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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)

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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)
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Whist

متي

Here is now the Report

you

will be

>

21

Are Qverse

how to impose upon

teis

Offices delicate duties which might

Oreate international disputes. I

to make

Confess that it appears opew

to much

doubt whether the task shared be

d an aw

urged

unwilling Admiralty,

and also, if it be permissible for m

to speak on the mare

general question,

that the tendency of

this Ast

seems to me very dangerous

aud

means

that it attempts too mush by of Legislation. In the case of prizes

large body of

of war there is a appropriate Law. To there is in the Case of Captured lavers, which

In oreover have been made the subject of treaties with all the powers of Christendom. But grieved that Chisnamen (who

are not helpless

Regras

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