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5830. NEUTRALITY, Carrying trade and.—[continued].

A stoppage by some of
the belligerent powers of one of our vessels
going with grain to an unblockaded port, would
be so unequivocal an infringement of the neutral
rights, that we cannot conceive it will be
attempted.—
To Thomas Pinckney. Washington ed. iii, 551. Ford ed., vi, 243.
(Pa., May. 1793)