 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 358 pages
...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. , Upon this principle, I presume, the British armed vessels have taken the property of... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1802 - 756 pages
...I believe," says Mr. Jefferson, " 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 m " the vessel of a friend, are lawful prize.* Upon " this principle,... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...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.' The whole chain of authority in the books establishes this proposition, and it was,... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...the country.' In 1793 he admitted, on the contrary, that free bottoms did not make free goods, and, ' that the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend, were lawful prize.' At present he requires the American Plenipotentiary in England to insist ' on the... | |
 | Artemas Ward - United States - 1814 - 68 pages
...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. It is true that sundry nations, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of haying their... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 634 pages
...thus expresses himself : " 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 prizes. It is true that... | |
 | William Burdick - Almanacs, American - 1814 - 240 pages
...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. It is true that sundry nations, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of having their... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 602 pages
...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 prizes. It is true that sundry nations, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of having their... | |
 | United States - 1815 - 508 pages
...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. Upon this principle, I presume, the British armed vessels have taken the property of... | |
 | United States - 1817 - 512 pages
...tKe 24th, declaring " his belief that it cannot be 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, desirous of avoiding the inconveniences of... | |
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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. 
