...suppress the slavetrade. By Article 8 of what is known as the Ashburton Treaty we became in honor bound to "maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...what construction they pat upon the words of the eighth article of the treaty ? It runs thus: — " The parties mutually stipulate, that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...Britain, made at ¿Vaahimmgton ott time 9th of August, 1$42, commonly known as the Asimburton treaty, “the parties mutually stipulate that each shall...maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient amid adequate squadron, or naval force, of vessels of suitable nummmbers and descriptions, to carry,...

...almost a dead letter. No. EL — Page 145. Treaty of Washington. — [Extract.'] ARTICLE VIII. — The parties mutually stipulate, that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...the nations of the earth. No. II. —Page 145. Treaty of Washington. — [Extract.] ARTICLE VIII. — The parties mutually stipulate, that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...name, shall be equally free and open to the ships, vessels, and boats of both parties. ARTICLE VIII. The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...name, shall be equally free and open to the ships, vessels, and boats of both Parties. ARTICLE VIII. 0 The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...name, shall be equally free and open to the ships, vessels, and boats of both Parties. ARTICLE VIII." The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare,...numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of...

...name, shall be equally free and open to the ships, vessels, and boats of both Parties. ARTICLE VIII. 0 The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare,...equip, and maintain in service on the coast of Africa a snflicient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numt>ers and descriptions,...

...the controversy. It provided that each country should maintain a naval force on the coast of Africa " to enforce separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of the two countries for the suppression of the slave trade." l But in 1858 the question cropped up again...