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LITBRATURE.

The bap*
joif Blockade. By JAMII.4 PARLEZ DIRNII
• C.L. Loudon Butterworth. 185.3.

The commercial intercourse between nation and na-
tion is such, that no war can be carried on between any
two great members of the civilised community of the
world without communicating its baneful effects to
all others. The right of blockade, or the right to cut
off; by the use of armed force, all intercourse what-
ever with the pore and harbours of an enemy,
is, by the ancient custom and c'nsent of nations, one
of the most unquestionable rights of war ; and, as its
tenZency is, by inflicting the most serious amount of
injury on the enemy, to bring about the conclusion
of a peace, the abandonment of its exercise would,
probably, in the long run, be productive of more evils
to neutral uatioas, who, in the meantime, smart
under its Linporary infliction.
The law which permits this right has never'heless
limited its operation, and laid down rules by which
its exercise must be governed, which cannot be
changed or violated at the pleasure of the belligerent
powers themselves. It is not to be wondered at,
that at the commencement of a war, following a peace
of forty years' duration, some ignorance should have
been found to exist on the law which regulates this
right of blockade, and that some mistakes should
hare been committed in the application of its prin-
ciples. To correct these mistakes, to expound and
to enforce the law of nations during the vio-
lence of hostilities, ia the province of that court
which once the genius, the learning and the
wisdom of Lord Stowell adorned, and which is
now worthily occupied by Dr. Lushington. It
has been the lot of the latter to hear and determine a
aeries of cues, arising out of the blockade established
by the allied English and French fleets on the coast
of Russia in the Baltic during the summer of last
year, which, as Dr. Dec"e informs us, " emprehend
almost every point wh' can arise on questions of
blockade in an Engli' :..oart of Prize." It may not
be uninteresting to our Nation to review some of
the misconceptions which appear to have prevailed