7924 General acclamations manifeft your de cided pleasure which alone could, overcome our timidity to take upon ourselves the ferious charge to which the honour of your election fubject us. Fix then your conficonfidence in us, and reft affured of our intentions. 1 plunged into by the melancholy fituration of A fincere difpofition, an active zeal, a lively and affiduous vigilance to provide, by Another proclamation, of the fame date, all poflible means, for the confervation of our orders the performance of a folemn mass or holy religion, the obfervance of the laws the 30th, as an act of thanksgiving for the inwhich govern us, the common profperity, stallation of the Junta, and the happy termiand the maintainance of thefe poffeflons in nation of the alarm excited by the news a fate of the most conftant, fidelity and at- received from Spain. It farther denounces rachment, to our greatly beloved King and the feverest punifitnent against all perfons Lord Don Ferdinand VII and his lawful guilty of disobedience to the magiflrates, or fuccellors to the Crown of Spain--are not of fowing divifions between the American thefe your fentiments? The fame are the provinces, respectively, or between the Spagreat objects of our efforts. Rely upon ou our niards of America and those of Europe. It vigilance and activity. Leave to our care allo directs, that the highest degree of reevery thing connected with the public cause,fpect thould be fhewn to their late Goverthat depends upon our means and powers: ~nor, not only on account of his known charand be it your folicitude to cherish the frict-ader and patriotifm, but also for his handeft union, and a reciprocal concord in the fome affer of ferving under the Junta in any effusions of affection. Extend to all the pro- capacity they might think fit. vinces within our jurifdiction, and, if poffi-The inhabitants of Monte Video had reouble, to the ends of the earth, the perfuafive folved to adhere to the proceedings of the Auence of the example of your cordiality, inhabitants of Buenos Ayres. The latest and of the genuine intereft, with which one accounts from that settlement are of the 25th and all of us fhould co-operate in the confoli of May, at which tinte the utmost tranquildation of this important work. This would lity prevailed there „d, typok to itabuh, on the most folid foundation, the general tranquility and happiness, the objects siquf all our wishes. sit JUNCORNELIO DE SAAVEDRA, &c. &c son's Royal Fortress of Buenos Ayres, og moo ad o May 26, og ved bluodi I Do the fame day the Junta iffued a proclaithration for forming the infantry, already in will arass, into regiments of 1116 effectives each, goland making an additional levy' throughout the provinces. They lay down the princi dey that every inhabitant, is a foldier; but " 912 rentarking that the public fafety requires hat there should be a permanent regular quil force confifting of fuch as can best he spared &c. تين and moby HOLLAND. 1997. stub by equon, The 00 09 late King of Holland has arrived at Toplitz, in Bohemia, under the name of M. de pt Leu, where it is faid he will remain now the grand Duke of Berg, and in whofe during the bathing feafon. His eldeft fon transferred by order of Napoleon, from favour, he abdicated the throne, has been Haarlem, to Paris. A Dutch paper of the 24th July, contains the following important document :— ADDRESS OF KING LOUIS TO THE LEGIS LATIVE ASSEMBLY. GENTLEMEN,—I charge the Ministers to prefent to your Affembly the refolution which I find myfelf compelled to take in confequence of the military occupation of my capital. The brave French foldiers have no other enemies than fuch as are enemies to the common caute of Holland and myTelf They are and ought to be received with all the regard and civility poffible; but for that purpose, and extended in the preonofear inftance to all perfons between 18 and 20 40 years of age, without any visible means ssly sof livelihood, or unemployed in the public autofervice, or the exercise of any mechanic art, sem trade, or profeffion. They inform the peo-19 ples that they have taken measures to pro dsdeure la fupply of arms adequate to the inmcreate of their force. The nations of the wabi nalu) wworld?” ɑbierves the proclamation-in Dipas it is not lefs true, that in the actual fitua214-quéfbiony “never witneffed afpectacle to v Sluowalfeing as that which we have exhibited. ods Mathen your spirit was fuppofed to be com perly wkhauled by the affliction you were tion of Holland, when an entire army, a crowd of Cultom-houfe officers, and when even the national army is taken from under the power of Government; when every place, It was this which made me refufe Cufcom-house officers entrance into Meudon, Naarden, and Daman. I was right in doing 10 because the treaty did not authorife the prefence of Cuftom-house officers, but upon the banks of the fea, and at the mouths of Thedolib to log rivers. the Cuftom-houfe officers would only inter- ve always flattered my felf that the treaty hand if the entire devotion which I have mabe admitted; I have been mistaken; nifefted for my duty on ft April, has only On the 16th of June I received, through tended to drag on and prolong