...is, according to Mr. Adams, anti-commercial. It admits no obligation to hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other...nations with itself, and even their independence. Their own exclusive interest is the measure of all their relations with the rest of mankind. Ambassadors...

...principles, to the total exclusion of the first. It admits no obligation to hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other...heavenly host. — and all other nations with whom it has auy relations, political or commercial, as outside tributary barbarians, reverently submissive to the...

...of the Chinese Empire is anti-commercial. ... It admits no obligation to hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other...even their independence. It holds itself to be the center of the terraqueous globe, equal to the heavenly host, and all other nations with whom it has...

...of the Chinese Empire is anti-commercial ... It admits no obligation to hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other...nations with itself, and even their independence. . . . This is the truth, and, I apprehend, the only question at issue between the governments and nations...

...hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other Nations with ifself, and even their Independence. It holds itself to be...terraqueous globe, equal to the Heavenly host, and all other Natious with whom it has any relations, political or commercial, as outside tributary barbarians reverently...

...is, according to Mr. Adams, anti-commercial. It admits no obligation to hold commercial intercourse with others. It utterly denies the equality of other...nations with itself, and even their independence. Their own exclusive interest is the measure of all their relations with the rest of mankind. Ambassadors...