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But a vefTel loaded with colonial produce, and failing without fuch a licence, would be certainly confifcated, whether flie had violated the fuppofed Decrees or not.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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Moft of the treesi that we faw are dragon-trees as we fuppofed; and thefe too are the largeft trees of any there.
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They were fired upon by the fentry; and one was fuppofed to be wounded, and three others taken,
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This fuppofed fa£b was firft bruited by Wagenfil, in his Sacris Parentalibus B. Georgio Fred.
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It confifted of the man, hiis two wives (as we fuppofed), the young woman before mentioned, a boy about fourteen years old, and three fmall children, the youngeft of which was at the breaft.
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The paper of each colony being received in the payment of the provincial taxes, for the full value for which it had been iflued, it neceflkrily derived from this ufe fome additional vahie, over and above what it would have had, from the real or fuppofed diftance of the term of its final difcharge and redemption.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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As we paffed by, they rowed towards their habitations, where we fuppofed they had withdrawn themfelves for fear of us, though we gave them no caufe of terror, or for fome differences among themfelves.
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Sir, they are nowjnoffenfive, and quietly purfuing their own bufinqfs — they are content under their own adminiftration — they are protected by their own government and are net panting for the liberties of this country, as was vainly fuppofed the laft fea - son, nor do thejc afk us to „ jelieve them from the oppreffion of
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Weftood along by St. John's Ifland, till we came almoft to the fouth-eaft point, and then feeing | ho more iflands to the eaftward of us, nor any likelihood of anchoring under this, I fleered away for the main of New Giyinea, we being now, as I fuppofed, to the eaft of it, on this north-fide.
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But very little of it comes to Europe t in 1778, feven hundred thoufand pounds were fold in Holland at/42 per hundred pounds; the greateft part goes to the China market, where it is pre - ferred to European tin, and the profit upon it is fuppofed by a late intelligent traveller.
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