Book Description
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. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...produce transported in American vessels. "The Examination of the subject," Ac., referred to in the letter of instruction as being forwarded to Mr. Monroe, was a stout pamphlet drawn up by the Secretary of State. It was undertaken in consequence of the heavy losses and complaints of merchants in all our large sea ports under the predatory operation of the extended rule of 1756. The pamphlet went into a pretty ample and minute investigation of the subject, which terminated in a confirmed conviction, both of the heresy of the doctrine, and of the enormity of the practice growing out of it. I must add that it detracted much, also, from the admiration I had been led to bestow on the distinguished Judge of the High Court of Admiralty; not from any discovery of defect in his intellectual powers or judicial eloquence, but on account of his shifting decisions and abandonment of his independent principles. After setting out with the lofty profession of abiding by the same rules of public law wheu sitting in London as if a Judge at Stockholm, he was not ashamed to acknowledge that, in expounding that law, he should regard the Orders in Council of his own Government as his authoritative guide. These are not his words, but do him, I believe, no injustice. The acknowledgment ought to banish him as "authority" from every prize Court in the world. I ought to have premised to any remarks on the controversy into which your brother has been drawn, that I have never seen either the Review in which his book is criticised, or the pamphlet in which it is combated. Having just directed the British Quarterly Review, now sent me, to be discontinued, and the North American Review substituted, with the back numbers for the last year, I may soon...
