“This was an appeal from the district court, where the appellant filed a petition praying to be paid the sum of $408. 10 cents, due to him for a certain number of water casks, and two barrels of vinegar, furnished the brig President, at Baltimore, where she then lay, in October 1821, as part of her outfits. The brig having performed a voyage from Baltimore, after the above articles were furnished, returned the following year to the port of Philadelphia, where she was libelled for sailors’ wages, and sold under a sentence of the district court. The petition is, to be paid out of the surplus of the proceeds of the brig, her tackle, &,c. remaining in the registry of that court, after payment of the wages, &c.”