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5879. NEUTRALITY, Rights.—[further continued].

It is all important that
we should stand in terms of the strictest cordiality
with France. In fact, we are to depend
on her and Russia for the establishment of
neutral rights by the treaty of peace, among
which should be that of taking no persons by a
belligerent out of a neutral ship, unless they
be the soldiers of an enemy.—
To James Bowdoin. Washington ed. v, 64. Ford ed., ix, 40.
(W. April. 1807)