The Elizabeth

BETTS, District Judge.

The libel in this case was filed July 7, 1SC2, alleging that the *464vessel, with her cargo, was captured, as lawful prize, by the United States steamer Keystone State, William E. Le Roy, of the United States navy commanding, on the 29th day of May, 1862, on the Atlantic ocean, off Charleston harbor. The monition issued on the libel was made returnable, and was returned in court, on public proclamation, July 29 thereafter; and thereupon Pierrepont Edwards, the acting British consul for this port, intervened, by his proctor, for the interest of the owners of the steamer and…