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5713. NAVIGATION, Freedom of.—

I
think, whatever sums we are obliged to pay
for freedom of navigation in the European
seas, should be levied on the European commerce
with us by a separate impost, that these
powers may see that they protect these
enormities [Barbary piracies] for their own
loss.—
To General Greene. Washington ed. i, 509.
(P. 1786)