This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... in which, if England were engaged in a maritime war, European or other states might take advantage of a set of opinion against her practice at sea to embarrass her seriously by an unfriendly neutrality. The evils of such embarrassment might perhaps be transient; but there are also con-ceivable ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... in which, if England were engaged in a maritime war, European or other states might take advantage of a set of opinion against her practice at sea to embarrass her seriously by an unfriendly neutrality. The evils of such embarrassment might perhaps be transient; but there are also con-ceivable contingencies in which the direct evils of maritime capture might be disastrous. English manufactures are dependent on the cheap importation of raw material, and English population is becoming yearly more and more de-pendent on foreign food. In the Contemporary Review for 1875 (vol. xxvi. p. 7 3 7-5 0 I endeavoured to show that there are strong reasons for doubting j whether England is prudent in adhering to the existing rule of law with ' respect to the capture of private property at sea. The reasons which were then j urged have certainly not grown weaker with the progress of time. The doctrine of the immunity of fishing-boats is mainly PART III. founded upon the practice with respect to them with which CHAP-1" France has become identified, but which she has by no means Fishing-invariably observed. During the Anglo-French wars of the oaUt-middle ages it seems to have been the habit of the Channel fishermen not to molest one another, and the French Or-donnances of 1543 and 1584, which allowed the Admiral of France to grant fishing-truces to subjects of an enemy on condition of reciprocity, did no more than give formal effect to this custom. It does not appear to what degree the power vested in the Admiral was used during the early part of the seventeenth century, but by the Ordonnances of 1681 and 1692 fishing-boats were subjected to capture, and from that time until the war of American Independence both France and England habitually seized them....
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