5832. NEUTRALITY, Carrying trade and.—[further continued] .
To former violations of
maritime rights, another is now added of very
extensive effect. The government of that nation
[Great Britain] has issued an order interdicting
all trade by neutrals between ports not in amity
with them; and being now at war with nearly
every nation on the Atlantic and Mediterranean
seas, our vessels are required to sacrifice their
cargoes at the first port they touch, or to return
home without the benefit of going to any other
market. Under this new law of the ocean, our
trade on the Mediterranean has been swept away
by seizures and condemnations, and that in
other seas is threatened with the same fate.—
Seventh Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 84.
Ford ed., ix, 156.
(1807)
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