Talbot v. Commanders of Three Brigs
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from a decree in the Admiralty on the following case:—Silas Talbot, commander of the armed sloop Argo, belonging to, and in the service of these States, duly commissioned, failed from New-London, in the State of Connecticut, the twenty-ninth of August, 1779, on a cruise.
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THIS was an appeal from a decree in the Admiralty on the following case:—Silas Talbot, commander of the armed sloop Argo, belonging to, and in the service of these States, duly commissioned, failed from New-London, in the State of Connecticut, the twenty-ninth of August, 1779, on a cruise. On the sixth of September, after an engagement of three hours, he took as prize upon the High Seas, an armed Letter of Marque vessel, called the Betsey, of two hundred tons burthen, with a valuable cargo, belonging to subjects of Great-Britain, not being inhabitants of Bermuda, and bound for New-York, then…
1Opinion of the Court
the President delivered the resolution of the Court.
Dickenson, President:-
There are two principal qualities concerning jurisdiction in this cause.
First. Whether the Court of Admiralty for this State had jurisdiction?
Second. Whether this Court has jurisdiction!
The first has been sub-divided into these secondary questions:
First. Could the Court of Admiralty for this State take cognizance as an Instance Court, supposing this cause not to be a cause of Prize?
Second. Did that Court take cognizance as a Prize Court?
It is acknowledged by the Council for the Appellants, that if this is not a cause of…
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