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soon as the vessel arrived at her 

 hoiTic port. 



L\ case such a certificate should 

 not be delivered, within a propor- 

 tio:;aLle time to the length of t!ie 

 vevatre, our college of commerce 

 has orders to demand an explana- 

 tion from the person who shipped 

 the goodsi who is to make a decla- 

 ration on oath, whether he has re- 

 ceived any intelligence concerning 

 said cargo. 



Should sifch person or persons not 

 be able to prove, by certificate, that 

 the goods VvTere landed in a neutral 

 port, and such a vessel not been lost 

 or captured, he shall forfeit twenty 

 rix-dol!ars for each commercial last 

 of the ship, to our royal college of 

 commerce, and the captain liable to 

 be prosecuted by lav,'. 



Given at our royal residence, 

 Copenhagen, the 28th of 

 March, 1794. 



(Signed) CHrxisTiAN, R. 



(Countersigned) 



SCHIMMELMA\ Se^'ESTEDT, 



and Deenath. 



N^ote delivered by tils Russian charge 

 des affuires of Snueden on the part 

 €>f his court to the chancellor^ dated 

 Stockholm, Aug. Gth, 1791-. 



THE empress of Russia has 

 thought propel- to fit out a fleet 

 of tucnty-five sail of the line, and a 

 proportionable number of frigates, 

 to criii/.e in the east and north seas, 

 for the purpose (in ccnjiinctionwith 

 the English maritime forces) of pre- 

 venting the sending of any provi- 

 sions or ammunition to Prance; the 

 empress, therefore, requests the 

 lii"S of Sweden not to permit his 

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ships of war to take any Swedish 

 merchantmen laden with any such 

 commodities, under their convoy. 

 Her Imperial majesty has further 

 ordered all merchant ships, which 

 her squadron may meet in those 

 seas, to be searched, to see if their 

 cargoes consist of any such goods ; 

 all which is done for this reason, 

 namely, that no neutrality can take 

 place with respect to a government 

 consisting only of rebels. 



[A similar declaration has been made 

 on the part of the Russian court to 

 that of Denmark ; besides •which, 

 the English ministers have deli- 

 vered similar declarations to the 

 Swedish and Danish Courts, 



Reply of the Russian amhassac/or to 

 the declaration of th; divan mcLle 

 in January, I'Jdi, that the Porte 

 would remain inviolably attache!, 

 to its neutrality. 



THAT the empress determined 

 to take an active part in a 

 cause common to all sovereigns, 

 would never suffer a power capable 

 oi molesting her frontiers, to pro- 

 fess neutrality ; that her majesty 

 consequently expected that the 

 Porte would immediately lay aa 

 embargo on all Fi'ench vessels in its 

 ports, and declare war against the 

 rebels in France, and that he (the 

 ambassador) had the strictest orders 

 from his sovereign, to consider a 

 refusal on the part of the divan as 

 a declaration ot war. 



Propositions made by the Russian 

 iriinistcr, at the P'irte, to the Reis 

 EJ'cndi, June, 1794. 

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