entering the port of another nation
under an expressed or implied permis-
sion, 158; whether distinction between
fleet entering a foreign port and troops
passing through a foreign territory ex-
ists, as to implied permission, 158;
distinction between public and private,
160; law of France as to exemption of
public or private, from local jurisdic-
tion, 163; a public, in employment of
U. States Government cannot be pro-
ceeded against by a citizen to enforce a
lien which attached before she became
a public vessel, 162 (n.); case of the
Creole, 165 (n.); the public vessels of
a foreign State, coming within the juris-
diction of a friendly State, are exempt
from process in private suits, 168 (n.);
right to enter, and exercise authority
on board of, a foreign vessel, to enforce
a municipal demand, 173 (n.); distinc-
tion of French law between acts of
interior discipline and crimes on board
a vessel against persons not belonging
to her, 164; exemption of, from local
jurisdiction, does not justify acts of
aggression, 166; nor extend to prize
goods taken in violation of the neutral-
ity of the country into which they are
brought, 168; jurisdiction of the State
over its public and private, on the high
seas, 169; claim of Great Britain to
search, for deserters and persons whom
she considered liable to military service
to her, 170; national character of, 425;
how far flag and papers are conclusive
of the nationality of, 425 (n.); may act
by way of estoppel, 425 (n.); if used
by permission, 425 (n.); doctrines of
"free ships, free goods," and "hostile
ships, hostile goods," 581, 581 (n.), 606
(n.); Declaration of Paris of 1856, 606,
610 (n.); points established in Great
Britain and America, 606 (n.); authori-
ties, 606, 607 (n.); Dr. Woolsey on the
doctrine, 607 (n.); treaties of the U.
States, 607 et seq. (n.); relation of the U.
States to the Articles of Paris, 608 (n.),
613 (n.); rules and questions in the Cri-
mean war, 608 (n.); how the Declaration
of Paris will affect the right of search,
611, 612 (n.); questions arising in the
civil war in the U. States, and the
course of England and France therein,
612, 613 (n.); postal (see Contraband of
War, Capture, Neutrality, Jurisdiction,
Conflict of Laws, Visitation).
Vienna, treaty of, respecting the great Eu-
ropean rivers, 276.

Visitation and search, in time of war, im-
munity of public ships from, 170; case
of the Swedish convoy, 690; Haute-
feuille's distinction between, 690 (n.); in
cases of convoy, 692 et seq. (n.); value
of the convoying officer's assurance,

693, 694 (n.); not prohibited by sailing
under convoy, 695 (n.); where the con-
voy is neutral or resists, 695 (n.); in
time of peace, 688; right of, does not
exist except by treaty, 170; Quintuple
Treaty of 1841 not ratified by France,
201; English treaties with other pow-
ers, 201; provided for in divers treaties
concerning the slave trade, 202, 203 (n.)
(see Slave trade); case of the Amedie,
208 et seq. (n.) (see Amedie); of the
Fortuna, 209 (n.); of the Diana and Le
Louis, 210 (n.) (see Diana, Le Louis); of
the Antelope, 211 (n.); settlement as to
the right of, between Great Britain and
America, 215-17 (n.); how affected
by the Declaration of Paris, 611, 612
(n.).

W.

Wallachia, semi-sovereign State under the
suzeraineté of the Porte, 55 (see Molda-
via).

War, commencement of, and its immedi-
ate effects, 368; reprisals, 369; embargo
previous to declaration of, 371; right of
making, in whom vested, 373; enemy's
property found in the territory at the
declaration of, how far liable to confis
cation, 378; rule of reciprocity, 381;
droits of admiralty, 382; public or sol-
emn, 373 (n.); perfect or imperfect,
374 (n.); declaration of, how far neces-
sary 375 (n.); effect of on treaty, 352,
353 (n.) (see Treaty); treaty obligations
to aid in defensive, 364 (n.); opinions
of Kent and Woolsey, 364, 365 (n.);
rule of non-intercourse with the enemy
in time of, 400 et seq. (n.); in the Cri-
mean war, 400 (n.); public opinion on
the question, 401 (n.); debts due to en-
emy, 388; confiscation of English debts
by Denmark in retaliation for droits of
admiralty, 391; contracts with enemy
in, prohibited, 403; persons domiciled in
enemy's country in, liable to reprisals,
403 (see Domicil); rights of, against
enemy, 426; exchange of prisoners of,
429; persons exempt from hostility in,
430; enemy's property, how far subject
to capture and confiscation in, 481;
usages of, 428 (n.); weapons of, and
means of destruction in, 428 (n.); em-
ployment of savage allies, 428 (n.);
desertion and violation of parole, 428
(n.); obstruction of harbors, 429 (n.);
closing of the harbors of Savannah and
of Charleston, 429 (n.); Earl Russell,
Lord Lyons, and Mr. Seward on, 429
(n.); fishermen often exempted from
disturbance in, 431 (n.); non-combat-
ants, 431 (n.); distinction between pri-
vate property taken at sea and on land,
450, 451 (n.); acts of in neutral waters,

524 et seq. (n.); ravaging enemy's terri- |
tory, when lawful, 433; what persons
are authorized to engage in hostilities
against an enemy, 451; non-commis-
sioned captors, 452, 453 (n.); privateers,
452; title to property captured in, 454;
acts of, in neutral waters, 524 et seq.
(n.); power of declaring in the U.
States, 711 (n.); instances, 711 (n.).
Washington, the burning of, 445.
Washington, his proclamation of neutrality,
April 23, 1793, 537 et seq. (n.).
Webster, Daniel, on the recognition of
Texas, 45 (n.); on the course of the
U. States toward Hungary in 1849, 47
(n.); to Lord Ashburton in the case of
the Creole, 165 (n.); to Lord Ashburton
on impressment, 177 (n.).
Wheaton, his work on international law

translated into Chinese, 22 (n.); his
article on the case of the Creole, 166
(n.); his claim to diplomatic immunity
in Prussia 319 (n.).
Wildman's Institutes, 9.

Windsor's case (extradition), 186 (n.).

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