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An Episode in the Continental System in the Illyrian Provinces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Ivan Avakumovic
Ivan Avakumovic
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London Oratory School
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Napoleon's successful campaigns against Austria in 1805 and 1809 led to the signing of the treaties of Pressburg and Schonbrunn which placed interalia the eastern shores of the Adriatic in French hands. The entire coastline from Trieste to Cattaro became part of the Illyrian Provinces designed to act as a barrier against British trade, to provide a land route between Turkey and the French empire, and to weaken Austria.

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Notes and Review Articles
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1954 , pp. 254 - 261
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1954

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1 Pivec-Stele, M., La vie économique des provinces illyriennes 1809-1813 (Paris: Editions Bossard, 1930, for die Inttitut d'Etudes Slaves de l'Université” de Paris; collection hirtorique VI), pp. 10–13. Trieste and Frame were used extensively for the import of British goods into the Hapsburg dominions until the war of 1809 and their incorporation into the Napoleonic empire.Google Scholar

2 , Pivec-Stele, La vie économique, pp. 336–27.Google Scholar

3 , Pivec-Stele, La vie économique, p. 339.Google Scholar

4 Board of Trade. 1/62, J. Turnbull to Bathhurst, London, 1.1.1812.

5 Ibid.

6 , Pivec-Stde, La vie économique, p. 228. One minot = 52.03 litres.Google Scholar

7 In many cat a the “Neutral Vessels” were merely “English Vessels under Austrian simulation.” Board of Trade. 1/62, Adamich to Liverpool, London, 30.1a.1811.

8 Board of Trade.1/62, Turnbull to Bathurst, London, 1.1.1812.

9 Ibid.

10 These licenses were granted on the express understanding that two thirds of the bulk of the cargo would consist of British and colonial goods.

11 Board of Trade.1/62, Turnbull to Bathurst, London, 1.1.1812.

12 Board of Trade.1/62, Oakes to Bunbury, Malta, 3.11.1811.

13 Board of Trade.1/62, Turnbull to Bathunt, London, 1.1.1812.

14 Board of Trade.1/62, Oakes to Bunbury, Malta, 2.11.1811.

15 Board of Trade.I/62, Jameson Hunter to Oakes, Mala, 14.9.1811.

16 Board of Trade.1/62, Adamich to Liverpool, London, 30.12.181t. Foreign Office.7/98, Adamich to Smith, London, 7.1.1812.

17 It had already been approached on the same subject from Maltz through the War Office.

18 Board of Trade.5/21, Oct.1811-Oct.181a, Minutes.

19 Foreign Office.7/98, J. N. Leard to Smith, London, 7.1.181J.

20 Foreign Office.70/52, Johnson to Bendnck, Palermo, 10.8.1812.

21 , Pivec-Stele, La vie économique, p. 188.Google Scholar

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24 Ibid.

25 Foreign Office.7/98.

26 Foreign Ofiice.7/99, Smith to King, No. I. Foreign Office, 24.1.1812.

27 Foreign Office.7/98, Adamich to Lcard. Palermo, 25.6.1812.

28 , Pivcc-Stele, La vie économique, pp. 236–37.Google Scholar

29 , Pivec-Stcle, La vie économique, p. 237.Google Scholar

30 Ibid.

31 Though Hcckschcr was unaware of this episode when writing his well-kiwwn study tif the Continental System, lie funnel it “remarkable how little the [British] Mediterranean trade was disturbed” by the scvere economic crisis of 1810-1811 and Napolean's efforts at that time. Hcckschcr attributed this state of affairs to the “importance of the Balkan peninsula as a Port of penetration for the new trade route through Vienna.” Heckscher, E. F.. The Continental System—.In Economic Interpretation (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1922). p. 244Google Scholar.