Ibid., vol. xxiv. p. 611.
406
Ibid., vol. xxvi. p. 11.
407
Ibid., vol. xxvii. pp. 417, 641.
408
Ibid., p. 135.
409
Tooke's History of Prices, vol. i. pp. 300, 301.
410
Salgues, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la France, vol. viii. pp. 350-355. Mémoires de Marmont, due de Raguse, vol. iii. p. 365. Mémoires de Savary, due de Rovigo, vol. v. p. 115.
411
Quarterly Review, May, 1811, p. 465.
412
For instance, a license was necessary for a British subject to ship any articles to an enemy's port, though in a neutral vessel. In principle, licenses are essential to trade with an enemy. In 1805 and 1807 Orders in Council dispensed with the necessity of a license in particular instances; but even then merchants preferred to take out a license, because it cut short any questions raised by British cruisers, and especially by privateers. See Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. x. p. 924.
413
Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. x. p. 406.
414
For an interesting account of the neutralizing trade, see Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxi. pp. 288-295, and vol. xxxii. p. 119. On the License System, the Parliamentary Debates (table of contents), and the Quarterly Review of May, 1811, may be consulted.
415
Quarterly Review, May, 1811, p. 461. Lindsay's History of Merchant Shipping, vol. ii. p 316.
416
Petition of Hull merchants, 1812; Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. xxi. p. 979.
417
Am. State Papers, vol. iii. p. 341.
418
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, vol. xxi. p. 1113.
419
Ross's Life of Admiral Saumarez, vol. ii. pp. 196, 241.
420
In the years 1809 and 1810 one hundred and sixty American vessels alone were seized by Danish privateers. Only a part, however, were condemned. (Am. State Papers, vol. iii. p. 521.)
421
Erskine's note to that effect was dated April 19, 1809.
422
Annual Register, 1809, p. 726.
423
Moniteur, Feb. 24, 1810.
424
Mémoires, vol. ix. pp. 21-24.
425
Cons. et Empire (Forbes's Trans.), xii. 15.
426
Corr. de Nap., vol. xx. p. 235.
427
Compare Metternich's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 188.
428
Thiers, Cons. et Emp., Book xxxviii. p. 182.
429
Corr. de Nap., vol. xxi. p. 70: "Mon principe est, La France avant tout." (Letter to viceroy of Italy.)
430