“Great Britain must produce, then, an exception in the Law of
Nations in favor of the right she contends for. But in what
written and received authority will she find it? In what
usage, except her own, will it be found?… But nowhere will
she find an exception to this freedom of the seas, and of
neutral flags, which justifies the taking away of any person,
_not an enemy in military service_, found on board a neutral
vessel.”[64]