The Mary

STORY, Circuit Justice.

The brig Mary and cargo were captured on the 22d of April, 1813, by the privateer Paul Jones, Captain Taylor, being then on a voyage from Waterford, in Ireland, to Newport, with a cargo of British merchandize on board. It appears in evidence and is admitted, that the brig, with her cargo on board, sailed from Bristol on the 16th of August, 1812, and having received damage at sea, put back into Waterford about five days afterwards, and remained there until the 7th of April, 1813, when she sailed, by permission of the British government, for the United States. The…