One thousand four hundred and sixty-four pounds of fresh salmon from Scotland landed in one day, and sold in Yarmouth market owing to the embargo on all shipping.
But for the moment the English-speaking nations have a veto upon them, in virtue of possession, and the embargo put by the United States government upon the export of steel during the war caused a profound emotion in Nippon.
The effect of that embargowas to shut down between 70 and 80 per cent.
French ships had been searched and seized, and in reprisals an embargo had been laid upon English vessels and goods at La Rochelle and other places.
The embargo on the rice-junks was removed, and affairs resumed their normal course.
In all her thoughts she recognized the right of her mother to have debarred her from the privilege of loving this man, if such embargo had been placed on her before her love had been declared.
The more she thought over it, the more sure she felt that Mr. Comfort would put an embargo upon the party.
The only thing he could do was to have an embargo laid on the trunk at Rome, the said embargo to last for a month.
The arrival of the lists of embargoand prize ships showed them to be scattered about among a large number of ports on both the North Sea and the Baltic.
Congress, therefore, on the recommendation of the president, laid an embargo on all vessels within the jurisdiction of the United States.
The embargo on all European trade at Surat was maintained, while the Dutch, French, and English were directed to scour the seas and destroy the pirates.
A guard was placed on the factory at Surat, and an embargo laid on English trade.
Fortunately for the English Company, a member of the pirate crew was captured, and proved to be a Dane; so the embargo on English trade was taken off.
At Surat he had found a discharged servant of the Company, one Mr. Wyche, on whose departure the Governor had laid anembargo till his accounts were cleared.
M^r Elseworth did not conceive an embargo by the Congress interdicted by this section.
If no tax can be laid on exports, an embargo cannot be laid though in time of war such a measure may be of critical importance.
An Embargo may be of absolute necessity, and can alone be effectuated by the Gen^l authority.
The two governesses had made friends, and the embargo on intercourse with Valetta had been allowed to drop; but Fly only shook her head, and allowed that Val was better than nothing.
On the first of April, 1812, he sent a confidential message to congress, proposing, as a measure preliminary to a declaration of war, the passage of a law laying an embargo upon all commerce with the United States for the space of sixty days.
It was in the year 1809 that the American brig Dover, one of the few of American merchant vessels which had managed to escape the ruin of Jefferson's embargo act, was sailing among the lesser Antilles.
We each commanded a vessel which began a warfare on English commerce, defying all theirembargo acts and neutrality laws.
At that time, sir, they seemed to be in a state of incipient rebellion, because of the passage of the embargo act.
Actuated by these views, the president recommended to congress the passage of an embargo act.
There can be no question now that the embargo was a serious blunder.
He was rather unsteady on his legs, but exceedingly eloquent on the question of Jefferson's embargo act.
In December 1807 he warmly seconded Jefferson's suggestion of an embargo and vigorously urged instant action, saying: ``The president has recommended the measure on his high responsibility.
Within five hours the Senate had passed the Embargo Bill and sent it to the House.
Among the first measures was the introduction of an embargo act.
But, while the embargo pressed so heavily on us, it inflicted severe damage also on France and England, especially the latter.
The effect of the embargo was to depress the products of our own country one half, and increase those of foreign countries in the same proportion.
Under the tremendous pressure with which the embargo bore on the people, New England openly threatened the government.
To stop this illicit trade in future, an act was passed in secret session, laying an embargo on all the ports of the Union.
War and no restrictions, is their motto, when an embargo is laid, but the moment war is declared, the cry is restrictions but no war.
The grand cause of the restrictive system having been removed, Madison sent a message to the House of Representatives, advising a repeal of the Embargo and Non-Importation Act.
A similar fierce conflict, however, took place soon after on the bill for the support of military establishments, in the ensuing year, and on the motion to repeal the Embargo Act.
Under these circumstances the embargo was repealed, and the non-intercourse law, prohibiting all commercial intercourse with France and Great Britain substituted.
The embargowent into effect in January, 1808, and aroused sectional feeling to such an extent that New England threatened secession from the Union.
The placing of an embargo on the trade in arms at the present time would constitute such a change and be a direct violation of the neutrality of the United States.
This conception of "the true spirit of neutrality," if applied to the present case, would lead to an embargo on arms.
The resolutions reported and adopted asserted that the American embargo was "a wise and patriotic measure, imperiously demanded by the exposed condition of our seamen, shipping and trade to the audacious outrages of foreign powers.
The embargo act detained Newburgh vessels, among others, in foreign ports, and Newburgh merchantmen were captured and confined in Dartmour prison.
Orange County citizens had given expression to their views on the embargo act in March, 1800.
Their tongues, like Baron Munchausen's horn, seemed to run with an accumulated rapidity from the long embargo laid upon them.
The factory system, nourished by the restrictions of the embargo and the war, rapidly developed until American manufactures became an interest which, in political importance, outweighed the old industries of shipping and foreign commerce.
The ocean had dominated New England's interests and connected her with the Old World; the fisheries and carrying--trade had engrossed her attention until the embargo and the War of 1812 gave importance to her manufactures.
The declarations with respect to the embargo laid upon Russian goods and ships in our ports require no comment.
Thus, if a ship, though neutral, be insured on a voyage prohibited by an embargo laid on in time of war, by the prince of the country in whose ports the ships happen to be, such an insurance is void.
The twins had long left the subject of the embargo on Chetworth, and were wrangling and chaffing over the details of Desmond's packing, when there was a knock at the door.
Mannering whenever he was asked and military duty allowed, now that the Squire's embargo was at least partially removed?
