Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 9 He zealously supported, if he did not suggest, two measures of great energy, but very doubtful justice and expediency - the discussion of which long occupied Parliament and the public - the Orders in Council against Neutral Commerce, and the seizure of the Danish fleet. Napoleon's Berlin and Milan decrees having declared the whole of British dominions in a state of ...
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Excerpt from Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 9 He zealously supported, if he did not suggest, two measures of great energy, but very doubtful justice and expediency - the discussion of which long occupied Parliament and the public - the Orders in Council against Neutral Commerce, and the seizure of the Danish fleet. Napoleon's Berlin and Milan decrees having declared the whole of British dominions in a state of blockade, and ordained that every article of her manufacture, or belong ing to her, or coming from her colonies, wheresoever found, should be lawful prize, it was judged right, through orders in council, to retaliate, by declaring that not only the ports and places of France and her allies, and of any other country at war with his Majesty, but likewise all ports and places in Europe from which the British flag was excluded, and all ports and places in the colonies of the King's enemies, should be subject to the same restric tions, in 'point of trade and navigation, as if they were under actual blockade; and further, that all trade in the produce or manufacture of the said countries or colonies should be deemed unlawful; and that every vessel trading from or to them, and its cargo, and every article of the produce or manufactures aforesaid, should be liable to be captured as enemies' property. Of these orders in coun cil Napoleon had no right to complain; but they were grievously unjust to neutrals, and it is now generally al lowed that they were contrary to the law of nations and to our own municipal law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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