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In total, the collective term "Orders in Council" refers to more than a dozen sets of blockade decrees in the years 1783, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1803–1809, 1811, and 1812; it is most often associated in particular with the decrees of 7 January 1807, 11 November 1807, and 26 April 1809 which were most inflammatory to the Americans.
An Act to indemnify Persons who have advised or acted under an Order of Council for making Regulations with respect to the Navigation and Commerce between His Majesty's Subjects and the Subjects of the United States of America. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2) (35 & 36 Vict. c. 97))
The Milan Decree was issued on 17 December 1807 by Napoleon I of France to enforce the 1806 Berlin Decree, which had initiated the Continental System, the basis for his plan to defeat the British by waging economic warfare. The Milan Decree stated that no country in Europe was to trade with the United Kingdom. [1]
An Order of Council is a form of legislation in the United Kingdom.It is made by the Lords of the Privy Council (in practice, ministers of the Crown). [1]Orders of Council differ from Orders in Council in that, while Orders in Council are orders made by the monarch meeting with the Privy Council, Orders of Council are made by the Privy Council in its own right and without requiring the monarch ...
2 September – Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812): Russia declares war on the United Kingdom. 13 November – Geological Society founded in London. 20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with around 400 drowned. [10]
This is a list of orders made by the British Privy Council. A list of all Orders in Council and Orders of Council made between July 1994 and September 2000 is held by the Privy Council Office in an Access database. [1] The ID number used in this table is the identifier in that database.
An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.In the United Kingdom, this legislation is formally made in the name of the monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council (King-in-Council), but in other countries the terminology may vary.
An act to appoint commissioners to inquire and examine into the publick expenditure, and the conduct of publick business, in the military departments therein mentioned; and to report such observations as shall occur to them for correcting or preventing any abuses and irregularities, and for the better concluding and managing the business of the ...