Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Ocean Free-Lance, Vol. 1 of 3: From a Privateersman's Log, 1812
Privateering was abolished in 1856, by the Declaration of Paris, that is to say, abolished for Great Britain, which is all of that Decla ration that need concern Englishmen. A singularly able treatise on this subject, eu titled Maritime Warfare, ' has been written by Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, who shows with such force of reasoning as no man who chooses to consider the subject carefully can resist, that in sanctioning the abolition of privateering, Great Britain, as the principal maritime power in the world, has directly weakened her State Navy by depriving it of a valuable auxiliary, and by forfeiting, to quote Mr. Bowles's words, one of the best schools for the formation of adventurous and daring sailors.', contents OF vol. I.
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