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256 flict uch a punihment as was required, becaue of the defect in that particular of the former etablihed contitutions of her kingdom, yet, with the unanimous conent of the parliament, he had caued a new act to be paed, to erve as a law for the future.” This humiliating tep was accepted as a full atisfaction by the czar; and the offenders, at his requet, were dicharged from all farther proecution.

tatute recites the arret which had been made, “in contempt of the protection granted by her majety, contrary to the law of nations, and in prejudice of the rights and privileges, which embaadors and other public miniters have at all times been thereby poeed of, and ought to be kept acred and inviolable:” wherefore it enacts, that for the future all proces whereby the peron of any embaador, or of his dometic or dometic ervant, may be arreted, or his goods ditreined or eied, hall be utterly null and void; and the perons proecuting, oliciting, or executing uch proces hall be deemed violaters of the law of nations, and diturbers of the public repoe; and hall uffer uch penalties and corporal punihments as the lord chancellor and the two chief jutices, or any two of them, hall think fit. But it is exprely provided, that no trader, within the decription of the bankrupt laws, who hall be in the ervice of any embaador, hall be privileged or protected by this act; nor hall any one be punihed for arreting an embaador’s ervant, unles his name be regitred with the ecretary of tate, and by him tranmitted to the heriffs of London and Middleex. Exceptions, that are trictly conformable to the rights of embaadors, as oberved in the mot civilized countries. And, in conequence of this tatute, thus declaring and enforcing the law of nations, thee