the existence. the Charge d'Affaires of his Majefty the of the country for three months; I have the Emperor and King, an affurance that it was cruelly grievous fatisfaction, yet the only not his intention to occupy Amfterdam one which now I can have, that Anfulfitted that led me to hope that he would abide my obligations to the end that I have (if I ftrictly by a treaty, the conditions of which am fo permitted to speak) facrificed to the were drawn up by his Majesty the Emperor existence and to the welfare of the country himfelf. Unfortunately niy error was not all that was poffible; but after the fubmilof long duration, as I received a communion and the refignation of the ft of April, cation that 20,000 French troops had united in the environs of Utrechts continued, notwithstanding the fearcity and embarraff ments of our finances, to furnishe them with fubfiftence and other neceffary things, al-o though the treaty precisely exprefied that --there should be 6000 men only maintained at the expence of the kingdom; but I fears ed that this collecting of troops was done with other views, unfavourable to 1810, I fhould be much to blame if Icon- Ifhould be, nevertheless, a witnefs of every th vernment; and late in the night of the Go- refponsible for a I received official information that Ma power to pre occurrences, without the duties, without seafing to have at heart the intereft of my people, and without ceafing to comme my fath with that of the country. Now that Holland is reduced to that condition, I have, as King of Holland, but one them or their influence I fhould have expofed myself to the comjefty the Emperor infiled upon panplaints of both fides, and perhaps have oction of Amfterdam, and the eftablishment cationed great misfortunes; by doing which of the French head-quarters in that capital. fhoid have betrayed my confcience, my Under thefe circumflances, Gentlemen, people, and my duty.sh have for a long you cannot doubt that I was willing to fuftine forefeen the extremity to which I am fer for my people, any humiliations, if I now reduced, but I could not have preventcould have preferved the hope of being ableed it without facrifiting my njolla facred to fupport fucha ftate, and above all, to prevent new evils; but I could not deceive myfelf any longer. I have figned a treaty dictated by France, under the conviction that measures the moft difagreeable for the nation, and for myfeif, would not be folecourfe to take and that isotolibdicate the lowed up; and that fatisfied with my vo luntary abdication, which is the confequence of the faid treaty, every thing would go on fmoothly between France and Holland. The treaty prefents, indeed, a great nun ber of pretences of new grievances and ac cufations; but can pretences be ever want ing? I ought then to have confided in the explanations and communications which have. been made to me belides this treaty and in the formal and circumftantial declaration, which I have not failed to do-fuch as that w throne in favour of my childrens Any other courfe would have only augmented the misfortunes of my reign. I fhoulds have perhaps feenpooften the peaceable inhabiotanes victims to contentions of Governments deftroyed at once. How then could an idea of refiftante ever enter my mind?-My children, bora Frenchmen; like myself, would Have leen in a just cause, but which they. would not have believed to be folely mine, the blood of their countrymen flow. I had them but one course to take. tr "My brother, so violently irritated against me, is not fo against my children; and doubtless he will not deftroy what he has done, and deprive them of their inheritance, fince he has not, nor can he have any fubject of complaint, who will not, for a long time to come, reign himfelf. His mother, to whom the Regency appertains by the conftitution, will do every thing that shall be agreeable to the Emperor my brother, and will fucceed better than myfelf, who have had the misfortune never to be fuccefs ful in my endeavours of that kind; and at the conclufion of a maritime peace, perhaps before, my brother, knowing the ftate of things in this country, the esteem its inhabitants merit, how much their welfare accords with the interests well underftood of his empire, will do for this country all it has a right to expect, as the reward of its numerous facrifices to France, of its fidelity, and of the intereft with which it cannot fail to inspire those who judge of it without prejudice. "Perhaps I am the only obftacle to the reconciliation of this country with France; and fhould that be fo, I might find fome confolation in dragging out the remainder of a wandering and languifhing life at a distance from the first objects of my whole affection, this good people and my fon.