Note 157 — White Slavery In The Barbary States. BY CHARLES SUMNER. (continued 2)

Somersett's case, first declaring this principle, was decided in 1772. M. Schoell says, that "this fine maxim has always obtained" in France.—Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix, tom. xi. p. 178. By the royal ordinance 1318, it was declared, that "all men are born free (francs) by nature; and that the kingdom of the French (Francs) should be so in reality as in name." But this "fine maxim" was not recognized in France so completely as M. Schoell asserts. See Encyclopédie, (de Diderot et de D'Alembert,) art. Esclavage.