The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-08

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These dues owe their origin to grant from Conrad
III, Emperor Of Germany who, in the year A. d. 1888
granted permission TO the archbishop Of Hamburg TO
tal far mayka at Stade and he appropriated the
duties which to be levied thereon the benefit
the church at Hamburg which had been sacked and de-
stroyed by the Pagans, all outsiders were called ia
those days Nothing beyond market tol-a duty 10 be
levied goods brought to the market of Stade-was
contemplated Ia this grant but the achbshoIs particu-
lary after the transfer of the TO Bremen not
slow in converting by arbitrary and unjust nterprea
tion the Stade market privilege with the tring duty
attached TO it, into of lucrative revenue their
treasury and in place Of simple right of holding
ket at Sade they fgned privilege Of compulsory
ketyiz that no vessel sailing upward from the sea had
right to pass, but should lay to and pay sort Of tran
sit or rather passage duty for the purpose it were
of buying on the right of sale pretended TO have been
granted at Sadea right which could be easily enforced
from the circumstance that vessels already mentioned
obliged to sail close by the Stade river Schwnge
On groundless charge rests the origin Of the
Stade dues, which, without the shadow of right
equity, has sprung from such arbitrary usurpations
g In the year A. ID. 1882 the German Emperor, the
great Frederic Barbarosa granted to Hamburg the pvi-
ege which bears his Besides other privileges and
mmunes in favor of the trade Of Hamburg the Empcr-
or by this privilege granted to her citizens for their
ships and merchandise, free navigation from the to
the city, with an entire exemption from all dues.
.'At the peace of Westphala, the territories Of the
archbishop Of Bremen coded to the OF Sweden
which government, in consequence claimed the right to
levy the dues customary right.
In A. ID. 1854 treaty between Hamburg and Swc-
den formed, wherein the rights of the former
acknowledged in the broadcast sense and hlrif was
formed by Sweden for the balance of the world and fixed
the rate at about onesxcenth per cent Sooaer this
treaty formed dc with the duchies of Bremen and
Verdan, occupied by the Danes, and finally cced by
them in A. d. Ills to the electorate Of Hanover, which
brought about by the cabinet o. George Of
England, who at that time eector Of Hanover and
for which the British government paid Denmark $50 900
sterling
These tolls ds have ever since bceneollected by
Hanover, except for four Ave yeaB during the
elder Bonapaftes wars when Hanover in possession
of the French None then collected but the lower
Ebe left as free any part of the North sea.
ITO correct understanding Of this question: it is
proper to premise that the lower Ebe it is called
that is from Hamburg to the North sea- is, strictly
speaking, part of the and has been consid
cred by all the European nations in all their official acts
and intercourse Even at the great Congress- A. d. 1885,
when the of all the German rivers regua-
ted the lower Ebe and Stade dues specifically omit
ted for the assigned that that near0 and
the dues tolls Hence 1t rests alone upon the
foundations which the Danish Sound dues do or
which the old Trpotan tribute did and other. And
if the former is and the latter was Illegal and unjust
the Stadc dues