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 to 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.
Contributors: Michell, Abraham Louis, 1712-1782.
Publisher: Printed for J. Raymond
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Prize law -- Great Britain.; Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748.; Prussia (Germany) -- Claims vs. Great Britain.
Other titles: Exposition des motifs ...
Notes: English and French on opposite pages.
Title on added t.p.: Exposition des motifs, fondes sur le droit des gens universellement reçû ...
Date of publication from: A dict. of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England ... from 1726 to 1777 / H.R. Plomer. 1932. p. 207.
Added t.p. dated: à Berlin, MDCCLII.
Signatures: pi⁴ a⁴ B-R⁴.
"Memorial of Mr. Michell, secretary to the legation of His Majesty the King of Prussia, presented to the Duke of Newcastle" (dated Nov. 23, 1752): v-xv.