1751. CONSULS, Punished.—
One of
Genet's consuls [104]
has committed a pretty
serious deed at Boston, by going with an
armed force taken from a French frigate in
the harbor, and rescuing a vessel out of the
hands of the marshal who had arrested her by
process from a court of justice; in another
instance, he kept off the marshal by an armed
force from serving a process on a vessel.
He is ordered, consequently, to be arrested
himself, prosecuted and punished for the rescue,
and his exequatur will be revoked.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 52.
Ford ed., vi, 401.
(Pa.,
Sep. 1793)
