The Samuel
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal, from, the Circuit Court fop the Rhode Island district. The . brig Samuel; sailed from St. Bartholomews, an island belonging to his majesty the king, of, Sweden, in the month of November, 1811, with a cargo consisting of rum, molasses, and some other articles* and arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, on the 8fh of the following December, where the vessel and cargo were seized and libelléd in the district court as being forfeited to the Unit ad.
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Appeal, from, the Circuit Court fop the Rhode Island district. The . brig Samuel; sailed from St. Bartholomews, an island belonging to his majesty the king, of, Sweden, in the month of November, 1811, with a cargo consisting of rum, molasses, and some other articles* and arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, on the 8fh of the following December, where the vessel and cargo were seized and libelléd in the district court as being forfeited to the Unit ad. States, under the act of congress prohibiting the insportation of articles the growth, produce, or manufacture? of Great Britain or France', their…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. j.,
delivered the opinion of the court-
On the-part of the claimants it is contended, 1st. That the proceedings ought to have been at commón law, and not in the admiralty. 2d. That the’ inforrhation, if it be one, is insufficient. 3d. That the testimony is wholly insufficient to warrant a condemnation.
In arguing the first point, the counsel for the claimants endeavoured to take this case out of the principle laid down in the Vengeance, and in other cases resting on the authority of that decision, by urging a difference of phraseology in' the acts of congress. In that part of the…
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