The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, Volume 1Saunders, Otley & Company, 1864 - 328 pages |
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afternoon Alabama American anchor appeared arrived August barque belligerent bill of lading blank cartridge Boston brig British brought burned C. S. Steamer Sumter Cadiz Cape Cape Town Captain Semmes captured cargo chase Cienfuegos coal command Confederate consigned course cruise cruiser deck despatched distance enemy enemy's English Excellency fire flag French fresh gale Gibraltar Government Governor guns harbour Hatteras hauled hoisted honour informed Iroquois island January Kearsarge land letter Lieutenant Liverpool Majesty's Majesty's Government man-of-war master Maulmain miles morning neutral night officers owners papers passed port prisoners prize crew proved Puerto Caballo received repairs reply reported Robben Island sail Saldanha Bay schooner Sea Bride sent a boat ship ship's shore sight Simon's Bay starboard steam steamer Alabama Sumter Sunday supply Table Bay to-day town Tuscaloosa United States colours United States Consul vessel weather whaling wind Wodehouse Yankee York
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Page 312 - ... or condemned by a court of prize, the character of prize, within the meaning of her Majesty's orders, would or would not be merged in that of a national ship of war, I am not called upon to explain. It is enough to say that the citation from Mr. Wheaton's book by your attorney general does not appear to me to have any direct bearing upon the question.
Page 320 - SIR: I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, and to state...
Page 84 - Government being reimbursed the expense), and this even though the market were open to me. Much more then may the Government supply me with . an innocent article, the market not being open to me. Suppose I had come into port destitute of provisions, and the same illegal combination had shut me out from the market, would the British Government permit my crew to starve? Or suppose I had been a...
Page 298 - Bride, protesting against the capture of the said barque in British waters. The bearings taken by him at the time of capture conclusively show that she was in neutral waters, being about two and a half miles from Robben Island. This statement is doubtless more satisfactory than the testimony of persons who measured the distance by the eye.
Page 301 - I am directed, by the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, relative to the Alabama.
Page 309 - Alabama herself, it is clear that neither you nor any other authority at the Cape could exercise any jurisdiction over her ; and that, whatever may have been her previous history, you were bound to treat her as a ship of war belonging to a belligerent Power.
Page 313 - I request you will be pleased to acquaint my lords commissioners of the admiralty that the bark called the Tuscaloosa, under the flag of the Confederate States of North America, (referred to in my letter of the 19th August last,) termed a tender to the Alabama, returned to this anchorage on the 26th ultimo from cruising off the coast of Brazil. 2. In order to ascertain the real character of this vessel, I directed the boarding officer from my flag-ship to put the questions as per enclosure No.
Page 291 - A little after 2 pm the United States consul called to state that he had seen the capture effected within British waters ; when I told him he must make his statement in writing, and an investigation should be made. I also, by telegram, immediately requested the naval commaiider-iii-chief to send a ship of war from Simon's Bay. The Alabama, leaving her prize outside, anchored in the bay at 3.30 p.
Page 288 - And where the vessel, after the capture, has been fitted out as a privateer, it is conclusive against her, although when recaptured she is navigating as a mere merchant ship ; for where the former character of a captured vessel had been obliterated by her conversion into a ship of war, the legislature meant to look no further, but considered the title of the former owner forever extinguished.
Page 317 - SIR : I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date protesting against the seizure of the Tuscaloosa...