Then did the king enlarge The fpleen he prison'd. Chapman. PRISONBASE. n. f. A kind of rural play, commonly called prifonbars.-The fpachies of the court play every Friday at giocho di canni, which is no other than prifonbase upon horseback, hitting one another with darts, as the others do with their bands. Sandys. (1.) * PRISONER. n. f. [prifonnier, Fr.] 1. One who is confined in hold.— Cæfar's ill-erected tower, To whofe flint bosom my condemned lord Shak. The moft pernicious infection, next to the plague, is the fmell of the jail, when prisoners have been long and clofe, and naftily kept. Bacon.-He that is tied with one flender ftring, fuch as one refolute ftruggle would break, he is prifoner only at his own floth. Decay of Piety.—A prifoner is trou. bled, that he cannot go whether he would. L'Ef. trange. 2. A captive; one taken by the enemy. I go like one that having loft the field, Is prifoner led away with heavy heart. Spenfer. ----There succeeded an absolute victory for the English, the taking of the Spanish general d'Ocampo prifoner, with the lofs of few of the English. Bacon. He yielded on my word, And as my prif'ner, I reftore his fword. Dryd. 3. One under an arreft. Tribune, a guard to seize the emprefs ftraight, Secure her perfon prif'ner to the ftate. Dryd. (2.) A PRISONER is a perfon reftrained or kept in prifon upon an action civil or criminal, or upon commendment: and one may be prifoner on matter of record, or matter of fact. A prifoner upon matter of record, is he who, being prefent in court, is by the court committed to prifon; and the other is one carried to prifon upon an arreft, whether it be by the fheriff, conftable, or other officer. PRISONHOUSE. n. f. Gaol; hold in which one is confined.— I am forbid to tell the fecrets of my prifonhouse. Shak. * PRISONMENT. n. f. [from prison.] Confine. ment; imprisonment; captivity. May be he will not touch young Arthur's life, But hold himself in his prisonment. Shak. PRISRENDI, a town and bishop's fee of European Turkey in Servia, 43 miles NE of Aleffio, and 78 E. of Ragufa. PRISTINA, a town and Greek bishop's fee of European Turkey in Servia: 100 miles E. of Ragufi, and 115 W. of Sophia. It was pillaged by the imperialifts, in 1689. It lies 58 miles NW. of Niffa, and 150 SE. of Belgrade. Lon. 22. 5. E. Lat. 42. 43. N. PRISTINE. adj. [priftinus, Lat.] Firft; ancient; original. Now their pristine worth The Britons recollect. Philips. -This light being restored to its pristine conftitution, became of the fame nature and condition as at firft. Newton. PRISTIS, in ichthyology, the SAWFISH, is ge. nerally confidered as a fpecies of the fquals or Shark genus, comprehending under it feveral varie ties. Mr Latham, however, is of opinion that it ought to be confidered as a diftinct genus itself, and that the characteristics of the feveral varieties are fufficient to conftitute them distinct species. He ranks it as a genus belonging to the order of ampl bia nantes. Its characters are thefe: A long plant fnout, with fpines growing like teeth out of both edges; 4 or 5 fpiracula, or breathing apertures, in the fides of the neck: the body is oblong and al most round, with a rough coriaceous fkin; the mouth is fituated in the lower part of the head; and the noftrils, before the mouth, are half covered with a membranaceous lobe; behind the eyes are two oval holes; the ventral fins approach one another, and in the male are placed about the organs of generation; there are no fins at the anus. Of this genus our author enumerates five species: viz. 1. PRISTUS ANTIQUORUM. The head is ra ther flat at top; the eyes large, with yellow rides; behind each is a hole, which fome have fup pofed may lead to an organ of hearing. The mouth is well furnished with teeth, but they are blunt, ferving rather to bruife its prey than to divide it by cutting. Before the mouth are two foramina, fuppofed to be the noftrils. The roftrum, beat, or fnout, is in general about one third of the total length of the fish, and contains in some 18, in others as far as 23 or 24 fpines on each fide; thefe are very ftout, much thicker at the back part, and channelled, inclining to an edge forwards. The fins are feven in number-viz. two dorfal, placed at fome diftance from each other-two pectoral, taking rife juft behind the breathing-holes, which are five in number-two ventral, fituated almof underneath the first dorsal-and laftly, the caudal, occupying the tail both above and beneath, brí longeft on the upper part. The general colcar of the body is a dull grey, or brownith, growing paler as it approaches the belly, where it is near ly white. 