[118] “Lex est ratio summa, insita in natura, quæ jubet ea quæ facienda sunt, prohibetque contraria.”—De Legibus, Lib. I. c. 6.
[119] System des heutigen Römischen Rechts, B. I. c. 2, § 11.
[120] De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Lib. II. Cap. XV. § ix. 10.
[121] Ibid., § xi. 3.
[122] Sallust, Fragm., Lib. IV.: Rex Mithridates Regi Arsaci.
[123] 2 Chron., xix. 2.
[124] Molloy, De Jure Maritimo et Navali (6th edit.), Book I. ch. 4, § 4. Phillimore, International Law, Vol. I. p. 80.
[125] Wicquefort, L’Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions, Liv. I. sec. 3.
[126] Thoughts on French Affairs, 1791: Works (London, 1801), Vol. VII. pp. 11, 12.
[127] Speech on the Address of Thanks, December 14, 1792: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XXX. col. 72.