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    * &p ?*| Fe in carryitijg slaves from $ fee coast of-Africa to a Spanish colony . , We think that th » was evidently -the original plan and purfHwe of the voyage , notwith * standing the pretence set up to Veil the trw intention * The claim . fe ©

    ^^ e r , 5 iiirh ^ is an Ameri - pan , earn plains op # tfce capture , ^ ind detnands from us the restitu - tion of p roperty , of ^ hich he al . feges that he has been unjustly fdisposscssed . in ? al ^ 4 be jfbrmer

    £ § 4 $ HiQfi < : * hn hmdy ^ vbicfc have co ^ ste before this court , the SlaveiradjevvaH liable to c (> Ji ^ iderations f giyi (^ i ^| ie 0 { ^ ^^ tli ^ se which fe ^ ft ^ gi fP lUciwwr-. ' It hsid ^ atflbEt

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    llraievbasisiiicferbeen Ktall j ^^ -b ^ C isbedi by ^^ i ^^ bu ^ it ^ ^ in ^ rout legkiat ^ e has pro ninitieed it to b ^ contrary to the ! { n ^ aqipl ^ s of jus . tii& ^ n&fatim&nitjr ^ Whatever we

    Hiigttt ^ bink as iii diviauals tfc fore , we ; ocjuld not ^ sitti ng as judges iira British court of j ustice , regard the trade in that light , while our own laws permitted it . But wt

    can now- assert that this trade cannut , abstrac tedly speaki ng , have a legitfma . ^ 5 , existence .- —When I say abstractedly speaking , I mean that this * tountfy has no right to

    controul any to- < elgn legislature that may think fir id dissent front this doctHne ^ i and tx > permi t to m own subjects thd prbsecation df this trade t but m $ teve iiow a

    right to affirm thfet fmiwtFfacie the trade is illegal , and thus to throw on claimants the burden of proof thmty ^ K Tesp ^ ct o £ the m , ty the authority < tf their t > wn laws , it is otteei ^ wise- Ak the Case now

    stands \ Pe thitifc ^ wb ^ te entitled to say , that a claimant can have no right , upon principles of unive rsal law ^ itf > c lai m the n&stittitiotl in a Prize Court , © f hoihart beings carried && his ^ 6 lawi « t Me mast

    shew some tig n £ tteat ^ < beea violated by the capttifib , sbme pf& petty |> f nvfeich he ^ ha ^ been dispos e sessed , and to which he ought to be restored * ^ ri tfci s case , tlte Jaws of the claimani ' b' country allow of no right of property such as he claims . ^ Fhererc ^ ^ bereior ^ kf&m& right to < restitud ^ w * ' * Tfte consequence i * ± hfihat-i the jtidgi meJU must b ^ iaffirnfiftdi ^ "

    It is satisfactory to us ta leaw from the ilepott th » t ttoe Di ^ - tors have rbasort to believe tbi « judgment , was in perfect confoti inity With the opinion ( rf the hig ^ « t t ^ al authonttei ' m tlM 3 p «(» 4

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/36/