2. PRISTIS CIRRATUS, of which, continues our author, we have only met with one fpecimen. which was brought from Port Jackfon in New Holland. It is a male, and the total length about 40 inches: the fnout, from the tip of it to the eye, 11: the fpines widely different from any of the others; they are indeed placed, as ufual, on th edge, but are contined on each fide even beyond the eyes. The longer ones are flender, tharp, fomewhat bent, and about 20 in number; and between these are others not half the length of the primal ones, between fome three or four, between others as far as fix; and in general the middle one of these fmaller feries is the long eft: befide these a féries of minute ones may perceived beneath, at the very edge. In the incul likewife, another fingularity occurs:-about the middle of it on each fide, near the edge, arifes a flexible ligamentous cord, about 3 inches long, like the beards at the mouth of fome of the gadu or cod genus, and as pliant in the recent state. The colour of the fish is a pale brown: the breath ing apertures 4: the mouth furnished with 3 rou of minute, but very sharp teeth. See Pla CCLXXIII. where the fnout marked 1 is that the priftis antiquorum; that marked a, of pecnatus; and that marked 4, of microdon, the attire fish is the cirratus. See fig. 3. 3. PRISTIS j. PRISTIS CUSPIDATUS. Of this our author has feen only two fpecimens, the one about a foot and a half in length, and the other more than two feet and a half. In both of these were 28 fpines on each fide; but the distinguishing feature is the fpines themselves, being particularly flat and broad, and fhaped at the point more like the lancet ufed by furgeons in bleeding, than any other figure. We believe that no other author has hitherto taken notice of this fpecies. * PRIVADO. n. f. [Spanish.] A fecret friend -The lady Brampton, an English lady, embark ed for Portugal at that time, with some privado of her own. Bacon. PRIVAS, a town of France, in the dep. of Ar deche, 16 m. N. of Viviers. Lon. 4. 41. E. Lat 44. 45. N. (1.) * PRIVATE. adj. [privatus, Lat.] 1. Not open; fecret.— I have fome private fchooling for you. Shak 4. PRISTIS MICRODON. Of this fpecies the total length is 28 inches, the fnout occupying 10; from Into her private cell. Milton. the base of this to that of the pectoral fins four-Private, or secret prayer, is that which is used inches; between the pectoral and ventral fins fix. by a man alone apart from all others. D. of Man. The two dorfal fins occupy nearly the fame pro- Fame, not contented with her broad highway, portions in respect to each other; but the hinder Delights, for change, thro' private paths to one is the fmalleft, and all of them are greatly holftray. Hartés lowed out at the back part, much more fo than 2. Alone; not accompanied. 3. Being upon the in the two firft fpecies. The fnout differs from fame terms with the reft of the community; parthat of every other in feveral particulars it is ticular; oppofed to publick.-When publick conlonger in proportion, being more than one third fent hath established any thing, every man's judg of the whole fish. The fpines do not ftand out ment were private; fo that of peace there is not from the fides more than a quarter of an inch, and any way poffible, unless the voice of every intire from this circumftance feem far lefs capable of fociety overrule all private. Hooker. doing injury than any other species yet known. 5. PRISTIS PECTINATUS. This with the first Species, grows to the largest fize of any that have yet come under the inspection of the naturalift, fome fpecimens measuring 15 feet in length. The pectinatus differs from the priftis antiquorum in having the fnout more narrow in proportion at the bafe, and the whole of it more flender in all its parts: whereas the firft is very broad at the bafe, and tapers confiderably from thence to the point. The spines on each fide alfo are longer and more flender, and vary from 25 to 34 in the different fpecimens: we have indeed been informed of one which contained no lefs than 36 spines on each fide of the fnout; but we must confefs that we have never been fortunate enough to have feen fuch a fpecimen. *PRITHÉE. A familiar corruption of pray thee, or I pray thee, which fome of the tragic writers have injudiciously ufed.-Well, what was that fcream for, I prithee? L'Eftrange. Away! I prithee leave me! Rowe. PRITZ, John George, a German divine, born at Leipfic, in 1662; where he became profeffor of divinity. He was a writer in the Leipfic Jourtal, and published an edition of Milton's Letters. PRITZERBE, a town of Brandenburg, on the Havel; 7 miles NNW of Brandenburg. PRITZLER'S HARBOUR, a bay on the N. fide of Hudfon's Straits. Lon. 67. 