-These are my principal motives; there are others equally powerful, with refpect to which I muft be filent, but they will eafily be divined. The Emperor, my brother, though ftrongly prejudiced against me, muft feel that I could not act otherwife. He is great and he ought to be just. "As to you, Gentlemen, I fhould be much more unhappy even than I am, if poffible, could I imagine that you would not do juftice to my intentions. May the end of my career prove to the nation and to you, that I have never deceived you ; that I have had but one aim, the true intereft of the country; that the faults I may have com mitted, are folely to be afcribed to my zeal, which caufed me to employ, not always the beft, but the most practicable means of overcoming the difficulty of circumstances. F had never propofed to myself to govern a nation fo interesting, yet fo-difficult as yours. Be, Gentlemen, my advocates with the nation; infpire it with an attachment for the Prince Royal, who deferves it, if I may judge from his happy natural difpofition. The Queen has the fame interefts as myfelf. "I cannot, Gentlemen, conclude, without recommending to you in the moft earnest manner, and in the name of the intereft and of the existence of so many families, whofe lives, and property would be infallibly com. promifed, to receive the French with the attention, with the kindness, and the cordiality which is due to the brave people of the first nation in the universe; to your friends, to your allies, who confider obedience as the firft duties, but which they cannot fail to esteem the more in proportion as they become acquainted with a nation, brave, indus trious, and worthy of esteem under every confideration. In whatever place I may happen to terminate my days, the name of Holland, and the most lively prayers for its happiness, will be my last words, will be my last thoughts. Whereas the fishery for fresh fish, which conftitutes the only means of subsistence of the inhabitants of the coasts, and the villages thereon, cannot be prohibited without injuring the most indigent clafs of the people; and his Excellency, confidering that, in authorifing the continuance of the fishery, it is effential that measures should be taken to prevent fraud, and obstruct any communication with the enemy, he ordains as follows 1. Every fishing veffel whatsoever, before going to fea, must be provided with a permit, fpecifying the name or number and form of the veffel, the names, defcriptions, and refidences of the crew, and the name of the owner of the vessel. This permit fhall be given by the Military Commandant of the district in which the master of the vessel refides. 2. Every time that a fishing-boat leaves the fhore, the fhall be vifited by the Cuftomhoufe Officers, and her permit infpected by the Commandant of the military post established on the coaft, or in the village nearest to the point of departure. If the fishing-boat fails from a port or roadftead, her permit fhall in that cafe be inspected and verified by the commander of the guardship in the road, and the shall be vifited by the Customhouse Officers. S. No veffel, either at her departure or on her return, fhall pass the guardship without being vifited, and having her permit verified by the Cuftomhouse Officer of the laft post. 4. In cafe, from unforeseen circumstances, fishing-boats shall have been obliged to hold com communication with the enemy, they fhall, on their return, forthwith report the fame to the commander of the guardship, or the nearest post to their place of landing. 5. Fishing-boats fhall in no cafe put to fea before the morning gun, nor return after the evening gun, without having obtained permiffion. Should circumftances compel them to land after the evening gun, they fhall thereof inform the Commandant of the neareft poft to the place where they fhall have ftopped. 6. Fishing veffels or boats fhall take on board only fuch articles and provifions as fhall be neceffary for their ufe, during the time they may be fuppofed to be at sea, Every article, except what belongs to their occupation, found on board, at their departure or return, fhall be confifcated. 7. Fishing-boats along the coast shall not, unless from unforeseen accident, remain at fea more than 48 hours, the time fhall be reckoned from the last examination of their permit. 8. A French foldier shall be put on board each of the fifhing-boats, the mafters of which are suspected of smuggling or communicating with the enemy, and, in cafe of the capture of any of thefe foldiers by the enemy, the fishery fhall be inftantly prohibited, and a general embargo laid on all the veffels therein employed. In short, the village where the fisherman refides fhall be exemplarily punished. 9. The veffels employed in the herring and falted cod fishery fhall not put to fea until the Marshal Duke of Reggio fhall have been authorised to make a regulation with respect to them. 10. Every fishing veffel, not having on board, at her return, the crew specified in her permit, shall be fequeftrated. A procefs verbal fhall be made of the number of men, articles, papers, merchandize, and goods on board at the time of fequeftration. The master shall be forwarded, from poft to poft, to the head quarters, together with a copy of the process verbal of the fequeftration, and the papers found on board. 