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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French papers to August 1 report no US vessel embargo but a decree banning exports of necessities like soap, hemp, and iron, delaying American ships. US agents seek exemptions in Paris. Decree stems from discovered British plots by Pitt to forestall goods and incite insurrections via scarcity.
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The French papers received down to the 1st of August, make no mention of the pretended embargo, laid in all the ports of France, on vessels of the United States; they speak only of a decree, passed in the beginning of August, which prohibits the exportation of objects of the first necessity. This decree must necessarily have retarded the departure of American vessels, because in those objects are comprised, besides liquors and provisions, soap, hemp, leather, iron, copper, cloths, linens and other articles, in which consists the returns of Americans. The agents of the United States immediately sent from different ports of France; deputations to Paris, and there is no doubt but our nation will obtain in this circumstance, the same exemption which has been pronounced in her favor, in all the decrees occasioned by the system of neutrality, adopted for the different powers:
This decree, whose disposition is of a nature truly extraordinary, when we consider the immense product of the French manufactures, was, as well as that which pronounced the extinction of the eight hundred millions of assignats, the natural result of the discovery which was made, of the plots which the government of St. James was forming in the bosom of the Republic. It appeared by several of the seized papers, that the immense sums of money, which the infamous Pitt extorted by his loans, from his blind nation, was employed in forestalling all the aforenamed articles, and all those which by their scarcity, might occasion insurrections among the people. These horrid words were found in a letter, 'Raise to the highest price possible, by means of forestalling, every article most necessary to the common people: In three weeks soap must cost a hundred sous a pound, and other commodities in proportion.'
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France
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1st Of August
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prohibition of exportation of objects of the first necessity; retardation of american vessel departures; us expected to obtain exemption; discovery of british plots to forestall goods and cause insurrections.
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French papers to the 1st of August report no embargo on US vessels but a decree from early August banning exports of necessities including liquors, provisions, soap, hemp, leather, iron, copper, cloths, and linens, affecting American returns. US agents from French ports send deputations to Paris seeking exemption as in prior neutrality decrees. The decree results from seized papers revealing British government of St. James and Pitt's plots to forestall articles, raise prices, and incite people via scarcity, with a letter instructing to make soap cost a hundred sous a pound in three weeks.