8. The same lawlessness governing British commanders in Leghorn and Genoa appeared also this side of the Atlantic. In August, 1795, an audacious attempt was made by the British ship-of-war Africa to seize the French minister, M. Fauchet, when on his way from New York to Newport, on board the sloop Peggy, within the waters of the United States. The sloop was boarded at the entrance of Newport harbor, and within two miles of the light-house, and the trunks of the minister were overhauled; but he had already left at an intermediate port, so that the trespassers were disappointed. M. Fauchet, in a communication to his successor, M. Adet, says: “I shall express to you but one afflicting sentiment, which is, that in a free State, with a government in which England has just acquired a friend, there is no safety for myself or my papers; for, in a word, as it was from _a public packet-boat in a neutral port_ that I was to have been carried off, there is no reason why I should not be taken on the highway or in an inn, if it could be done with impunity.” Our Government vainly endeavored to obtain reparation from Great Britain for this outrage, while France, on her part, mentioned the “impunity” of its authors among her causes of complaint against us. It is only recently that the facts of this remarkable case have appeared in a document printed by order of the Senate.[16] They help swell the present testimony. 9. Taking these instances in the order of time, we come next to outrages on the coast of Norway. The British frigate Squirrel, on entering the Norwegian port of Oster-Risoer, in 1801, then belonging to Denmark, seized a Swedish ship, and put its pilot in irons. Then coming to anchor, it deliberately captured three other Swedish vessels, and, sending on shore, kidnapped several pilots. Two or three days afterwards, a boat from another British man-of-war, the cutter Achilles, entered the Norwegian port of Egvang, and seized a French prize at anchor there, while the cutter’s crew fired upon a bark having on board peaceable inhabitants, wounding one of them. The Danish Government promptly demanded reparation for these accumulated outrages, and especially the restitution of the vessels. The British minister, Lord Hawkesbury, at once declared that the guilty individuals should receive the strongest marks of disapprobation from his Government, _but that, with regard to the restitution of the vessels, it was impossible for him, in the existing circumstances of the two countries, to enter into any explanation_,--that, if the present misunderstanding should be amicably adjusted, “these cases would naturally be carried, without loss of time, _before the regular and impartial tribunals_ established for the decision of such causes, according to principles of justice and the Law of Nations.” The Danish minister at once replied, that his sovereign would never consent that the open violation of his ports