foreign belligerent (p. 84); also its power to alter or review a sentence of the Admiralty Court or of the Lords of Appeals (pp. 133, 204, 227). The crown appears to have exercised or assumed the right to intervene in a prize suit before sentence (pp. 134, 289); to award to allies a share in prizes captured by the joint forces (pp. 37, 307); and to deal with captures made before war declared, or by way of reprisal (pp. 296. 325).
Report upon the Action of Frederick the Great in Connexion with Reprisals and the Silesian Loan
Although this document (p. 348) has recently been reprinted at length, together with much of the correspondence which accompanied it and which had not been before printed, it had not previously been very accessible, and its importance is perhaps a sufficient reason for reproducing it here. The original has been searched for without success, but there are contemporary prints of it, one of them, which was used by Sir Ernest Satow, is stated to have been issued by authority.' That reproduced below is from Collectanea Juridica. It was circulated through the chancelleries of Europe, and has been generally accepted as an an authoritative and exhaustive statement of the law and practice of the English Courts of Admiralty. That it was not acquiesced in by Frederick is well known, and France,2 amongst other powers, protested against some of its law. A change in the European situation prevented the points in dispute coming to an issue.
1 The Silesian Loan and Frederick the Great, by Rt. Hon. Ernest Satow. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915.
a S.P. Foreign, Foreign Ministers, &c., 9, 20th April, 1753.