[22] The Ways and Means whereby an Equal and Lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced and perfectly founded, with the free Consent and actual Confirmation of the Whole People of England. Feb. 6, 1659. First printed at London 1660. Harrington, Oceana and other Works, (London, 1747,) pp. 539, 540, xlv. [23] De Rerum Natura, Lib. II. 6. [24] “Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.” TERENCE, _Heaut._, Act I. Sc. i. 25. [25] The recent British Foreign Enlistment Act, passed August 9, 1870, entitled “An Act to regulate the conduct of her Majesty’s subjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which her Majesty is at peace,” makes it illegal, if any person within her Majesty’s dominions “builds, or agrees to build, or causes to be built, any ship, _with intent, or knowledge, or having reasonable cause to believe_ that the same shall or will be employed in the military or naval service of any foreign state at war with any friendly state.” (Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress December 5, 1870, p. 159.) Lord Westbury, an ex-Chancellor, said in the House of Lords, March 27, 1868, “It was not a question whether armed ships had actually left our shores, but it was a question whether ships _with a view to war_ had been built in our ports by one of two belligerents.”--Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CXCI. col. 346. [26] United States _v._ Quincy, 6 Peters, S. C. R., 465, 466. [27] The Gran Para, 7 Wheaton, R., 471; also four other cases in same volume. [28] Speech on Repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, April 16, 1823: Speeches, Vol. V. p. 51. [29] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 22. [30] Mr. Jefferson to M. Ternant, May 15, 1793: Ibid., p. 148. [31] Wharton’s State Trials, p. 50. [32] Acts 3d Cong. Ch. 37, June 5, 1794: Statutes at Large, Vol. I. p. 381. [33] Acts 15th Cong. 1st Sess. Ch. 88, April 20, 1818: Statutes at Large, Vol. III. p. 447. [34] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. XL. col. 369, 907, May 13, June 3, 1819. [35] Ibid., 2d Ser. Vol. VIII. col. 1056, April 16, 1823. [36] Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox, January 5, 1838: Executive Documents, 25th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 74, p. 28. President’s Message, January 5, 1838: Ibid., No. 64. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. XL. col. 716, February 2, 1838. Acts 25th Cong. 2d Sess. Ch. 31, March 10, 1838: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. V. p. 212. [37] Mr. Crampton to Mr. Marcy, April 21, 1854; Count de Sartiges to Mr. Marcy, April 28, 1854: Executive Documents, 33d Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R., No. 103, pp. 2, 4. [38] Treaty of 1794, Art. 21: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VIII. p. 127. [39] Speech on the Consolidated Fund Bill, July 23, 1863: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXII. col. 1270.