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" employment, on the number of her Grew, can alter the character
with which she has been so inverted, provided her Commander be an Officer of
the Royal Navy. - Accordingly, I am of prinion and it would be very satisfactory to me if your Excellency were to [concur in it, that the Commander of the Steamer Malespina was not amenable to the bummons of the Judge in the case in greation, and still. less to be notified with a writ of arrest, as it actually took place, undoubtedly by arro; for accepted as it is, by the principles of public international
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low, the independence of Vesul Was anchord in a foreign Port, such versel. (speaking literally of the vessel and her commander, not of the murcantile interests the
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under a Known and responsible administration ) remain independent, cannot be detained, and consequently their Commantus, the relations between them and the local Authorities being in all respects
international
I beg therefore of your Excellene, to consider attentively the foregoing Statements, for I am
persuaded
that the good understanding which