Further: if the H.J.Burden, the shipper, is not one and the same person with the H.J.
Burden for whom the property is claimed, then there is nothing in the papers to show that property is vested in the latter, since it is not consigned to him, nor is it shown that the consignee, Charles B.
Blandly, Esq., is his agent.

The presumption, in the absence of proof, is, that the consignee is the agent of the shipper.
* * * * * _Wednesday, October 29th._--* * * * At 10 A.M.hove to; let down the propeller, and put the ship under steam.

Chased and overhauled a Dutch barque, and towards nightfall came up with the United States brigantine, Baron de Custine, from Bangor, with lumber for Cardenas.

The vessel being old, and of little value, I released her on ransom bond, and converted her into a cartel, sending some forty-five prisoners on board of her, the crews of the last three ships burned..