Among these, was an outrage committed in Boston, too flagrant to be overlooked.
A schooner, brought as a prize into the port of Boston by a French privateer, was claimed by the British owner; who instituted proceedings at law against her, for the purpose of obtaining a decision on the validity of her capture.

She was rescued from the possession of the marshal, by an armed force acting under the authority of Mr.Duplaine, the French consul, which was detached from a frigate then lying in port.

Until the frigate sailed, she was guarded by a part of the crew; and, notwithstanding the determination of the American government that the consular courts should not exercise a prize jurisdiction within the territories of the United States, Mr.Duplaine declared his purpose to take cognizance of the case.
To this act of open defiance, it was impossible for the President to submit.

The facts being well attested, the exequatur which had been granted to Mr.Duplaine was revoked, and he was forbidden further to exercise the consular functions.

It will excite surprise that even this necessary measure could not escape censure.