NEUTRAL RIGHTS; OR, 5268 AN IMPARTIAL EXAMINATION OF THE RIGHT UNDER CONVOY, AND 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, BY MR. J. F. W. SCHLEGEL, Dodor and Professor of Law in the University of Copenhagen, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AT THE AURORA OFFICE, No. 106, MARKET- STREET1801. Exch. W. Z. Elements bed. 4-20-36 NEUTRAL RIGHTS, AND THE VISITATION OF NEUTRAL VESSELS UNDER CONVOY, FAIRLY EXAMINED. 0:00:0 T HE inevitable afflictions of war are not confined to the belligerent powers, they extend to nations perfectly neuter, but in a greater measure to maritime nations than to others. This arifes from the different maxims which have been fet up from time to time by nations powerful by fea, or rather becaufe the nations of Europe have never adopted any fixed code of maritime laws. The obfervance of what does not exist, is therefore not fo furprizing, as that no effort has been made with fuccefs to guard nations difpofed to peace, against the injuftice of those who might make use of their temporary preponderance to give their will as the law. |