Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-12-10

merchant OF this city, with the fol-
lowing questions to, and the reply Of.
Mr.. GALLATIs. Secretary OF ire
Treafury.
[Letter From Wdi5ingfoa !
" From your government we an
i: mex two queries, propoGed to Mr..
| CALLATIN, the Secretary of the
| Trealury, relative TO the renewal of
| the Non-Intercouric between this
! country and Great Britain, with his
replies the etc.
1T. Krbetber goods j5ibbsd fran
England prier to THE 2dFebrlary next,
but arriving hbysqnenty thereto, 7vyuLd
be Iayed to Eeizure, or admtfsd to an
entry and IDLY. W6fbsy a ve6fl
NTH a cargo Of B,1tJ6 goads 4voah be
permitted TO call 1vitbin Ire 1vHers Of
The United Slater far orders, or fo learn
the continuance gftbe Non LafeycaurJc.
" In anlwer to the Ist. Mr.. Gal
LATIN ihewed a letter to Mr. d.
Dunbar, afking the fame queffion,
which itated that all goods imported
from the dominions Of @. Britain,
and arriving within the United
States, fubiequent to the I'd Februa-
ny. will be forfeited, if G. Britain
ihall not on that day have revoked
her ediets. 1t follows, that if no
knowledge of fuch revocation is
known here by the I'd February,
goods imported as aforefaid, will be
iubject TO feizure.
" In anfwer to the laft, viz. Whe-
Their avefel would be permitted to
call, &c. Mr.. GALLATIN was not 70
explicit, but faid it would be left to
the court TO decide. That the law
would be rigidly enforced in all cal-
es Of arrivals after the I'd February /;
and he begged it to be urdcrftood
that there would be no rcleafe from
The treafury department-He men,
toned this, he faid, becaufe feveral
rcIeafcs hal been made under differ
ent circumstances, which he ex-
planned, upon the arrival Of vehcls
after the revival Of The law under Mr..
ERsKlNF'S arrangement. In that
cafe, it was the act OF the Executive
and of the Britilh minilter, which
induced merchants to give orders
here, 1t was under law well known
10 all the merchants-and that all
shipments from England, unleGa the
revocation on her part was full and
perfectly satisfactory, will be attend
ed with Iiik and hazard.
" Mr., @. is ALTO of opinion that
the Orders of Council of Nov. 1907,
are done away by the Orders of
| Blockade Of April, 1899, 70 that re-
peal of her paper blockades 10 cal
led) is the principa: thing deman-
ded.
4" The PreGdent by making the
letter of the French miniffer the
BATS of his proclamation, has taken
It with the conditions annexed-on
OF which is. that England lhalI re-
peal her blockades-From this II is
inferred that formal repeal Of the
Orders III Council of Nov. will not
be deemed satisfactory BY this gov
eminent for the purpoie of pre-
vening the Nom Intercourle."
Our readers by referring to the
Non intercourse law of Congrefs,
will oblervc, that thofe fections re-
vlVed by the law of 1T May laf, ap-
ply only to the excluGon of the Eri,
tlin flag from our waters, and to pro-
hiblt the importation of all Britiih
goods. OF courfe, American ihips,
with cargoes. may 60 TO @. Britain
as heretofore, even if ihc fhould
not revoke her bIockading or
dars.
reneb 4" Tribute" ss' "Licsncs5"
! Bonaparte has decrced that Amer
lean veiiels fhall not carry colonial
produce to his dominions unIe(s duly
Licsnced by him and it is a well
known f16t, that for one thcfe Iii.
ceneeS" lately granted to an American
vehel at Nantz. land which licencc
IS good for one voyage only no lefs
| than Eighty Napoleous were paid into