10. W. Lat. 62. 0. N. PRITZWALK, a town of Brandenburg, in Pregnitz: 44 miles N. of Brandenburg, and 54 NW. of Berlin. PRIVACY. n.. [from private] 1. State of being fecret; fecrecy. 2. Retirement; retreat; place intended to be fecret.Clamours our privacies uneafy make. Dryd. Her fecret privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. [Privauté, French.] Privity; joint knowledge; great familiarity. Privacy in this fenfe is improper-You fee Frog fcorns to hearkeh to any com pofition without your privacy. Arbuthnot. 4. T4 citurnity. Ainf. VOL. XVII, PART 1. Let him breathe between the heav'ns and earth, A private man in Athens. Shak What infinite heart-ease must kings neglect, That private men enjoy? and what have kings, That private have not too, fave ceremony? Shak. -Peter was but a private man. Peacham.-The firft principles of chriftian religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Sanderfon. A private man prefume to love a queen? Dryd 4. Particular; not relating to the public.-My end being private, I have not expreffed my cons ceptions in the language of the schools. Digby. 5. In PRIVATE. Secretly; not publicly; not open ly. In private grieve, but with a careless scorn, Shak (1.) * PRIVATEER. 2. f. [from private.] A fhip fitted out by private men to plunder the ene mies of the ftate.-He is at no charge for a fleet, further than providing privateers, wherewith his fubjects carry on a piratical war. Swift. (2.) PRIVATEERS are a kind of private men of war, the perfons concerned wherein administer at their own cofts a part of a war, by fitting out these ships of force, and providing them with all military ftores; and they have, instead of pay, leave to keep what they take from the enemy, al lowing the admiral his share, &c. Privateers may not attempt any thing against the laws of nations as to affault an enemy in a port or haven, under the protection of any prince or republic, whether he be friend, ally, or neuter; for the peace of fuch places must be inviolably kept; therefore, by a treaty made by K. William and the States of Holland, before a commiffion fhall be granted to any privateer, the commander is to give fecu rity, if the fhip be not above 150 tons, in L.1500, and if the fhip exceeds that burden, in L.3000, that they will make fatisfaction for all damages which 2. Confifting in the abfence of fomething; not po fitive. Privative is in things, what negative is in propofitions.-The impreffion from privative to active, as from filence to noife, is a greater degree than from lefs noife to more. Bacon.-The very privative bleffings, the bleflings of immu. nity, fafeguard, liberty, and integrity, which we enjoy, deferve the thankfgiving of a whole life. Taylor. (2.) * PRIVATIVE. . . That of which the ef fence is the abfence of fomething, as filence is only the abfence of found.-Blackness and darknefs are but privatives, and therefore have little or no activity. Bacon. which they fhall commit in their courfes at fea, contrary to the treaties with that ftate, on pain of forfeiting their commiffions; and the fhip is made liable. Besides these private commiffions, there are special commiffions for privateers, granted to commanders of fhips, &c. who take pay; who are under a marine difcipline; and if they do not obey their orders, may be punished with death and the wars in later ages have given occafion to princes to iffue thefe commiffions, to anroy the enemies in their commerce, and hinder fuch fupplics as might ftrengthen them or length en out the war; and likewife to prevent the feparation of fhips of greater force from their fleets or fquadrons. Ships taken by privateers were to be divided into five parts; four parts whereof go to the perfons interefted in the privateer, and the fifth to his Majefty; and as a farther encouragement, privateers, &c. deftroying any French man of war or privateer. thall receive, for every piece of orduance in the fhip fo taken, L. 10 reward, &c. By a particular ftatute lately made, the lord admiral, or commiflioners of the admiralty, may grant commiflions to commanders of privateers, for taking hips, &c. which being adjudged prizes, and the tenth part paid to the admiral, &c. wholly belong to the owners of the privateers and the captors, in proportions agreed on between themfelves, *To PRIVATEER. v. a. [from the noun.] To fit out fhips against enemies, at the charge of private perfons. *PRIVATELY. adv. [from private.] Secretly; not openly. We'll pafs the business privately and well. Shak. -The difciples came unto him privately. Mat. * PRIVATENESS. n. f. [from private.] 