And the restrictions imposed
by this act shall, from the date of such proclamation cease and be
discontinued in relation to the nation revoking or modifying her decrees
in the manner aforesaid;" and
Whereas it has been officially made known to this Government that the
edicts of France violating the neutral commerce of the United States
have been so revoked as to cease to have effect on the 1st of the
present month:
Now, therefore, I, James Madison, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim that the said edicts of France have been so revoked as
that they ceased on the said 1st day of the present month to violate the
neutral commerce of the United States, and that from the date of these
presents all the restrictions imposed by the aforesaid act shall cease
and be discontinued in relation to France and their dependencies.
[SEAL.]
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand, at the city of
Washington, this 2d day of November, A.D. 1810, and of the Independence
of the United States the thirty-fifth.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
R. SMITH,
_Secretary of State_.
SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, _December 5, 1810_.
_Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_:
The embarrassments which have prevailed in our foreign relations, and so
much employed the deliberations of Congress, make it a primary duty in
meeting you to communicate whatever may have occurred in that branch of
our national affairs.
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