JB/547/066/001

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Novr 1810
Defence

Meaning to let in his brother whom he had made Lord High Admiral the Duke of York afterwards
James the 2d for a share of the plunder making or to be made
in the practical war carrying on or meditated against
the Dutch, Charles the 2d with the advice of his lawyers
leave a line of demarcation between makes a division of between the cases in which the proceeds of prizes shall
belong to the King, and the cases in which they shall belong
to the Lord High Admiral.

It being at all times in By the power of placing
and displacing the Lord High Admiral all dispute about
rights as between the King and that one of his dependent servants
should naturally have been rendered impossible. Such however
had been was the weakness of the two brothers on the subject of those rights that they
for the benefit of their respective lawyers they had suffered those
lawyers to carry on lawsuits under in their respective names.
To keep up the game this the amicable contest was terminated
by the above mentioned line of demarcation: which
line of demarcation was of course under the same advice so constructed
as to become a source of future that litigation which
in matters of right is the natural and naturally intended result of distinctions
without use.

Where there is no Lord High Admiralty the office
being vested in Commissioners a Board the rights of the Lord Admiral
remain it seems in the person of the King. No such
great Officer having been in existence for this Century
past, his resurrection is an event that can not be looked will be placed
in the category of probable ones upon as very probable. The distinction demarcation which, except
for breeding lawsuits for the benefit of lawyers, never had
any use as no longer any thing more than a possible existence.

Identifier: | JB/547/066/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
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