Page:Handbook of maritime rights.djvu/19

capture under the Declaration of Paris, at the simple inconvenience of paying the enhanced cost of transport, representing the difference of the distance of the place of produce from the neutral harbour as compared with its usual place of export. Prior to the Declaration of Paris this would have availed him nothing, because his cargoes were seizable by the hostile cruisers the moment they left the neutral harbour, in whatever vessel they might be. In Lord Stowell's words (the concisest form of the expression of maritime belligerent rights), "enemies" cargoes were seizable at sea, whatever the ships, whatever the cargoes, and whatever the destination." This ancient rule was repealed by the Declaration of Paris, which introduced instead of it the new rule that enemies goods were safe in neutral bottoms, which is the maxim which I intend to examine at length in subsequent chapters. But before taking leave of the subject of