They have forbidden also the trade of privateering in war.
After more futile cruising to and fro, Kidd fell from grace and crossed the very tenuous line that divided privateering from piracy in his century.
It was a dashing speculation, characteristic of its century, and neither better nor worse than the privateering of that time.
It is fair to assume that he knew the rules of the game and the kind of papers necessary to make a prize a lawful capture by the terms of the English privateering commission which he held.
He had been employed as a privateering commander against the French in the West Indies and on the New England coast, as the documents of the Provincial Government have already shown.
Declaration of War; its Effect upon the Person and Property of the Enemy's Subjects; Stratagems in War; Privateering Chapter LXVII.
It retained this use until privateeringwas abolished in 1856.
Since the renewal of this intercourse our citizens trading to those ports, with their property, have been duly respected, and privateering from those ports has ceased.
I recommend that Congress should immediately provide by law for the trial and punishment as pirates of Spanish subjects who, escaping the vigilance of their Government, shall be found guilty of privateering against the United States.
Here, too, the privateering spirit was to blame, Rhode Island being notorious for its enterprise in that form of piracy.
The lust for privateering had much to answer for in this respect.
The narrative of his adventures and his privateeringobtained for him a certain amount of sympathy amongst the higher classes, and he was presented to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Admiral.
It begins by privateering upon the African coast, in the Cape de Verd Islands, at Sierra Leone, and in the River Scherborough, for this is the route habitually taken by the ships going to South America.
It was he who inaugurated that privateering warfare by which the English, and later on the Dutch, were destined to inflict much injury upon the Spaniards.
Privateering not piracy, remarks of Earl Derby, 12; do.
Encouragement to Privateering by Public Armed and Private Armed Vessels.
Your vessels will be armed and prepared for privateering the moment war shall be declared.
They avoid armed vessels--and, defended as is the British commerce in every part of the world by her great naval force, it is little to be expected that privateering will be attended with much success or encouragement.
He believed the privateeringcarried on had been of great advantage to us and injury to our enemy.
He points out that privateering has been made obsolete, not merely by popular feeling, but also by the progress of the arts.
The privateering company cleared about ninety-two per cent on their venture.
Such employment would be demoralizing to any military service, but not necessarily all at once; and the conditions imparted for the time a tone and energy to privateering that it cannot always have.
In the previous January, the West India fleet, under the well-known Rodney, had acted with the land forces in the reduction of Martinique, the gem and tower of the French islands and the harbor of an extensive privateering system.
The European territory surrendered was on her northern and eastern boundaries; and she abandoned the use of the port of Dunkirk, the centre of that privateering warfare so dreaded by English merchants.
With this necessary base fell also the privateering system resting upon it.
A third point of rather minor interest is the peculiar character and large proportions taken on by the commerce-destroying and privateering warfare of the French, as their large fleets were disappearing.
All of these, during the Revolutionary War, were not only developing rapidly their regular commercial relations but were nests of privateering enterprises.
Yes," said his mother, "but it was only to go out with Sam Prentice in that bark, for another privateering trip to the West Indies.
He had learned, too, that this kind of lying in ambush was altogether a customary feature of all piracy or privateering among the Antilles.
While this was the condition of things on the land, not only in America, but in all other countries, there was a scourge of the sea that was almost as hurtful to commerce as was privateering itself.
She had often heard of the cruelties to which the prisoners of privateers were exposed, and she was well aware of her father's hatred to the system, although privateering was generally allowed to be honourable and lawful.
Privateering is not always described by such complimentary and dignified language, but the practical-minded rebel spoke well of that which it was so greatly to the advantage of his countrymen to do.
A matter which grew out of privateering gave Franklin much trouble.
In short, I submit that Solomon entered into a conspiracy with divers persons to bring about the ruination of my client in order that he, the prosecutor, might reap the entire benefits of this privateering expedition.
The main points were, that Isaac Solomon was to procure a ship and fit her out; that the profits of each privateering expedition were to be divided into four equal shares, of which the partners each took one.
He, like the remainder of the Hawk's company, knew that she was engaged on a privateering expedition, and was eager to "taste blood.
He had been conscious of it when he left Singapore on this privateering expedition and had more than suspected that Solomon's motives for financing him had been only partly concerned with the making of a profit out of possible prizes.
The system of privateering would be analogous to the militia system on the land.
Never before had England found an enemy so destructive to her trade, and during the first two years of privateering that followed, something like eight hundred sail of merchantmen were captured.
Her crew, deluded by the false and extravagant promises of privateeringcaptains and owners, had all deserted.
We learn with pleasure that our citizens, with their property, trading to those ports of St. Domingo with which commercial intercourse has been renewed have been duly respected, and that privateering from those ports has ceased.
The learned counsel who spoke last Saturday, referred to privateering as a relic of the barbarous age.
The point of difficulty is: my learned friends do not admit the completeness of the crime by all the prisoners, subject only to the answer whether the privateering character of the enterprise protects them.
With a knowledge of these facts, and with these European theories, these foreigners, now indicted under the Act of 1790, entered into this privateering business.
Now, gentlemen, there was an attempt made by the learned counsel to cast odium upon privateering and upon this transaction, by speaking of these men as going out for their own plunder.
They never dreamed that, if they wished to embark in this privateering business, they should be treated as pirates.
In the first place, privateering is a part of war, or is a part of the preliminary hostile aggressions which are in the nature of a forcible collision between sovereign powers.
For purposes of commerce warfare the French navy had suffered the withdrawal of many of its smaller fighting vessels and large numbers of its best seamen, attracted into privateering by the better promise of profit and adventure.
In this war as in the preceding, French privateersmen made great inroads on British commerce, and some of these privateering operations were conducted on a grand scale.
If she refuse to receive it, it can only be because she is willing to become the patron of privateering when aimed at our devastation.
It invited us in 1856 to accede to the declaration of the Congress of Paris, of which body Great Britain was herself a member, abolishing privateering everywhere in all cases and forever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privateering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
