the same, Ibid 295 ; Countess Conway's case, Ibid 364 ; Count Wall's case, Ibid 111, 13, 12; Jur. 145 ; Baron de Bode's case, 14 Jur. 970). TUe island of St. Martin in the West indies belonged, previous to the French Revolution, one part to the Dutch, and the other part to the French. A great number of the planters were Britißh subjects. In May, 1793, the Dutch took possession of the French part ; and in April, 1795, the French seiiod on the whole island, and confiscated the properties, real and personal, belonging to British subjects. In 1801, the island was taken by the British. Under the convention of the 20th of November, 1815, already mentioned, these British sub. jeets received compensation for the confiscation of their lands, during the time the French held the whole Island. (Gumbes v. Commission era for claims on France, II Knapp's Rep. 369.) In June, 1831, Prince Leopold, a naturalized British subject, was elected King of Belgium, by the Congress at Brussels ; and in June, 1837, the Duke of Cumberland, a natural-born British subject, succeeded to the throne of Hanover, according to the laws of that country : yet, no claim was ever preferred to either country, by th« king or queen of the United Kingdom, on the ground that a British subject could not acquire foreign territory, save for the Crown. In May, 1839, not many months before the plaintiff purchased the lands at Wangarei described in the declaration, a treaty of com merce was entered into, at Zanzibar, in Arabic and English, between her Majesty, Queen Victoria, and tbi Sultan of Mascate. The se cond article is of the tenor following : — British subjects shall be at liberty to purchase, sell, or hire land or houses in the dominions of His Highness, the Sultan of Mascate (II Macgrcgor's Comm. Stat. 363). 