The Irresistible

This is an appeal from a sentence of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, dismissing an information filed in that Court against the brig La Irresistible, as forfeited under the acts of Congress, made for the preservation of the neutrality of the United States. The offence charged in the information, was committed under the act of 1817, and the only question is, .whether the-informaron can be sustained after the time when that act wo.jr- d have expired by its own limitation.

The act was to continue in force two years after the 3d of March, 1817.

On the 20th of…