The Life and Times of Stephen Girard Mariner and Merchant |
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Page 303 - Republic consents to accept, ratify, and confirm the above convention with the addition importing that the convention shall be in force for the space of eight years and with the retrenchment of the second article: Provided, That by this retrenchment the two States renounce the respective pretensions which are the object of the said article.
Page 323 - The debts provided for by the preceding article are those whose result is comprised in the conjectural note annexed to the present convention, and which, with the interest, cannot exceed the sum of twenty millions of francs.
Page 149 - November, 1793, we signified that they should stop and detain all ships laden with goods the produce of any colony belonging to France, or carrying provisions or other supplies for the use of any such colony...
Page 299 - February, 1778, the treaty of amity and commerce of the same date, and the convention of 14th of November, 1788, nor upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed, the parties will negotiate further on these subjects at a convenient time...
Page 161 - ... treatment should be accorded the ships of that power built in ports not her own. If a nation shut out articles made or grown in the United States because they did not come in our ships, or refused them a landing because they were carried in our vessels, the restrictions were to be made reciprocal. The first of Madison's resolutions passed the House; the others never came to a vote. They seemed too mild, and the day the embargo act was passed Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey moved another set. He...
Page 96 - May, 1791, passed another decree ordering "that the people of color resident in the French Colonies born of free parents, were entitled to, as of right, and should be allowed the enjoyment of, all the privileges of French citizens, and among them that of having votes in the choice of representatives, and of being eligible to seats both in the parochial and colonial assemblies.
Page 149 - That they shall bring in for lawful adjudication all vessels, with their cargoes, that are laden with goods, the produce of any island or settlement belonging to France, Spain, or the United Provinces, and coming directly from any port of the said islands or settlements to any port in Europe...
Page 147 - If any nation whatever has a right to shut up, to our produce, all the ports of the earth, except her own, and those of her friends, she may shut up these also, and so confine us within our own limits. No nation can subscribe to such pretensions ; no nation can agree, at the mere will or interest of another, to have its peaceable industry suspended, and its citizens reduced to idleness and want.
Page 323 - There is in my statement No. 2," he wrote, "two items respecting my brig Polly and cargo, Capt. John Congdon, and the brig Sally, Capt. John Cochran, the latter is in joint account between that Captain and me. Both vessels and cargoes were captured by the British and returned under the Treaty of amity and commerce and navigation between the United States of America and Great Britain. By Messrs. George Barclay & Co., letter dated 2ist July last they had received from the Government on account of the...
Page 165 - ... losses sustained from vexatious spoliations committed by any power whatever;" a third, that "additional imposts on the vessels, goods, wares and merchandise of any nation so offending, imported into the United States," would make a proper fund to reimburse such losses. Before adjourning to the 18th, it was resolved, "that the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Chairman, not only for his perfect services, but for and in grateful remembrance of his dangerous and meritorious services rendered...