183; reply to, and arguments
of, those opposed to withdrawal
of Great Britain from, 185-
189; and the United States,
189 et seq.; principles assumed
to be laid down by, novel in-
novations, 209; highly injuri-|
ous to Great Britain, 209;
opinions of statesmen on, 210-
Declaration of war, sentence of
confiscation pronounced on
enemy's property by a, 75.
Decree, Prussian, 207; Spanish,
on war with America, 206, 207.
Denmark, 88, 90, 103, 118.
Derby, the Earl of, 215.
Des Droits et des Devoirs des
Nations neutres, M. Haute-
feuille, 81 n., 82 n., 83 n.,
85 n., 147 n.
Despatch to the Spanish Govern-
ment, Lord Clarendon's, 95.
Dictionary of Dates, Haydn's,
116 n.
Directory, French, 74.
Disraeli, Mr., 217.
Downfall of Spain, The, H. W.
Wilson, 17 n.
Dundonald, Lord, Autobiography,
53 n., 54 n.
Earth, the sea unites the peoples
of the, 55.
Edinburgh Review, 183 n., 185 n.
Enemy's property in neutral
vessels, capture of, 67, 160.
England, 29, 115, 118, 119, 128,
129, 130, 133, 139, 141, 151 n.,
163, 174, 194; and America,
treaty of 1795 between, 88;
and France, the war between,
74; her war with France,
Spain, and American Colonies,
90; mistress of the seas after
Trafalgar, 103.
Envoys, American, at Paris,
letter to M. Talleyrand, 193.
Europe, 55, 56, 108, 110, 141;
hostility of, to England, 104.
Exports and imports, value of,
carried by sea and land, 58;
from Great Britain and Ire-
land, 154 n.
Eylau, 29.
Fallacy of sacred private pro-
perty argument, 183, 184.
False colours, 49; and papers, 49.
Famine prices in every European
country at war with England
while war lasted, 101.
"Fanny," the, 93.
"Favourite," the, 99.
Ferdinand, son of Charles IV.,
abdicates in favour of Napo-
leon, 104.
Ferreira, 172.
Flag, neutral, 67; fraudulent use
of, by belligerents may be
expected to be universal, 137;
covers enemy's merchandise,
except contraband of war,
effects of this doctrine, 148
Fleet Manoeuvring, Captain Pel-
lew's lecture on, 18.
Foreign Office, 62 n.
Fox, Mr., 212.
France, 62, 104, 105, 106, 107,
109, 110, 111, 115, 116, 118,
133, 138, 144 n., 151 n., 154,
155, 156, 163, 191, 194; war
indemnity exacted from, by
Germany, 28; Spain and
American colonies, England
at war with, 90.
Franco-German War, 38, 39.
"Free ships make free goods,"
79 n., 88, 136, 193, 194, 199;
principle invented to end
the maritime power of Great
Britain, 81.
Fremont, Lieutenant, of "The
Porter," 17 n.
French fleet, 175.
Friedland, 29.
Geneva Convention, 30.
Geneva Tribunal, 147.
Germany, 62, 90, 109, 118; war
indemnity from France ex-
acted by, 28.
Gerry, Pinkney and Marshall,
letter of Messrs., to M. Tal-
leyrand, 193.
"Geschwistern, Sechs," 165 n.
Gibraltar, 104.
Gilmour, Mr. Allan, 150 n.
Goeben, General von, 25; any
person committing an act of
hostility against the troops of,
to be punished with death, 26.
Gold of no direct use in warlike
Goldsmith's Statistics of France,
Goods, neutral bottoms make
neutral, 91.
Government, Lord Clarendon's
despatch to the Spanish, 95.
Graham, Sir James, 156 n.
Granville, Lord, 207.
Great Britain, 32, 40, 106, 108,
110, 111, 117, 133, 134, 135,
138, 140, 142, 145, 147 n., 148,
151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158,
164, 173, 174, 175, 177, 181,
192, 208, 209; the defences
of, 1; the sea the rampart of,
1; the control of the sea
necessary for the safety of, 1;
if found impuissant at sea, the
days of the British Empire
numbered, 1; on land rela-
tively weak, 2; seafaring
population greater than that
of any other nation, 3; pos-
sesses about one-half of whole
merchant tonnage of the
world, 4; and Ireland, trade
of, 116; waives right of seiz-
ing enemy's goods in neutral
vessels, 121.
