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130 conspicuously during the Revolutionary War of 1792, and were, as I have said, called, in a great measure, into existence by the Orders in Council of 1793, 1794, and 1798. In the war of 1803 our prize courts began to see their way to check them, and some of the Orders in Council I have just mentioned were not renewed. Finally, there is a weapon stored in the arsenal of Maritime Rights which can checkmate these frauds, and neutralize even neutralizing ingenuity, viz., prohibiting the importation of enemies' produce, and, if necessary, sequestrating it on the high seas.

The fact is, and this the secret of the whole business, it is not an intellectual difficulty which opposes itself to the resumption of Maritime Rights. The difficulty is purely moral. The Rights were not abandoned in consequence of the force of the arguments urged for their abandonment. They were first surrendered, and