U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia April 15, 1824 (Tarlton v. Tippett)

The Court

(Morsell, J., contra:,)

gave the instruction, whereupon Mr. Jones, for the defendant, prayed the Court to instruct the jury, “ that if they find from the evidence that the said Scott proceeded to Caraccas in a public character on a secret mission for the government, and on a stated salary; that he also had some ulterior and contingent views of remaining longer at Carac-cas than was