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Napoleon reaches the Tuileries, March 21, 1815, p. 341 —— finally overthrown at Waterloo, June 18, 1815, p. 343 —— pays no attention to the remonstrances of the American minister in Paris, p. 397 —— asserts that war had been practically declared against America when England issued her Orders in Council, p. 398 Natal, so named, from having been discovered on Christmas Day, 1497, p. 8. Naval battles between English and Dutch in 1652-3, p. 186 —— between the Dutch and English, 1664-1667, p. 191 Navigation Act, extreme stringency of, p. 181 Navigation laws of England, first prohibitory Act, 1646, with the object of restraining the Dutch, p. 183. ——, second Act, 1656, ibid.

——, Act of Cromwell, passed Oct. 9, 1651, p. 184

——, confirmed by Charles II. 1660, p. 188

——, supplemental statute of, 14 Charles II., prohibits all trade with the Dutch, p. 189

——, orders sent from England to enforce them in all their strictness, p. 231

——, dispute whether they apply to American as to other foreign shipping, p. 257

—— necessarily relaxed during the American war, as the Americans relayed their embargoes, p. 333

Nelson, Capt. (Lord Nelson), commands H.M.S. Boreas in 1784, in the West Indies, p. 254, note

——, carries out Act of Parliament against planters and Americans in the West Indies, ibid.

——, takes command of the Channel fleet, p. 283

Neutral nations, general views of, relative to the question whether the flag covers the merchandise, and on the right of search and the conditions thereof, p. 267

Neutrals' right proclaimed in the name of the Emperor Napoleon by his minister, M. de Champigny, p. 397

Newfoundland, fisheries of, first opened up by the Merchant Adventurers, p. 85

——, the French, in reign of Louis XIV., encroach on the English fisheries there, p. 205

——, peculiar customs among the fishermen on its coasts, p. 206

New York Shipowners, views of, on duties of neutrals, private armed vessels, etc., pp. 388-391

—— admit the right of search of neutral ships at sea, p. 391

North, Expedition to, sails May 20, 1553, p. 79


Officers, chief, relative qualifications required for, in Danish and Norse ships, p. 509

Orders, English, in Council, principal provisions of, pp. 297-303

——, a necessary reply to Napoleon's Berlin decree, p. 297

——, indignation in England against, on the part of merchants not owners of ships, p. 306

——, generally beneficial to British shipping interests except in the Baltic, p. 309

——, their effects on American trade, 1810, p. 320

——, made a stalking-horse by the Whigs, p. 325

Oxenham, in 1585, the first Englishman to sail on Pacific, p. 148


Panic, commercial, on the breaking out of the war with France, Feb. 1, 1793, p. 258

Paris, Treaty of, with provisions for settling the new boundaries of Europe, p. 339

Pavia, Gonsalvo de, sent by the King of Portugal to make researches, p. 3

Pembroke, Lord, and others, realise 60 per cent. by Hawkins's slaving, p. 126

Peter the Great, extraordinary story of, p. 207

—— works with his own hands at ship-building at Saardam, Amsterdam, and Deptford, p. 208

Petty, Sir W., estimates by, of the value of European shipping, and of the quantity assignable to each state, p. 200