sentences:  She was sent Sierra Leone to join the West Africa Squadron set up for the suppression of the slave trade.Following her seizure of the French ship , a ship engaged in the slave trade, the Vice Admiralty Court declared the French ship and its cargo forfeit.However when this was taken to appeal at the High Court of Admiralty, the judge William Scott overturned the judgement, saying that the way "Le Louis" had been stopped and boarded was illegal as "No nation can exercise a right of visitation and search on the common and unappropriated parts of the sea, save only on the belligerent claim."