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The Neustra Senora De La Caridad: Bages

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 12, 1819PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of North Carolina. This was a prize allegation against certain goods, taken by a private armed vessel of the United States, the Harrison, daring the late war with Great Britain, out of a ship called the Neustra Señora de la Caridad.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of North Carolina. This was a prize allegation against certain goods, taken by a private armed vessel of the United States, the Harrison, daring the late war with Great Britain, out of a ship called the Neustra Señora de la Caridad. A claim- was interposed by Salvador Bages, and others, Spanish subjects, domiciled at St. Jago, the*, island of Cuba, alleging that the ship was a Spanish ship, and* with the goods, their property, was captured on the high seas, by an armed vessel cruizing under.-the pretended colours of Carthagena, the commander of which produced no…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson

delivered the' opinion of the Court.. This; case arose out of a capture made la the late war. The La Popa, a commissioned cruiser of. the Province of Carthagena, had made prize of the Caridad, a Spanish vessel, in a voyage1 from Jamaica, to Cuba. The American private armed vessel Harr rison fell'in. with the Caridad, then in'possession of the prize crew of the La Popa, anfi suspecting her cargo to be British, took possession of it, and transhipped it into their own vessel.. ‘ Oh the arrival of the Harrison in á port of North Carolina, the cargo was claimed both by the Caridad and La Popa,…

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