Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-01-18

u AGfO VIC iAOliOA y 10, ~
{Signed) H. SMITH.
Gen. TurTeGa, &c. &c. &c.
Transsation Of a letter from General Tur-
reau, Minister Pien pOtentjGry Of his
Imperial and Roya! Mqjesty the Empe-
ror ofthe French, SrC. Sc. to DIR. Smith,
Secretary IF State.
WASHINGTON, December 25, 1910.
Sir,
have received the letter you have done
me the honor to write to me on the 18th of
this month, and | hasten to transmit a copy
of it to MS excellency the duke de Galore.
This despatch, sir, being an answer to the
letters which | had the honor to write to
you on the eth of November and 18th Of
this month, naturally takes ms back to their
object, to which l believe it is my duty a
gain to call your attention.
pray you to observe that the last instruc-
tons | have received from my court relative
to the new directions The IN OF France
with the United States must follow, are Of a
very old date the official dispatches from
which / have taken them are ofthe 18th and
2Sth Of April last. II is more probable that
the regulations of my government in regard
to this com have undergone some modi-
f~ications, as the consul general received by
the " Hornet" dispatches of the 10th July
22d and 30th August last, III which it is spe-
cially stated, that cottons may be imported
into France in American vessels, and under
certain regulations ; whereas, according to
the Instructions which were addressed to me
on the 18th and 28th Of April preceding, cot
ton and tobacco are specially prohibited.
will add to these data, tees donnes) that,
according to the orders transmitted TO the
corsuls of his majesty respecting certificates
of origin, and under the date before cited
t30th August lasD they may deliver them to
all American vessels destined for France
observing, that these certificates are not ap-
plicable int TO the products Of the United
States. If these certificates OF origin cannot
be applied but to the productions of the Uni
ted States, and cannot be given to any yes
sells but those destined for France, the intro
duction Of these productions is not then pro
hibtted there.
You will be pleased especially to observe,
sir, that the dispositions which were amour
ced to me by the dispatches of the 18th and
2Sth of April, are of course anterior to the
repeal of the DEGREES of Berlin and Milan,
and are necessarily without an object the mo
ment the said DEGREES are no longer in force.
| do not know Of any subsequent acts which
modify this repeal, for the instructions AREA
dy cited, sent to the consul general the 30th
August last, relative to the certificates of orr
gin, are only a consequence of it, and for
maliy exclude only colonial productions.
Furthermore, sir, | have before me the
letters Of the duke of Galore to general Arm
strong, under date ofthe 5th of August, and
18th September, of which Copies have been
sent to me by order Of my courc. These are
the only documents on which it seems to me
reasonable to fix the attention (s'arreter) and
| see in them nothing which can cause it to
be supposed that the French government may
have had an intention to modify or to re strict
the repeal of the before cited DEGREES. This
act contains no reserve it does not exact "a
ny guaranty. The declaration of the duke
OF cadore is formal and it is the provisions
themselves of the act of the honorable con
gress ofthe lst of May last, which have die
tated to him the consequence.
| seize this occasion with eagerness, sir,
to renew to you the assurance of my high
consideration.
(Signed)
TURREAU.