Page 172. ’Les Americains levant apres une banqueroute, &c.  The objections made to the United States being here condensed together in a short compass, perhaps it would not be improper to condense the answers in as small a compass in some such form as follows.  That is, after the words ‘aucun espoir,’ add, ’But to these charges it may be justly answered, that those are no bankrupts who acknowledge the sacredness of their debts in their just and real amount, who are able within a reasonable time to pay them, and who are actually proceeding in that payment; that they furnish, in fact, the supplies necessary for the support of their government; that their officers and soldiers are satisfied, as the interest of their debt is paid regularly, and the principal is in a course of payment; that the question, whether they fought ill should be asked of those who met them at Bunker’s Hill, Bennington, Stillwater, King’s Mountain, the Cowpens, Guilford, and the Eutaw.  And that the charges of ingratitude, madness, infidelity, and corruption, are easily made by those to whom falsehoods cost nothing; but that no instances in support of them have been produced or can be produced.’

Page 182. ‘Les officiers et les soldats ont ete payes,’ &c.  The balances due to the officers and soldiers have been ascertained, and a certificate of the sum given to each; on these the interest is regularly paid; and every occasion is seized of paying the principal by receiving these certificates as money whenever public property is sold, till a more regular and effectual method can be taken for paying the whole.

Page 191. ’Quoique la loi dont nous parlons, ne s’observe plus en Angleterre.’  ’An alien born may purchase lands or other estates, but not for his own use; for the King is thereupon entitled to them.’  ’Yet an alien may acquire a property in goods, money, and other personal estate, or may hire a house for his habitation.  For this is necessary for the advancement of trade.’  ’Also, an alien may bring an action concerning personal property, and may make a will and dispose of his personal estate.’  When I mention these rights of an alien, I must be understood of alien friends only, or such whose countries are in peace with ours; for alien enemies have no rights, no privileges, unless by the King’s special favor during the time of war.’Blackstone, B.1. c.10. page 372.  ’An alien friend may have personal actions, but not real; an alien enemy shall have neither real, personal, nor mixed actions.  The reason why an alien friend is allowed to maintain a personal action is, because he would otherwise be incapacitated to merchandise, which may be as much to our prejudice as his.’  Cunningham’s Law Diet, title, Aliens.  The above is the clear law of England, practised from the earliest ages to this day, and never denied.  The passage quoted by M. de Meusnier from Black-stone, c.26. is from his chapter ’Of title to things personal by