Accused of boarding a Spanish ship, Santiago, along the cape of Chesapeake Bay, 6 miles from the coast and within the limits of the United States, taking $5,000 in goods belonging to merchants of Baltimore, forcing eight crew to go to his service and flee from the United States, the Supreme Court intervened again, posting jurisprudence and President Monroe mobilized his naval forces, maintaining the public's attention with newspaper dispatches from Savannah, Georgia to Portland, Maine.