...ship Mercurius and cargo were condemned for a violation of the law of the United States interdicting commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependancies; and on the 3d of March, 1817, Mr. Madison, President of the United Slates, remitted all...

...the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the " bill respecting the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and for other purposes." X<> agreement reached; proposition by the Senate committee to insert provision...

...IS 1 1, so revoke or modify her edicts as that they should cease to violate the neu tral commerce of the United States, which fact the president should declare by proclamation, and :f the other nation should not, within three months there after, revoke or modify its edicts in like...