 | Andrew Lenner - History - 2001 - 248 pages
...it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against the enemy, but a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British...nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong,96 It was not the return of British sailors that Americans opposed, but the means by which the... | |
 | William Cobbett - History - 1815 - 422 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy,...vessels belong; and a self-redress is assumed, which if the British subjects were wrongfully detained, and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for... | |
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British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against... 
