STATE PAPERS. 



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ciee, wc command all officers and 

 persons in our service to exert 

 their utmost vigilance, in strictly 

 examining the papers, certificates, 

 and documents, of all vessels that 

 may arrive, agreeably to the graci- 

 ous separate command, we, on 

 this subject, shall or may issue. 

 Given at our court of Stock- 

 holm, &c. 



VI. AMERICA.— UNITED STATES. 



1. President Madison's Procla- 

 mation. 



Procl AM ATiON.— Whereas,by 

 the fourth section of the act of 

 congress, passed on the first day 

 of May, 1810, entitled, an act 

 concerning the commercial inter- 

 course between the United States 

 and Great Britain and France, and 

 their dependencies, and for other 

 purposes, it is provided : That 

 in case either Great Britain or 

 France shall, before the third of 

 March next, so revoke or modify 

 her edicts as that they shall cease 

 to violate the neutral commerce 

 of the United States, which fact 

 the president of the United States 

 shall declare by proclamation, and 

 if the other nation shall not, with- 

 in three months thereafter, so re- 

 voke or modify her edicts in like 

 manner, then the third, fourth, 

 fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 

 tenth, and eighteenth, sections of 

 the act, entitled an act to interdict 

 the commercial intercourse be- 

 tween the United States and 

 Great Britain and France, and their 

 dependencies, and for other pur- 

 poses, shall, from and after the ex- 

 piration of three months from the 

 date of the proclamation aforesaid, 

 be revived and have full force and 

 effect, so fur as relates tu the do- 



minions, colonies, and dependen- 

 cies, and to the articles, the 

 growth, produce, or manufacture, 

 of the dominions, colonies, and 

 dependencies of the nation thus 

 refusing or neglecting to revoke 

 or modify her edicts in the manner 

 aforesaid. And the lestrictions 

 imposed by this act shall, from the 

 date of such proclamation, cease 

 and be discontinued in relation to 

 the nation revoking or modifying 

 herdecreesinthemanneral'oresaid. 

 And whereas it has been officially 

 made known to this government 

 that the edicts of France, violating 

 the neutral commerce of the Uni- 

 ted States, have been so revoked, 

 as to cease to have eilFcct on the 

 first of the present month — Now, 

 therefore, 1, James Madison, pre- 

 sident of the United States, do 

 hereby proclaim, that the said 

 edicts of France, have been so re- 

 voked, as that they ceased on the 

 said first day of the present month, 

 to violate the neutral commerce 

 of the United States; and that, 

 from the date of these presents, 

 all the restrictions imposed by the 

 aforesaid act shall cease and be 

 discontinued in relation to France 

 and her dependencies. In testi- 

 mony whereof, &c. &c. 



James Madison. 

 November 2, 1810. 



2. Mr. GaUatin's Letters on Non- 

 Intercourse with Britain. 



Treasury Department, 

 Nov. 2, 1810. 

 Sir— You will herewith receive 

 a copy of the proclamation of the 

 president of the United States, 

 announcing the revocation of the 

 edicts of France, which violatedthe 

 neutral commerce of the United 

 States, and that the restrictions 