Grenville, Lord, 214.
Grotius, 7; the Father of Inter-
national Law, 77, 78; his De
Jure Belli ac Pacis, 77 n.
Groves, Mr., 150 n.
"Guerre aux palais, paix à la
chaumière," a fallacy, 24.
Guide to the History, the Laws,
and Constitutions of England,
Chisholme Anstey's, 10 n.
Gun, Ram, and Torpedo, The, 18n.
Hamburg, 110.
Hanover, 47 n.
Hansard, 126, 163, 202, 215, 217,
219.
Hardenberg, 107.
Hautefeuille, M., 81-88; argues
that the "primitive law"
should forbid capture of pro-
perty in neutral vessels, 81;
his work an indecent attack
upon Great Britain, 81; Des
Droits et des Devoirs des Nations
neutres, by, 81 n, 82 n., 83 n.,
85 n., 147 n.; the latest ex-
ponent of the new doctrine, 82.
Havre, 110.
Hawke, 53.
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates,
116 n.
Hay, John, 202 n.
Heffter and Pratt, On Contra-
band, 72 n.
Heineccius, 78.
'Hermione," the, 99.
High seas, if enemy's property
left to go free on, no material
injury is inflicted upon him,
34; the right to capture enemy's
property on, not questioned
until end of eighteenth cen-
tury, 118.
Histoire Générale, Lavisse and
Raimbaud's, 116 n.
History of American Privateers,
97 n.
History of the Liverpool Privateers
and Letters of Marque, with an
account of the Liverpool Slave
Trade, Gomer Williams, 98 n.,
Holland, 62, 71, 90, 103, 110,
118; famous placard pub-
lished in 1652 by, 71 n.
Holland, Professor T. E., 208.
Horace, 55, 56.
Horsfall, Mr., 151 n.
House of Commons, 95, 125,
126 n., 161, 163, 207.
House of Commons, speeches of
William Pitt in the, 211, 212,
214; speeches of the Rt. Hon.
Charles James Fox in, 213.
House of Lords, 131.
Howe, 53.
Hull, trade concentrated in, 110.
Hume, 172.
Hungary, 109.
Immunities, neutral vessel not
entitled to more than terri-
torial, 75, 76; neutral territory
afloat entitled to all the respect
and, of territory ashore, 84.
Immunity, aid given by a neutral
carrying goods to a belligerent
indirect, therefore entitled to,
82, 85.
Imports and exports, table of,
carried by land and sea, 58.
Impressment, illegal, 98 n.
India, 109.
Indies, East and West, 108.
Infantry, English, the best in
the world," 2.
Influence of Sea Power upon the
French Revolution and Empire,
the, 107 n., 108 n., 110 n.
Insurance, "war risk" premiums
of, 159, 160, 176.
Intercommunications
nations first made by water, 55.
International Law, Grotius the
Father of, 77.
International Law, 165; Whea-
ton's, 80 n., 136 n., 191 n,,
192n., 193 n., 194 n, 196 n.;
Wildman's, 192 n.; Halleck's,
192 n.
Invention of awful methods of
destruction should be encour-
aged, 31.
Ionian Islands, 104.
Ireland, shipping belonging to
Great Britain and, 117.
Italy, 62, 151, 191.
Laffitte, M., great French mer-
chant, 105, 115.
Lampredi, 72 n., 79.
Land, the, divides peoples, 55;
table of imports and exports
carried by sea and, 58; carriage,
alleged tendency of, to super-
sede sea-carriage, 61.
Larpent, F.S., the Private Journal
of, 106 n.
"Las dos Amigas," 98 n.
Lavisse and Raimbaud's Histoire
Générale, 116 n.
