INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CONNEXION WITH MUNICIPAL STATUTES RELATING TO The Commerce, Rights and Liabilities of the Subjects of Nentral CONSIDERED 66 WITH REFERENCE TO THE TRIAL OF THE CASE OF THE ALEXANDRA," FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT. BY Felix F. HARGRAVE HAMEL, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AND LAW CLERK IN THE SOLICITOR'S LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7 FLEET STREET, Law Publishers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty. HODGES, SMITH, & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. 1863. 214104 HARIA COLLEGE OCT 17 1889 LIBRARY Sumner Gund. PRINTED BY WILLIAM MACKENZIE, 45 & 47 HOWARD STREET, GLASGOW. DEDICATION. ΤΟ FELIX JOHN HAMEL, HAMEL, Esq., SOLICITOR FOR HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, ETC., ETC. MY DEAR FATHER, Since it is chiefly to you, as my legal preceptor, that I owe the little knowledge I have acquired of the profession in which you have earned such honourable distinction, permit me, « in grateful recognition of your paternal kindness and untiring devotion to my interests, to dedicate to you the first legal essay to which I venture to give publicity. I know that I might have trespassed largely on your time and patience, with great advantage to myself, for advice and assistance in that which has to me been a work of much thought and laborious research; but having regard to your official position, I deemed it more discreet to avoid any course which might even indirectly involve you in any responsibility for the opinions I might independently express. I know that, however severe may be the criticisms of others, my work will be perused and accepted by you in that generous |