The law had to be enforced; property, or at least the property of the firm, must be respected.

And during an absence of the consul's, he seems to have drawn up with his own hand, and certainly first showed to the king, in his own house, a new convention.
Weber here and Weber there.

As an able man, he was perhaps in the right to prepare and propose conventions.

As the head of a trading company, he seems far out of his part to be communicating state papers to a sovereign.

The administration of justice was the colour, and I am willing to believe the purpose, of the new paper; but its effect was to depose the existing government.