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Id: 1216
Subject: International, Europe and Russia
Category: Letter
Language: English
Archive: Foreign Office and predecessor: Political and Other Departments: General Correspondence before 1906, Russian Empire
Collection: FO: Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
Reference: FO 65
Folder: FO 65/97
Dispatch date: 01-12-1812
Dispatcher: June (Mr.)
Recipient: Cooke Edward (Sir)
Tags: International     

Abstract:

Απόσπασμα επιστολής με θέμα την κατάσχεση βρετανικών εμπορικών σκαφών και εμπορικής περιουσίας (εμπορεύματα-φορτία) στα ρωσικά λιμάνια κατά το έτος 1810 η οποία εστάλη σε μέλος του Βρετανικού Κοινοβουλίου τον Δεκέμβριο του 1812. Το απόσπασμα της επιστολής φτάνει και στον Edward Cooke, Esq. Under- Secretary of State, το 1814 προς ενημέρωσή του, στις 2 Ιουλίου του 1814 από τον Mr. June. Στην επιστολή γίνεται λόγος για την πολεμική σύρραξη μεταξύ Ρωσίας και Βρετανίας στα 1807 αλλά και την ομαλή διεξαγωγή του μεταξύ τους εμπορίου με ουδέτερα σκάφη κατά τα έτη 1808 και 1809, ενώ προβλήματα με κατασχέσεις βρετανικών σκαφών και εμπορευμάτων λαμβάνουν χώρα στα 1810.

Extract of a letter on the subject of the seizures of British commercial property in the Russian ports, in the year 1810, addressed to a member of parliament, dated December 1812.

In 1807, hostility, with commercial restrictions and prohibitions (founded on the Continental System of Bonaparte) broke out on the part of Russia towards Great Britain; in 1808 and 1809 the trade export from this country to Russia of Colonial Products, India Goods, and Home Manufactures, was continued to some extent in neutral or neutralized vessels, chiefly with papers simulated as from Spanish, American or other ports.

This trading seemed to meet no interruption, or but little; to excite no offence or precautions, and for all this time, the growths and productions of Russia found their way to Great Britain without any preventions, though the chief of them are articles indispensable to maritime equipment – the sinews of maritime warfare, and a main spring of defence against and restraint of French power and preponderance by sea. […]



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