Law of Nations, 7, 9, 22, 46, 119,
140, 187, 191, 192, 196, 204,
209; great principles of, laid
down by Continental thinkers,
7; systematized by English
jurists and text-writers, 7;
part of the Common Law of
Great Britain, 7; a manual of,
for the especial use of seamen,
a need of the British Navy, 7,
8; a body of law to which
Prize Courts may appeal, 9,
10; an Act of Parliament made
against the, null and void,
10 n.; Lord Mansfield and the,
10 n.; a notion that there is
not a, has led to strange con-
clusions, 11; as to right of
capture, 77; definition of di-
rect and indirect assistance to
a belligerent laid down by, 86;
claim of neutrals to protect
enemy's property under neutral
flag, repudiated by expounders
of, 89; Manning's, 192 n.;
American respect for, 195.
Lectures Historiques, Napoléon et
Alexandre, Albert Sorel, 114 n.
Lee, Sir George, 7, 79.
Leipzig, 29.
Letter of Messrs. Marshall, Pink-
ney, and Gerry to M. Talley-
rand, 193.
Letters of marque, 143, 203; a
privateer is a pirate without,
93; issued by the Sovereign,
93; or Privateer's Commis-
sion, 223.
Letter on the Genius and Disposi-
of the French Government,
107 n.
Life of Sir W. Parker, 46 n.,
53 n., 144 n., 154 n.
Lindsay, Mr., 151, 163, 183 n.
Lissa, Lessons from, Captain
Colomb's, 18.
Liverpool, 109, 110.
Liverpool, Lord, 7; Discourse on
the Conduct of Great Britain,
79.
Livingstone, Mr. R. R., 194.
Loccenius, De Jure maritimo, | Martens, De, 80, 147, 172.
Lorraine, 24.
London, 110, 126.
London Gazette, 121.
Loss of life in battle diminished,
not increased, by improved
armaments, 13.
Lousada, M., 120.
Lushington, Dr., 164.
Macdonell, Dr., 23.
Mac Gregor's Commercial Tariffs,
116 n.
McKinley, President, Proclama-
tion, 202, 203.
Mahan, Captain, 22, 219; his
Influence of Sea Power upon
the French Revolution and
Empire, 107 n., 108 n., 110 n.
Mansfield, Lord, 7, 10 n., 79.
Manufactures, 63.
Marcy, Mr., 196, 197, 198, 204.
Marengo, 110.
Maritime Affairs, a treatise of the
Relative Rights and Duties
of Belligerents and Neutral
Powers in, Ward, 48 n., 71n.,
79 n.
Maritime War, Laws of, Conso-
lato del Mare the oldest au-
thority on, 77.
Maritime warfare, doubts in-
troduced into law of, by De-
claration of Paris, 136.
Marque, letter of, a ship fur-
nished with, is a ship of war, 93.
Marshall's, Digest of Statistics,
116 n.
Marshall Pinkney, and Gerry,
letter of Messrs., to M. Talley-
rand, 193.
Massé, Le Droit Commercial dans
ses rapports avec le droit des
Gens, 72 n.
Masters, On Captures, 147 n.
Mediterranean, 104, 107.
Melville, Lord, 99.
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, 105 n.
Men-of-war, belligerent, have
the right of assuring them-
selves of neutrality of vessels
met, 49; the method of assur-
ance laid down for, 49, 50.
Merchant, the, can claim no
other treatment than the rest
of his countrymen, 35, 36.
Merchant vessels, transfer of,
164.
Metternich, Memoirs, 107 n.
Middle Ages, proposals in the,
that national disputes should
be settled by single combat
between sovereigns, 22; Eng-
land in the, 64.
Military service, universal, 92.
Mill, Mr. John Stuart, 163,
217.
Milne, Admiral, 18.
Minden, battle of, 47 n.
"Minerva," the, 165 n.
Minister of War, Prussian, order
of, 27.
Missile weapons, belief in, as-
sailed, 18.
Mommsen, 172.
Montesquieu, 79.
Moscow, 111.
Moscow Gazette, 139.
Moser, Versuch, 80 n.
Musket, the, condemned as an
unlawful weapon in fifteenth
century, 30.
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