1. The ftate of a man in the fame rank with the reft of the community. 2. Secrefy; privacy;-Ambaf fadors attending the court, he did content with courtefy, reward and privateness. Bacon. 3. Ob fcurity; retirement. He drew him into the fatal circle from a resolved privateness. Wotton. * PRIVATION. n. f. [ privation, Fr. privatio, Lat. 1. Removal or deftruction of any thing or quality.— For what is this contagious fin of kind, But a privation of that grace within? Davies. -If the privation be good, it follows not the former condition was evil, but lefs good. Ba con With bare privation fenfe is fatisfy'd. Dryd. -Evil will be known by confequence, as being only a privation or abfence of good. South.-A privation is the abfence of what does naturally belong to the thing, or which ought to be prefent with it; as when a man or a horfe is deaf or dead, or a phyfician or divine unlearned; these are privations Watts. 2. The act of the mind by which, in confidering a fubject, we feparate it from any thing appendant. 3. The act of degrading from rank or office.-If part of the peo. ple or eftate be fomewhat in the election, you cannot make them nulls or cyphers in the pri vation or tranflation. (1.) PRIVATIVE. adj. [privatif, Fr. privativus, Lat.] 1. Caufing privation of any thing. * (3.) PRIVATIVE, in grammar, a particle which, prefixed to a word, changes it into a contrary fenfe. Thus, among the Greeks, the a is used as a privative; as in abs, atheist, acephalus, &c, The Latins have their privative in; as, incorrigibilis, indeclinabilis, &c. The English, French, &c. on occation borrow both the Latin and Greek privatives. * PRIVATIVELY. adu. [from privative.] 1. By the abfence of fomething neceffary to be prefént. 2. Negatively-The duty of the new cove nant is fet down, first privatively, but pofitively. Hammond. PRIVATIVENESS. . . [from privative.] Notation of abfence of fomething that should be prefent. PRIVAZAC, a town of France, in the dep. of the Aveiron; 18 miles W. of Rhodez. PRIVERNATES, an ancient people of Italy, who inhabited PRIVERNUM, a town of the Volfci, in Latium, E. of Setia. Having revolted from the Romans, their ambaffadors were afked, what punifhment they deferved? They answered, What thofe deferve who deem themfelves worthy of liberty. Being afked, Should the punishment be remitted, what peace was to be expected with them? they replied, If you grant a good peace, you may hope to have it fincere and lafting; but if a bad one, you may expect it of fhort continuance. The Romans were fo far from being dif pleafed, that by a vote of the people they had the freedom of the city granted them. The town is now called PIPERNO. See that article. .(1.) * PRIVET. n. f. A plant. (2.) PRIVET, in botany. See LIGUSTRUM. (3.) * PRIVET. 2. f. [liguftrum.] Evergreen. A plant. Miller. A foul that can fecurely death defy, The king has made him And counts it nature's privilege to die. Dryden. One of the privy council. Shak. -The privilege of birth-right was a double por--One, having let his beard grow from the martion. Locke. 2. Immunity; right not univerfal.- tyrdom of king Charles I. till the restoration, deI beg the ancient privilege of Athens. Shak. fired to be made a privy counsellor. Spe&ator. 5. (II.) PRIVILEGE, in law, fome peculiar benefit Conscious to any thing; admitted to participa granted to certain perfons or places contrary to tion of knowledge.the ufual course of the law. Privileges are either perfonal or real. 1. PRIVILEGES, PERSONAL, are fuch as are extended to peers, ambaffadors, members of parliament, and of the convocation, &c. See LORDS, AMBASSADOR, PARLIAMENT, ARREST, &C. 2. PRIVILEGES, REAL, are thofe granted to fome particular places, as the king's palace, the courts at Weftminster, &c. (III.) PRIVILEGES OF THE CLergy. CLERGY, 2. See 1. To PRIVILEGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To inveft with rights or immunities; to grant a privilege. The great are privileg'd alone, He took this place for fanctuary, Doth privilege me. Daniel. 3. To exempt from paying tax or impoft.-Many things are by our laws privileged from tythes. Hale. * PRIVILY. adv. [from privy] Secretly; privately. They have the profits of their lands by pretence of conveyances thereof unto their privy friends, who privily fend them the revenues. Spenfer's Ireland. PRIVITY. n.. [privauté, Fr. from privy.] 1. Private communication.-I will unto you in privity difcover the drift of my purpose. Spenfer. 