Statements applicable to the cause of the Olive Branch : which was a cargo of cannon and arms, purchased by the authority of the governor of Vermont, to supply the militia thereof, and captured on its passage from Ostend in France, to New-York in the United States, by an English man of war (in 1796,) : which statements are submitted for the consideration of the government and ministers of Great Britain--the government and ministers of France, and the government and people of the United States. / by Ira Allen, claimant of the cargo of the Olive Branch.