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114 reflection on his judgment in the first instance. And it is scarcely too much to argue that yet further reflection and deeper thinking might have induced him to revise his opinions on the whole subject, and retract his "hasty and improvident" assent to the Declaration of Paris.

To conclude my authorities on this question. The Solicitor-General said in the same debate (1862), "if there be any principle of the law of nations more cardinal than another it is that the people are identified with their Governments, and that you cannot have peace with the one and war with the other, that in fact the people are bound up with their Government and the public interest of the nation for better or for worse." The Lord Advocate said:—"The principle of all war was the denial of the rights of property to a belligerent enemy. That was one of its essential ingredients."

War, in fact, is a declaration of