...investing fleet, there can be no effective blockade, which, in my opinion, cannot be said to exist without a competent force stationed, and present, at or near the entrance of the blockaded port." Extract of a Letter from Mr. King to Lord Grenville, dated Downing-street, London,...

...investing fleet there can be no effective blockade, which, in my opinion, cannot be said to exist without a competent force stationed and present at or near the entrance of the blockaded port." Extract of a Letter from Mr. King to Lord Gremille, Downing Street, London, May 23,...

...vesting fleet, there can be no effective blockade, which, in my opinion, cannot be said to exist without a competent force stationed, and present, at or near the entrance of the blockaded port. Extract of a Letter from Mr. King to LordGrenville, dated Doicning-strtet, London,...

...enough to the port to make the entry apparently dangerous. The government of the United States have uniformly insisted, that the blockade should be effective...confiscation to ineffectual or fictitious blockades. b The occasional absence of the blockading squadron, produced by accident, as in the case of a storm,...

...enough to the port to make the entry apparently dangerous. The government of the United States have uniformly insisted, that the blockade should be effective...stationed and present, at or near the entrance of the port ; 1 Kent, Com. 145, and the authorities by him cited; and see 1 Rob. R. 80; 4 Rob. R. 66; 1 Acton's...

...strict and actual siege or blockade. The government of the United States have uniformly insisted, that a blockade should be effective by the presence of a competent force stationed at or near the entrance of the port; and they have protested with great energy against the application...

...actually a number of vessels stationed near enough to the port to make the entry apparently dangerous. The government of the United States has uniformly...seizure and confiscation to ineffectual or fictitious blockades.a The occasional absence of the blockading squadron, produced by accident, as in the case...

...squadron ; and there is no proof there ever was a blockading squadron, or " competent force [or any force] stationed and present at or near the entrance of the port" — the Castle. And according to the law as laid down by Chancellor Kent, in which all sound authorities...

...actually a number of vessels stationed near enough to the port to make the entry apparently dangerous. The government of the United States has uniformly...confiscation to ineffectual or fictitious blockades.* The occasional absence of the blockading squadron, produced by accident, as in the case of a storm,...

...investing fleet, there can be no effective blockade, which, in my opinion, carmot be said to exist without a competent force, stationed and present at or near the entrance of the blockaded port.'' Extract of a letter from Mr. King to Lord Grenrillt, dated LOXDOK, May 28, 1799....