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move

given. When

such were given.

undeed any important movement

log

the

public

Forces is determined

on by the Cabinets, it is a usual

Form to Coincy the Queen's

Caumando

on the lubject, hit nothing of the kind occurred

here

a would have been suitable

to the case.

There already exists

a great body of Law and usage идиоад * respecting Prizes of War. There is also a body of Law and numerous treaties respecting the suppression of the have Grade. Refre Great Britain

undertook the office of interfering

with

with other Nations on that haffic, ade the Puljcal

it had been made the

a colemn declaration at the

of a

Congress of Vienna, and of

Reparate Conventions with every

every | Power concerned. But if in the

present instance, with no Knowledge

previdno

on the part of Foreign

Governments and scarcely with

that of

our din.

Collectively,

Great Britain buddenly begins

to seize by force of arms Foreigne Ships in distant British Ports- And further to assume sovereign

in Foreign Ports by seizing rights in Vill rights

British Ships there for the infraction

Ice I

of a accent English Municipal -Law, I cannot help fearing

that

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