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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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A cautionary note from the National Intelligencer highlights the risks to American traders sending property to French-controlled European ports, where vessels and cargoes face seizure despite recent warnings from the U.S. minister in Paris and Napoleon's policies.
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"When the fact of the violent sale of our property could no longer be doubted; when it was proclaimed, from French authority, that all American vessels, and their cargoes, which proceed to the ports of the continent of Europe within French control, shall be seized and sequestered; when the recent advices from our minister at Paris are staring our merchants full in the face: such is the singular cupidity of the times, that millions worth of property has been sent thither by our traders, who, at the instant they are cursing Napoleon for his late conduct, are hastening to furnish him with fresh opportunities for additional rapacity."
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Ports Of The Continent Of Europe Within French Control
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Recent Advices From Our Minister At Paris
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all american vessels, and their cargoes... shall be seized and sequestered; millions worth of property has been sent thither by our traders
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French authority proclaimed that American vessels and cargoes proceeding to ports in French-controlled Europe shall be seized and sequestered. Despite doubts about violent sales of property and recent advices from the U.S. minister at Paris, American traders sent millions worth of property there while cursing Napoleon's conduct.