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"By this treaty, ships of war of each of the nations might visit
merchant vessels of both, if suspected of having slaves on board,
acquired by illicit traffic." This "related only to the trade north of
the equator; for the slave-trade of Portugal within the regions of
western Africa, to the south of the equator, continued long after this
to be carried on with great vigor." Woolsey, _International Law_
(1874), Sec. 197, pp. 331-2; _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1816-17,
pp. 85-118.]
~1817, Sept. 23. [Great Britain and Spain: Abolition of Trade North of
Equator.~
"By the treaty of Madrid, ... Great Britain obtained from Spain, for the
sum of four hundred thousand pounds, the immediate abolition of the
trade north of the equator, its entire abolition after 1820, and the
concession of the same mutual right of search, which the treaty with
Portugal had just established." Woolsey, _International Law_ (1874), Sec.
197, p. 332; _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1816-17, pp. 33-74.]
~1817, Dec. 2. President Monroe's Message on Amelia Island, etc.~
"A just regard for the rights and interests of the United States
required that they [i.e., the Amelia Island and Galveston pirates]
should be suppressed, and orders have been accordingly issued to that
effect. The imperious considerations which produced this measure will be
explained to the parties whom it may, in any degree, concern.
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