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... courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets ; whilst arguments are employed, in support of these aggressions,...

The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany - Page 630
1812
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Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812

Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812 - 1812 - 788 pages

...employed iu upport of these aggressions, which have 10 foundation but in a principle equally upporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. We lehold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the...

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