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14. C
Offences against the external Security of the State.
constitutes perhaps the most immediate and universal
reason for giving an extraordinary degree of protection
to these privileged foreigners against all injuries whatsoever.
How to punish such Offences. To appease that resentment , an obvious expedient
is to deliver up to the Sovereign of the injured State all
persons whatsoever who have been were concerned in the injury offered
to his representative . Such an expedient can
scarcely fail of being effectual in any case ; and though
in most cases it may not be necessary , yet as there
may be cases in which nothing less will serve, it is fit
that a power should be given to the judicial Magistrate
to put it in practice if ever the Security of the State
should call for such a sacrifice.
The same power should for the like reasons be reserved
with respect to outrages offered in contempt of capitulations,
Safe-conducts and Flags of truce.
When the offence , being of the nature of Theft or Robbery
or committed in prosecution of a design to commit
Theft or robbery , Piracy, what — is perpetrated at sea , or upon any land to
which the offender was recently coveyed by Sea (whether that
land be or be not within the dominions of any State), it is
Identifier: | JB/072/050/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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