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| ing, agreed to a bill from the senate Tor thal
purpose, with amendments. thus has more
| than one third of tho, time OF the house been
employed In mastery idieness on one bill by
men who vociferatc the praises OF economy
! Translated for fhe Nat;onai Istelkgencer.
From she Freaeh Mositeur, ct December 5td,
1906.
Report Of The minister Of exterior relations
TO his maiestythe emPeror and Aing.
SIRE,
Three ages of civilization have given
TO Europe law of nations, which, ae.
eording TO the expression of an illustrioas
writer, human nature cannot sufficiently
appreciate.
This law is founded upon the principle
thar nations ought to do in peace the most
J good and In war the least possible evil
According 10 this maxim, war is no. a re-
lation betwcen man andman, but a relation
between state and state, 10 ssh;ch the Inv
diyiduals are only accidentally catcies,
not as men, not even as members or sub.
iects of the state, bat only IS its defend.
srs. The law Of na.ions permits not that
the rights of conquest, which are derived
from it, should be cxtenGsd to psaceable
aud Insrmed citizens. to habi,ations and
private property, to rnerchaaaises, 90 tha
store houses which contain ,nem. to the
carriages which transports shem, 10 unar Ga
ed vessels which convey them on rivers
and on ,h- ocean; 10 s,.srd 70 the person
cad property of individuals. This Law,
the offspring OF civilization, heo also sa-
vored its progress. lis to il shat Eu.
rope. is indebted for the naintainauce and
increase Of her prosperity, even in the
midst of the frequen, wars vhicil have di-
vidcd her.
England alone has preserved OF returned
to tbs usagss Of barbarou, ages. It's by
her refusal to rensunce her maritime
! course, thar this unjus, aud cruel pra ctice
has been main.aised, notwithstanding
Frsoce, who, ir ,ime ofpeace, and prompt.
ed enly by ideas of iu ,ce End Humanity,
had proposed to abo!sheit. France has
! done every thing al least 10 mitigate The
evils which she had net power to prevent
| England ontae contrary bas dose every
thisg 10 sSgrasate them.
| Not contensed with attacking the sasr
chant vessel. and with treating aa prison
| ers CT war the crews of these Enarmsd
vessels, she has repa,ed as enemies who
soever belossed to tie enc my;s state; and
she has also taken az prisoners OF war,
commercial factors and merchants. who
were sailing in furtlleranee ~ their CON
mereial business. :
| Busil wss not sufficient for her purposes
,hos 70 insade private property, and TO de-
| spoil aad oppress innecsnt and psaceable,
lndiv duals. Having been, FOR . long
| sime, behind the aa,ians Of the conticen;
who preceded her in the prpgre.s of civili
| cation, and having received iron theal all
its benefits, she has conceived the foolish
| PROBES, Of alone enjoying thsaa. Che has
| formed the wish tina, there >ghSs.d be on
| tho faee clthc earth DC otkey :ndusssy than
her own no other commerce than thar car
ricd on by hersels. She has felt that, in
order to saeceed i, with not be suheieus
| merely 10 interrupt. BIZ, that sar raust TO
tally destroy the communications subsiss
| ing between nations. Ii is ia this viSw.
that under the celor Of the righ. Of biloxi
adc. she has Invented and put igto practice
!, the mos, monstrcus theory {
+ According TO ccelmcn sense. aul~ the
ussges of all civilized nations, the right
| of blockade is. only applicable 60 fortified
| places, K
t England has undertaken to eEscnd it &C
seats of commerce no, fortified, to harbers
and The mouths Of rivers. A place is
biocssdsd only whsG it 1850 Invested tha,
we csnrot attempt to approsch<it-withor:
exposing ourselves TO imminen; Danger.
England has declared places aloesaded be
/ fnre ,uh;ch abe has nnt a sinnlA sh1n. &C