After argument, LOWEL, Judge of the District, delivered the opinion of the court, first recapitulating the facts above stated.
"BY THE COURT. The Libellants have prayed, that the whole of the ship and cargo should be decreed to their use. There have been times in the history of nations, in which vessel and goods, left by necessity on the high seas, have been decreed the property of the finders; and where wrecks on the shore have been with-held from the original proprietors...
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