Without stopping to look into the _bona fides_ of this claim of neutral ownership, it was enough that the sulphur was contraband, and that the fruit belonged to the same owner; I destroyed both ship and cargo.

No papers as to the latter were produced.
The second vessel was also a barque, the Investigator, of Searsport, Maine.

She being laden with iron ore, the property of neutrals (Englishmen), I released her on a ransom bond; she was bound to Newport, Wales.

One fourth of the vessel was owned in South Carolina, and the share of the South Carolina owner was omitted from the ransom bond--amount of bond being less one-fourth fifteen thousand dollars.
Having burned the Neapolitan, I steamed in for Gibraltar at 2.30 P.M.
Passed under Europa point at about dusk, and stood in, and anchored in the bay at about 7.30 P.M.Boarded in a few minutes by a boat from an English frigate, with an offer of service.

Sent a boat alongside the health ship.
_Sunday, January 19th_ .-- We found early this morning we had _pratique_.
A number of English officers and citizens came on board.