2. Confcioufnefs; joint knowledge; private concurrence. The authority of higher powers have force even in these things which are done without their privity. Hooker. Myfelf am one made privy to the plot. Shak. How hard is it to keep it unbetray'd? Daniel. He would rather lose half of his kingdom than be privy to fuch a secret. (2.) PRIVY, in law, is a partaker, or perfon having an intereft in any action or thing. In this fense they say, privies in blood: every heir in tail is privy to recover the land entailed. In old law books, merchants privy are opposed to merchants ftrangers. Coke mentions four kinds of privies. Privies in blood, as the heir to his father; privies in representation, as executors and adminiftrators to the deceased; privies in eftate, as he in reverfion, and he in remainder, donor and donee, leffor and leffee: laftly, privy in tenure, as the lord by efcheat; i. e. when land efcheats to the lord for want of heirs. (3.) PRIVY CHAMBER. See CHAMBER, Í IO. (4.) PRIVY COUNCIL. See COUNCIL. The king's will is the fole conftituent of a privy counfellor; and it alfo regulates their number, which Shak. in ancient times was about 12. Afterwards it increased to fo large a number, that it was found inconvenient for fecrecy and difpatch; and therefore Charles II. in 1679, limited it to 30, whereof 15 were principal officers of state, and to be counsellors ex officio; and the other 15 were compofed of 10 lords and 5 commoners of the king's choofing. Since that time, however, the number has been much augmented, and now continues indefinite. At the fame time, alfo, the ancient office of lord prefident of the council was revived, in the perfon of Anthony earl of Shaftesbury, Privy counsellors are made by the king's nomination, without either patent or grant. Any natural born fubject of Great Britain is capable of being a member of the privy council; taking the proper oaths for fecurity of the government, and the teft for fecurity of the church. By the act of fettlement, 12 and 13 W. III. cap. 2. it is enacted, that no perfon born out of the dominions of the crown of England, unlefs born of English parents, even though naturalized by parliament, fhall be capable of being of the privy council. The duty of a privy counsellor appears from the oath of office, which confifts of leven articles. 1. To advise the king according to the best of his cunning and difcretion. 2. To advife for the king's honour and good of the public, without partiality, through affection, love, meed, doubt, or dread. 3. To keep the king's counfel fecret. 4. To avoid corruption. 5. To help and ftrengthen the executicn of what fhall be there refolved. 6. To with ftand all perfons who would attempt the contrary. And, laftly, in general, 7. To observe, keep, and do all that a good and true counsellor ought to do to his fovereign lord. The privy council is the primum mobile of the ftate, and that which gives the motion and direction to all the Tt2 Upon this French going out, took he upon bim, Without the privity o' th' king, t' appoint Who fhould attend him. Shak. -All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the prince of Orange. Swift. 3. In the plural.] Secret parts. Few of them have any thing to cover their privities. Abbot. PRIVOLNOE, a town of Ruffia, in Saratov, on the Volna, 48 miles S. of Saratov. (1.1.) PRIVY. adj. [privé, Fr.] 1. Private; not publick; affigned to fecret ufes.The other half Comes to the privy coffer of the ftate. Shak. 2. Secret; clandeftine; done by ftealth.-He took advantage of the night for fuch privy attempts. Mar. viii. 7. 3. Secret; not fhewn; not publick.-The word of the great men that are flain entereth into their privy chamber. Ezek. xxi. 14. 4. Admitted to fecrets of ftate, inferior the crown, unless fooner determined by the fuc (6.) PRIVY SEAL, a feal which the king ufes previously to such grants, &c. as are afterwards to pafs the great feal. The privy feal is also fometimes ufed in matters of lefs confequence, which do not require the great seal. (7.) PRIVY SEAL, CLERKS OF THE. See CLERK, $29. (8.) PRIVY SEAL, LORD. See KEEPER, N° 4. (II.) * PRIVY. n. f. Place of retirement; neceffary house. Your fancy. Saviji. Would fill the fame ideas give ye,. As when you fpy'd her on the privy. (1.)* PRIZE. n.f. [prix, Fr.] 1. A reward gained by conteft with competitors.