Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-04

! indebted to capt. DAWSON, OIL the brig Fan.
| nal:, for the London {" Courier of the 22d o.
April, containing the following Declaration o.
the Prince Regent:
/ LONDON, April %.
MOST IMPORTANT DECLARATION
This lnoroing the following Declaration was
published by his Majesty's Government.
DECL,4R.47ION.
The Government Of France, having by AT
Official Report, communicated by its Minister
for Foreign Affairs to the Conservative Sc
! nate on the 10th day of March last, remov-
cd all doubts as to the perseverance Of that
government in the assertion of principles,
and in the maintenance of system, not more
hostile TO the maritime rights aod CONNER
cial interests OF the British empire, than IL
consistent with the rights and independence
of Neutral nations and having thereby plair
ly developed the inordinate pretensions, which
that system, as promulgated in the DEGREES
of Berlin and Milan, was from the first de-
signed to enforce; his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, acting in the name, and OF.
the behalf of his Majesty, deems it proper,
upon this formal and authentic republication
of the principles of those DEGREES, thus pub
licly to declare his Royal Highness's deter
animation still firmly to resist the introduc
ton and establishment of this arbitrary code
which the government Of France openly a.
vows its purpose to impose by force npon
the world, as the law Of nations.
i" From the time that the progressive In
Justice and violence of the French govern
inert, made itimpossble for his Majesty ally
longer to restrain the exercise Of the rights o.
war within their ordinary limits, without sub
hitting TO consequences not less ruinous to
the commerce of his dominions, than derrga
tory TO the rights of the Crown, his Majesty
has endeavorcd by a restricted and moderate
use of those rights of retaliation, which the
Berlin and Milan DEGREES, necessarily called
into action, to reconcile Neutral States to
those measures, which the conduct ofthe ene-
my had rendered unavoidable and which
his Majesty has at all times protested his rea
Ciness to revoke, so soon as the DEGREES
the enemy, which gave occasion to them
should be formally and uncondit oual'y re.
pealed, and the Commerce of Neutral Nations
be restored to its accustomed course.
"At a subsequent period of the war, hisn.a-
icsty, availng himself of the then situation o
Europe, without abandoning the principle &
object of the Order in Council of November
1907, was induced so TO limit their operation
as materially to alleviate the restrictions there
/ by imposed upon neutral commerce. The
Order in Council of April, 1909, WAS substi-
tutedin the room Of those of November, SC7,
and the retalatory system of Great B Itar
/ acted no longer on every country IN which the
| aggressive measures Of the enemy were il
| force, but was confined in its operation to
l France, and 10 the countries upon which the
| French yoke was most strictly imposed and
/ which had become virtually part of the Dc
| minions OF France.
| The United States of America remained
nevertheless dissatisfied; and their dlssatis-
/ faction has been greatly increased by an arti-
/ fee too successfully employed on the part Of
/ the enemy, who has pretended that the De.
/ crees Of Berlin and Milan were repealed al
though the decree effectiLg such repeal has
never been promulgated; although the Motif
cation of such pretended repeal distinctly de-
| scribed it to be dependent on conditions, in
| which the enemy knew Great Britain could
never acquiesce; and although abundant evil
!! dence has since appeared of their subsequent
| execution.
| But the enemy has at length laid aside all
| assimilation; be now pablicly and solemnly
/ declares not only that those DEGREES still con-
tinue in force. but that they shall be rigldy
/ executed until Great Britain shall comply with
additional conditions, equally eStravagant; &
/ he further announces the penalties Of those
| DEGREES to be in full force against al llations
which shall suffer their Tag obe as i, is term
ed in this new code, s dcnationalized."
In addition to the disayowal of the block
ade of May, 1906 and of the principles on
which that blockade was established, and in
addition to the repeal of the British Orders
in CounciI--he demands an admission of the
| principles, that the goods of an enemy, car
risI under neutral flag, shall be treated as
neutral; that neutrrl property under the
! flag of an enemy shall be treated as hos
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