The  Stephen  Hart  (Blatch.  Pr.  Ca.,  387),  where  it  was  held  if  the
guilty  intention  of  transporting  contrab.and  goods  existed  when  tbe
goods  left  their  own  port,  such  intent  could  not  be  obliterated  by  the
innocent  intention  of  shipping  at  a  neutral  port  in  the  way,  and  that
such  voyages  form  one  transaction,  is  stated  and  examined  in  Abd.v's
Kent  (1878),  349.
"  The  right  of  the  neutral  to  transport,  and  of  the  hostile  power  to
seize,  are  conflicting  rights,  and  neither  party  can  charge  tbe  other
with  a  criminal  act."

1  Kent  Com.,  142 ;  approved  by  Lord  Westbnry,  Ex  parto  Chnvaaso,  11  Jar.,  X'
S..  400.    See  11  Op.,  408,  451  ;  The  Helen,  L.  R.,  1  Ad.  &  Ec,  1.
The  following  passage  from  Kent's  Com.,  142,  is  quoted  by  Sir  W.
