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and otliers. The latter have adduced no proofs, and have not adopted 

 any measures or made any application for a technical letter of request 

 nor for letters of reprisal. We protest against their being allowed to 

 use our proofs, which we have procured at great trouble and expense 

 to us, to which they have in nowise contributed. We consider them 

 to be interlopers, not having any rights in this case nor entitled to 

 any aid or redress, and at the proper time we will show it. We de- 

 sire our claim and case to be kept separate and disconnected. They 

 have no right to be joined with us. 



BRITISH AUTHORITIES. 



IT Yiner's Abr. Tit. Prerogative, Na.^ p. 2, 3. Viner is copied 

 from Eolles' Abr., 1668, published by Lord C. J. Hale. See 2 Rolles' 

 Abr., N. 1T5. Vis. 



1 Runn. Stat, at Large, p. 273, (127. V.) Stat. 27, ed. Ill, c. 

 17, A. D. 1353; ibid p. 507, (456.) Stat. 4, Hen. 5, c. 7; A. D. 

 1416. 



1 Fitz-Herb. N. Brev., 9th London ed., 1794, vol. 1, p. 114. 



2 Ibid (2 F. N. B.) lit. Libra Bequesta. The last of these cita- 

 tions contain precedents of "letters of request." 



1 Molloy's de Jure 3Iaritimo, 9th ed., 1769, ch. 2, p. 33, et seq., 

 § 1 to 28, regarded as the best authority on the subject of reprisals, and 

 it contains a form of special letters of reprisal, which see. The letters 

 cited were issued 17 Car. 11, May 19, (in 1646,) to James Caren et al. 



1 Waret's Hist, of Laios of Nations in Europe, ch. 9, p. 294. 



3 Hallam's Hist, of Middle Ages, ch. 9, p. 2 and 332. Am. Ed. 

 of 1853. 



2 Stephens' Neiv Comm. on Laws of England and of States, Ft. 1, 

 § 4, p. 515. London ed. of 1842. 



1 Black. Comm., ch. 7, et notes, til. Prerogative, § 4, p. 259. 

 Am. ed. 1841. 



2 Brown's Cir. and Ad. Law, c. 7, p. 334. 2d London ed. 

 Rutherford's Inst, of Nat. Lato, c. 17, p. 200, &c. 2d Am. ed. 

 Wildman's List, of Nat. Laiu, (v. Am. Law Lib., vol. 52,) Eng. 



Ed., p. 186, Am. ed., p. 117. 



Fritchard's Admiralty Dig., London ed. 1847, p. 193. 



Folson's Principles of the Law of Nations, (vol. 78, Am. Law Lib.,) 

 Eng. ed., p. 36, Am. ed.,p. 39, &c. 



Chitty's Laio of Nations, Eng. ed. of 1812, ch. — , p. 73, &c. 



Manning's Comm. on the Law of Nations. 



3 Fhillimore's Comm. on Int. Laio, ch. 2, p. 11, &:c. 1 lb., §§48 

 and 344. 



Hosack on the Eights of Neutrals, § 6 and 7, citing Stat, of 29 Geo. 

 II, ch. 34, and 19 G-eo. Ill, ch. 67, vesting the admiralty with the 

 |30wer of issuing letters of reprisal exercised by Lord Chancellor under 

 prior statutes above cited. 



McCulloch's (J. R.) Com. Diet., p. 1105, edition of 1850. 



1. Magens, on Insurance, App. p. 491. 