-If ever he go alone, I'll never wrestle for prize. Shak.Yet enforc't, he left th' affected prize. Chapm. I fought and conquer'd, yet have loft the prize. Dryden. Inferior parts. It is likewife a court of juftice of great antiquity; the primitive and ordinary way of government in England being by the king and privy council. It has been frequently ufed by all our kings for determining controverfies of great importance; the ordinary judges have fometimes declined giving judgment till they had confulted the king and privy council; and the parliament have frequently referred matters of high moment to the fame, as being, by long experience, better able to judge of, and, by their fecrecy and expedition, to tranfact fome ftate affairs, than the lords and commons. At prefent, the privy council takes cognizance of few or no matters except fuch as cannot be well determined by the known laws and ordinary courts; fuch as matters of complaint and fudden emergencies: their conftant bufinefs being to confult for the public good in affairs of ftate. This power of the privy council is to inquire into all offences against the government, and to commit the offenders to fafe cuftody, in order to take their trial in fome of the courts of law. But their jurisdiction herein is only to inquire, and not to punish; and the perfons committed by them are entitled to their habeas corpus by ftat. 16 Car. I. cap. 1o, as much as if committed by an ordinary justice of the peace. In plantation or admiralty caufes, which arife out-The railing fuch filly competitions among the of the jurifdiction of this kingdom, and in matters ignorant, propofing prizes for fuch useless accomof lunacy and idiocy, the privy council has cog- plishments, has in it fomething immoral as well as nizance, even in queftions of extenfive property, ridiculous. Addison.-They are not indeed fuffered being the court of appeal in fuch caufes; or, ra- to difpute with us the proud prizes of arts and ther, the appeal lies to the king's majefty himself fciences, of learning and elegance. 2. A reward in council. From all the dominions of the crown, gained by any performance. excepting Great Britain and Ireland, an appellate jurifdiction (in the laft refort) is vefted in this tribunal; which usually exercifes its judicial authority in a committee of the whole privy council, who hear the allegations and proofs, and make their report to his majefty in council, by whom the judgment is finally given. Anciently, to ftrike in the house of a privy counfellor, or elsewhere in his prefence, was grievously punished: by 3 Hen. VII. cap. 14, if any of the king's fervants of his household confpire or imagine to take away the life of a privy counsellor, it is felony, though nothing fhall be done upon it; and by 9 Ann. cap. 16, it is enacted, that any perfon who fhall unlawfully attempt to kill, or fhall unlawfully affault, and ftrike or wound any privy counsellor in the execution of his office, fhall be felons, and fuffer death as fuch. With advice of this council, the king iffues proclamations that bind the fubject, provided they be not contrary to law. In debates, the loweft delivers his opinion firft, the king laft, and thereby determines the matter, A council is never held without the prefence of a MINISTER OF STATE. The diffolution of the privy council depends upon the king's pleasure; and he may, whenever he thinks proper, difcharge any particular member, or the whole of it, and appoint another. By the common law alfo it was diffolved ipfo fulla by the king's demife, as deriving all its authority from him. But now, to prevent the inconveniences of having no council in being at the acceffion of a new prince, it is enacted, by 6 Anu. cap. 7. that the privy council all continue for fix months after the demife of Fame is the trumpet, but your smile the prize. Dryden. Prife, French.] Something taken by adventure; plunder. 3. To fill king Edward's fame with prisoner And make his chronicle as rich with prize, Shak. Age that all men overcomes, has made his prize on thee. Chapman. -He converted the prizes to his own use. ArbThen proftrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes, Soon to obtain and long poffefs the prize. Pop (2.) PRIZE, [prife, French, i. e. taken,] in maritime affairs, a veffel taken at fea from the enemies of a ftate, or from pirates; and that either by a man of war, a privateer, &c. having a commif fion for that purpose. Veffels are looked on as prizes, if they fight under any other standard than that of the ftate from which they have their com miffion; if they have no charter party, invoice, or bill of lading aboard; if loaded with effects belonging to the king's enemies, or with contraband goods. In fhips of war, the prizes are to be divided among the officers, feamen, &c. as his Majefty fhall appoint by proclamation; but among privateers, the divifion is according to the agreement between the owners. By ftat. 13 Geo. II. c. 4.; judges and officers, failing of their duty in refpect to the condemnation of prizes, forfeit 500l. with full cofts of fuit; one moiety to the king, and the other to the informer. |