[8] Sur l’Esprit, i. 562.

[9] Reade, Ashantee Campaign, 52.

[10] Livy, xliv. 42.

[11] These Instructions are published in Halleck’s International Law, ii. 36-51; and at the end of Edwards’s Germans in France.

[12] ‘It would have been desirable,’ said the Russian Government, ‘that the voice of a great nation like England should have been heard at an inquiry of which the object would appear to have met with its sympathies.’

[13] Jus Gentium, art. 887, 878.

[14] Florus, ii. 20.

[15] Edwards’s Germans in France, 164.

[16] This remarkable fact is certified by Mr. Russell, in his Diary in the last Great War, 398, 399.

[17] Cicero, In Verrem, iv. 54.