CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3] — Page 252

To abuses which under the color of law slavery.

For instance, a foreign Coolie Ship having left Macao, the Master may tear up all the Contracts and carry off his victims in bondage. Huming such a case to happen, could a British Man of War legally board and seize the foreign Ship on the high seas? I apprehend that it could not do so legally in the absence of a Convention between Great-Britain and the Nation to which the foreign Ship belonged, because our Statutes against Slavery only apply to British Subjects and Slavery is not a criminal traffic by the Law of Nations.

(See Le Louis 2 Dodson 210; Madrazo v. Willes 3 B. & A. 353; and the excellent résumé of Slave Trade Cases in Kent's Commentaries by Abdy, 442-445, Stevens and Son 1866; and Wheaton's International Law by Lawrence, 1866).

Now, as for the Peruvian Ships lying in this Harbor, although within our jurisdiction, they have not been boarded and, so far as we can possibly know, they are intended to carry Emigrants from Macao.

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To abuses which under the color of law slavery.

For instance, a foreign Coolie Ship having left Macao, the Master may tear up all the Contracts and carry off his victims in bondage. Huming such a case to happen, could a British Man of War legally board and seize the foreign Ship on the high seas? I apprehend that it could not do so legally in the absence of a Convention between Great-Britain and the Nation to which the foreign Ship belonged, because our Statutes against Slavery only apply to British Subjects and Slavery is not a criminal traffic by the Law of Nations.

(See Le Louis 2 Dodson 210; Madrazo v. Willes 3 B. & A. 353; and the excellent résumé of Slave Trade Cases in Kent's Commentaries by Abdy, 442-445, Stevens and Son 1866; and Wheaton's International Law by Lawrence, 1866).

Now, as for the Peruvian Ships lying in this Harbor, although within our jurisdiction, they have not been boarded and, so far as we can possibly know, they are intended to carry Emigrants from Macao.

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