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This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from 1830 regarding the seizure of a Spanish vessel carrying enslaved people from Africa to Cuba. The vessel was captured by a Venezuelan privateer and then seized in the Mississippi River by U.S. customs officials. The district court condemned the vessel and enslaved people. After appeals, the Supreme Court affirmed the district court

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