Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

TRANSLATION.

DON JUAN VENTURA MORALES. &c.

I make known, that his excellency Sr. Dn. Pedro Ceballos, Secretary of state, and of his universal dispatch, has addressed to me, under date of the 1st of March last, the following royal order: "The king being informed of the proclamation which you have published, prohibiting the deposit of the merchandize and effects of the citizens of the United States at New Orleans, granted to this power by the 22d article of the treaty of 1795, his majesty has thought proper to order that you permit the said deposit at New Orleans, without prejudice to what the two governments may mutually agree upon concerning the meaning which ought to be given to the said treaty, in respect to changing the establishment of N. Orleans for another on the banks of the Mississippi, in order that the deposit of the merchandize and effects of the United States may be carried into effect: which I communicate to you by order of his majesty for its most punctual fulfilment."

Aranjuez, 1st March, 1803.

"PEDRO CEBALLOS."

And consequently the provision of the 16th of October of last year, which prohibited the introducing and depositing of the merchandize and effects of the citizens of the United States, until this intendency should receive the express order of the king authorizing him to allow it--being without any force or vigor, I have thought proper to order, that it be posted up in the usual places, in order that the public and the churches (to which copies of the sovereign determination shall be sent) being informed thereof, the deposit may be carried into effect with the same and equal formalities as heretofore observed.

The present given under my hand, and countersigned by the underwritten Notary of Finance, in the house of the Intendency of New Orleans, 17 May, 1803.

(Signed) J. V. MORALES.

(Countersigned) CAYETANO VALDES.