Accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, and believe me, dear Sir, Very faithfully yours, CHARLES SUMNER. EDWARD GILBERT, Esq. FOOTNOTES [1] See, _ante_, Vol. VI. p. 379. [2] May 6, 1862, pp. 1957, 1958. [3] Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., May 20, 1862, p. 2223. [4] _Post_, p. 128. [5] Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 591. [6] 12 Juin, 1862. [7] The Crime against Kansas, May 19 and 20, 1856: _ante_, Vol. IV. p. 125. [8] Sonnet XVI. 9-11: To the Lord General Cromwell. [9] Rose _v._ Himely, 4 Cranch, S. C. R., pp. 272, 273. [10] Ibid., pp. 288, 289. [11] Cheriot _v._ Foussat, 3 Binney, R., pp. 252, 253. [12] Upton, The Law of Nations affecting Commerce during War, pp. 211, 212. [13] Law Reporter, Vol. XXIV. p. 345, April, 1862. [14] Lib. I. cap. 3, § 1. [15] Oratio de Chersoneso, p. 97: Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Prolegom. § 25. [16] Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. II. § 1344. [17] Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 381. [18] Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 3d edit., (London, 1847,) Vol. II. p. 568, note. [19] 12 Wheaton, R., 14, 15. [20] Bynkershoek, Questiones Juris Publici, Lib. I. cap. 7. [21] Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Hammond, May 29, 1792: American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 201. [22] Speech on International Maritime Law, March 17, 1862: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXV. col. 1608. [23] Manning, Commentaries on the Law of Nations, p. 127. [24] Vattel, Book III. ch. 5, sec. 76. [25] 8 Cranch, S. C. R., 110. [26] Wheaton, Elements of International Law, Part IV. ch. 1, § 11. [27] Law of Nations, p. 136. [28] Halleck, International Law, p. 460. [29] “Washington, dans la guerre de l’Amérique, inventa l’expression et la chose.”--KLÜBER, _Droit des Gens Moderne de l’Europe_, (Paris, 1831,) Tom. II. p. 33, sec. 251, note. [30] Page 410. [31] Q. Curtius, Lib. VII. cap. 8. [32] Law of Nations, Book III. Ch. 13, § 203. [33] 8 Cranch, S. C. R., 110. [34] Le Caux _v._ Eden, Douglas, R., 594; Faith et al. _v._ Pearson, Holt, N. P. Cases, 113. [35] Elphinstone _v._ Bedreechund, 1 Knapp, Privy Council R., 337. [36] Elphinstone _v._ Bedreechund, 1 Knapp, Privy Council R., 360, 361. [37] Merlin, Répertoire de Jurisprudence, art. CONFISCATION, § I. [38] History of the Reformation (Oxford, 1829), Vol. I. p. 538. [39] Alison, History of Europe, (5th edit.,) Vol. IV. pp. 708, 709, note. [40] Ibid., p. 705, note. [41] Alison, History of Europe, Vol. IV. p. 706, note. [42] Austin’s Life of Elbridge Gerry, Vol. I. p. 207. [43] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. pp. 198, 199. [44] Letter to United States Commissioners: American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 219. [45] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 219. [46] Extract from Mr. Adams’s Journal respecting Peace, November 29, 1782: Ibid., p. 220. [47] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 221.