[148] Le Droit Maritime International, Tom. I. pp. 65, 66.
[149] Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ed. Lawrence, p. 1024.
[150] Speech in the House of Commons, May 6, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. CLXII. col. 1566. At a later day, in a communication to Mr. Adams, on the seizure of the steamer Georgia by a United States steamer, Earl Russell said, that “her Majesty’s Government of course expects that a vessel seized under the British flag and claimed by British owners will be brought, with as little delay as possible, for adjudication into the proper Prize Court, in which the claim of one of her Majesty’s subjects will be tried according to those recognized principles of International Law which govern the relations of the belligerent toward the neutral.”—Earl Russell to Mr. Adams, September 6, 1864: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, Part II. p. 298: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1.
[151] The Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 3: “A Desert Country near the Sea.”
“Our ship hath touched upon
The deserts of Bohemia?”
[152] Phillimore, International Law, Vol. I. pp. 400, 401.
[153] Speech in the House of Lords, May 16, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 2084.
[154] Hargrave’s State Trials, Vol. V. col. 314, 315.
[155] Annual Message, December 3, 1805: American State Papers, Foreign Affairs, Vol. I. p. 66.