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1810, announced that France had revoked 

 the decrees of Berlin and Milan, and that 

 unless Great Britain withdrew her orders 

 in council, violating neutral rights, by Feb. 

 2, 1811, the Non-intercourse Act would be 

 enforced against her. As a fact, Napoleon, 

 with his characteristic shrewdness and du- 

 plicity, had not formally revoked the Berlin 

 and Milan decrees, but the American gov- 

 ernment was prepared to believe that he 

 had practically done so, and called on Eng- 

 land to fulfil the promise she had often 

 made that when France revoked her decrees 

 she would withdraw the orders in question. 

 Great Britain refused to consider the 

 action of Napoleon as a revocation of the 

 decrees, and consequently declined to with- 

 draw the orders as requested. The result 

 was, that Congress passed, Feb. 28, 1811, a 

 new bill, first repealing the Non-intercourse 

 Act, and then reviving it against England 



tures were commenced and concluded by English mer- 

 chants in England." Extract from a London paper, 

 Niles Register, vol. 1, p. 135. 



