The Ariadne
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania. This vessel, belonging to citizens of the United States, and laden with a cargo of flour also .belonging to citizens of the same, was captured on the 15th day of October, 1812, on a voyage from Alexandria to Cadiz, with a license or passport of protection from the British admiral, Sawyer.
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Appeal from the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania. This vessel, belonging to citizens of the United States, and laden with a cargo of flour also .belonging to citizens of the same, was captured on the 15th day of October, 1812, on a voyage from Alexandria to Cadiz, with a license or passport of protection from the British admiral, Sawyer. The vessel and cargo were restored in the district court; but on. appeal,-sentence of condemnation was pro-by the circuit, court, from which sentence * . . an appeal was entered to this court. offered tq read farther proof, taken under the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Washington
The view of the court is, that this case cannot be distinguished from those already decided, it is alleged that the flour was not actually destined to the use of the enemy; but whether any part of it went to his use or not, is immaterial, ' It is, indeed, possible that Cadiz might have fallen without the aid of these supplies; and therefore, in fact, Great Britain and her ally may have been relieved, by these supplies, from the pressure of the war in that quarter. The court, however, ,in the cases alluded to, proceeded on a broader ground: all the judges who concurred in those decisions .were…
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