I don’t keep up with such things but 300 does sound like an awful lot of cannons. Also my impression of “ship of the line” is something like what we called battleships which were in a line such as that required for crossing the T. In other words your most powerful ships. Probably a little expensive for a privateer.
Still his argument is sound. The Constitution provided for the private ownership of war ships.
Oh, the argument is sound, all right, but it would be more effective with factual examples.
Exactly.