“This was an action of debt brought in the district court against the defendant, master of the Placidia, a foreign vessel, to recover the penalty of $500, under, the fifty-seventh section of the duty law, 1 Story’s Laws, 624, for an alleged disagreement between the cargo on board and that reported in the manifest; there being found concealed on board twenty kegs of white lead more than were mentioned in the manifest. The jury found a verdict stating.

“This was an action of debt brought in the district court by the United States against the- defendants, upon a bond given by them to the United States, in the penalty of $5000. The district attorney, at the return term of the writ, entered up a judgment by default for the penalty, without assigning breaches, or calling for a plea, and issued a fieri facias for that sum, endorsed ‘$3373.

“This was an indictment containing four counts. First, for making a revolt; second, for piratically and feloniously running away with the vessel and goods to the value of $50; third, for laying violent hands on the captain to hinder his fighting in defence of his vessel; and fourth, yielding up the vessel to a pirate.

“Rule upon the plaintiffs to show their cause of action, and why the defendant should not be permitted to appear on common bail, having been discharged as an insolvent under the laws of the state of Maryland. The case was as follows: Swift, being a debtor to the United States in a considerable sum, applied to the secretary of the treasury to be discharged as an insolvent, upon surrendering all his estate to the United States, agreeably to the provisions of the act of congress.