Excerpt from Four Hundred Years of American History, Vol. 2 In accordance with the spirit of certain instructions, Erskine thought himself authorized to offer a suitable provision for the widows and orphans of those who were killed on board the Chesapeake, and to announce the conditional repeal of the Orders in Council as far as they applied to the commerce of the United States. This re peal was to take place on the tenth of the following June. The President, on this assurance, issued a proclamation, giving permission for a renewal of commercial intercourse with Great Britain. The news was hailed with joy throughout the land. In a few weeks more than a thou sand ships, laden with American produce, were Ou their way to foreign markets. This gleam of sunshine was soon obscured. Four months after the President issued another proclamation he now recalled the previous one, and again established non-intercourse between the two countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.