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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
t places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested; and neither of the contracting powers, shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels, empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels or interrupt such commerce." This stipulation was not renewed in the treaty of 1797. The treaty of the United States with the Netherlands in 1782, France in 1788, England in 1795. Peru 1799, Prussia 1795, and Spain 1795, contain provisions prohibiting the subjects of either power from taking letters of marque against the other from any power with which it is at war, under the penalty of being treated, if taken, as pirates. But notwithstanding these stipulations, the practice of the Government has always been to employ the services of privateers in the prosecution of its wars; and many of its most brilliant achievements in arms, more especially d