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veflels, merchandize, or otlier property whatever," as fpeci- 

 fied with regard to the injuries Ipoken of under the fecond 

 article ? No fuch thing — No vefTels, no merchandize, no 

 moveable property whatioever — nothing but " buildings and 

 tra<5ls of land," bare ground, and emptied walls. The vejel 

 and cargo^ which were the original fubjedt of complaint, are 

 left in the hands of thofe, wliofe violence gave birth to it. 



Oh ! but, fays fomebody, you forget there ivas a former Con- 

 vention ; and that r^vhatever fathfaSimi for this affair is >i"t 

 fpecified in the prefent, -ojill be found provided i}i that former one. 

 — Not fo neither. Of the bufinels done in this concluding 

 convention, the firfl part is, the turning every thing that 

 preceded it into walle paper. In this ^'- foUd agreement ^^ 

 (fays the preamble) the differences that have arifen are de- 

 clared to be terminated.'' By this, all retrofpedive difcuf- 

 fion of rights and pretenfions are expref-?Iy declared to be 

 " Jet afide.''' After a waver fo full and explicit, had it been 

 agreed to keep alive the benefit of the fcjrmer ftipulation, is 

 it conceivable that a faving claufe for that purpofe would 

 not have been inferted ? — One part of what is due to us, 

 given up in exchange for another part — moveable for terri- 

 torial — what colt thoufands of pounds, for what is not worth 

 a ftraw — Sui h are the terms, which, in the language of nii- 

 nifterial exultation, 1 have heard called our o--u.'n — as if prow- 

 cfs had extorted them from us, at the expence of juitice. 



One principle is uniformly obferved — that in all cafes of 

 dlfpofleflion, the fatisfaciion is to be a nominal and not a 

 real one — that it is to afford ruin to the objedls, triumph to 

 the authors of the injury. If there were any difficulty in 

 the conflrudion of this releafing claufe, analogy would dear 

 it up. fiave you ftill a doubt as to this point, with regard 

 to the fird of thefe heads of injury ? — turn, then, to the 

 next. — ^\Vhat fays the fecond article ? — " Rejiitution" of 

 propern', together ivith " compenfation'^ for the damage re- 

 ftored or not reflored, and for the fufpenfion, perhaps the 

 deflruction of the trade ? — Neither the one nor the other, 

 determinately — much lefs both : But either the one, " or" 

 the other, as fomebody fliall pleafe. — Who is to be that fome- 

 body?. — "Which of the two powers is to determine wliat this 

 " terminating'" convention leaves exprelly undetermined ? 

 This we are to learn, from future negocintions and future 



