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voyage " ; l but it may be said here that the regulation with 

 regard to merchant vessels striking to a man-of-war was 

 always afterwards embodied in the Admiralty instructions, 

 offenders being reported to the Admiralty, and proceedings 

 often taken against them in the Admiralty Court. 2 



1 Molloy, De Jure Maritime et Navalis, 149. 



2 Regulations and Instructions relating to his Majesty's Service at Sea, 1734, 1766, 

 1790, Art. xi. ; 1808, Art. xxiv. A case of the kind occurred in 1829. Phillimore, 

 Commentaries upon International Law, ii. 58. 



