tioned, and the extent to which the courts o law claim the right of iffuing prohibitions i now pretty well known. The law of nation alfo, and its application to the modern con troverfies of belligerent and neutral powers is better understood; and though, upon fom detached points, able and celebrated effay have appeared, yet every circumftance of the times has called for fyftematic and general inftruction. The confined limits of the prefent volume, as of the former, difavow however and forbid the idea of detailed and minute information. They profefs rather to guide research, to refer where they do not inform, and to mark the great fources of the law of the admiralty in the civil law. If the author fhould be deemed even lefs fuccefsful in the attempt, the attempt has merit as prompting by example, and that fo far the plan is useful can fcarcely be denied The work is of course, in fome refpects, a compilation; but the author has not fervilely com e courts of hibitions is of nations odern con al powers, pon some ted effays nce of the d general - the preow howiled and rather to do not es of the to fpeak modeftly, would not wish that feeling, as too often happens, to be mistaken for timidity. The propriety of annexing this work to a treatise on the civil law is evident. Since the work was finished, the author has feen fome new cafes, particularly the celebrated one of the Gratitudine, in December, 1801, and fome new and able works on marine law; but he doth not think that these cafes have controverted his pofitions, nor thefe works anticipated his defign, though of the latter he had at first that mortifying apprehenfion to which every man is fubject, during the pendency of his labours. |