The Thomas Gibbons, Rockwell, Master
Supreme Court of the United States
■ This was an appeal from the decree of tbe Circuit Court for the district of Georgia. The ship Thomas Gibbons sailed from Liverpool for Savannah, on tbe 16th of August 1812, was captured on tbe 12tb of October following, ou the high seas, oS Tybee light-house, and the same day, brought into the port of Savannah, as prize to the privateer Atas.
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■ This was an appeal from the decree of tbe Circuit Court for the district of Georgia. The ship Thomas Gibbons sailed from Liverpool for Savannah, on tbe 16th of August 1812, was captured on tbe 12tb of October following, ou the high seas, oS Tybee light-house, and the same day, brought into the port of Savannah, as prize to the privateer Atas. The ship and cargo were under the protection of a special license, dated 21st July 1812, and conceived in the usual terms of the document usually denominated the Sidmouth license, except that, in this instance, the protection was extended to the…
1Opinion of the CourtStory, J.
*The ship Thomas Gibbons, laden with a cargo of British manufactures, on account of British and American merchants, sailed from L Liverpool, in Great Britain, on the 16th August 1812, bound for Savannah, in Georgia, and was captured on the 12th of the ensuing October, on the high seas, off Tybee light-house, by the private armed vessel Atas, Thomas M. Newhall, commander, and on the same day, brought into Savannah as prize of war. The ship sailed from Liverpool under the protection of a special license, dated the 21§t of July 1812, granted by Lord Sidmouth, by order of the privy council,…
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