And, à fortiori, in his favor, where the calamity was produced by the act of the demandant.
That, moreover, the laws of the party creditor had cut off the personal access of his debtor,
And the transportation of his produce or money to the country of the creditor, or to any other for him:
And where the creditor prevents payment both of principal and interest, the latter, at least, is justly extinguished.
That the departure of the creditor, leaving no agent in the country of the debtor, would have stopped interest of itself,
The debtor not being obliged to go out of the country to seek him.
That the British minister was heretofore sensible of the weight of the objections to the claim of interest:
That the declarations of Congress and our plenipotentiaries, previous to the definitive treaty, and the silence of that instrument, afford proof that interest was not intended on our part, nor insisted on, on the other:
That, were we to admit interest on money, to equal favor with profits on land, arrears of profits would not be demandable in the present case, nor consequently arrears of interest:
And, on the whole, without undertaking to say what the law is, which is not the province of the Executive,