de Vattel: Of the Several Orders of Public Ministers of the Representative Character and of the Honor Due to Ministers

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)Emmerich de Vattel

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Of the Several Orders of Public Ministers — of the Representative Character — and of the Honor Due to Ministers§ 69. Origin of the several orders of public ministers.§ 70. Representative character.§ 71. Ambassadors.§ 72. Envoys.§ 73. Residents.§ 74. Ministers.§ 75. Consuls, agents, deputies. commissioners, etc.§ 76. Credentials.§ 77. Instructions.§ 78. Right of sending ambassadors.
1. In Wicquefort, may be seen a particular account of the whole transaction. That writer is justifiable in expressing a degree of indignation against the Swiss ambassadors; but he ought not to have insulted the whole nation by coarsely asserting that "they prefer money to honor." Ambassador, book i. § 19. See also 18.