[344] Moniteur, An vii. p. 564; Cornet's speech.
[345] Annals of Congress, 1798, p. 3733.
[346] Ibid., p. 3754.
[347] Ibid.
[348] Speech of February 2, 1801.
[349] Speech of March 25, 1801.
[350] Annual Register, 1801; State Papers, p. 212.
[351] Ibid., p. 217.
[352] The principle of the Rule of 1756, it will be remembered, was that the neutral had no right to carry on, for a belligerent, a trade from which the latter excluded him in peace.
[353] By a report submitted to the National Convention, July 3, 1793, it appears that in the years 1787-1789 two tenths only of French commerce was done in French bottoms. In 1792, the last of maritime peace, three tenths was carried by French ships. (Moniteur, 1793, p. 804.)