Weegy: After his victory at Jena, Napoleon felt that the time had come to put into execution his project of excluding England from the continent. [ England had given him an excuse for the Berlin Decree given below by declaring the coast from the river Elbe to Brest in a state of blockade (May, 1806). * * * FROM OUR IMPERIAL CAMP AT BERLIN, November 21, 1806. Napoleon, emperor of the French and king of Italy, in consideration of the facts: 1. That England does not recognize the system of international law universally observed by all civilized nations. 2. That she regards as an enemy every individual belonging to the enemy's state, and consequently makes prisoners of war not only of the crews of armed ships of war but of the crews of ships of commerce and merchantmen, and even of commercial agents and of merchants traveling on business. 3. That she extends to the vessels and commercial wares, and to the property of individuals, the right of conquest which is applicable only to the possessions of the belligerent power. 4. That she extends to unfortified towns and commercial ports, to harbors and the mouths of rivers, the right of blockade, which, in accordance with reason and the customs of all civilized nations, is applicable only to strong places. . . . That she has declared districts in a state of blockade which all her united forces would be unable to blockade, such as entire coasts and the whole of an empire. 5. That this monstrous abuse of the right of blockade has no other aim than to prevent communication among the nations and to raise the commerce and the industry of England upon the ruins of that of the continent. 8. That it is a natural right to employ such arms against an enemy as he himself makes use of, and to combat in the same way as he combats. ] (More)