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lister, without the consent of his master.
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bly, may. provided it be done with his master q
consent. ut without sush consent the ambassador
has 10 right to wave privileges in which The digni-
ty x service of his soyeegn are concerned which
are founded on the maser's rights and made for his
advantage, and not for that Of the minister"
Has Mr.. Randolph carried the juris-
diction of the United States with him in
to England; and does that jurisdiction
now surround him as it does each one of
us, and exclude from his person, his ef-
iects, and his house, all English juris-
diction? The case of the Russian Am
bassador in England is in point 1t hap
pened in the time of Queen Anne, 1907.
The Russian Ambassador at her Court
was arrested in the street for debt, taken
out of his coach, and carried by the tip
staff to a common spunging house, and
detained there until he was bailed by the
Earl of Feversham. BY the laws of Eng
land, these proceedings against the Am
bassador were void, but no adequate pun
shmen had beenby law provided for such
offenders. Ward tells US on this subject
299-3OO-3Ol, that on this occasion the
statute Ann, C. IL, was enacted:
"The preamble, however, having merely OBJ
served, that the Muscovite Ambassador had been
taken out Of his coach by violence, in contempt of
the protection granted by her Majesty, without
taxing notice of the breach Of the Law Of Nations,
which is superior and aniecedsnt to all municipal
laws; the foreign ministers in London met again
together, and procured the addition Of these ds,
e ontrary 10 the law Of nations and in prejudice
of the rights and privileges which Ambassd dols,
aud other pubic Ministers, authorized and eceiy-
ed rs such, have at all times been thereby posses
sed Of, and which ought to be kept sacred and in
,iolable " th this act Of Parliament elegantly
engrossed and an apology for not being able TO
punish the persons OF those who had atironted his
Minister the L1aI, VINO had first insisted upon their
deaths, was AT length induced to be content; and
thus ended this delicate affair"
| Should MIR. Randolph, like the Rus
! sian Minister at the Court ofQueen Anne
be arrested for debt, and carried to a
spunging house for lack Of bail, could he
claim protection as an Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary o.
1 the United States? Sir, that statute was
provided for those "MINIsTERs WHO WERE
AUTHORIZED AND RECEIVED AS sUCH,'
not in other countries, but IN England
This gentleman can take no prote ctior
under it. He has abandoned the juris-
diction of the United States for that OF
| Eng gland, the high immunities and labors
of a public minister, for the comforts and
retirement of a private gentleman, i'll
some farmhouse, or inconsiderable inn
in the county Of Suffolk. The Ameri-
can arms and ensign he has either never
placed over the door, or he has ordered
them pulled down, and thrown into the
garret. Who can point out the place to
). the American citizen where the Ameri-
can Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipote ntiary, non resident at Russia,
may now be foundi-Will gentlemen
further cotnend, that by some new fiction
| of diplomatic law he is still our Minister
! and that we are bound, in behalf of the
nation, to make this appropriation for his
| salary
H There is another view of this part of
| the question, which truth and Justice d
not permit me to pass by III silence
Let the admission be made, for the rur-
pose of the argument, that such minis
ter may, by the laws of nations, be ac-
credited and received by foreign pow
er. so, he must have been nominated
and appointed as minister Of that char
acter. Any sovereign State may send
abroad, and have received, several diff
ferent kinds of public ministers. The
first in rank is the Ambassador. lie Il
not only mandatory, as all others are
but he is also the Representative of the
sovereignty which sends him; and IN the
presence of the sovereign receiving, he
stands, as one king does in the presence
of another, without uncovering his head
The Envoy is another grade of ministers
and is charged with the doing of some
particular acts, which, when he has fin
ished, he returns home. Resident Min,
listers are in rank below ENJOYS, and are
charged with such relations of their Gov
ernments where they reside, as require
the constant attention Of some mandatory
or agent for their care and supervision
The Envoy Extraordinary and Min'ster
Plenir ote ntiary is high mandatory, EN-
powered to do whatever may be done by
apy other minister, except the representa-
tion of the Sovereignty which has sent him
abroad. He is inferior in rank to none
but the Ambassador. Commissioners are
sent out on special agencies, and are re-
ceiyed and accredited as ministers OF an
inferior grade. The Charge dAiiares
is accredited as such; and takes the du-
lies though not the rank of Residen nj Min
istcr.
/. If Sir, in addition to all these, For.
eirn Courts could accredii and rece'ce nor
resident Ministers, or such as might re-
side. either al such Courts, or icberere'
else they might choose, and continue tC
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