of the historical exposition has to be checked by the results of more recent investigation, there are parts of Wheaton's work that are still of use to the student of history—the following especially: on conventional maritime law to 1713 (pp. 115–25); on contraband of war in the seventeenth century (pp. 126–45); on the right of visitation and search in the seventeenth century (pp. 145–52); on the dominion of the seas in the same century (pp. 152–61); on the Armed Neutrality of 1780 (pp. 295–306), and on maritime law from 1793 to 1807 (pp. 372–420—the Armed Neutrality of 1800, pp. 397–420); on intervention (pp. 80–2, with Fénelon's statement of the principle with a view to the maintenance of the balance of power, pp. 82–3; pp- 284–9, for 1788–92; pp. 345–66, for 1792–3; and pp. 518–63, for 1820–7[1]—Naples, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece); and on the balance of power (pp. 19–20, 80–1, 266–8, 345–6, 421–2).
(b) Nys, Les Origines du Droit international (1894), pp. v + 414: an illuminating companion to text-books of European history: ch. i, La Notion de la Science du Droit international au moyen âge; ch. ii, La Papauté et l'Empire, including sections on Gregory VII, Innocent III, The Holy Roman
- ↑ See also Stapleton, Intervention and Non-Intervention of Great Britain, 1790–1865 (1866), and Reddaway, The Monroe Doctrine (1898); Wheaton's Elements, fifth ed., 90–125 (Monroe Doctrine, 97–101).
work together with the additions made to these chapters in the concluding volume of the first Collection. Wheaton's interest in maritime law had been shown as far back as 1815, when, at the age of thirty, he published a Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures or Prizes. The subject was of engrossing interest to his fellow-citizens as well as to European States, and had called forth a number of works, useful to the student of history, since 1800, the year of the second Armed Neutrality—works of which a good representative is Ward's Treatise of the relative Rights and Duties of Belligerent and Neutral Powers in Maritime Affairs, in which the Principles of Armed Neutralities … are fully discussed (1801). For the Armed Neutrality of 1780, see Martens, Recueil de Traités, vol. iii, and for that of 1800, vol. vii.
