cessary orders, that the searches and visits be made with exact-
or-as, and that the merchandise discovered, as well as that con-.
fiscated in default of payment of the duties at the prescribed
periods, shall ire conveyed to Cologne.
" 3. Our Ministe,e of Finance is charged with the execution
of the present Decree.
(Signed) " NAPOLEON.
(Attested) " COLLIN DE SUSSY,
Director-General of the Customs.
. (Attested) " D'EUDEL,
Director of the Customs."

[Here followe the Tarif of duties,
,which is the
same as that annexed to the Decree of the sth of
Augusts.]

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ROSTON, Seim V.
The letter from the Doke de Cabot's to General
ARMSTRONG, stating the repeal of the Decrees of
Berlin and Milan, highly important as it must be
considered in a national view, must becontemplated
and weighed with great deliberation,' as to its pro-
bable ultimate cunseqnenees.
The first idea which strike) the reader upon a pe-
rusal of this unexpected determination of NAPO;
LEON'S is, that there appears nu ostensible reason '
for his conduct. It is evident the' Act of Con. '
gress of the Ist of May',. which opens• the ports* of
America to French Commerce, is merely a pre. I '
tence ; for the ports of America were perfectly
free to• France at the time the 'Decrees were en. '
acted. But if this particular Act of Congress had
been the true reason fur the repeal, why el riot '
NAPOLEON promptly, and without delay, act mien
the information ? Why, truly, becaitie lieu as not
ti officially notified" of the Act. This want, of
official notification, however, as to the. Act of the
Ist of March, removieg the embargo, .did not pre.
vent him from enacting the sequestration 'and sale
'of American property in his dominions, in what.
vier place it could he seized. No ; he claims such
reprisals as Matter of 'right, 'and commanded by his
dignity. In seeking, then, for the real motives
Which have induced him thus to repeal his Decreei ;
we need' not go further than the condemnation and
sale of American property. NAPOLEON i$ w great
distrait for fait to prosecute the war in Spain,
and pay hi's other expences : ho has seized thirty
millions of American property, as a right; respect.
ing • which the Duke of CA DORE remarks, IT WAS
IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ANY COMPROMISE;" acrd, e's°,
that it was the necessary result of the Non-inter.
course AN of Congress. The consequences of this•
seizure are too favourable to his wants and resources,
to induce him tb relinquish 'the money ; but he is
very willing to grant the repeal of his Berlin and
Milan Decrees, as a salvo for this grievance, and
. unction for the wound he has inflicted upon our
national honour in the first instance, and upon our
commercial* prosperity in the second. Great Bri.
lain, undoubtedly, if we may believe Mr. CAN-
NING'S correspondence with Mr. P INKNEY, will
repeal her Oiders in Council, which were the con.
sequences of the French Decrees ; but here some
momentous questions occur, namely, " What con.
fidence is to ha placed in the' promises Of NAPO-
LEON ? and what materials for further pretences
and future seizures of property are contained in
this very Act of Repeal?"' NAPOLEON'S pro-
mises, his integrity and justice, are mere topics
of derision' throughout 'the world, and his own
dominions in particular : he will no longer he
restrained than it is his interest to withhold the
grasp which is to wreak still greater vengeance
upon our wealth. Ile will not want plausible
reasons for his conduct : he can readily discover
them in this very act or repeal.. Ile declires to
General Anmsveortio, that from the Ist of No/
vember. next the acmes of Berlin and Milan " will
cease to be in force." So far all is well ; but hero
comes thedifficulty : rc it bring understood" (mark
it well); that in consequence of this declaration, the
English shall reveke their Order, in-Couneil, and re.,
'notaries the nett principle:l :A f blockade ids they
hare attemptodtaetiablish.." The first point involves
no difficulty • but what are these new principles
..which the English hive attempted to establish I 'risotto
upon which NAPOLEON founded the 'Decrees in
question, in the.preamble to that.of Berlin; viz.-the
blockade of a length of.coast, which Greit Bretaio
only a few mauths, ago, to Mr. PINK NET, officially
refused to resikn. There are no other principles
respecting blockades that we recollect, of which
the French: Government have ever made any coin.
plaint. If this is the doctrine on the relinquish-
.ment of which. NAPOLEON founds the revocation Of
his. Decrees, it is clear lats.revocation will become a
nullity,• since it requires of Great Britain aneraili.
cationof.the root from which. the Decrees originally
sprung. What will be the consequence which France
will pretend to draw from a refusal of Great 'Bri-
tain to make this concession We find it in_
the following idea of QUAINPAGNY, that the
United States shall, conformably to the Act of
May 1, cause their rights to be' respected by the
English." In other words ; the United States
have• pledged themselves to go to war with. Great
Britain, But, however NAPOLEON may flatter
himself that he has caught us in his snare of di plo
macy, it is fortunate that the United States have in
reality given 'no such pledge.. They will restore the
aysteßt of Non-intercourse with the nation refusing
to rescind her Edicts ; but NAPOLEON will find, the
difference between actual war.and a state of non.
intercourse is .too broad and apparent ever to be
*suffered by the A,inericaos to be involved under one
and BIG same meaning.

Died, on Monday morning, at five o'clock, In
his 30th year, at his scat at Brandon House, near
Coventry, the [Light Hon. H> NnY Ys.cycirrox,
Lord Grey de Rothyn, Baron Hastings, .Wyford,
and Valiance, Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant of.
tii:e 4th Regiment of Warwickshire Local Militia,
and an Active Magistratefor the county of Warwick.
His Lordship. was grandson to the third and last
Kiri of SUSSEX, who left issue au only daughter,
viz. Lady BAkBARA YkiLVEKTON, who married E.T.
Gantt), E-q..and died 1781, leasing his Lordship
an infant, who succeeded to the baronies and estates,
the Earldom of Sitilex being extinct. His Lord-
ship was married in June, 1809, to Mania,(laugh-
ter of Wm. Fol. of Ryton,
.by Whom. he
has left an infant daughter,. who succ*.eds to the
titles and estates. His Lordihip passed 3 wee 4 in
Coventry with his regiment, during which period
he had a slight attack, but had immediate relief.
After his return tri Brandon Ifouse, he was again.
seizes! with a violent hemorrhage, which terminated
his existence in five days.- His Lordship was ninclv
beloved in' Coventry and its neighbourhbod. •
The last harvest has dotibtlecs been abundant,
but it is not likely that we should experience. any
depreciation iti,the price of. the necessaries of life,
while we hive to support such immense armies
abroad, nut oply it our own.soldiers,• but of oor
Allies also. togi.ther with toe whole forced popula-
tion of Lisbon.