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islands, lands, and territories, into which such importation as aforesaid shall be made, and in the ships aforesaid in which such importations shall have been made, of rum and molasses, and of any other goods and commodities whatsoever, except sugar, indigo, cotton wool, coffee, and cocoa: Provided, that such ships or vessels shall duly enter into, report, and deliver their respective cargoes, and reload at such ports only where regular custom houses shall have been established. But it is his royal highness' pleasure, nevertheless, and his royal highness, in the name and on behalf of his majesty, and by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that nothing herein before contained shall be construed to permit the importation of staves, lumber, horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, live stock, live provisions, or any kind of provisions whatever, as aforesaid, into any of the said islands, lands, or territories in which there shall not be, at the time when such articles shall be brought for importation, the following duties on such articles of the growth or produce of the United States of America, namely:

On wheat flour, per barrel, not weighing more than

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On flour or meal made from rye, peas, beans, Indian corn, or other grain than wheat, per barrel, not weighing more than one hundred and ninety-six pounds,

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On rice, for every one hundred pounds, neat weight, and so in proportion for a less or larger quantity, 0 3 4 On shingles called Boston chips, not more than twelve inches in length, per thousand,

On shingles being more than twelve inches in length, per thousand,

For every twelve hundred, commonly called one thousand, red oak staves,

For every twelve hundred, commonly called one thousand, white oak staves, and for every one thousand pieces of heading,

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For every one thousand feet of white or yellow pine lumber, of all descriptions,

For every thousand feet of pitch pine lumber,

For all other kinds of wood or timber, not before enumerated,

For every thousand wood hoops,

And in proportion for a less or larger quantity of all and every of the articles enumerated.

Horses, neat cattle, and other live stock, for every hundred pounds of the value thereof at the port or at the place of importation,

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10 0 0 And whereas, I have deemed it expedient and necessary to make known and publish the same within this his majesty's government: I do therefore issue this my proclamation, to the end that all persons whom it doth or may concern, being duly apprised thereof, may govern themselves accordingly.

Given under my hand, and the great seal of the islands, this 14th day of January, 1813, and in the 53d year of his majesty's reign.

By his excellency's command,
ROBERT KENNedy.

(Circular.)

Sir,

GEORGE HORSFORD.

God save the king.

Downing Street, November 9, 1812. I have the honour of inclosing an order of council, which it has been judged expedient to issue, in consequence of the existing hostilities between his majesty and the United States of America. By this order you are authorized to grant licenses for importation of certain articles enumerated in the order, and for the exportation of certain articles in the same order, in the ships in which the importation shall be made.

This intercourse is to be subject to the condition stated in the order, and such instructions as you may from time to time receive from one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state. I am commanded by his royal highness the prince regent to signify to you, that in granting the licenses for importation of the above enumerated articles, vou take care that the articles, so to be imported, be severally enumerated in the body of the license; that the port or place from whence the importation is to be made, and the port to which the vessel is bound, is also to be inserted in the body of the license.

That if the person applying for the license shall not be able to state the name of the vessel on board of which the proposed importation is to be made, the condition of the license should be,

that the name of the vessel, the name of the master, the tonnage and her national character, be endorsed on the license on quitting her port of clearance, and that the condition of her license should also be, that she proceed direct to the port of her destination.

Although the order in council authorizes you to permit the importations of the enumerated articles in any vessels not French, you will not grant these licenses to any except to vessels in amity with his majesty, unless you are convinced that the island will be exposed to serious embarrassments by so confining the importation in question.

Whatever importations are proposed to be made under the order, from the United States of America, should be by your licenses confined to the ports in the EASTERN STATES EXCLUSIVELY, unless you have reason to suppose that the object of the order would not be fulfilled if licenses are not also granted for the importations from the other ports in the United States.

With respect to the licenses for exportation on board the vessels in which an importation shall have been previously made, you will observe that the order does not require that the port of destination in such case shall be the same as that from whence the importation had been made, but you will take care that in the body of the license be inserted the name of the vessel, her tonnage, the name of the master, and her national character, the port of clearance, and the port of destination; and that the cargo be described in the body of the license, according to the words of the order, viz. rum, molasses, or any other goods and commodities whatsoever, except sugar, indigo, cotton wool, coffee, and cocoa.

