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5878. NEUTRALITY, Rights.—[further continued] .

The license to four
British vessels to sail to Lima proves that belligerents
may, either by compact or force, conduct
themselves towards one another as they please;
but not that a neutral may, unless by some express
permission of the belligerent.—
To Albert Gallatin. Ford ed., viii, 466.
(M. Aug. 1806)