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PRIVATEERING. * Must mon will remember the enthusiasi with which, ne boys, they read of the exploits of this privateers equipped by both as ing the Peninsular War. Probably the storics of Aplain Marryat and others have much to answer for in this particular. In those the hero is always engaged in the per
deeds of daring, and bis opponents are as uiten printsara as sot. Jack Easy himself sailed under letters of qns when he wont ent to the Mediter
to bring home his bride. It is easy Pinkan to anderstand that the talesofcatung
of Lord Clarendon as the representative of England, abolished privateering. It was this! Rule which prevented the United States from adhering to the Bachuration, and it is perhaps worthy of note that when war broke out Sottress Obili, which had accepted, the De claration, and Spain, which had not, the and former Stats Found it messsary to its own *intereste
1 intereste te ressort its maritime rights, did an with the full approval of all the other Powers. Should England ever find hernulf involved in a life and death struggle, it is, the opininu of many people, far front in- probable that she, too, may see the nocas of withdrawing her adhesion from Den aration of Paris, and of resuming ber 313 libarty of action. It may be as wall, to remember that a mystery sur should fire the berish imaginstion; and rounds the authority on
regard the acted; that he himself admitted in the Hound privateeraman as here a
He of acudant of those other champions of
formance of some
from the
INSURANCES.
THE DAILY PRESS, SATURDAT, JUNE 18cя, 1896
CALEDONIAN FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
ESTABLISHED 1805.
Undersigned having been appointed THE hove Commany are pro-
ARNOLD. KARBERG & Co. arte Policles of Inanranco against Firm 1997 Hokong, January, 1882. THE LONDON
ou the nemal terme.
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ASSURANCE
INCORPORATION ÚÝ ROYAL CHARTER OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIRSTH A.D. 1720,
و جادا
I per SOPGAVED BY EJUInear On yue Itra Junts 1886 Blankets, 10 lbs., par
Blankets, 12 tha,, por pala Jamista, 999, mr, pleoo. COTTON GOODS,
Carlota, 35, por piaoði Actorian Drilis, 30 yards, par place
+:
Drad Spotted Shirtings, por pisos..... Dyed Propades Shirtings, por pinda... Sarah Drile, 19 varda, por plone...... Engah Drills, 14 1hr, soy pište.
$2,0% to 4.10 Camlote, S. per plonë.......... com.
53.50 3.30amoto, AA, per place.
Campane, prolted, per ait şti
5 25
Camphor. Caroos, clian, peri
$4.25 to 1,4.
Canchor, to'NO, POR BU91 am-
$1,50 to 125
ék. to 5.75
$13,50 ts 14,0)
Cardumone, Saparia! ** Cardamons, Interior, par pinal...$22.00 to 2
$125 10 15
9.50 to 14.00 Coals, Afont, pertoni 43-2413412 41
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$14,50 to 23,00 + Goale, English islawn, per vo....13.13 in 10.40-
18.50 to 17.00 Denis, Sydney, per t $18,50 to 17.00 Cooo, per pleni....... $19.80 to 14.00
Ear
Pass, Collap
Patreon test de plon). Pearl Burley, per prouin
Blon, Sam, No. 1, pariant.
Kleo, Sham, No. 1, net viral
Nice, Piars, mille Xn. 1. ser nloa!
$1.54
48.65 to 70Coppar, Sheathing, Japan, perploa.......$2439 to AL, Sam, millod No. 2, per pilos! 18.05 to 6.0 Capper, Naile, per ploul $29.50 to 23.91.Rion, Saigon, Ne-1, perpinn DLG5 to 7.70
Rise, Saigon, Hump bage.......... Aloe Saigon, Straw bag.. $15.50.to 163W $0.65 to 6.10 Cotton. Hamhay, par plon?...............
$18.30 to 18 SAW, Gresh, per pisal $8.6% 6,70 Cotton, Calenta, por goal
17.00 to 17.50 8.70 to 6.15 Catton, Mingpe, per plorak sam $4.73 to 0.73 Catton, Shanghai, per sical
$1030 to 17.00 Seaweed, Chit, zer nisal $16.20 to 18.5 Team. While per ɔioni. Cotter, Siantang.pe pical
......217.30 to 17.76 Sagan, Black, por pical.. Cotton, Fiontain, per pioul...66 BAP C
1429 to 192 halides Japan, per real 265 to 270 Cotton, Tangohow, nor peal17.55 b 18.00 Tharksins; par nion)...
