INTERNATIONAL LAW.

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

MEMBER OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, AND
JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.

'Legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possumus.'-CICERO
pro A. Cluent. § 53.

'Il y a dans la sainteté du droit méconnu une force immortelle qui appuie
mystérieusement et invinciblement à la longue les revendications pacifiques et
les protestations solennelles de la conscience humaine. Et, grâce en soit rendue
au Dien qui nous a faits! c'est l'honneur de l'humanité que la force brutale ne
décide pas toujours tout ici-bas."-Mgr. DUPANLOUP dans l'Assemblée Nationale,
22 Juillet 1871.

'The various Transactions and Concordats between Sovereigns and the See of
Rome;-a succinct and impartial history of them is wanting the papal arrange-
ments with Bonaparte would not be the least curious part of such a work.'-
Hora Juridica Subseciva, by CHARLES BUTLER (1804), p. 113.

VOL. II.

Third Edition.

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTHS, 7 FLEET STREET,
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SEP 6 1900

PREFACE.

THE SECOND EDITION of this volume was published. in 1871. Since that date various matters have arisen, connected with the practice and history of International Law, which have been considered in the present volume.

Whilst, however, this edition was passing through the press, the following events, which otherwise would have been noticed in the body of the work, have happened.

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, A.D. 1850 (referred to in vol. i. pp. 52, 309), between Great Britain and the United States, respecting the future communication by ship-canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by way of San Juan de Nicaragua, has undergone discussion.

The correspondence between the American Secretary of State (Mr. Blaine) and the English Secretary. for Foreign Affairs (Earl Granville), in which suggestions were made by the former for the abrogation or modification of the treaty in question, will be found in the papers respecting the "projected Panama "canal," presented to Parliament by command of her Majesty, 1882. Earl Granville, in his despatch to Mr. West, the British Minister at Washington,