Vessel said to have been off Point Lynas on the Welsh coast. Statement of Consul Dudley as to the Hercules... [v] *Affidavit of Henry Redden, forwarded through treasury to foreign office... Fifth report of customs solicitor, (assistant solicitor.) Adheres to opinions in former reports.... Departure of the vessel from the Mersey. Law-officers' second report, advising that she should be seized.. Instructions given accordingly, and copy of report sent to the Baha mas..... Supposition that the vessel had gone to Queenstown. Instructions to detain her there and at Nassau.. Affidavit of master of Hercules... Report of Surveyor Morgan. Telegraphic instructions sent to seize the vessel at Cork, Beaumaris, Holyhead.. Inquiries made at Point Lynas and Amlwch. ment of her master. Arrival of Bahama at Liverpool from Terceira, September 1, 1862. State Representation of Mr. Adams. Affidavit of Henry Redden as to the vessel's departure and proceedings off Terceira... Answer to Mr. Adams's representation. Explaining steps taken.... Opinion of law-officers that judgment in case of Oreto at Nassau should not interfere with previous instructions. Report from customs as to Redden's affidavit and statements as to supplies said to have been furnished by the Bahama and another vessel off Terceira..... Further representation by Mr. Adams, and affidavit of G. King....... and international... Rejoinder from Mr. Adams. His representations based upon evidence which applies directly to infringement of the municipal law itself, and not to anything beyond it. Intercepted letter from Mr. Mallory, dated July 12.. Measures taken by United States minister at Lisbon.. Inquiry of Mr. Laird as to Alabama having been fitted out for war at Mr. Laird's reply. The vessel was not fitted out as a ship of war, and Mr. Adams informed. British government disclaim any responsibility for the Alabama's proceedings.......... Statement that officials at Liverpool were aware of intended seizure of the vessel before her departure contradicted by customs commis sioners.. Affidavit of John Latham. Equipment at the Azores.. List of crew. Affidavit of Martha Latham. Wages, notes, paid by Messrs. Klin gender..... Affidavit of E. Winstanley in support of this.. Inquiry as to men of naval reserve having joined the Alabama. Three Opinion of law-officers. Nothing in statements received on which Naval-reserve men identified as having joined Alabama have all been discharged.. Correspondence laid before Congress, but not communicated at the time to the British Government. Report of Consul Dudley, that a gun-boat is building for the confederates, May 13. Further report, June 18.... Dispatch from Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward. Has made representation to Particulars of the gun-boat's build. Intention of Mr. Adams to author- Captain Butcher's connection with the vessel. Tuscarora detained at Southampton for a day or two longer. captain advised to take measures to intercept the gun-boat. Steps taken to obtain evidence.. Her 244, 245 493, 494 246 496 Dispatch from Mr. Seward. Information supplied him imperfect. Possible issue of letters of marque.......... Tuscarora still at Southampton, July 25. She had no register or clearance. Rumors as to her intended destina- Further rumor as to the movements of the vessel.. Further as to the Bahama, August 20... Dispatch from Mr. Seward, regretting failure of the Tuscarora to intercept the vessel............. Visit to Fernando de Noronha....... Complaint of United States minister as to capture of American vessels in Brazilian wafers, and reception of Captain Semmes by the president of Fernando de Noronha........ Departure of the Alabama January 25, as soon as repairs were completed... Lord Russell trusts that the Alabama will be warned to depart as soon as the necessary repairs are finished.. PART II-RECEPTION OF THE ALABAMA IN BRITISH AND FOREIGN PORTS. Arrival at Saint Pierre, Martinique, November, 1862. The British consul remonstrates with the master of the Agrippina, who is supposed to have brought coal for her. Arrival of the United States cruiser San Jacinto. Measures taken to preserve neutrality. Escape of the Alabama.... Visit to Jamaica, January 20, 1863. Captain Semmes is allowed to make necessary repairs and land prisoners... Reply of Brazilian government. The president of Fernando de Noronha [VII] *Complaint of the United States minister of reception of the waters.... Visit of the Alabama to Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good Hope, July 28, Report of Admiral Walker. loosa, to Simon's Bay. Opinion of attorney general at the Cape, that the Tuscaloosa is a ves Visits of Alabama, Georgia, and Tusca sel of war.... Report from the governor of the colony. Captain Semmes allowed to make repairs. Request for instructions as to disposal of cargoes of prizes.... Evidence that the Sea Bride was captured out of British waters..... Report from Admiral Walker of visit of Tuscaloosa and Sea Bride to Return of Alabama to Simon's Bay, September 16, for coal, provisions, Departure of the Alabama, September 25. Mr. Adams's protest against capture of the Sea Bride. Lord Russell's reply.. Instructions