G. Bemis

PRECEDENTS

OF

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY,

IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF

SIR ROUNDELL PALMER,

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND,

IN THE

BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS,

MAY 13, 1864.

BY

GEORGE BEMIS.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

1864.

OF

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY,

IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF

SIR ROUNDELL PALMER,

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND,

IN THE

BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS,

MAY 13, 1864.

BY

GEORGE BEMIS.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

1864.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

GEORGE BEMIS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

WINTHROP PRESS, CAMBRIDGE:

ALLEN AND PARNHAM.

CONTENTS.

I. EXPULSION AND SEIZURE OF GENET'S PRIVATEERS IN

1793. A PRIVATEER CONSIDERED A PUBLIC SHIP OF

WAR

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1

II. THE CASE OF THE CASSIUS .

15

III. THE CASE OF THE SANTISSIMA TRINIDAD, AND JUDGE

STORY ON NEUTRAL DUTIES

22

IV. JUDGE STORY'S DICTUM IN THE AMISTAD DE RUES CASE.

- SUMMARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORITY

V. RETROSPECT OF THE ALABAMA CASE. HER ESCAPE THE

RESULT OF BRITISH TREACHERY AND OFFICIAL CONNI-

VANCE OR NEGLIGENCE

VI. AMERICAN TREATMENT OF FRENCH AND BRITISH ALABA-

MAS IN WASHINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION

APPENDIX.

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EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. THOMAS

BARING, AND THE SPEECH OF THE ATTORNEY-

GENERAL IN FULL

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