The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-21
No. Is.

| ne declares al the Dritish Isles to be i'm a
state CT blockade, and prohibits all trade
and correspondence with them" He pro
vides III that Decree for the capture and cor.
domination, as a prize, of English produce.
ana manufactures, and denies to all neutral
! ships which are coming direct from England
! or the English colonies or which should have
Oecn there, an entrance to the ports of
| France
| The charges made against the English GO
vernment, were founded on an order of the
King and Council of that nation, issued ON
the 18th of May 1906: declaring that al the
rivers and ports from the river Ebe in Ger.
! many, to the port OF Brcst, in France both
inclusive, should be considered as bIockaded.
but " his majesty was pleased to declare,
g that s,ch-b.ockade shall not extend to pre-
vent nentral ships and vessels laden with
goods, not being the property ofhis majes-
tvs enemies, and not being contraband OF
war, from approaching said coasts, and en-
tering said rivers and ports, from Ostend
to the river Seine, already in state of
rigorous blockade; provided such ships or
" vessels shall not be destined to anv port
" orp!ace III possession of his majesty's enc
&c mics"
Thus by this new system, England block
AIDED more than nine hundred miles of sea-
coast, and France blockaded all the coasts of
ENGLAND and Ireland, all the English West
India islands and the English provinces.
Whatever oStensible easements to ncutrals
were interviewer with those novel Orders,
and DEGREES; yet the whole were done away
In the succeeding year.
BY another order of the 9TH of January.'
1907, issued by the English king and coun-
Gil, Il IA declared, that no vessel shall bs,
" permitted to trade from one port to aao.-
" Their port, both which ports shall belong to.
" or be in possession of France or her allies.
" or shall be so far under their control, as
" that British vessels may not freely trade
" thcreat,"
On the 18th of November, 1907, the king.
and Council of Great Britain issued an Or
der in the preamble of which heavy CHI trges,
OF want OF respect to the law OF nations and.
rights of neutrality, are made against France
and 1t Is therein declared, "that all the ports
" q places oil France and her allies, or any o.,
" Their country ut war with his majesty, and
a." all other ports and places in Europe from
" which u though not at war with his Ma
g Jcsty. the British flag is excluded and ALI
" ports and places iii the colonies belonging:
" TO his Majesty's enemies, shall from hence
forth be subject to the same restrictions in
point of trade and navigation, with the ex-
ceptions hereinafter mentioned, as if the =
" same were actually bOCkaded by his Ma,
JeSty'S naval forces IN the most strict and
" rigorous Manner
The exceptions mentioned in tile Order
extend 10 lowing reutrals to {" furnish them
- selves with colonial produce for their o7vsI.
" consumhHon, and supply. 1t also extends.
" to excluding from capture and condempa-
"ton all vessels belonging to any country
" not at war with his majesty which shalt
" have cleared out from any port or place ia
:" this kingdom Or Gibraltar, or Malta, under.
" such regulations a his majesty NAV think.
" fit toprescribe or from any port belonging.
" to his majesty's allies, and proceeding.
" direct to the port specified i'll her clear
ance: and also vessels and cargoes COM.
" ing direct from any port or place declared
- to be in state of blockade and destined to
&c some port in Europe belonging to his ma
Jesty."
On the 26th of December, 1897, the EN-.
peror of France issued Decree, with pre-
a.nble, in which he charges Great Brisain
with disreSpccting the rights OF nations and
the laws of neutrality, in the Order of the
nth Of November; and declares in the " De.4
-" cree, that every ship to whatever nation
-" 1T may belong, that shall have submitted
" tobe searched by an English ship, or on a.
g voyage, to England that shall have paid
" any tax whatever to- the English Govern
" ment, is therefore (by that dccree) to DC
g denGtioHeHzeI t. have forfeited the pro-,
lection of its (king) government, and to
=" have become British property"
BY the same Decree, all the Islands OF
Of Blockadc.-All vessels trading to them.
or to or from the English Colonies belonging.
to any nation whatever, declared to be
lawful prize, in virtue of that decree, TO the.
French captors. This decree meets and en-
counters the English order in every porhs
in regard to neutral Commerce.
Thus by the English Orders, and the,
French DEGREES, tho commerce Of the Uni.
ted States is overthrowu, in all its princi-
pal objects and Canton, in China, with an
inconslderable part OF the shores of the Me-
diterranear, OF Asia. and Africa, left to our
mercantile speculations and even this suf-
ferage may be done away by captures, or
prcteXt by one nation, and confScations by
the other for submitting to searches which
could not be resisted.
The Order ofthe 1th November issued
by the English King, and Council has been
since supported in Parliament, BY large
majority in the House Of Lords, and House
of Commons.
BESIDES the Order Of the 11th, another
Order of the 18th November, has been is
sued by the same authority. and mas been
supported by the English Parliament as full
" As the other was, in having on goods en-
tered and landed by ncntrals in England, i'm
compliance with the first Order, duty,
called 4 Warehouse duty, which, if have
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