de Vattel: Of the Ambassador's House and Domestics

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* NOW - Buy this resource online! Click here * Of the Ambassador's House and Domestics§ 117. The ambassador's house.§ 118. Right of asylum. § 119. Exemption of an ambassador's carriages§ 120. of his retinue.§ 121. of his wife and family§ 122. of the secretary of the embassy.§ 123. of the ambassador's couriers and despatches.§ 124. The ambassador's authority over his retinue.§ 125. When the rights of an ambassador expire.§ 126. Cases when new credentials are necessary.§ 127. Conclusion.
   1. Memoirs of the Abbé De Montgon, vol. 1.
   2. See Wicquefort's Ambassador, book i, § 28, towards the end.
   3. Wicquefort, book i. § 27.
   4. It is his duty to watch over their conduct, and to exert his authority in order to prevent them from transgressing the bounds of their station, and committing actions which may give just offence to the sovereign at whose court he resides, — an event which may sometimes be productive of very serious and disagreeable consequences. The French court having sent the count De Harcourt to England to mediate an accommodation between Charles I. and his parliament, several gentlemen of that minister's suite repaired to the royal army, and fought against the parliamentarians; on which account the parliament immediately declined all further negotiation with the count De Harcourt. Duport's Hist. of Conspir. vol. iv. p. 261. Edit. A.D. 1729.
   5. Sully's Memoirs, vol. vi. chap i.
   6. "It was at that time," says Joinville," an established custom, as well in pagan as in Christian countries, that, when two princes were at war, if one of them happened to die, the ambassadors whom they had mutually sent to each other remained prisoners and slaves." — p. 72, edit. A.D. 1797.