They have carried them off under pretence of legal adjudication, but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places where no evidence could arise against them ; maltreated the crews, and abandoned... Annals of the Congress of the United States - Page 451by United States. Congress - 1853Full view - About this book
| United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...adjudication, but not daring to approach a court of justice, they u have plundered and sunk them by the way, in obscure places, " where no evidence could arise...them, maltreated the " crews and abandoned them in boats, on the open sea, or on desert " shores without food or covering. These enormities appearing... | |
| United States - 1811 - 676 pages
...of legal adjudication, but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places, where no evidence...shores, without food or covering." "With Spain our negociations for a settlement of differences have not had a satisfactory issue. Spoliations during... | |
| 1812 - 498 pages
...of legal ad indication, but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places, where no evidence...maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in the open seĀ», or on desert shores, without food or covering." " With Spain our negociations for a settlement... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...adjudication ; but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, in obscure places, where no evidence could arise against...them, maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in boats in the open sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering.'* Yet it is by these people that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...adjudication ; but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, in obscure places, where no evidence could arise against...them, maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in boats in the open sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering.'* Yet it is by these people that... | |
| Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...of legal adjudication, bat not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places where no evidence...sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering." Continuation of Mr. Randolph's Speech, on the second resolution reported by the committee of foreign... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...of legal adjudication, but, not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places, where no evidence...them, maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in boats, in the open sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering. The same system of hovering... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...of legal adjudication, but, not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, or in obscure places, where no evidence...them, maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in boats in the open sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering. The same system of hovering on... | |
| Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 342 pages
...we find Mr. Jefferson, in his annual message of December 3d, 1805, using the following language : " With Spain our negotiations for a settlement of differences...Spoliations during the former war, for which she had formerly acknowledged herself responsible, have been refused to be compensated but on conditions affecting... | |
| Joseph Coe - Presidents - 1841 - 416 pages
...view of those rights will, of itself, induce from every belligerent a more correct observance of them. With Spain our negotiations for a settlement of differences...have not had a satisfactory issue. Spoliations during a former war, for which she had formerly acknowledged herself responsible have been refused to be compensated,... | |
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