WAR IN DISGUISE;

OR,

THE FRAUDS

OF THE

NEUTRAL FLAGS.

THE FOURTH EDITION,

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM,
Dean Street;

AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; AND
J. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET-STREET.

1806.

PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST EDITION.

THOUGH the following sheets have been

written and sent to press in considerable haste, on account of some temporary considerations which add to the immediate importance of their subject, the author has spared no pains that could tend to guard his statements from mistake. His facts are, for the most part, derived, as the reader will perceive, from those authent and original sources of information, the records of our courts of prize: and it may therefore perhaps be sur mised, that some practitioner in those courts, if not the author of the argument, has at least contributed his aid, in furnishing premises for its

use.

Adverting to the probability of such a conjecture, and to an erroneous notion which he knows to be very prevalent, namely, that the practitioners in the admiralty courts have an interest