to the governor of Cape Colony as to the Sea Bride and 288, 300 542, 557 311, 316 569, 573 to the vessels.... Reply of the governor defending his conduct. seized by the admiral. Return of the Tuscaloosa to the Cape, December 26, 1863. She is Answer of the governor.. Protest of Lieutenant Low Correspondence with the United States consul, who requests that she may remain for the present in possession of the British naval offi cers.. Departure of confederate officers. Arrangements made for keeping the Tuscaloosa...... Instructions to the governor to restore the Tuscaloosa to the confeder ate officer..... Explanations to the United States Government and governor, of the June, 1864..... He is informed that the Tuscaloosa is to be restored to the confeder ate officers... Instructions that the Tuscaloosa may be restored to Captain Semmes 1865...... Claim of the United States consul in Mauritius for restitution of goods The Alabama in the Indian Seas, January, 1864.. Coal taken in at Singapore, December, 1864.. 372 Return to Simon's Bay, March 20, 1865. Permission given to take in coal and provisions.. [vi]* Instructions given by French government. Arrival at Cherbourg, June 11, 1864. Protest of United States minister.... Proceedings at Cherbourg. Conflict with, and destruction by, the Kearsarge. Mr. Adams's complaint that some officers and seamen of the Alabama saved from drowning by the English yacht Deerhound, have not been given up as prisoners. Lord Russell's reply.. Statements of the owner of the Deerhound. Lord Russell declines to interfere further.. Letter of commander of Kearsarge claiming men landed at Cherbourg as his prisoners... Reply of confederate agent.. Mr. Adams's first representation, April 8, respecting the Japan or Virginia, which has left the Clyde for Alderney, with the supposed design of becoming a confederate cruiser. Her equipment to be supplied by the Alar from Newhaven..... Mr. Adams's letter referred to the treasury and home department........ 399, 400 657,658 Instructions sent to the lieutenant governor and customs officers at Guernsey.... Further note from Mr. Adams. Statement in the Times that the Japan is going to China is untrue. The Alar has already transferred guns to her, and is expected to return to her.... The attention of the home office and treasury already called to the passage in the Times. Mr. Adams's note also forwarded to them... Reports from the collectors of customs at Greenock and Glasgow as to the Japan, which cleared for Point de Galle and Hong-Kong, April 1, 1863... Clearance of the Japan.... 401 659 Information from the board of trade. The crew of the Japan who Endeavors of one of the commissioners of customs to obtain information respecting the vessel.. Statement made by the master of the Alar to the customs collector at The mayor of Plymouth, where the Alar has put in, is instructed to make inquiries... Papers relating to registry, and articles of agreement of Japan...... 426, 427–686, 687 Mr. Adams informed of the particulars ascertained. The Japan did not appear intended for war.... View taken by Her Majesty's government of the information forwarded by Mr. Adams as to the enlistment of the crew of the Georgia.. Mr. Adams's representation that Mr. Bold has remained the registered owner of the Japan after her conversion into a confederate cruiser. Reports from the home office and customs that Mr. Bold is not liable to prosecution.... Mr. Dudley's report to Mr. Seward as to the connection of Messrs. Affidavits forwarded by Mr. Adams as to the engagement of seamen at [IX] *Opinion of the law-officers advising that the parties implicated should be prosecuted Campbell, Jones, and Highatt prosecuted. The vessel sold to Mr. Bates... Report of the visit of the Georgia to Bordeaux, March 25 to April 28, 1864. English seamen shipped on board the Georgia at Cherbourg, and The naval-reserve men to be discharged Further affidavits forwarded by Mr. Adams. Agency of Campbell in enlisting seamen Return of the Georgia to Liverpool, May 2, 1864. Mr. Adams remonstrates against her being laid up in Liverpool.. Directions given that the Georgia should be ordered out of Liverpool as soon as repaired, unless bona fide sold. The Georgia dismantled, and offered for sale. Opinion of the law-officers as to the position of the Georgia. Mr. Adams declines to recognize the validity of the sale.. Report of the visit of the Georgia to Cherbourg, October 28, 1863, to Inquiries made as to the Georgia, which has sailed for Fernando Po.... Mr. Bates's protest Mr. Adams informed that Her Majesty's government expect that the The United States consul at Liverpool suspects that she is again being fitted out for war... Orders given that no ship of war of either belligerent should in future be dismantled or sold in British ports ... .459,462,467 721,724, SHENANDOAH. October, 1864, to November, 1865. First intimation respecting proceedings of the Sea King received from Captain Corbett's arrival there in the Laurel, October 21, 1864. In- Deposition of seamen of the Sea King as to her conversion into the Opinion of the law-officers. There is not sufficient evidence as yet for H. Ex. 282-15 477,481 741,745 |