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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812, 



■absolutely and unconditionally re- 

 pealed, then and from thenceforth 

 the Order in Council of the 7th of 

 January, 1807, and the Order in 

 Council of the 26th of April, 1809, 

 shall, without any further order 

 be, andthesaine are hereby declared 

 from thenceforth to be, wholly and 

 absolutely revoked." 



And whereas the Charge des Af- 

 faires of the UnitedStates of Ameri- 

 ca,resident at this Court, did, on the 

 20th day of May last, transmit to 

 Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of 

 bis Majesty's principal Secretaries 

 of State, a copy of a certain in- 

 strument, then for the first time 

 communicated to this Court, pur- 

 porting to be a Decree passed by 

 the Government of France, on the 

 28th day of April, 1811, by which 

 the Decrees of Berlin and Milan 

 are declared to be definitively no 

 longer in force, in regard to Ame- 

 rican vessels. 



And whereas his Royal Highness 

 the Prince Regent, although he 

 cannot consider the tenor of the 

 said instrument as satisfying the 

 conditions set forth in the said Or- 

 der of the 21st of April last, upon 

 which the said Orders were to 

 cease and determine; is neverthe- 

 less disposed on his part to take 

 such measures as may tend to re- 

 establish the intercourse between 

 Neutral and Belligerent Nations, 

 upon its accustomed principles; 

 his Royal Highness the Prince Re- 

 gent, in the name and on the be- 

 half of his Majesty, is therefore 

 pleased, by and with the advice of 

 his Majesty's Privy Council, to or- 

 der and declare, and it is hereby 

 ordered and declared, that the Or- 

 der in Council bearing date the 

 7th day of January, 1807, and the 

 Order in Council bearing date the 



26th day of Ajiril, 1809, be re- 

 voked, so far as may regard Ame- 

 rican vessels, and their cargoes, 

 being American property, from the 

 1st day of August next. 



But whereas by certain Acts of 

 the Government of the United 

 States of America, all British arm- 

 ed vessels are excluded from the 

 harbours and waters of the said 

 United States, the armed ves- 

 sels of France being permitted to 

 enter therein; and the commer- 

 cial intercourse between Great 

 Britain and the said United States 

 is interdicted, the commercial in- 

 tercourse between France and the 

 said United States having been 

 restored; his Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent is pleased herebj' 

 further to declare, in the name and 

 on the behalf of his Majesty, that 

 if the Government of the said 

 United Sates shall not, as soon as 

 may be, after this Order shall liave 

 been dulv notified by his Majesty's 

 Mmister in America to the said 

 Government, revoke, or cause to 

 be revoked, tlie said Acts, this pre- 

 sent Order shall in that case, after 

 due notice signified by his Majes- 

 ty's Minister in America to the 

 said Government, be thenceforth 

 null and of no effect. 



Itisfurtherordered anddeclared, 

 that all American vessels, and their 

 cargoes, being American property, 

 that shall have been captured sub« 

 sequently to the 20th day of May 

 last, for a breach of the aforesaid 

 Orders in Council alone, and which 

 shall not have been actually con- 

 demned before the date of this Or- 

 der; and that all ships and cargoes 

 as aforesaid, that shall henceforth 

 be captured under the said Orders, 

 prior to the 1st day of August next,, 

 shall not be proceeded against to 

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