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1835 FRENCH SPOLIATIONS PRIOR TO 1800 STATEMENT OF MR. CAMBRELENG:
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23d CONGRESS, 2d Session.
[Rep. No. 121.]
HO. OF REPS.
FRENCH SPOLIATIONS PRIOR TO 1800.
FEBRUARY 21, 1835.
Printed by order of the House of Representatives.
No. 1.
STATEMENT OF MR. CAMBRELENG, On French Spoliations.
FRENCH SPOLIATIONS PRIOR TO 1800.
Statements submitted in the Committee of Foreign Affairs, relative to the bill making provision for the satisfaction of claims for French spo- liations prior to 1800.
[Note. Owing to the late period at which this subject was presented to the committee, a majority of the committee declined adopting either of the following statements as the report of the committee. They directed their chairman to submit a motion that the bill be laid on the table, and authorized a resolution that the two following statements should be printed, which was ordered accordingly.]
The claims in question are represented to be for spoliations committed by the public and private armed vessels of France on the commerce of the United States, prior to the date of the treaty between the two nations of the 30th of September, 1800. It is alleged, that by expunging the second article of that treaty, and subsequently renouncing our pretensions to in- demnity for these spoliations, we have deprived our citizens of their right to prosecute their claims on France, released that nation from her obli- gations, and thereby made the United States responsible for them. It is also alleged, that the claims were sacrificed to obtain from France the renunciation of ancient and embarrassing national stipulations, and that the claimants have thereby become entitled to indemnity for private property taken for public use.
Without conceding that an unoffending and aggrieved nation can be made responsible for the outrages committed by another power, by any provisions inserted in a treaty, in violation of instructions, or by any stipulation, short of a positive character assuming the obligation to in-
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