[9] House Reports, 40th Cong. 2d Sess., No. 64, p. 5.
[10] Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. 1.
[11] Letter of Treasurer Spinner to Senator Wilson, February 16, 1872: Congressional Globe, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1072.
[12] Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 128.
[13] A Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties of Belligerent and Neutral Powers, in Maritime Affairs, by Robert Ward, Esq., Barrister at Law, (London, 1801,) p. 166.
[14] Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. III. p. 282.
[15] Ibid., p. 427.
[16] Phases et Causes Célèbres. Tom. II. p. 407.
[17] Speech on the Report of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, April 16, 1823: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, N. S., Vol. VIII. col. 1056.
[18] Occasional Productions, pp. 176, 177. See the letter to William H. Trescott upon Public and Diplomatic Subjects.