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Commissioners and their dispatches do not come under the primary definition of contraband, which requires that "the destination of the goods should be to a hostile port. As no European power is at war with the United States, and the Trent was bound for a European harbor, this definition certainly exempts the mail steamer from liability to arrest and search.--But there will be found in books on international law chapters on "Quasi-contraband — dispatches and passengers." Under this head Pratt remarks, in his valuable work on contraband, that assistance may be rendered to an enemy by a neutral in many other ways than by the conveyance of stores or munitions of war to a hostile port, "particularly by the communication of information and orders from the belligerent Government to its officers abroad, of the conveyance of military passengers." The conveyance of dispatches is especially prohibited to neutrals, as "these are capable of producing the most important consequences in the op