Although Borneo offers many inducements to commercial enterprise, the policy of the Dutch Company has shut themselves out, as well as others, by Interdicting communication.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
The Government of that nation has issued an order Interdicting all trade by neutrals between ports not in amity with them; and being now at war with nearly every nation on the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, our vessels are required to sacrifice their cargoes at the first port they touch or to return home without the benefit of going to any other market.
"State of the Union Addresses of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
It will at any time be in the power of the smallest state, by Interdicting their own judiciary, to defeat the measures, defraud the revenue, and annul the most sacred laws of the whole empire.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford