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Reply of Brazilian government. The president of Fernando de Noronha
has been dismissed. The president of Pernambuco has ordered the
Alabama to depart...

[vi] *Complaint of the United States minister of reception of the
Alabama and Georgia at Bahia, and the Florida at Pernam.
buco, in May, 1863 .....
Reply of the Brazilian government. Provincial authorities instructed
to report. Further representation of United States minister. The
Castor said to have supplied coals and guns to the Georgia....
Replies of the Brazilian government justifying their course in recog-
nizing the belligerency of the Confederate States, and receiving their
cruisers as vessels of war. Explanations as to the Castor. Fresh
instructions to the provincial authorities. The Alabama no longer
to be received on account of violation of neutrality in Brazilian
waters.....

Visit of the Alabama to Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good Hope, July 28,
1863; to Table Bay, August 5...
Correspondence between the United States consul and the governor..
Capture of the Sea Bride, stated by the consul to be in British waters.
Protest of the consul against the Tuscaloosa being acknowledged as a
vessel of war.

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Report of Admiral Walker.
loosa, to Simon's Bay.
Opinion of attorney general at the Cape, that the Tuscaloosa is a ves-
sel of war...

Visits of Alabama, Georgia, and Tusca

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...
Opinion of the law-officers that the Tuscaloosa should not have been
considered a vessel of war..

Report from Admiral Walker of visit of Tuscaloosa and Sea Bride to
Honteges Bay, August 18, 1863...

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Return of Alabama to Simon's Bay, September 16, for coal, provisions,
and repairs. Sale of the Sea Bride at Angra Pequena..
Departure of the Alabama, September 25...

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Mr. Adams's protest against capture of the Sea Bride.

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Lord Russell's reply..

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Instructions to the governor of Cape Colony as to the Sea Bride and Tuscaloosa. The regulations apply to cargoes of prizes as well as to the vessels....

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Reply of the governor defending his conduct..

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Return of the Tuscaloosa to the Cape, December 26, 1863. She is seized by the admiral.....

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Protest of Lieutenant Low..

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Answer of the governor..

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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 confederate officer...

Explanations to the United States Government and governor, of the
reasons for so doing. The Alabama and Tuscaloosa had no warning
of course intended to be pursued.............

Instructions for the guidance of naval officers in similar instances...
Explanations given by Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward....

Captain Semmes's protest against the seizure of the Tuscaloosa....
Claim of United States consul on behalf of owners of the Tuscaloosa,
June, 1864....

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He is informed that the Tuscaloosa is to be restored to the confederate officers....

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Tuscaloosa finally delivered to the United States consul, August, 1865......

Instructions that the Tuscaloosa may be restored to Captain Semmes or his agent, but not fitted up at the Cape for war..

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Claim of the United States consul in Mauritius for restitution of goods
brought by the Sirène, and said to have been part of the cargo of
the Sea Bride. Refusal of the governor to interfere.....
Report of the law-officers. The question is one for the civil tribunals
Eventual disposal of the Sea Bride....

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Return to Simon's Bay, March 20, 1865. Permission given to take in

coal and provisions..

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Arrival at Cherbourg, June 11, 1864. Protest of United States min

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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.

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Conflict with, and destruction by,

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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...

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GEORGIA.

April, 1863, to October, 1864.

Mr. Adams's first representation, April 8, respecting the Japan or Vir-
ginia, which has left the Clyde for Alderney, with the supposed
design of becoming a confederate cruiser. Her equipment to be sup-
plied by the Alar from Newhaven....

Mr. Adams's letter referred to the treasury and home department..
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..

Papers relating to registry, and articles of agreement of Japan...
Statement of customs collector at Newhaven, as to the departure of
the Alar for Alderney and St. Malo, with passengers on board....
Clearance of the Alar...

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The mayor of Plymouth, where the Alar has put in, is instructed to make inquiries..

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Statement made by the master of the Alar to the customs collector at
Plymouth.....

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Endeavors of one of the commissioners of customs to obtain information respecting the vessel..

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Information from the board of trade. The crew of the Japan who
have returned in the Alar to be paid off at Liverpool..
Depositions of E. Thompson and T. Mahon, forwarded by Mr. Adams,
as to the proceedings of the Japan, and agency of Messrs. Jones &
Co., of Liverpool, in obtaining a crew for her...

The home office and treasury requested to take whatever steps are
legally warranted on these statements..

Reports from the British consulate at Brest as to the proceedings of
the Japan and Alar off the French coast, April 7, 9, 1863...
Report from the governor of Guernsey. Her Majesty's ship Dasher
sent to Alderney, but the vessels do not seem to have been there...

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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.
Jones and Mr. Bold with the Georgia. His solicitor advises him that
there is not sufficient ground for a prosecution......
Affidavits forwarded by Mr. Adams as to the engagement of seamen at
Liverpool for the Georgia....

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[IX] *Opinion of the law-officers advising that the parties implicated should be prosecuted

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Report of the visit of the Georgia to Cherbourg, October 28, 1863, to
February 16, 1864...

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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
Florida at Brest. Endeavors of British consuls to warn them.....
Deposition forwarded by Mr. Adams as to the enlistment of seamen at
Liverpool to join the Georgia and Florida at Cherbourg and Brest..
The solicitor to the treasury instructed to prosecute the parties....
Inquiries made by the admiralty. Assertion of Maltman that the men
were engaged for a commercial voyage.
The naval-reserve men to be discharged

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Further affidavits forwarded by Mr. Adams. Agency of Campbell in enlisting seamen

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Campbell, Jones, and Highatt prosecuted.

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Return of the Georgia to Liverpool, May 2, 1864..

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Mr. Adams remonstrates against her being laid up in Liverpool.
Directions given that the Georgia should be ordered out of Liverpool

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as soon as repaired, unless bona fide sold..

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The Georgia dismantled, and offered for sale.

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Opinion of the law-officers as to the position of the Georgia.
The vessel sold to Mr. Bates....

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The United States consul at Liverpool suspects that she is again being fitted out for war..

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Orders given that no ship of war of either belligerent should in future be dismantled or sold in British ports

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Inquiries made as to the Georgia, which has sailed for Fernando Po..
Her armament left behind in the warehouse at Liverpool...
She is captured by the United States cruiser Niagara..

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Mr. Bates informed that the case must go before a prize-court..
Mr. Bates further informed of the legal position of the case...

Mr. Bates's protest

Mr. Adams informed that Her Majesty's government expect that the
Georgia will be adjudicated in a proper prize-court...

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First intimation respecting proceedings of the Sea King received from
British consul at Teneriffe, November 12, 1864.......

Captain Corbett's arrival there in the Laurel, October 21, 1864. In-
quiries made by the consul. Captain Corbett's statement..
Captain Corbett sent home in custody.

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Deposition of seamen of the Sea King as to her conversion into the
Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, off Madeira

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Opinion of the law-officers. There is not sufficient evidence as yet for a prosecution. Seamen of the Sea King should be examined.....

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The treasury requested to send their solicitor to collect evidence....
Mr. Adams's first representation, November 18, 1864. Report from Uni-
ted States consul at Liverpool and depositions of seamen of the Sea
King...

Further opinion of the law-officers. Captain Corbett should be prose-
cuted..

Instructions given for proceedings against Captain Corbett..

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Clearance of the Laurel..

*Register of the Sea King..

Statements by Messrs. Robertson as to the previous history and sale of the Sea King..

Representation of the United States Government that the seamen of
Florida are to join the Shenandoah near Bermuda. The governor
of Bermuda warned...

Mr. Adams's representation and report of the United States consul at
Rio de Janeiro as to destruction of vessels by the Shenandoah in the
South Atlantic

Lord Russell's reply.

Arrival of the Shenandoah at Melbourne, January 25, 1865. Application of Lieutenant Waddell to be allowed to repair, coal, and land prisoners...

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Report of the governor on the proceedings and treatment of the Shenandoah at Melbourne, January 25 to February 18..

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Representations from the United States consul that the Shenandoah is a pirate.....

Opinion of the colonial law-officers thereupon. The Shenandoah must be received as a ship of war

Minute of the council. Permission granted to the Shenandoah to make repairs and land prisoners...

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Correspondence between the colonial authorities and Lieutenant
Waddell.

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Further minutes of the council as to Captain Waddell's request to use the government slip. He is informed that the slip is leased to private parties. Government assistance refused, February 1 and 7... Lease of the slip, showing the terms on which it was held.. Reports of surveys to ascertain the repairs required by the Shenandoah. 518,522 783,787 Daily reports furnished of the progress of the repairs.....

