“The defendant was indicted for an assault upon the person of Mr Salmon, the Spanish charge d’affaires, and for infracting the law of nations by committing violence, upon his person. These charges were contained in two separate indictments, both of which were tried at the same time.”

“The bill states, that before the intermarriage of the plaintiffs, an indenture tripartite was made between Samuel E. Howell and R. R. Smith, executors of Samuel Howell, of the first part, Hannah Howell, the female plaintiff, of the second part, and the defendant’s intestate, William E. Howell, of the third part, which, after reciting a bequest of £3000 by Samuel Howell to his granddaughter Hannah L.

Indictment for making a false declaration as to the employ­ment of a vessel in the cod fisheries, contrary to the act of Congress of the 29th of July, 1813, ch. 34, §§ 7 and 9.

Case agreed. “The plaintiffs being bona fide, and for a valuable consideration, possessed of certain notes issued by this Bank, and having occasion to remit money to Baltimore, cut them in halves, and in February 1806, enclosed'-the half parts of said notes to their correspondent in Baltimore, which were 

“In October 1812, the defendant, a merchant of Philadelphia, consigned to the plaintiff, a merchant of Bourdeaux, forty bags of coffee, weighing between five and six thousand pounds, which were accompanied by a letter of advice, apprizing him of the consignment, and containing the following order, viz.

“The first count in the indictment was for confining the captain, and the second for an assault on board of a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States, with a dangerous weapon. Both offences are charged to have been committed on the high seas, in the outer road off the port of St Domingo. The master gave in evidence that, whilst the vessel was lying in the port of St Domingo, and in the inner road, he was hastily passing the mate at night, and might unintentionally have touched him with his arm.

“Assumpsit on a bill of exchange by the plaintiff, as indorsee, against the defendants, as indorsers. The bill was drawn by one James Franklin on E. F. Green, London, for £200 sterling, payable to one Patterson, or order, in ninety days after sight. The bill was indorsed by Patterson in blank, and by a course of negotiation became the property of the bank of Passamaquoddy, and was indorsed by the cashier thereof in behalf of the bank, and came to the possession of the plaintiff by a subsequent indorsement.

“The bill states that the plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement for a purchase, by the former, from the latter, of a certain tract of land, for which he was to receive a good title, and was to pay a certain sum by instalments. That the plaintiff was put into possession, but the defendant having refused to convey the land according to his contract, and having brought an ejectment against the plaintiff to recover the land, which was removed from the state court to this, he prays for a specific performance, and for an injunction.

“Upon a motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant from making and vending the plaintiff’s improvement for which he had obtained a patent, the court required the plaintiff to subjoin to his bill a special affidavit of the truth of the allegations of the same; and that he is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the true and original inventor and discoverer of the improvement for which he had obtained his patent; and that the same had not, to his knowledge or belief been in use, or been described in any public work, anterior to his said invention and discovery.

“The plaintiff excepted to the answer, so far as it denied that the defendant had any knowledge of the facts alleged in the bill to which the answer applied, without adding that he had no information or belief of the facts. The court decided the exception to be well taken, and ordered the defendant to put in a better answer.”