8410 to 120 heilfish, California, pur pica) Catton Seele, sigo
.......28.50 to 23.0 tookah per pical. Cattlelish, Japazh Outtlefish, Japan, without bones,
and sharp nghting) and bairbrezilth escaper, berefore, ton on which Lord Clarendon NRK Undersigned having basa appainted Mortish Dzilla, 25 be., par ploe $3.85 to 9.00 Iron, Bar, por picat$350 to 3.85 Cotton Szola, Siam.............) 4.10.
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the youth of the male sexnate deeds that he and his colleagues. "had prepared to grant Insurans as follows:-
men,
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of
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the
treatica
orlean Frills, 1lbs, por pleco.
Cotton Tan, No, 23 to 32, not 1001 b. 190.50 07.30 Elle, MScarlet, por pluga Cotter Yam, No. 8 to 42, per 1001be. $14,50 to 100.00 Long Ella, Assorted per pleas... Cotton Tara, Bombay $67.50 to 74,00 Long Ells, RE Sundet, per pisse.... Cotton Tam, No. 14 to 23, per 100 be. R50 to 17.30 Carolats, LLL. nec ples....
Long Ells, If Senortod, per place...... Chinta, prepisse....
0 to 1.76 Long Sila, H Josrlet, per piece
Long 16, IL Assorted, por pinos 360 to Spanish Stripsa, unc yard..... or ang'as
METALS. $3.55 to 3.54 $2.55 to 2.5 Iron, Nail Read, per prom $2,450 2.54 Iron, Hoap, per pigal
Iron, Wis, par pical Lead, WB, pisal Load, LB, por olanl *1.7.2d, Hin Chop, par piout... $2.85 to 2.7%! $2.97 to 200
fivery/T.Clothin, 36 win, 430 in, Cihe, u po. $1.2010 13 frey Moths 24ys. 44217.71b5. 3. 20. $1.35 to 1.50 shares Loths, 24 yd365 81b. XOp. 36. $1.80 tv 1.8
reyT.Cathaydasha. Vp.ne. 12.50 to 3, Areyleths,21ydsfin6lbs. XXp. pe. $2.45 to 2.55
Hanikeralists, Dlcio, por dozen are Handkerchiefs, Brown, perdozer ...... Roulrahiefs, Rod, perdoren Barcarentes. Tight Red, por dezen...
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Agents for the above Corporation, ure
MARINE DEPARTMENT,
se Shirtings..? the, nie nieco Grey Bhirlinge: the, pornine...
97 The 935203 raduno Groe Shirtings,
11.55 to 1.23
to
China, and Australia.
FIRE DEPARTMENT. Policies insut for lang or hurt periods current rates.
LIFE DEPARTMENT. Policias issued fur sems not axesiding £5,000, Lat entered rates.
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 24th July, 1872. PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF. CALIFORNIA.
Dates, Black, par pion.......
Dried Lily Flowers........... Blephant's Tasts, 4 to 5 places Dater, Tad, berylcet
to 8 piec
pl$16.50 to 18.10
T11.236 to 29.7 Straila Produbo, ana"
Ti... 10 33.5
$7.65 to 7.75
Nation, Atratta, por pinal.... Ratans, Bangar, per nicul.
23.70 to
1. to
* 17,
13,91 to 19.50
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17,017, 0
1.45 to
1 to -3,55 152e
$285 to 10
$6.95 to 30
1441 to 458
$4.72 to 4.75
$4.70 to $73-
alakalwer, English, por pical,
801.00 to $140 Quiksilver, Amorim, por nit1-0 to $1.50
test, Paelish, par th........... Stoal, Smellah, per tab....... Spelter, por pinal
Batal Nut, nor do
· *1.17 tr
11
300
Paspor, White, nernicul
$0,00 KN AUCK $0.55 to 4.
$6,68 to 0.78
1
Tin, Mainois, per meal........ Tin Plate, per So.........
PRODUCE, Almands, per plot Atami, let quality, per piqul. Ala, and quality, per pioni......
$22.00 to 12.30 $2.15 to 2.55 $1.75 to 3.18
PUSTAH & Co.
Agents. Hongkong, 9th June, 1886.
"White Shirtiere, EF, var viece...
White Ahi-linge, MH, het slaco ...... White Spotted Shirtinga, ner place.... White Brocades, per minde
Trapur pieno While Shirtige, to rand, por tore White Shirtinge, 195, 90 mmol, por plone" White Shirtings, tad, pas nings..... White shirtings, 7,000 reel, per picos... White Shirtin. AA. rernicoo.
