Whilst
Here is now the Report you will be
21 Are Qverse how to impose upon
this Offices delicate duties which might
Oreate international disputes. I
Confess that it appears open to much
doubt whether the task should be
urged on an unwilling Admiralty,
and also, if it be permissible for me
to speak on the more general question,
that the tendency of this Act seems to me very dangerous and
means that it attempts too much by way of Legislation. In the case of prizes
of war there is a large body of appropriate Law. To be precise, there is in the Case of Captured vessels, which
have been made the subject of treaties with all the powers of Christendom. But I grieve that Chinamen (who are not helpless)