1

Present All the Judges.

2

THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the District Court, at New Orleans, condemning the Brig Clarissa Claiborne, for violating a law of the United States.

3

HARE, Moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record, in not sending up the depositions of the witnesseses.

4

MARSHALL, Ch. J.

5

What prevents you from producing the witnesses here, or taking their depositions de novo.

6

HARE, Suggested a doubt, whether cases for violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction.

7

However, on a subsequent day he moved for, and obtained a commission to take the depositions of wtnesses at New Orleans, to be used on the trial in this Court, at the next term.

8

A like commission was granted in the case of Williams and Armroyd, at this term.