...the Emperor considered all Americans as smugglers, and that he wrote to the Prussian government : " Let the American ships enter your ports ! Seize them...and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian war-debt." l Meanwhile the confiscation of American ships helped in no way the objects promised by...

...the Emperor considered all Americans as smugglers, and that he wrote to the Prussian government : " Let the American ships enter your ports ! Seize them...and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian war-debt." J Meanwhile the confiscation of American ships helped in no way the objects promised by...

...hands, that he might rob them. He proposed to Prussia : — "Let them enter, and arrest them afterward: deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian debt." 1 Prussia, more honorable, did not accept that dishonesty, but admitted the traders to fair...

...Colberg, where we had not a single soldier. " Let them enter," said Napoleon, "and arrest them afterward ; deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian debt." In this strange negociation he had almost succeeded. ' Of all this Northern seacoast there remained...

...ships whose cargoes he coveted. Thiers says 1 that the emperor wrote to the abject Prussian government: "Let the American ships enter your ports. Seize them...take them in part payment of the Prussian war debt." This astonishing proposition was carried out to the letter, and hundreds of unsuspecting American ships...

...their ports and then confiscated them. "Let them enter," said Napoleon, "and arrest them afterwards ; deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian debt."* On March 23, 1810, Napoleon issued the famous Rambouillet decree in which he attempted to give...

...wrote to the Prussian Government: "Let the American ships enter your ports. Sieze them afterwards. You shall deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian war debt." John Quincy Adams declared that fifty American vessels were thus taken in Norway and Denmark. In 1809-10,...

...Napoleon himself wrote to Danzig: "Let the American ships enter your ports! Seize them afterwards. You shall deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian war debt." On March 25, 1810, he published the Rambouillet decree, which was practically a public announcement...

...his ships from China was captured off the Capes of the Delaware by a British privateer. Her cargo ->f teas, nankeens, and silks was worth half a million...It was the grand climax of the exploitation which American commerce had been compelled to endure through two centuries of tumult and bloodshed afloat....

...not long submit to a measure of defense which was, in the final sense, an abject surrender to brute force. New England, which bore the brunt of the embargo,...It was the grand climax of the exploitation which American commerce had been compelled to endure through two centuries of tumult and bloodshed afloat....