The Fortuna— Krause

15 U.S. 161

2 Wheat. 161

4 L.Ed. 209

The FORTUNA—Krause, et al. Claimants.

March 17, 1817

APPEAL from the circuit court for the district of North Carolina.

This ship, sailing under Russian colours, left Riga on the 2d of September, 1813, for London, where she arrived; and from thence sailed on the 18th of November, 1813, in ballast, on a voyage to the West-Indies; took a British convoy at Portsmouth, in England, and proceeded with it to Barbadoes, and thence to Jamaica. From thence she sailed to the Havanna, where she arrived on the 12th of February, 1814; took in a cargo of the produce of Cuba,…