Title: Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes, the Schooner Hope, Henry Bates, master, an appeal from Bernuda, Samuel Bayard, Esq., the agent appointed by the government of the United States of America to prosecute claims and appeals in Prize Causes, for Henry Bates, the master and claimant of the said vessel, and the cargo and private adventures laden on board her as American property, claimant and appellant, against Josiah Basden, commander of the private ship of war the Favorite, captor and respondent