This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...all, is, the fact, that this case is taken as '/ a precedent, and already another vessel, the Vigilante, /-..--.. c, /t. '.-1..... nas been liberated on the strength of this decision. -. e/t"', . X, C. r', A j f l are sufficient, in Lord Palmerston's words, "to reduce /-3-(f.'vi? the treaty to mere waste paper ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...all, is, the fact, that this case is taken as '/ a precedent, and already another vessel, the Vigilante, /-..--.. c, /t. '.-1..... nas been liberated on the strength of this decision. -. e/t"', . X, C. r', A j f l are sufficient, in Lord Palmerston's words, "to reduce /-3-(f.'vi? the treaty to mere waste paper," I could scarcely have produced one so much to the purpose. I am compelled to go further. It may be pretended that it was only by accident, that the slaver, while she remained at Cadiz, escaped the vigilance of the customhouse officers, and by a second fortunate accident that she obtained permission to bear the royal pendant; but can it be ascribed to accident, that the two persons selected by the Spanish Government as commissioner and arbitrator, should have acted throughout, as if their proper business was to defend the Slave trader, and defeat the treaty 1 It would seem that while hardly any evidence is strong enough to convict a slaver, no pretext is too miserable for his defence. For example, the Vincedora is declared to be " wrongfully detained," while the General Laborde, " a well-known and fully equipped slaver," is liberated "because the wife and-children of the supercargo were on board.."/A.--, .x ' y.i-' Upon the whole, I can arrive at no other conclusion /..../4V-v. than that the Spanish Treaty, as interpreted by the?V Spanish judges, is an impudent fraud; and that those who shall be credulous enough to rely upon it for the full attainment of our object, will be fatally deceived. ',.". Thus, then, stands the argument: you will never obtain the concurrence of all the powers to the pro-r, visions of the Spanish Treaty; and if you get it, you will find it not worth having. But for argument's sake, I...
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