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81, DOMINGO IR3DE.


Mr.. Logan presented new draft Of
the Bill on the subject Of the trade to
81. Domingo.


81 BY this new bill the city
of ST. Domingo, now held by
the French, is exempted from
its proyifons. Vefels bound
directly or indirectly 10 any ports
in St. Domingo, not in the pof-
fefIion, and under the acknowI-
edged government of France,
are, with their cargoes, to be
wholly forfeited. The owners
and matters OF veGels, &c. are
TO give heavy boRds, that faid
veGrlS are not bound to the ne
gro ports ofthe ifland, nor will
voluntarily fufer them 10 be
carried therein.


FOREIGN. zGGRESsTONS.


The PreGdent, by Medage,
has communicated the following
report of the Secretary of State,
in compliance with the refolu-
ton Of the Senate, of the 10th
January.


REPORT.


The mott important Of the
principles, interpolated in the
law of nations, is that which ap
pears TO be maintained by the
Britifh government and its prize
courts. that a trade opened to
neutrals by a nation at war, on
account of the war, is unlawful.


The principle has been relax
cd from time to time, BY orders,