11. The fame measures fhall be taken with regard to fishing veffels, in which merchandize of English manufacture, or colonial produce, may be found. The Marshal Duke of REGGIO. FRANCE. ก Ereach papers received to the Toth Auguft, contain the following decree, iffued I by Napoleon, on the 5th, permitting the importation of colonial produce, and other commodities, under the heavy duties meutioned therein: "Art. I. The duties upon the importa❤ tion of the undermentioned goods and merchandize are fettled as follow: By metrical quintal: the cottons of Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam, Demerara, and Georgia, long ftaple 800 francs; Levant cottons, imported by fea, 600 fr.; the fame by land, through the offices at Cologne, Coblentz, Mayence, and Strafburgh, 300 fr.; cottons from all other places, thofe from Naples excepted, 600 fr.; thofe from Naples, the old duties. Raw fugar, 300 fr.; clayed or loaf fugar, 400 fr.; Hyfon teas, 900 fr.; green teas, 600 fr.; all other teas, 150 fr.; indigo, 900 fr.; cocoa, 1000 fr.; cochineal, 2000 fr.; white pepper, 600 fr.; black do. 400 fr.; common cinnamon, 1400 fr.; fine do. 2000 fr.; cloves, 600 fr.; nutmegs, 2000 fr. ; ma hogany, 50 fr.; Pernambuco wood, 120 fr.; Campeachy do. 80 fr.; dye woods, ground, 100 fr. "Art. II. When the custom-houfe officers fufpect that the declarations concerning the fpecies or qualities are false, they fhall fend fpecimens to the Director-Generals of our cuftoms, who is to cause them to be examin ed by Commiffaries who have a knowledge of thefe branches, attached to the Ministry of the interior; and who in every fuch examination, fhall be affifted by two manu facturers or merchants, chosen by the Minifter of the interior. "If it fhall appear that the declarations are falfe, all the merchandize fhall be feized and confiscated." The following is the tarif of duties on the above decree, converted into English mo The French papers alfo contain the fol lowing letter, from the Minister of Foreign relations to Mr Armstrong the American Minifter at Paris, announcing the intention of the Emperor to revoke the Berlin and Milan decrees, which are to ceafe on the 1ft of November, provided Britain fhall revoke her orders in Council; or, in cafe of her re fufal, that America fhall caufe her rights to be refpected by the British: Copy of a letter from the Minister of Fo reign Relations to Mr Armstrong. SIR-I have laid before his Majefty the Emperor and King, the act of Congress of the 1ft of May, extracted from the paper of the United States, which you had traufmitted to me: His Majefty could have wifhed that this act, and all other acts of the United States that may concern France, had been always officially notified to him. The Emperor applauded the general embargo laid by the United States, on all their veffels, becaufe that meafure, if it has been prejudicial to France, contained at least nothing offenfive to her honour. It has caufed her to lose her colonies of Guadaloupe, Martinique, and Cayenne. The Emperor did not complain of it. He made this facrifice. to the principle which determined the A mericans to impofe the embargo, and which infpired them with the noble refolution of interdicting themselves the use of the fea, rather than fubmit to the laws of those who with to become its tyrants, The act of the 1ft of March removed the embargo, and fubftituted for it a meafure which must have been particularly ins jurious to the interefts of France. That act, with which the Emperor was not acquainted for a confiderable time after, interdicted to American veffels the commerce of France whilft it authorised a trade with Spain, Nar ples, and Holland, that is to fay, with coun tries under French influence, and denounced confifcation against all French veffels that fhould enter the ports of America. Repri fal was matter of right, and commanded by the dignity of France, a circumstance upon which it was impoffible to make any compromife. The fequestration of all the American veffels in France was the neceffary refult of the meafúre taken by Congrefs. At prefent the Congrefs treads back its fteps. It revokes the act of the lft of March. The ports of America are open to French commerce, and France is no longer interdicted to the Americans. In fhort, the Congrefs engages to oppofe fuch of the belligerent powers as fhall refufe to recognize the rights of neutrals. fed to declare to you, Sir, that the decrees In this new flate of things, I am authori of Berlin and Milan are revoked, and that from the 1ft of November, they will ceafe to be in force, it being understeod that, in confequence of this declaration, the English fhall revoke their orders in Council, and rethey have attempted to establish; or that nounce the new principles of blockade which the United States, conformably to the act which you have juft communicated, fhall caufe their rights to be refpected by the English. It is with the most particular fatisfaction that I inform you of this refolution of the Emperor. His Majefty loves the Americans. Their profperity and their commerce enter into the views of his policy. The independence of America is one of the prin cipal titles of the glory of France. Since that epoch, the Emperor has felt a pleasure in aggrandizing the United States; and, in all circumstances, whatever can contribute to the independence, the profperity, and the liberty of the Americans, will be regarded by the Emperor as confo:mable to the interefts of his empire. Pasis, Aug.5. 1810. |