[402] Ibid., vol. xxiv. p. 611.
[403] Ibid., vol. xxvi. p. 11.
[404] Ibid., vol. xxvii. pp. 417, 641.
[405] Ibid., p. 135.
[406] Tooke's History of Prices, vol. i. pp. 300, 301.
[407] 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.
[408] Quarterly Review, May, 1811, p. 465.
[409] 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.
[410] Cobbett's Parl. Debates, vol. x. p. 406.
[411] 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.