English Admiralty Reports Author:George Minot Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Charlotte Caroline. 1 Dod. this transaction, originates at Amsterdam ; and the probability is, that the cargo is the property of merchants resident in th... more »at place. At the same time it is possible, that there may be English interests engaged in this speculation. That the property belongs to subjects of the enemy, is not fully and conclusively established : it is matter of strong suspicion only, and the fact may turn out to be otherwise. I am not willing to exclude the parties from an opportunity of showing this to be the case, and that they were not privy to the fraudulent substitution of this Danish ship for the Prussian ship designated in the license. If these facts shall be proved to the [ 192 ] satisfaction of the court, I will give them the benefit of that very favorable rule upon which this court has been in the habit of acting; that where the enemies' shipper has been guilty of a fraud, the interests of the British merchants, not parties to the fraud, shall not be affected. Upon these grounds I now pronounce the condemnation of the ship and the freight, but direct the case to stand over as to the cargo. The Charlotte Caroline, Ader. December 9, 1812. Salvage, right of, on recapture, not extinguished by subsequent capture and condemnation in an enemy's port, where the sentence condemning the property is overruled by an order of release from the sovereign power of the state. This ship, under Swedish colors, laden with a cargo of iron and deals, on a voyage from Stockholm to Dublin, in the month of June, 1810, was boarded off Moen Island, in the Baltic, by a Danish row- boat, and afterwards by his Majesty's cutter Cheerful, Lieutenant George "Wttod, commander, and placed under the protection of the convoy from Darshead to England, the master being put in poss...« less