1 OCTOBER 1842, Page 11
The Paris Commerce of Wednesday asserts, on the authority of
a Washington correspondent, that immediately after the conclusion of the late treaty with Great Britain, the American Cabinet had addressed to the French Minister a note, declaring that, although the Union was willing to cooperate with all the Powers to enforce upon American citi- zens the strict observance of its laws against the slave-trade, "at no period and on no account would it ever permit a foreign nation to ex- ercise a right of sovereignty on board American vessels."