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Port of New-Orleans SHUT.
By an Express arrived this evening from New-Orleans, we have received the following important intelligence, which we hasten to give to our readers.
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Extract of a Letter from a gentleman in New-Orleans to his friend in this place, dated Oct.
19, 1802.
“Yesterday the Intendant issued orders, not only for shutting the port of New-Orleans against American vessels coming with cargoes to sell, which was expected; but even totally to prevent the deposit—a step that must produce infinite embarrassment, as well as much loss to many of the citizens of the United States. Two boats that arrived from above yesterday, with flour, were not allowed to land it; consequently cotton, &c. coming from Natchez will be in the same predicament.”
PROCLAMATION
OF THE
INTENDANT:
AS long as it was necessary to tolerate the trade of neutrals which is now abolished, it would have been prejudicial to this colony, that the Intendant complying with his duty should have prevented the deposit in this city of the property of Americans as granted to them by the 22 article of the Treaty of Friendship, Limits and Navigation of the 27th October, 1795, at the expiration of the three years prefixed; but now that with the publication of the Treaty of Amiens and the re-establishment of the communication between the English and Spanish subjects that inconvenience has ceased, considering that the 22d article of the said treaty prevents my continuing this toleration, which necessity required after the fulfillment of the stipulated time this ministry can no longer consent to it without an express order of the King's. Therefore without prejudice to the exportation of what has been admitted in proper time, I order that from this date shall
cease the previlege which the Americans had of bringing and depositing their goods in this capital.
And that the foregoing may be publicly known, and that no body may plead ignorance, I order it to be published in the accustomed places, copies to be posted up in public; and that the necessary notice to be given of it to the departments of Finance, Royal Custom-house, and others that may be thought proper.
Done
at the Intendancy, signed with my hand, and countersigned by the Notary Public of Finance, at New-Orleans, 16th October, 1802.
(Signed)
JUAN VENTURA MORALES.
By order of the Intendant,
PETER PEDESCLAUX.
Herald Office, Natchez, Thursday Night, October
28, 1802.