Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty, Vol. 5: Commencing With the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Michaelmas Term, 1798 AT the close of the Fourth Volume of the Reports of the late war, the engagements of the Editor seemed, for a time at least, to have terminated with the subject-matter on which they had been employed. The recommencement of hostilities has opened sources of fresh materials; and, under the same hope of contri buting usefully to the stock of public information, this work is again resumed, and will proceed in the same order and form, and under the same general assurances, that were originally professed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.