"  One  thing,  however,  the  United  States  claim,  and  with  a  good  show
of  right,  that  the  Trent  case  did  settle  conclusively,  and  that  is,  that
where  the  passage  of  contraband  persons  is  to  be  interrupted,  it  is  uu-
justifiable  to  remove  them  bodily  from  the  vessel  and  to  allow  her  to
proceed.  She  must  herself  be  seized  and  carried  into  the  belligerent
port  for  trial  in  the  prize  courts."

Prof.  Mountague  Bernard,  after  a  full  discussion  of  the  Trent  case,
holds  that  a  neutral  merchant  or  packet  ship  carrying  persons  in  an
enemy's  employment  is  not  liable  to  condemnation  unless  she  is  used
by  the  enemy  as  a  transport.
Neairality  of  Great  Britain,  &c.,  ch.  9.    Soe  2  Revne  de  droit  int.,  126.
Mr.  Seward's  reasonings  "  would  serve  to  justify,  and  may  be  taken
to  encourage,  the  captain  of  the  Tuscarora  to  seize  the  Dover  packet
boat  and  carry  her  into  New  York  for  adjudication,  in  case  Messrs.  Ma-
son and  Slideli  should  take  a  through  ticket  from  London  to  Paris."

Historicus,  192.
<^  Although  dispatches  are  classed  as  contraband  articles,  and  their
carriage  is  illegal,  because  of  their  peculiar  character,  ambassadors  are
neither  contraband  articles  nor  denounced  by  international  law."

Abdy's  Kent  (1878),  359.
