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Excerpt from Upon the Visitation of Neutral Vessels Under Convoy, or an Impartial Examination of a Judgment Pronounced by the English Court of Admiralty, the 11th June, 1799, in the Case of the Swedish Convoy: With Some Additions and Corrections
For a long time past, a ts of violence, exercised in continental wars, against un armed individuals, though the Suhjeéts of an enemy's country, the confiscation of their property, and Obstructions to their commercial communications, have been considered unjust, while it is held perfectly legal, in maritime wars, to take the mer chant-vessels belonging to an enemy's country, seize their cargoes, and thus ruin peaceable and industrious citizens, perhaps for ever. In the war by land, all neutral propertv is inviolable and sacred; but in maritime war, the belligerent powers think themselves authorized to suffer their ships of war, or their privateers, to take the merchant-vessels of neutral states; some times under the pretext, that the ship, or its cargo, though apparently neutral, really belongs to the enemy; at other times.
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