Excerpt from The History of the United States of North America, Vol. 3: From the Discovery of the Western World to the Present Day Undoubtedly, the case of the Essex J unto against the Administration, respecting this arrangement, was a strong one. The instructions sent to Erskine were shown to the American minister at London, in extenso, and it is hardly to be supposed that he could have failed to communicate their contents to the government at Washington. And on the other hand, if Madison and his Secretary were actually ignorant on this point, no good excuse can be presented for them - they ought to have known the extent of the minister's powers before they entered upon the negotiation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.