You will take care that the term of the import license does not exceed the term of the order on which it is granted, and that you do not issue any license for exportation under this order, after that period.

The fee payable for each license is not in any case to exceed the sum of one pound one shilling.

I have the honour to be, sir,

(Signed)

Your most obedient humble servant.

To Lt. Col. Governor Harcourt, &c. &c.

Message from the president of the United States, transmitting a correspondence relative to the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees; and touching the relations between the United States and France, in pursuance of a resolution of the first of March, 1813.

To the house of representatives of the United States.

I transmit to the house of representatives a report of the secretary of state, complying with their resolution of the 1st instant.

March 3, 1813.

JAMES MADISON.

The secretary of state, to whom was referred the resolution of the house of representatives of the 1st instant, has the honour to submit to the president the enclosed papers marked A and B. All which is respectfully submitted.

JAMES MONROE.

Department of State, March 3, 1813.

A.

Extract of a letter from Joel Barlow, esq. to the Secretary of

State, dated

Paris, May 2, 1812.

I have the honour to enclose herewith the copy of my note of yesterday to the duke of Bassano. The importance of the objects, and the urgency of the occasion, I hope will justify the solicitude with which I have pressed the propositions.

The result, as far as it may be known within a few days, shall be transmitted by the Wasp. The Hornet sailed from Cherbourg the 26th of April, with orders to land a messenger in England with my despatches from Mr. Russell, but not to wait a return from London.

(Enclosed in Mr. Barlow's letter of May 2, 1812, to the Secretary of State.)

Extract of a letter from Joel Barlow, esq. to the duke of Bassano, dated

Paris, May 1, 1812. In the note I had the honour to address to your excellency on the 10th of November last, the spirit of the English government was so far noticed as to anticipate the fact now proved by experience, that its orders in council, violating the rights of neutrals, would not be revoked. The declaration of the prince regent of the 21st of April, has placed that fact beyond all question. In doing this he has repeated the assertion so often advanced by his ministers and judges, that the decrees of France of a similar character are likewise unrevoked.

You will notice that he finds a new argument for this conclusion in your excellency's late report to the emperor concerning neutral rights, in which you avoid taking notice of any repeal or modification of these decrees, or of their non-application to the

United States. We know indeed that they do not apply to the United States, because we do not suffer our flag to be denationalized in the manner evidently contemplated by the emperor in the rule he meant to establish. But it would have been well if your excellency had noticed their non-application to the United States, since his majesty has uniformly done it in his decisions of prize causes since November, 1810.

It is much to be desired that the French government would now make and publish an authentic act, declaring the Berlin and Milan decrees, as relative to the United States, to have ceased in November, 1810, declaring that they have not been applied in any instance since that time, and that they shall not be so applied in future.

The case is so simple, the demand so just, and the necessity so urgent, that I cannot withhold my confidence in the prompt and complete success of my proposition.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Barlow to Mr. Monroe, dated Paris, May 12, 1812.

After the date of my letter, of which I have the honour to enclose you a copy, I found from a pretty sharp conversation with the duke of Bassano, that there was a singular reluctance to answering my note of the 1st of May. Some traces of that reluctance you will perceive in the answer which finally came, of which a copy is here enclosed. This, though dated the 10th, did not come to me till last evening. I consider the communi

cation to be so important in the present crisis of our affairs with England, that I despatch the Wasp immediately to carry it to Mr. Russell, with orders to return with his answer as soon as possible.

I am confident that the president will approve the motive of my solicitude in this affair, and the earnest manner in which I pressed the minister with it as soon as my knowledge of the declaration of the prince regent enabled me to use the argument that belonged to the subject. When, in the conversation above alluded to, the duke first produced to me the decree of the 28th of April, 1811, I made no comment on the strange manner in which it had been so long concealed from me, and probably from you. I only asked him if that decree had been published. He said no, but declared it had been communicated to my predecessor here, and likewise sent to Mr. Serrurier with orders to communicate it to you. I assured him it was not among the archives of this legation; that I never before had heard of it; and since he had consented to answer my note I desired him to send me, in that official manner, a copy of that decree, and of

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