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A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AHCHIPIILAGO. 



liiiman nature. Such people all nations are mtereated, 

 auJ ouglit to be resenting, to suppress." 



And as toucbiug war agnltxst pirates, and who 

 may urge it, the foUowmg passage ia not eajaily 

 answerable i — 



It was never doubted, but a war upon pirates may be 

 lawfully made by any nation, though not infetsted nor 

 viqlatod by tliom, la it because they have not certas 

 sedes^ or hresf In the piratical war wliich was aclileved 

 by Pompoy the great, and waa his truest and greatest 

 glory ; tlie pirates had some cities, sundry ports, and a 

 great part of the province of Cilicia j and the pirates now 

 being hare a receptacle and mansion in Algiers, Beasts 

 are not tlie less sarage because they have dens. Is it 

 because the danger hovers as a cloud, that a man cannot 

 tell wliere it will fall, — and so it m every man's case ? 

 The reason is good, but It is not all, nor that M'hich is most 

 alleged. For the truo received reason is^ that pirates are 

 communes himmni generis hosfejt ; whom all nations are to 

 prosecute, not so much in the right of their owu fears, as 

 upon the band of human society. 



** For as there are formal and written leagues, respective 

 to certain enemies ; bo is there a natural and tacit cou^ 

 federation amongst all men, against the common enemy 

 of human society : so as there needs no intimation, nor 

 denunciation of the w^ar ; there neetis no retiuest fi'om the 

 nation grieved ; but all these formalities the ian^ of mim e 

 aupj)lics in Uie case of pirates. Tliu saniij is the case of 



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