1807.] 
Providence, enabled him to establish and 
maintain; and the maintenance of which is 
not more essential to the safety and prospe- 
rity of his Majesty’s dominions, than it is to 
the protection of such States as still retain 
their independence, and to the general inte- 
rest and happiness of mankind: 
His Majesty is therefore pleased, by and 
with the advice of his Privy Council, to 
order, and it is hereby ordered, that all the 
ports and places of France and her Allies, or 
of any other country at war with his Ma- 
jesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, 
from which, although not at war with his 
Majesty, the British flag is excluded, and all 
ports and places in the Colonies belonging to 
his Majefty’s ememies, shall, from hence- 
forth, be subject to the same restrictions in 
point of trade and navigation, with the ex- 
ceptions hereinafter-mentioned, as if the same 
were actually blockaded by his Majesty’s na- 
val forces, in the most strict and rigorous 
manner:——And it is hereby further ordered 
and declared, that all trade in articles which 
are of the produce or manufacture of the said 
countries or colonies, shall be deemed and 
considered to be unlawful; and that every 
vessel trading from or to the said countries or 
colonies, together with all goods and mer- 
chandize on board, and all articles of the 
produce or manufacture of the said countries 
or colonies, shall be captured, and condemned 
as prize to the captors. 
But although his Majefty would be fully 
justified, by the circumstances and conside- 
rations above recited, in establishing such 
syatem of restrictions with respect to all the 
countries and calonies of his enemies, with- 
out exception or qualification; yet his Ma- 
jesty, being nevertheless desirous not to sub- 
ject neutrals to any greater inconvenience than 
is absolutely inseparable from the carrying 
into effect his Majesty’s just determination to 
counteract the designs of his enemies, and to 
retort upon his enemies themselves the con- 
sequences of their own violence and injustice ; 
and being yet willing to hope that it may be 
possible (consistently with thar object) still 
to allow to neutrals the opportunity of fur- 
nishing themselves with colonial produce for 
their own consumption and supply ; and even 
to leave open, for the present, such trade 
with bis Majesty’s enemies as shall be carried 
on direétly with the ports of his Majesty’s 
dominions, or of his Allies, in the manner 
hereinaiter- mentioned: 
Hs Majesty is therefore pleased further to 
order, and it is hereby ordered, that nothing 
herein contained shall extend to subject to cap- 
ture or condernnation, any vessel, or the cargo 
of any vessel, belonging to any country not de- 
clared by this order to be subjected to the re- 
strictions incident toa state of blockade, which 
shall have cleared out with such cargo from 
some port or place of the country to which 
abe belongs, either in Europe or America, 
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or from some free port in his Majesty’s colo- 
nies, under circumstances in which such trade 
from such free port is permitted, direct: to 
some port or place in the colonies of his Ma- 
jesty’s enemies, or from those colonies direct 
to the country to which such vessel belongs, 
or to some free port in his Majesty’s colonies, 
in such cases, and with such articles, as it 
may be Jawful to import into such free port; 
nor to any vessel, or the cargo of any vessel, 
belonging to any country not at war with his 
Majesty, which shall have cleared cut from: 
some port or place in this kingdom, or from 
Gibraltar or Malta, under such regulations as 
his Majesty mayjthink fit to prescribe, or 
from any port belonging to his Majesty's 
Allies, and shall be proceeding direct to the 
port specified in her clearance; nor to any 
vessel, or the cargo of any vessel, belonging 
to any country not at war with his Majesty, 
which shal! be coming from any port or place 
in Europe which is declared by this order to 
be subject to the restrictions incident to a 
‘state of bluckade, destined to some port or 
place in Europe belonging to his Majesty, 
and which shall be on her voyage direct there- 
to; but these exceptions are not to be under- 
stood as exempting from capture or confisca~ 
tion any vessel or goods which shall be liable 
thereto, in respect of having entered or dee 
parted from any port or place actually block- 
aded by his Majesty’s squadrons or ships of 
war, or for being enemies’ property, or for 
any other cause than the contravention of 
this present order. ee: 
And the Commanders of his Majesty's Ships 
of War and Privateers, and other Vessels act- 
ing under his Majesty’s Commission, shall be, 
and are hereby instructed to warn every vessel 
which shall have commenced her voyage prior 
to any notice of this Order, and shall be 
destined to any port of France or of her Allies, 
or of any other country at war with his Ma- 
jesty, or to any port or place from which the 
British Flag-as aforesaid is excluded, or te 
any colony belonging to his Majesty’s ene- 
mies, and which shall not have cleared out 
as is hereinbefore allowed, to discontinue her 
voyage, and to proceed to some port or place 
in this kingdom, or to Gibraltar cr Malta; 
and any vessel which, after having been so 
warned, or after a reasonable time shalj have. 
been afforded for the arrival of information 
f his Majesty’s Order at any post or -place 
from which she sailed, or which, after hav- 
ing notice of this Order, shall be found in 
the prosecution of any voyage contrary to the 
restrictions contained in this Qrder, shall be 
captured, and, together with her cargo, con- 
demned as lawful prize to the Captors. 
And whereas countries, not engaged in the 
war, have acquiesced in the orders of France, 
prohibiting all trade in any articles the pro- 
duce or manufacture of his Majesty%s domi- 
nions; and the merchants of those countries 
have given countenance and effect ‘to these. 
3.5 prohibitions, 
