Trading and privateers ; The two brothers ; A speculation in wheat ; San Domingo and Marseilles ; La Viginie sold, good friends embargoed ; Caputres of the Kitty and the Sally ; The Liberty, Voltaire and Sally built ; The Liberty captured, the Modest wrecked ; Capture of the Sally ; Trading with France and Russia ; The claims on FranceJ.B. Lippincott, 1918 - Bankers |
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Page 437 - The debts provided for by the preceding article are those whose result is comprised in the conjectural note annexed to the present convention, and which, with the interest, cannot exceed the sum of twenty millions of francs. The claims comprised in the said note, which fall within the exceptions of the following articles, shall not be admitted to the benefit of this provision.
Page 236 - That it shall be lawful to stop and detain all vessels loaded wholly or in part with corn, flour or meal, bound to any port in France, or any port occupied by the armies of France...
Page 399 - February, 1778, the treaty of amity and commerce of the same date, and the convention of 14th of November, 1788, nor upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed, the parties will negotiate further on these subjects at a convenient time...
Page 239 - November, 1793, we signified that they should stop and detain all ships laden with goods the produce of any colony belonging to France, or carrying provisions or other supplies for the use of any such colony...
Page 403 - Republic consents to accept, ratify, and confirm the above convention with the addition importing that the convention shall be in force for the space of eight years and with the retrenchment of the second article: Provided, That by this retrenchment the two States renounce the respective pretensions which are the object of the said article.
Page 249 - all commercial intercourse between the citizens of the United States and the subjects of the King of Great Britain should cease.
Page 239 - That they shall bring in for lawful adjudication all vessels, with their cargoes, that are laden with goods, the produce of any island or settlement belonging to France, Spain, or the United Provinces, and coming directly from any port of the said islands or settlements to any port in Europe...
Page 237 - If any nation whatever has a right to shut up, to our produce, all the ports of the earth, except her own, and those of her friends, she may shut up these also, and so confine us within our own limits. No nation can subscribe to such pretensions ; no nation can agree, at the mere will or interest of another, to have its peaceable industry suspended, and its citizens reduced to idleness and want.
Page 238 - ... ourselves all the ports of Europe, where corn is in demand, or make ourselves parties in the war. This is a dilemma, which Great Britain has no right to force upon us, and for which no pretext can be found in any part of our conduct. She may, indeed, feel the desire of starving an enemy nation ; but she can have no right of doing it at our loss, nor of making us the instrument of it.
Page 238 - Thus we should see ourselves plunged by this unauthorized act of Great Britain, into a war, with which we meddle not, and which we wish to avoid if justice to all parties and from all parties, will enable us to avoid it. In the case where we found ourselves obliged by treaty to withhold from the enemies of France the right of arming in our ports, we thought ourselves in justice bound to withhold the same right from France also; and we did it. Were we to withhold from her supplies of provisions, we...