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The treatment of neutral trade by the 

 belligerents had excited intense indigna- 

 tion in America, and as early as April, 1806, 

 Congress had passed what is called the 

 non-importation bill, in an effort to come 

 to some accommodation with England. 

 This bill, which forbade the importation 

 from Great Britain of numerous articles, 

 was to take effect Nov. 19, 1806, unless in 

 the mean time some satisfactory arrange- 

 ment with that country should be made. 

 Negotiations between the two countries 

 dragged along, however, and the bill was 

 not actually put in effect until Dec. 14, 

 1807, eight days before the embargo. 



Finding that England would not with- 

 draw her orders in council, or France re- 

 voke her decrees, that international law 

 was ignored, and the remonstrances of this 



information, not only from our own connections, but also 



from Mr. J B , who has proffered his services 



and who has for some time past made simulated papers 

 for Messrs. B. & P. of this town." NUes Register, vol. 

 11, p. 166. 