2.35 to 9.5
9.15 to 25 19.00 £5 Am) $3.45 to 8. 23,20 to 2,98 $1.45 1.76 $5.90 to 3
50 to 3 $2.45 to 2.5 $2.50 to 2,31
Bark, Camphor, per pleul..
£20.00 to 53.00 Besin do Mar, par pieni..................... Bees Wax, Japan, Whito, por pioul.317.30 to 17.60 -$73.50 to 73.00 Hens Wax, Hankcow, Valtor, per plent... $44.00 to 18.60 Hue Wax, White, por pioul. Birds Nesta, 1st qanlity, per sical....$1,000 to 2,400 Birds Vesta, Snd quality, parol $650 to 785 Birds' Neste, reality, per pianl.575.00 to 200 Baalo Cor KidsG.
$17.50 to 135)
$3.85 to 175 Klephant's Tocth, 7t 51.15 to $25 $.60 to 5.85 Plour, California, per exck of 50 lb 50 to 1.55 Flone, Amaridan, por barrel of 100 lba... $3.40 to 9.00 $93.10 to 34.50 | flour, American, per barrel af 200 lb. 30 to 45 9.00 to 99.00) 1400 to 4.95 Fangtey
Ginseng, American, Tat quality, p.ploal. $200 to $5 Ginseng, America, and quality, p.ploat. $160 to 210 Hams, Crdinary, por pien?....... Ths. 17.7.0 to 10.0.0 Hams, Superior, per nienl Homp, Hankow, por pical Hemp, Siam, per pioul................
$200 to $20
Tapper, Black, nor pical
T.29.5.0 to 3.0.0
$10.50 to 12.00
$10.40 to 1100
singlesa, Japan, por nicht.
Sandal Wool, Walahar, par pieni, Hanisl Wool, South Seas, pernimil Aspan Wood, Manila, per plcn Sapan Wool, Siam, per ginal Sugar, Shok-lang, White, No. 1, park, Angar, Shok-Jang, White, No. 2, n.nl. 24. Sagar, Rhok.lang, Rowe, per il 27 ggar Candy; Shok-lang, per piral. SUPEM RAT Bugar Candy. Poochow, gor nie. *8.77 78 Sagte Carly. Swalow, White, pericul. 34 46 5,45 $33.00 to $7.00
3.3 to 7.73 Vermicelli, Tientsin, par piocl $4.95 to 6.88
457 to 4.70 Wang, per picat... 138,0 to 48.55 r for flaws, per byx
3
5.54
500
4,43
37
1158
Robin Hood and Littlo John, the Parer and conuncdalbanselves to the strict Policing at 'sarient rate payable sither bere, eay Shirt now, A The per piena
their attributions;" and that the Declara- tha Doulas, and the other cattle-raideration has never received the assent of in London, or at the principal Ports of ladin, Brev Shirtingo, 10 16a,, por meno
The Crowd may make the Scottish border. It would be more rea-
Legislatura, soalde to look upon him as a somewhat with foreign Powers without the consent of tholde fallow with, in use sen out of ten, Paflistent, but the prerogative in this ne glutacter to speak of; a man whose buni-
matter does not extend to making any real defenceless mererant. I in violation of the municipal law of the land. tesail
was to prey upon d
The Declaration of Paris introduced an but who, as a rule, car-fely
approaching to turd knocks orcept teration into 'caritime law as it had hitherto were absolutely forced upon him fro
existed, and Black
1, and Blackstone distinctly tells us that However, to take this view is, perhaps to maritime law is part and parcel of the law In order, therefore, that this rush into the other extreme, and d may
of England In Silfur id regard the privateersinan of the early country may he bound by any treaty affectTHE Undersigned having been appointal part of the preacut century as a man whose ing that law, the treaty must have received for the above Company are Pro- swimary Insiness was not Ughting-though the comment of Parliament, which the instrupared to GRANT POLICIES to European and i would sight well enough upon cecisionment by which England agreed to abolish Chinese at Current Rates. bat filing his own pockets by despoiling country's enemics, and who, as he bad to privateering has never done. Globe-
when
พ.
bis
giva security for his good behaviour, was at
Toast
strice
likely to keep his conduct willis the
is of the law as anyone else. The subject may
may at any moment prove of portacce; and might have attained very! immediate importance if Greece, as being wo party to the Treaty of Paris, by which privateering is and remains abolished," bud found it advisable to sitempt to prey on Turkish
commeres, such as it is. Such action
intern would have provided a test case
it is well to consider before TAW which tional it actually arises.
