The Enquirer

FRENCH RAMBOUILLET DECREE

The following is a copy of the French Decree, noticed in the London extracts.

The last number of the Bulletin des Lois contains an Imperial Decree, dated at Rambouillet, the 23d of March, 1810, which—(taking into consideration that the government of the United States has by an act of the 1st March, 1809, ordered, 1. That from the 20th of May next ensuing, vessels arriving in the United States, under the French flag, shall be seized and confiscated, together with their cargoes— 2. That from the same period, no merchandise, nor production of the soil, or manufactures of France or her colonies, can be imported into the ports of the United States, from any foreign port whatever, under pain of seizure, confiscation and penalty of three times the value of the goods 3. That it shall not be lawful for American vessels to proceed for any port in France, her colonies or dependencies)—decrees as follows:

"All vessels sailing under the American flag, and owned in whole or part, by any citizen or subject of that power, that, reckoning from the 20th of May, 1809, may have already entered, or that shall subsequently enter the ports of France, her colonies, or the territories occupied by the French armies, shall be seized & sold, and the produce of the sale shall be deposited in the Caisse d'Amortissement. From this provision are alone excepted such vessels as may be charged with dispatches, or commissions from the government of the United States, and have no lading nor merchandise on board."