MARITIME CAPTURE.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "EracTr.roa."] SIR,—I notice in your last issue, in an article on "Maritime Capture," a statement that "on Friday, the 4th inst., the first British Prize Court since the Crimean War, sixty years ago, was held in the Admiralty Court." This statement is not quite correct. In the year 1900 a Prize Court was held at Cape Town to determine the validity of the capture of the `Mashona '—a British vessel arrested at Port Elizabeth by H.M.S. ' Partridge,' en route from New York to Delagoa Bay. The condemnation of the ship and portion of the cargo, con- signed to residents in the Transvaal, was sought on the ground of trading with the enemy. The case, which is fully reported in the Reports of the Supreme Court of the Cape, involved some interesting points in the law of the subject. The members of the Court were the late Lord de Villiers, Sir John Buchanan, and the writer of this letter.—I am, Sir, &c.,
PERCEVAL LAURENCE.
Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
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