a  cargo  bona  fide  parchased  and  delivered  before  the  commencemeDt  of
the  blockade ;  if  she  afterwards  takes  on  board  a  cargo^  it  is  a  firanda-
leiit  act,  and  a  violation  of  the  blockade.'

''  Bat  the  very  qaestion  arising  in  the  case  of  the  Jeane  Nelly  has
been  jadicially  decided,  after  fall  argnment,  by  the  United  States  dis-
trict ooart  for  Looisiana,  a  prize  coart  of  competent  jarisdiction,  and  I
now  have  the  honor  to  transmit  yoa  a  copy  of  the  opinion  of  the  learned
jadge,  extracted  from  the  New  Orleans  Picaynne,  of  the  14th  Decem-
ber, 1847.''

Kr.  BachaDED,  Sec.  of  State,  to  Mr.  Pousaio,  Jan.  17, 1649.  MSS.  Notes,  France.
See  Mr.  Marcj,  Sec.  of  State,  to  Mr.  Buchanan,  April  13,  1854.    MSS.  Inst.,  Or.
Brit.     Hoose  Ex.  Doc.  103,  33d  Cong.,  1st  sess. ;  qaot^d  inpra,  $  361.
The  carrying  letters  or  passengers  to  blockaded  ports  by  neutral  war
vessels,  entering  by  courtesy  therein,  is  an  infraction  of  neutrality.
Mr.  Seward,  Sec.  of  State,  to  Lord  Lyons,  Oct.  4,  1861.    MSS.  Notes,  Or.  Brit.
Same  to  same,  Oct.  14, 1861 ;  ibid.
As  to  recapture  of  block ade-rnnner  Emily  St.  Pierre,  sec  Brit,  and  For.  St.  Pap.,

1864-'6&,  Yol.  55.
