[undecipherable: probable reading D^r] In consequence of a representation of the United States that lately at the port of Carolina [undecipherable] were [undecipherable: commissioned] and [undecipherable] in whatever [undecipherable] of the following [undecipherable: information] the various [undecipherable] conduct have engaged his [undecipherable] tion. The President deeming [such] [undecipherable] practices to be inconsistent with the duties with the preservation of the peace of the [undecipherable] being required by any treaty [of the] States [he] has concluded that such [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: punished] [undecipherable: however] And in as much as such [undecipherable] parties at War, or their [undecipherable: judges] [undecipherable: imposition] of the jurisdiction and [undecipherable] of the States which [undecipherable] put in them [undecipherable] [undecipherable: violated] in [undecipherable]