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Deposition forwarded by the United States consul as to enlistment of
British subjects for the Shenandoah, February 10.............
Warrant issued for the apprehension of a man....

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Refusal of Lieutenant Waddell to allow the vessel to be searched..
Minute of the council. Repairs of the Shenandoah suspended.......
Order of the governor to that effect

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Correspondence with Lieutenant Waddell on the subject.
Four men arrested leaving the Shenandoah....

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Letter from the lessee of the slip as to the danger of the vessel remaining on it

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Minute of the council. Permission given for the launch of the vessel.
Order of the governor accordingly

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Denial by the officers of the Shenandoah that the men had been on board with their knowledge

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Proceedings against the four men arrested on leaving the Shenandoah.
Examination before the magistrates..

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Proceedings and debates in the Parliament of Victoria.

Reports of enlistment of men on board the Shenandoah on the eve of her departure from Melbourne

Warning sent by the governor to other colonies

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Complaint of the United States consul that he had been insulted by the Crown solicitor

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Explanations of the Crown solicitor, and reply of the governor...... 556,618 820 885 Report by Captain Payne on the build and equipment of the Shenandoah...

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Opinion of the law-officers as to the right of executing a warrant on board a ship of war..

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Mr. Adams's representation as to the visit of the Shenandoah to Melbourne

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The United States consul's reports of proceedings.
His correspondence as to landing prisoners..
His representations of the piratical character of the Shenandoah..591, 593, 594 859, 862
Correspondence as to illegal enlistment of men....

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Further representation as to the character of the vessel....
Deposition as to the sale of a chronometer from the Shenandoah.
Protest of the consul against her being allowed to coal....
Reply of the governor..

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*Statements as to her state of equipment. She cannot fight the
guns she has on board

Complaint of the consul that he has been insulted by the Crown solici

tor

Mr. Mason's request that letters may be sent through the British
anthorities to the commander of the Shenandoah to recall her, as the
civil war is at an end, June 20, 1865
Permission granted...

Letters sent accordingly.

Circular to British colonies ordering the detention of the Shenandoah if she puts into a British port, September 7, 1865..

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Further orders for the detention of the Shenandoah, or her seizure on the high seas if found equipped as a vessel of war.

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Arrival of the Shenandoah at Liverpool, November 6, 1865.
Vessel delivered up to the customs authorities

Opinion of the law-officers as to the course to be pursued..

Question as to permitting the crew, some of whom have scurvy, to land...

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Captain Waddell's letter reporting his arrival, and surrendering the vessel

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Mr. Adams's request for delivery of the vessel to the United States Government

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Opinion of the law-officers: the vessel should be delivered to the
United States; inquiries made whether any of the crew are liable to
prosecution for breach of the foreign enlistment act; the others to
be set at liberty

The home office requested to take measures accordingly.
Further report of the law-officers: the crew should be set at liberty,
unless there is evidence of piracy, or of breach of the foreign enlist-
ment act, on which they can be brought to trial..
Reports of Captain Paynter as to measures taken for securing the ves-
sel. Anxiety of the crew to land

Instructions given as to the disposal of the Shenandoah and her crew.
Inquiry to be made whether any of them are British-born subjects,
and those against whom evidence can be obtained to be detained..
Captain Paynter reports that he has satisfied himself that none of the
crew are British-born subjects; they have all been landed..
The Shenandoah delivered to the United States consul at Liverpool,
November 10, 1865..

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Captain Paynter's report of the measures taken by him to ascertain the nationality of the crew

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Mr. Adams's satisfaction at the prompt delivery of the vessel. His disappointment at the treatment of the crew.

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Lord Clarendon's replies to Mr. Adams's representations.
Departure of the Shenandoah for New York, November 22, 1865..
Mr. Seward's expression of dissatisfaction that the vessel and crew
were not proceeded against for piracy

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Lord Clarendon's reply, justifying the proceedings toward the Shenandoab. There was no evidence of piracy...

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Mr. Adams's representation, November 28, 1865, forwarding affidavit by Temple as to the cruise of the Shenandoah, and employment of British subjects on board her. Assertion that captures were made after receiving news of the termination of the civil war..

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