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THE MARITIME LEAGUE FOR THE RESUMPTION OF NAVAL RIGHTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Council of the League.—Chairman,
Stewart E. Holland, Esq. Treasurer,
Thomas Gibson Bowles, Esq.
The The importance to the British Empire of the retention and the exercise to their full extent of those naval rights founded on the Law of Nature and sanctioned by the Law of Nations, by which alone a maritime country can maintain its power on the seas, must commend itself to all who attach any importance to the existence of their country. The unauthoritative Declaration of Paris of 1856 assumes to abolish those rights, and
