§ —" Because the forcible detention or interruption of the subjects of a belligerent state, upon the high seas, or within the legitimate jurisdiction of either of the belligerents, by a neutral, constitutes a direct breach of neutrality, and is an obvious violation of the law of nations. And such an act of aggression, illegal and unjust at all times against a people with whom the interfering power is not actually at war, assumed in this instance a yet more odious and ungenerous aspect, inasmuch as it was exercised against the unarmed subjects of a defenceless and friendly Sovereign, whose elevation and right to the Crown of Portugal had been earnestly recommended and openly recognized by his Majesty, and whose actual residence in Great Britain bespeaking confidence in the friendship and protection of the King, entitled both her and her subjects to especial favour and countenance, even if considerations of 781 policy precluded his Majesty's Government from enforcing her just pretensions by arms."
| VASSALL HOLLAND. | COWPER. |
| SOMERHILL. | MELBOURNE. |
| CARLISLE. | SEAFORD. |
| GRANVILLE. | KING. |
| WM. FREDERICK. | CALTHORPE. |
| RADNOR. | CARNARVON. |