The William Gray
U.S. Circuit Court for New York
This was an appeal from a sentence of condemnation in the district court of the [United States for the] Southern district of New York. The vessel was libelled on behalf of the United States for a violation of the “Act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States” (4 Laws [Bior. & D.] 129 [2 Stat. 451]), and of the act supplementary to said act, and of the act in addition to said supplementary act.
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This was an appeal from a sentence of condemnation in the district court of the [United States for the] Southern district of New York. The vessel was libelled on behalf of the United States for a violation of the “Act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States” (4 Laws [Bior. & D.] 129 [2 Stat. 451]), and of the act supplementary to said act, and of the act in addition to said supplementary act. The libel stated that the William Gray was, on the first of January, 1809, at Alexandria, Virginia, bound for a foreign port, and after-wards, contrary…
1Opinion of the Court
LIVINGSTON, Circuit Justice.
In defence of the libel filed against this vessel for proceeding from the United States to the island of Antigua, contrary to the act laying an embargo, and the first act in addition thereto, the claimant alleges, that while on a voyage from Alexandria to Boston, she was driven by storms, tempests, stress of weather, and necessity, out of her course, and forced to proceed to that island for her own preservation and that of the cargo, and of the lives of the persons on board. Both the fact and the legal consequences deduced from it by the appellant, are denied by…
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