The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-04-20
LONDON. March l.
FRENCH DECREE.

FRENCH DECREE.
The following is the Decree lately is.
sned by the French government, on the sub
lJect OF the export commerce of that coun
toy
palace OF THE THu1LLER1Es,
February 16.
Napoleon. Emperor of the French, &c
1--WE have decreed, and do decree rs fol-.
lows -
ART. i. No vessel with a license, shall
henceforth be permitted 10 clear out from
our ports, unless half her cargo consist of
wine and brandy.
ART. II. Licensed vessels which shall
have already begun to take in their freight,
are excepted from this regulation.
+" The Ministers of Finance, &c. are re :
quired, &C."
March 9
a regular series of Moniteurs % the 22d
ut. arrived yesterday afternoon.
The Sanatus Consulsum for uniting Rome
to France has been published. The City of
Rome IS % be the second in rank in the En-
pire. The Hereditary Imperial Prince the
eldest son OF Napoleon, we suppose) is TO bear
the title os King Of Rome. The Popes are
required TO swear to attempt nothing against
the provision: for the Independence of the
Galiicgn Church. p landed revenue Of two
millions OF francs, with Palaces at Rome and
Paris, are allotted to the Popes x Prime.
OF the Blood. or grand dignitary of the En- /.
pIrc, is to keep an Imperial Court at Rome
Ahe expenses of the College of Cardiuals
and the propaganda are to be BETRAYED by
the government. Thus will the Pope aud
the College of Cardinals be placed in a state
OF the most AFFECT dependence upon the Ty-
rant of the Continent, and the common enc
my of all the independent states. Let the
Catholics OF Ireland we'll consider this cir
cumstancc and having done SO, they cannot,
we think, any longer hesitate in regard to the
necessity of conceding the Veto in the cleo !.
ton of their Bishops.
The Roman territory is to be divided into
two departments, which are TO send Dep
utiess to the Legislative Assembly. 1t i. also
to give title to the Hereditary Imperial
Prince, who will be denomiDated King of
Rome. Provision is, at the same time.
made for the support of the future Popes :
who. however, will possess no temporal au-
thority.
March 3
he report which we mentioned a few
days since. OF an increaing GOODNESS between
Russia and France, derives some sanction
from an article in the last Paris papers. 1t
was said that the Russian troops had crossed
the Niemen, and that every effort was max
ing to terminate the war with TurkeT.
Intelligence to this effect was actually pub
lished in the Leyden Gazette, and is motto
ed IN the Paris papers. in an article pur
porting to come from Dresden. The Paris
papers contradict it but the same report
sti. prevails, and has been received in let
tiers from Heligoland of the 21st ult which
state that war had actually been determin
ed upon by the court ofPetersburg, and that
packet had sailed with dispatches for the
British government announcing the impor-
tant event. Reports of this nature should
however be received with extreme caution.
and we deem it necessary to state that our
government have received no advice whstc
yer upon the subject.
M March S.
Il was determined on Saturday by tn g
Board OF Trade, after conference with a
dsputation of the Merchants trading to the
Brazils to grant licences for the free expor
tation of Cotton to ali ports and places no.
declared in state of BLOCKADE
March 8.
Ministers cling to their Offices in man
ner wholly unprecedented in the history of
the country. Lord Sidmouth resigned when
he had majority Of at least thirty, because
he thought, that when tina opinion of Par |
lament was not decidedly in his favor, he |
could not longer continue to conduct the af |
fairs OF the couHtry with effect. Mr.. Per-
clval, on the contrary, has, independently of .
incidental points, been in minority on at /
least five great questions. Lord Chatham,
whose conduct has been pronounced by the |
House OF Commons to have been of a ten
dency injurious to his majesty's service, |
and to the principles of the constitution, 4
still continues TO be member of the cabi.
net,
Can it be supposed, that the conduct of
he gIoyr in
n'catIon3 with his sovereign, and which we're
withheld, by desire, from his colleagues,
was acceptable TO the ether ministers
Must they not have felt that their own in.
fuence, and their own measures, might be
supPlanted or thwsrted by such private in
ttlGues, aud yet they continue to acr with
this dangerous and degraded col,caguc. -
Such conduct can only DC aceounssd for by !