Note F — Chapter III · THE SHIP “DUNDEE,” OF LONDON.

Some of our readers may require to be informed, that an ordinary merchant ship, not having “letters of marque” for acting as a privateer, can have no claim on any property which the bravery of her captain and crew might take from an enemy. So that, in the event of capturing an assailant, as might have been possible in the case referred to, the hard blows and damage must be borne by the merchantman, whilst the prize would fall due to the first ship of war incidently met with, or otherwise to the sovereign or public officers at home.