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6027. OCEAN, Claimed by England.—[further continued] .

The intention which the
British now formally avow of taking possession
of the ocean as their exclusive domain,
and of suffering no commerce on it but
through their ports, makes it the interest of
all mankind to contribute their efforts to
bring such usurpations to an end.—
To Clement Caine. Washington ed. vi, 14. Ford ed., ix, 330.
(M. Sep. 1811)