Letters of Sulpicius, on the Northern Confederacy. With an Appendix, containing the Treaty of Armed Neutrality, together with Other Documents Relative to the Subject.
London: Printed by Thomas Baylis, for William Cobbett, 1801. 48, xxiii pp. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Removed from a larger volume otherwise a very good copy, scattered foxing. Sabin 93572. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 18236. Kress B4404. Item #40952
Grenville was known to write under the pseudonym of Sulpicius for the Porcupine in which these letters first appeared. "Among the most remarkable works upon international jurisprudence which the crisis of the second armed neutrality produced, were the Letters of Sulpicius, by Lord Grenville, and a Speech, afterwards published by the same distinguished statesman, upon the treaty between England and Russia in 1801.
In the Letters, Lord Grenville—who had but recently resigned the office of foreign secretary, which he had filled for many years—maintained, with perfect knowledge of the subject, much erudition, great vigor of logic, and manly eloquence, the ancient doctrines of international law against those of the armed neutrality," (Phillimore, Commentaries upon International Law, Third ed., London, 1885, Vol. 3, pp. 351-2).
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