A report of the case of the Louis, Forest, master
Subtitle: appealed from the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone and determined in the High Court of Admiralty, on the 15th of December 1817 : with an appendix
By: by John Dodson
Contributors: Louis (Ship); Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty
Publisher: Printed for J. Butterworth & Son; J. Cooke
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London; Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Slave trade; Law and legislation; Slavery; Louis (Ship); Foreign relations
Notes: "This ship was taken off Cape Mesurada on the coast of Africa, on the 11th of March 1816, by an English colonial armed vessel ... She is immediately proceeded against in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone ... as a French ship violating French law by the intention of purchasing slaves for the purpose of carrying them to her port in Martinique ...": p. 27-28.

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