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   1. Cic. de Off. 1, 11, and 23. Grotius, b. l. ch. 1. Burlamaqui, part 4. c. 1. sec. 4. Vattel, b. 4. c. 1.
   2. Bacon's Works, vol. 3. p. 40.
   3. Leviathan, part l, c. 13.
   4. Grotius, b. 2. c. 1. and 22. Rutherforth, b. 2. c. 9. Vattel, b. 3. c. 3. sec. 26.
   5. Grotius, b.2. c. 22-25. Rutherforth, b. 2. e. 9.
   6. B. 2 ch. 25
   7. Vattel, b. 2. c. 12. sec. 168,— b. 3. c. 6. c. sec. 86, 87.
   8. Feud. lib. 2. tit. 28. sec. 1.
   9. Vattel, b. 3. c. c. 6. sec. 93.
   10. Vattel, b. 3. c. 6. sec. 79.
   11. A war may be defensive in its principles, though offensive in its operation, as where attack is the best mode to repel a Menaced invasion, and the casus foederis of a defensive alliance will apply. Vattel, b. 3. c. 6. sect. 91, 100. Edin, Review, No. 89, p. 244, 5.
   12. See Pacificus, written in 1793, by Mr. Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, and see the Instructions from the Secretary of State to the American Ministers to France, July 15th, 1797.
   13. Tacit. de M. G. c. 11.
   14. Millar's View of the English Government, b. 1. c. 7.
   15. Puff. b. 8. c. 6. sec. 10. Vattel, b. 3. c. 1. sec. 4.
   16. Art. 48.
   17. Potter's Antiquities of Greece, b. 3. c. 7. Livy, b. 1. c. 22. Cic. de Off. b. 1. c 11.
   18. Dig. 49. 15. 24.
   19. 1 Emerigon, Traite des Ass. p. 561.
   20. B. 1. c. 3. sec. 4.
   21. B. 8. c. 6. sec. 9.
   22. Traite des Ass. tom. 1. p. 563.
   23. B. 3. c. 4. sec. 51.
   24. Quaest. J. Pub. b. 1. c. 2.
   25. Sir Wm. Scott, 1 Dodson's Adm. Rep. 247.
   26. B. 3. c. 4. sec. 64.
   27. Grotius, b. 3. c. 3. sec. 9. — c. 4. sec. 8. Burlamaqui, part 4. c. 4. sec. 20. Vattel, b. 3. c. 5.4ec. 70.
   28. Grotius, b 3. c. 9. sec 4. — c. 21. sec. 9. Bynk. Quaest. Pub. J. c. 2. and 7. Martens, b. 8. c. 2. sec. 5.
   29. A liberal provision of this kind is inserted in the recent treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and the republic of Colombia, which was ratified at Washington, May 27, 1825.
   30. Tom. 1. p. 567.
   31. Vattel, b. 3. c. 4. sec. 63. Azuni, part 2. c. 4. art. 2. sec. 7. Le Droit Public de L'Europe, par Mably, (œuvres, tom. 6. p. 334.
   32. Vattel, b. 3. c. 4. 63.
   33. Discourse of High Treason, p. 185, 186.
   34. Ch. 30.
   35. Esprit des Loix, 20. 14,
   36. 1 Hale's P. C. 93.
   37. Henault's Abreg. Chron. tom. 1. 338.
   38. Bro. tit. Property. pl. 38. Jenk. Cent. 201, case 22.
   39. Brown v. The United States, 2 Cranch, 110. See also Ibid, 228, 229.
   40. 1 Gallison, 563
   41. 5 Rob. 233.
   42. Vattel, b. 2. c. 18. sec. 342, 344. Martens, 269.
   43. Mitf. Hist. of Greece, vol 5. 402-4.
   44. Doug. 613.
   45. 8 Cranch, 155.
   46. Bell v. Potts. 8 Term, 543. The Ocean, 5 Rob. Rep. 90. The Juffrow Catharina, Ib. 141.
   47. Grotius, b. 1. ch. 1. sec. 6. — b. 3. ch. 8. sec. 4. Puff lib. a. ch. 6, 19, 20. Bynk. lib. 1. ch. 7.
   48. Dig. 41. 1. and 49. 15.
   49. Lib. 3. c. 26.
   50. Vattel, b. 3. c. 5. sec. 77.
   51. Des Ass. tom. 1. 567.
   52. B. 8. c. 2. sec. 5.
   53. Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations.
   54. 8 Cranch, 110.
   55. 3 Dallas, 199.
   56. 1 Rob. Rep. 42.
   57. 1 Chitty on Commercial Law, 373.
   58. 3 Rob. 22. 4 Rob. 8, 79. 6 Rob. 127
   59. 15 Johnson's Rep. 57. 16 Johnson, 438. S. C.
   60. Case of the Bella Guidita, in 1785, cited in the case of the Hoop, 1 Rob. Rep. 174.
   61. The Venus, 4 Rob. 355. The Carolina, 6 Rob. 336.
   62. The Nayade, 4 Rob. 251. The Neptunus, 6 Rob. 403.
   63. 9 Cranch, 198.