[Michell, Abraham Louis] Exposition of the motives, founded upon the universally received Laws...
[Michell, Abraham Louis] Exposition of the motives, founded upon the universally received Laws of Nations, which have determined the King (of Prussia) upon the repeated instances of his subjects trading by sea, to lay an attachment upon the capital funds, which his Majesty had promised to reimburse for the subjects of Great-Britain, in virtue of the Peace-Treaties of Breslau and Dresden; and to procure, out of the said capitals to his said subjects, an indemnity for the losses which they have sustained by the depredations and violences of the English privateers, exercised upon them on the High Seas. Printed for J. Raymond, 1752. 8vo, marbled wrappers. The arguments about seizure of enemy property aboard neutral ships during war were a major development in international law. The Duke of Newcastle's arguments in reply to Michell's letters were a deliberate vindication of Prize Courts in relation to international law.