Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-05-06

trade, both ID respect 20 the cargoe: and
the intermediate ports to which she was &C
trade previously to her return to Prov
dence, or some other port 10 America
where her voyage was 10 end.
|. For the captors, il was contended thai
she was trading between enemies cslonies
and therefore acting 10. direct violation Of
the letter aud spiriso his majesty Is iastrsc
tons Of Jaoe, 1908, which command the
commanders Of ships of war aud psiya
seers not 70 seize coy neutral vessels which
should be carrying on trade directly be
tween the colonies of the enemy and the
neutral country 20 which the vesse. be.
longs. For the claimants il was insisted
thar neither Manila nor the Isle of France
were enc mics colonies of such a nature as to
reader the trading thereto by neural in
time OF war illegal /; inasmuch as the trade
to those Foreigners was open to foreigners
IN time OF peace. The court on former
day had directed Commissions to be sen, to
Bengal ADD Madras, to ascertain whether
the ports OF Batavia aud Manila, were
during the peace open 10 all or to any TO.
reignrrs from the ports ofindia, Europe.
or America; aud If open whether under
any and what restrictions and also 20 co,
qairs into the STATE of those ports 10 thsse
respects before the war which broke ous
between Q. Britain and Spain 10 1896.
These commissions being i1 par; re.uro.
Ell, and i, appearing that ports were ope n
80 all foreigners during the lass peace VIII,
out aoy restrictions, except as to opium
snd specie. ar the pors of Batavia, sir T as
Mac io,oshi pronounced judgment of re.
ss'iutieu. The capiors he said were ful!y
Justified 10 ee,aining this vessel, because
10 50 daug they were scsiog 10 obedience
to the letter OF the Instructions of Tune,
1903. Batavia and Manila were certainly
co'onles OF The eueEay, and this vessel was
cetts'nly mot sradiog directly between A
mertca and such colonies. Butshough the
oihcsrss his msi-sty's service were Bound
10 Obey these instructions, he did no, COO.
s'aer himself sitting as a jOdge Of prize,
10 court whose decisions were 20 b.. r.
guisred by the Law uf nations, as bound aud
concluded by hem. He believed, Indeed,
taas ne wss The first aad oaly Judge, who
hau yentuEed 10 pyooouoce sech a 1c,rioe.
10 every prize court. 10 every country, by
all writer's Oh the subject, ADD ali adu,iu;s.
traitors Of The law, the INSTRUCTIONS Of ice
sovereign were REGARDED as law to The
Judge; but he considered the law Of ma.
uons as paramount to such Instructions ;
aud toe kloa as having RICH, TO dispsnce
with spch law, GOT nbt right 10 exseni il.
As far, therefore, as any CT his naies.y S
Instructions We're arelaSation OF the law OF na-
tons M favor ofneutrais, be should consider
himself boond'by them; but if he saw in. such
instructions, any attempt to extend the law
to the prejudice OF neutrais, he should not o.
beg thena, but under any and what RESTRICT.
ons (; and also to enquire into the state oc those
ports, III these respects, before the war which
breke out between Great Britain and Spain in
1896
In the present case alter great deiiberation
and minute enquiry, he felt himself bound to
say, that. neither Batavia nor Manila, were
such colonies as to render any trading there.
70. by neutral nations, in time Of war, ille-
gal.
It is rot their being called colonies that
will render such trading unlawful, notwith-
standing the letter OF the instructions OF 1908
Something farther is necessary, and that is,
that the trade to aad with these colonies was
prohibited in such neutrals in lime of peace,
D." The printers Of newspapers through
out the United States arc requested topublish
the above statement for general information.
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Fromthe .N.47TON.lL LVTELLIGEACE GER.
TO THE PUBLIC.
II has been with extreme unwillingness
thas | have yielded 60 the unpleasant neoes-