PHILLIMORE, Robert.

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A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, First editions, presentation copies, the first Letter inscribed on the front cover "From the author", and the second inscribed, on the initial blank, "The very Revd. the Dean of Christ Church with the author's respectful compliment". These copies are in exceptionally well-preserved examples of the original wrappers.The Letters of Robert Phillimore (1810-1885) deal with international law and Anglo-American collaboration in the suppression of the African slave trade - both key diplomatic questions in the early 1840s.In 1841, Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774-1848) was dispatched to resolve these questions, negotiating with Daniel Webster as Secretary of State. In 1842, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty established a naval programme for suppressing the slave trade off Africa.The negotiations also resolved the case of the slave ship Creole, which had witnessed a slave mutiny and the death of one slave and one white passenger. The ship then sailed to the Bahamas, where British officials ruled the slaves freed - provoking outrage in the American South over the loss of property.In the Letters, Phillimore examines the legality and implications of the various points raised by Ashburton's mission. The first Letter also prints extracts from addresses by Martin Van Buren and John Tyler.Phillimore, Queen's Counsel and a Privy Councillor, served as the final judge of the High Court of Admiralty, which was absorbed into the new High Court of J

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