Impeded Anglo American Cod Fisheries Trade Debate
The author analyzes cod fisheries tonnage and seamen needs, comparing 1807 figures to future projections during war. He discusses vessel types, coastwise operations, and the shift in trade privileges under Jay's treaty, Monroe Pinckney talks, and Jefferson's refusal to submit treaties. The piece reflects on lost access to British India trade and broader implications for American commerce and policy.
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Magdalen Islands
Cape Labrador
Treasury
Indies
Mr. Jay
United States
East India Settlement
United States of America
U. States
Great Britain
King
London
Jefferson
Messrs. Monroe and
Pinckney
East Indies
the India Company
Monroe
Madison
India
Congress of Vienna
John W. Feuno
Britain
Adams
Virginia
Proclamation from Delaware Gazette March 16
A Proclamation directs ministers at Ghent from June 27 1814 to negate any implication that the United States accepts British impressment claims. It asserts the U S stance remains unchanged and insists full preclusion of such inference.
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Ghent
United States
U. States
Proclamation on Omission and Free Trade Beliefs
A historic proclamation denounces omissions and asserts belief in the speaker’s claims about free trade and sailors rights. It declares that the loss of a certain form or message occurred between Ghent and Washington and commands supporters to accept the stated march of policy.
Omission Declares Protest Lost Between Ghent and Washington
A formal declaration notes that the protest declaration may have been lost en route from Ghent to Washington. The signer states the omission should have no ill effect and signs with a left hand in the ceremonial chair.
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Ghent
Washington
Magito
Napoleoniana and the Emperor's Etiquette Lessons
An empire era excerpt details Buonaparte’s plan to train students as artillerymen, incidents of mock etiquette drills with Josephine and Louis, and Napoleon’s fierce rebukes to his brothers during rehearsal scenes. The piece notes an acrostic and an anagram about Napoleon and cites a Dijon professor’s Napoleonic verse.
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Dijon
Ces
Buonaparte
Napoleon
Des Frangois
Malam
Joseph
Louis
Fallyrand
France
Prussia
Lucien
Mermaid sighting on the Ardsheal coast described in letters
An extract from a letter dated Ardsheal reports multiple independent sightings of a mermaid off Ardsheal coast near Fort William. Observers describe a female upper body with a fish tail, a child-sized hand, and a long dark hair, with the creature seen upright on the water, emitting a goose-like hiss before vanishing.
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Ardsheal
Ar- R
Tel
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America
Portugal
Russian
Hamburg
Delaware
General Assembly
Napoleoniana
Populos
Orbum
Mermaid
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