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Poverty - by James Platt

of course with the other qualifications of good seamen; but as it rule they could do their share of "splicing the main brace," as drinking grog was called. But it is much altered since those days; the quantity of rum has been reduced, and tea and cocoa served instead, and many of the merchant service sail with no spirits.

Now came the American War, and the causes of which were the celebrated "Orders in Council."

In 1806, after the defeat of the Prussians at Jena, Napoleon entered Berlin, and issued his celebrated "Berlin decrees," by which he ordered the seizure of English property wherever it might be found, thus offering to other nations the opportunity of taking our merchandise, or ships in their ports, thereby seeking to ruin our trade. "The Orders in Council" were intended as a reprisal, and confiscated French property wherever it might be found, the French mercantile navy being almost destroyed. The Americans consequently carried on most of the commerce from neutral ports, therefore the enforcement of