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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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French decrees from June 1810 release sequestered colonial produce for import into France with duties and prohibit grain exports from various ports to address high prices, affecting trade in Holland and Antwerp.
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The following is a translation of a new French decree of great commercial importance:
"Paris, June 18.
"In consequence of the meeting of the council of commerce, which took place at St. Cloud yesterday in the presence of his majesty, all colonial produce under sequestration at Antwerp and the adjoining provinces, as well as those of Holland, is placed at the disposal of the proprietor: They are allowed to be imported into France on paying an ad valorem duty of 50 per cent. The colonial produce in Holland is not liable to this impost, unless imported into France.
On the same day his majesty issued the following decree :--
"The exportation of wheat by the Scheldt the Maese, the Rhine, or from any port of our frontiers, into Holland, is prohibited.
"Our minister of finance will transmit immediately, by an extraordinary courier, the necessary orders for putting this decree, in force."
On the 19th an official order was issued in all the ports of Holland, forbidding the further exportation of grain of any description. Such ships as had not completed their lading were in consequence compelled to reland their cargoes.
June 30.
Letters, dated on Thursday, were received yesterday from Ostend, containing the following official document--
IMPERIAL DECREE.
"We, Napoleon, &c. taking into consideration the present high price of grain on the northern coast of our dominions, until the quantity threshed is ascertained, and until the produce of the approaching harvest is determined, do decree, and it is decreed as follows :
"Art. 1. On and after the 1st of July, of the present year, the exportation of wheat shall be prohibited throughout the whole range of our ports, from the island of Schowen, southward, to the harbor of L'Orient, comprehending both those places within the terms of this decree.
Art. 2. On and after the above date of the 1st of July within the range of coast above stated, the exportation of oats is also hereby prohibited.
"Given at our Chamber of Commerce, at Paris, 22d of June, 1810."
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Paris
Event Date
June 1810
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colonial produce released for import into france with 50% duty; wheat export to holland prohibited; grain export halted in holland ports; wheat and oats export banned from french ports starting july 1, 1810.
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French decrees: Council of commerce meets at St. Cloud; sequestered colonial produce at Antwerp, provinces, and Holland disposed to proprietors, importable to France at 50% ad valorem duty (exempt if staying in Holland). Wheat export via Scheldt, Maese, Rhine, or frontier ports to Holland prohibited. Official order stops grain export from Holland ports, forcing relading of incomplete cargoes. Imperial decree prohibits wheat and oats export from Schowen to L'Orient ports from July 1 until harvest assessed.