 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 358 pages
...general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize. , Upon this principle, I presume, the British armed vessels have taken the property of French citizens... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1802 - 756 pages
...«' mentioned ; and, I confess, I should be at a * loss on what principle to reclaim them. It ii * true, that sundry nations, desirous of avoiding * the inconveniences of having their vessels stop•' ped at sea, ransacked, carried into poit, and " detained under ptttence of having enemy goods... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...general Law of Nations the goods of a friend ' found in the vessel of an enemy are free ; and the goods ' of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize.' The whole chain of authority in the books establishes this proposition, and it was, and is, perfectly... | |
 | Artemas Ward - United States - 1814 - 68 pages
...general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful...nations, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of haying their vessels stopped at sea, ransacked, carried into port, and detained under pretence of having... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 602 pages
...general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are^free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prizes. It is true that sundry nations, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of having their vessels... | |
 | United States - 1815 - 534 pages
...doubted but that by the general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are lawful prize." — ''It is true that sundry nations,...carried into port and detained, under pretence of having enemy goods on board, have, in many instances, introduced, by their sficcial treaties, another principle... | |
 | United States - 1815 - 508 pages
...general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize. Upon this principle, I presume, the British armed vessels have taken the property of French citizens... | |
 | United States - 1817 - 512 pages
...doubted but that by the general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy arc lawful prize." — " It is true that sundry nations,...carried into port and detained, under pretence of having enemy goods on board, have, in many instances, introduced, by their special treaties, another principle... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1820 - 884 pages
...general law of nations, the goods of» friend, found in the vessels of an enemy, are free ; and the goods of an enemy, found in the vessel of a friend, are lawful prize."— Jefferson's Let. to Genet, 24 July, 179?. The law and practice of France has always carried this claim... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...the general law of nations, the goods of a friend in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful...sea, ransacked, carried into port, and detained under pretences of having goods on board, have in many instances, introduced another principle between them,... | |
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I believe it cannot be doubted, but that by the general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize. 
