between the vessels of the Kingdom of
Hanover and vessels of the United States and between goods imported into
the United States in vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover and vessels of
the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as the same
respect the produce or manufacture of the said Kingdom of Hanover, the
said suspension to take effect this day and to continue henceforward so
long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States and
of the merchandise laden therein as aforesaid shall be continued in the
ports of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 1st day of July, A.
D. 1828, and the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United
States.

John Quincy Adams.

By the President:

H. Clay,
_Secretary of State_.

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EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Department of War,
_February 28, 1828_.

The Secretary of War, by direction of the President of the United
States, announces to the Army the painful intelligence of the decease
(the 24th of February) of Major-General Brown.

To say that he was one of the men who have rendered most important
services to his country would fall far short of the tribute due to his
character. Uniting with the most unaffected simplicity the highest
degree of personal valor and of intellectual energy, he stands
preeminent before the world and for after ages in that band of heroic
spirits who upon the ocean and the land formed and sustained during the
second war with Great Britain the martial reputation of their country.
To this high and honorable purpose General Brown may be truly said to
have sacrificed his life, for the disease which abridged his days and
has terminated his career at a period scarcely beyond the meridian of
manhood undoubtedly originated in the hardships of his campaigns on the
Canada frontier, and in that glorious wound which, though desperate,
could not remove him from the field of battle till it was won.

Quick to perceive, sagacious to anticipate, prompt to decide, and daring
in execution, he was born with the qualities which constitute a great
commander. His military _coup d'oeil_ his intuitive penetration, his
knowledge of men and his capacity to control them were known to all his
companions in arms, and commanded their respect; while the gentleness of
his disposition, the courtesy of his deportment, his scrupulous regard
to their rights, his const