NOTICE OF FIRM
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
NOTICE.
TB. E. L. WOODIN will ASSTME CHAROE Agency during my Absence from Hongkong.
A. McIVER,
Superintendent
Hengkong, 3rd June, 1886
FOR SALE. ALIFORNIAN
The Finest FLOUR in the Market STARR & flo's well known, beat reflor made
"DRAGON EXTRA" STRENGTH AND COLOUR
The idea which lies at the foundation of privateering is very old, and is, in short, that Biron of reprisal which, as Blackstone says, Benue dictated by aature herself. Nostor, in the "Iliad. tells us of the cattle which he trok from the Kesians as reprisals in satisfao- tion of a priza wan by his father Neleus at the Elian comes; and the fundamental con- piva which lies at the root of privateering ceptiva
that of an attempt on the part of a private TRY IT. individual to recover riet arms the value of of which ho has been forcibly de- Feby the subjects of a State with which prived, his country is not at war. The effect of this was, of course, to make a man judge in fiis I to the recognition of own use, and this led to the necessity of the supreme authority exor- —in other. Majgo control over such attempts- words, to the usue of what are technically known as latters of marque and reprisa, From "words," as Blackstore anys, quoting Dufresne, used as synonymous, and siguity- ing, the lattara taking in return, the former the passing the Frontiers in order to such taking." This clearly points to the authori
l as well as by sation of reprisale on land as
which they pt in this
shape, ia formand part of the customary law of nations, they face long bem disused, and
Suz
to
thir modern for they have beanemployed encourage merchants and other to fit out the privateers, or armed ships, in time of war, bais hold out being the value of the prizes to be captured, which, without such letters of marque, would, by virtue of the prerogative, become a droit of Admiralty, and belong, not
to the captors; but to the Crown.
.ONSURPASS ED
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PUSTAU & Co.. Agents. Hongkong, 18th Thinney, 1854.
VERARY.J.
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FRANSATLANTICFIREINSURANCE St. Petersbar
COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
Bates. SIEMSSEN & Co.
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WINES AND SPIRITS.
Hongkong. 1st January, 1894
FOR SALE.
RICHORD
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TILL
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“COTTAGE PIANOS,
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W. POWELL & Co. Haagsong. 1st January, 1836.
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SIEMSSEN & Co., Agents. Hongkong. Ith November, 1872.
NOTICE.
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PANY. LIMITED,
Is prepared to ACCEPT FIRST-CLASS Abbas Darver
All Rowe RISKS at ett par Abou, and other IN Alfeed Watta
URANCEs at Current Rates
Alma Billy Simpso
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Elizabeth and the first of tho Stuarts privateer and hueaneer, as
to have beer almost the words, we convertible terms, and pirate to have been often hardly distinguishable freur both. Walter Raleigh, Humphrey Gilbert, whe
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the men, as well as the champioa privateer of fiction, Amyas Leigh, and scores of other worthies of the period, were simply privateers when they were not pirates. The defeat of the Spanish Armada was, in the maxiu, et- by privateers, au3 by themalone; the is that bent the formidable warsbins of of Spain were light parchantme, carrying of which were in the habit of carts I of rich cargoes to Vircinis and, perchance, making the best hau! they conld out of a buthon-feighted Sanish galleon if Jack threw one in their way while prossing the Atlantic. I was not the weighs of metal, bat the superior handliness of the vessels, tho seamanship of the commanders, and, above all, the bulldog British plock of the men behind the guns, that made such adventures possible; and the last-named is a factor in
J. F. SCHEFFER,
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Hongkong, 3rd March, 1893.
FOR SALE.
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CACCONES, SHERRY, PORT. CLARETS, CHAMPAGNE. ROCKS, BURGUNDY, BRANDY, WHISKIES, ALB, STOUT MACHINERY, LAWN MOWERS. SCALES BICYCLES PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH.
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by the law of nations, issue letters of marque
tu individuals of
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any
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d-privileges of legitimate combatants. A vessel fitted out puder euch circumstances would be a pirate, and not a privateer, and would be liable to the crew, if captured, ber penalties of piracy. It is valy necessary to look at the origin of privateering to see that bie is the caer. How dan a State authorise
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