The St. Lawrence, Webb, Master
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the sentence of the United States Circuit Court for the district of New Hampshire. *The material facts of J the case were as follows : The ship St. Lawrence, Silas Webb, master, was captured, on the 20th of June 1813, by the private armed vessel America, and with her'cargo, libelled as prize, in the district court of New Hampshire.
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This was an appeal from the sentence of the United States Circuit Court for the district of New Hampshire. *The material facts of J the case were as follows : The ship St. Lawrence, Silas Webb, master, was captured, on the 20th of June 1813, by the private armed vessel America, and with her'cargo, libelled as prize, in the district court of New Hampshire. On the proceedings which were had there, it appeared, that the St. Lawrence, owned by Robert Dickey, of New York, and Hugh Thompson, of Baltimore, arrived at Liverpool, from Sweden, in April 1813, with a cargo of iron and deals. In the month…
1Opinion of the CourtLivingston, J.
’'■'From the manner in which the appellants have argued this cause, it does not appear that they are very sanguine in their f xpec- L tations of our reversing the decree of the circuit court, on the evidence on which that court and the district court proceeded ; but that their chief hope is derived from the further proof which they have it in their power to produce, provided an opportunity be afforded them for that purpose. Except as to the property claimed by Mr. Penniman and Mr. McGregor, this court does not perceive how the circuit court could have done otherwise, upon the proof before it,…
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