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C 13. Offences against the external Security of the State.

— against the members of a foreign State in amity. Now let us consider the case where the party injured
is a privileged member of a state in amity. For
the sake of the intercourse carried on between one state
and another when at amity it has been the custom to
invest those by whose means it is carried on, with particular distinctions. Such persons are known by different
names according to their different ranks: but they
are also known all together by the common appellation
of Foreign Ministers. Were a person permitted to do an
injury to these great officers at no higher a price than
it would cost him to do the like injury to an ordinary
person, it is evident enough that on various occasions
the interests of both states might suffer in a very high
degree by the interruption which such outrages might
occasion in the management of their concerns. Even
in cases where no material interruption might ensue
to such concerns, the pride as well of sovereigns whose
persons these Officers are understood in a manner to
represent, as of the Officers themselves is apt to be sufficiently
sensible to the outrage; and it is the resentment
which is thence apt to be entertained that constitutes

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