104 of the same work, an opinion given by him to the Chevalier Tindal as to the liability of The Hague to be bombarded.
The later growth of opinion has been in accordance with the views maintained by the writer of these letters, and with the _Rapport_ drafted by him for the Institut.

The Hague Conference of 1899, though unable to discuss the subject, had registered a _vaeu_ "that the proposal to regulate the question of the bombardment of ports, towns and villages by a naval force may be referred for examination to a future Conference." See _Parl.
Paper, Miscell._ No.

1 (1889), pp.

139, 146, 162, 165, 258, 283.

At the Conference of 1907 a Convention, No.ix., was accordingly signed and generally ratified, notably by Germany and Great Britain, Art.