Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case comes before this Court upon an appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.
The controversy has arisen out of the shipment of a cargo of cotton, indigo, and coffee, made in the fall of 1809, in the brig Spencer, from Philadelphia to St. Sebastians, or Port Passage. The vessel duly arrived, and discharged her cargo. She was afterwards seized, and the cargo sequestrated by...
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