Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reply to an "American's Examination" Of the "Right of Search" With Observations on Some of the Questions at Issue Between Great Britain and the United States
American adopts a system throughout his Ex amination of confounding the different questions at issue, as well as others quite irrelevant, so that it is difficult to discover when he means to allude to the stipulated right of search, or to the right of verification of the character of a suspicious vessel; as also whether his arguments are meant to apply to the Quintuple Treaty, or to the general usages Of maritime nations, founded on the necessity of protecting lawful commerce. This, however, may be attributable to the hasty mode of publica tion to which apologetic allusion is made in the preface.
But whatever view he takes of these questions, let the American point out a case of impress ment of American, French, or German seamen, under the pretext Of measures suppressive Of the slave-trade. He cannot. Yet the stipulated right of search has been exercised for many years with the latter nations.
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