cognizable here. But the same point

am.

is I am informed again likely to arise in the care of the Robert Brone" American This takins chinese to California; the Chinese murdered the Captain and most of the Erew, powered themselves of the reusch, changed her course, and having plundered abandoned her. Ze American Commodore on this Station has captured several

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offenders, and is anxious (if

of

the

our laws

admit) that the case be investigated here, and although somewhat diffident

of

the correctner of my opinion in Consequence of its being opposed to that of my predecessor and to the literal construction of the words of writers on

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international Law, yet after considerable reflection on the subject

C

I am

of pinia

that the care in

question is pirage acending to the

Law of Nations and that the Comity

of

nations demands that we

take

should

sypon municives the labour investigating it. I am led to this view of the case

from thinking that

the nationality of a Ship unlawfulig taken from the charge of it's officers by persons accuming no national character at the time of or fou

purposes of

this

suck

the

seizure ceases, and that

to

is a casus omissus by text writers on international Law was appen me to have regard only to crimes

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