Free Ships Under Enemy's Flag

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Meissner, 1866 - 56 strani
 

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Stran 16 - ... and all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested ; and neither of the contracting Powers shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce.
Stran 9 - And that the private property of the subjects or citizens of a belligerent on the high seas shall be exempted from seizure by public armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be contraband.
Stran 18 - he owes it to candor, etc., to declare that the United States would consider any attempt on the part of European monarchies to extend their system to any portion of the Western Hemisphere as dangerous to their peace and safety," that "with the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power they have not interfered and will not ; but that any interposition for the purpose of oppressing or controlling any of the States...
Stran 48 - I believe that the propitious time is even now not distant ; and I will hope that when it comes Great Britain will not only willingly and unconditionally accept the adhesion of the United States to all the benignant articles of the Declaration of the Congress...
Stran 48 - I will hope that when it comes Great Britain will not only willingly and unconditionally accept the adhesion of the United States to all the benignant articles of the declaration of the congress of Paris, but will even go further, and, relinquishing her present objections, consent, as the United States have so constantly invited, that the private property, not contraband, of citizens and subjects of nations in collision shall be exempted from confiscation equally in warfare waged on the land and...
Stran 17 - I here state, and so entered upon the protocol. But, it is proper for me to remark, that no sentiment dropped from the British Plenipotentiaries authorizing the belief, that they would have concurred in the object, if we had proceeded to the consideration of it. My own opinion is, that Great Britain is not prepared at present to accede, under any circumstances, to the proposition for abolishing private war upon the ocean.
Stran 21 - I cannot help hoping . . . that in the course of time those principles of war which are applied to hostilities by land may be extended without exception to hostilities by sea, so that private property shall no longer be the object of aggression on either side.
Stran 17 - Plenipotentiaries said, in reply to this statement, that, under the circumstances which prevented any present discussion of the questions of maritime law, discussed in former negotiations, there would be manifest inconvenience in now going into a question of the same class...
Stran 14 - Le commerce se ferait alors sur mer entre les nations belligérantes comme il se fait sur terre au milieu des batailles que se livrent les années.
Stran 14 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 13, 1823. SIR:» * » * • « ** In one of the notes from the Count, dated the 24th of July, he communicated to this government the information that his most Christian Majesty had given orders to his marine to take no Spanish vessels other than of war, and to detain, upon the principle of blockade, no merchant vessel, whether of Spain or of other nations, unless they should attempt to enter a place really blockaded by the King's naval forces, and should thus...

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