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Forces is determined on by the Cabinets, it is a usual form to convey the Queen's command on the subject, but nothing of the kind occurred here as would have been suitable to the case.
There already exists a great body of Law and usage respecting Prizes of War. There is also a body of Law and numerous treaties respecting the suppression of the slave trade. Great Britain undertook the office of interfering with other Nations on that traffic, and it had been made the subject of a solemn declaration at the Congress of Vienna, and of separate Conventions with every Power concerned. But if in the present instance, with no knowledge on the part of Foreign Governments and scarcely with that of our own collectively, Great Britain suddenly begins to seize by force of arms Foreign Ships in distant British Ports - And further to assume sovereign rights in Foreign Ports by seizing British Ships there for the infraction of a recent English Municipal Law, I cannot help fearing that Officers...