690 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



empire, who wei'e present at Stock- 

 holm, expressed to his royal high- 

 ness the constitutional wish that he 

 might take the reins of government 

 into his hands ; a wish to which his 

 roj'al highness, notwithstanding 

 his advanced age, thought himself 

 in duty bound to accede, confiding 

 that this step will be viewed in its 

 proper light by every honest patri- 

 otic Swede. 



From the Royal Courant, published 

 at Amsterdam on the ith April. 



Louis Napoleon, by the grace of 

 God, and the constitution of the 

 kingdom, king of Holland, and con- 

 stable of France, taking into con- 

 sideration that the term prescrib- 

 ed by our decree of the 27th No- 

 vember, 1808, No. 5, expires on the 

 31st instant. Taking further into 

 consideration that it is necessary, at 

 the present period, to take further 

 measures, either for the renewal of 

 the aforesaid decree, or the previ- 

 ous decrees respecting the means 

 of carrying into execution the pro- 

 hibition of all commerce with the 

 enemy, or of replacing them, in 

 whole or part, bj' other measures 

 calculated to placeall matters rela- 

 tive to navigation on a footing of 

 complete uniformity with the de- 

 cree of France and of our brother 

 the emperor ; and notwithstanding 

 the difficulties arising from the ma- 

 ritime war, and those which com- 

 merce suffers for its own interest, 

 beingcontinually anxious to contri- 

 bute to that important ob^ct, we 

 have decreed and hereby decree : 



Art. 1. All commerce, corre- 

 spondence,and communication with 

 England, remains prohibited ac- 

 cording to the purport of our pre- 



vious laws, decrees, and regula- 

 tions, and particularly such of them 

 as expired on the 21st instant, so 

 far as no alteration is therein made 

 by the present decree. 



2. From the first day of the suc- 

 ceeding month of April, the fol- 

 lowing fifty-two articles may be 

 exported to friendly or neutral 

 countries in Dutch vessels, or those 

 sailing under the flag of neutral or 

 allied powers, viz. 



Books, beans, butter, brandy, 

 bricks, white lead, cheese, cam- 

 bricks, coppermanufactured, clocks, 

 clover and garden seeds, eels, flower 

 roots, fruits, geneva, gauses, glue, 

 hoops, hides dried, iron manufactur- 

 ed, leather, linen, linseed, madders, 

 mill-stones, oak bark, ground oats, 

 oils of seed, pottery, powder blue, 

 peas, paper, perfumery, plants, 

 pipes, playing cards, quills, rushes, 

 silk manufactured, sacch. saturni, 

 starch, tiles, thread and thread-tape, 

 tobacco, tarras, turf, vinegar, watch- 

 es, wine, wood manufactured. 



3. The importation of the fol- 

 lowing thirty-two articles shall be 

 permitted, viz. 



Brandy, ashes (pot), candles, 

 copper, corn, fish-oil, isinglass, 

 liareskin, hemp and heinp-seed, 

 hides (rough), iron, leather (un- 

 manufactured), lead, linseed, mer- 

 cury, mats, pitch, Russia skins, 

 rape-seed, stock-fish, soda, tar, 

 tallow, tobacco, timber, wax-wool, 

 wool, bristles and fruit. 



4-. The commodities prepared 

 for exportation shall not be put on 

 board until previousnotice has been 

 given thereof to the marine direc- 

 tor of the ways and means, with a 

 particular specification of such arti- 

 cles, which cannot be exported but 

 from the ports of Amsterdam, Rot- 

 terdam, Dordrecht, Groningen, 



Embden, 



