Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion: v.1. Operation of the Cruisers (January 19, 1861 - January 4, 1863)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - United States |
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Acting Rear-Admiral Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Alabama Algeciras American anchor arrival Bahama bark belligerent Bermuda boat brig British C. S. S. Sumter Cadiz Captain capture cargo CHARLES WILKES chase coal coast commanding U. S. S. Commanding West India communication Confederate copy Craven crew cruise Cuba Curaçao December dispatch eastward enclose Enclosure English fired flag Flag-Officer gale Gibraltar GIDEON Government governor guns harbor Havana instant instructions Iroquois island Kearsarge Key West Latitude letter longitude Majesty's Majesty's Government Mason miles morning Nary Nashville Nassau naval NAVY DEPARTMENT navy yard neutral night November obedient servant officer Oneida Oreto port privateer prize proceed RAPHAEL SEMMES Rear-Admiral received repairs Report of Commander respectfully sail San Jacinto Santiago de Cuba schooner Secretary sent shore Slidell steamer Trent Tuscarora U. S. consul U. S. Navy U. S. STEAM SLOOP United vessel Washington West India Squadron Wilkes wind York
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Page 324 - No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted, while in any port, roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of Her Majesty, to take in any supplies, except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew ; and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the nearest port of her own country, or to some nearer destination...
Page 185 - In coming to my conclusion I have not forgotten that if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons it would be the right and duty of this Government to detain them. But the effectual check and waning proportions of the existing insurrection as well as the comparative unimportance of the captured persons themselves when dispassionately weighed happily forbid me from resorting to that defense.
Page 323 - Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within Her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, has commanded me to communicate to your Lordships, for your guidance, the ; following rules, which are to be treated and enforced as...
Page 199 - Mr. Seward does not here assert any right founded on international law, however inconvenient or irritating to neutral nations ; he entirely loses sight of the vast difference which exists between the exercise of an extreme right and the commission of an unquestionable wrong. His frankness compels me to be equally open, and to inform him that Great Britain could not have submitted to the perpetration of that wrong, however flourishing might have been the insurrection in the South, and however important...
Page 184 - If I decide this case in favor of my own Government I must disavow its most cherished principles and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles and adhere to that policy I must surrender the case itself.
Page 185 - Nor have I been tempted at all by suggestions that cases might be found in history where Great Britain refused to yield to other nations, and even to ourselves, claims like that which is now before us.
Page 182 - I forbore to seize her," he says, "in consequence of my being so reduced in officers and crew, and the derangement it would cause innocent persons, there being a large number of passengers who would have been put to great loss and inconvenience, as well as disappointment, from the interruption it would have caused them in not being able to join the steamer from St. Thomas to Europe. I therefore concluded to sacrifice the...
Page 184 - property found in a neutral vessel is supposed to be liable on any ground to capture and condemnation, the rule in all cases is, that the question shall not be decided by the captor, but be carried before a legal tribunal, where a regular trial may be had, and where the captor himself is liable to damages for an abuse of his power.
Page 323 - February next, and in Her Majesty's territories and possessions beyond the seas six days after the day when the governor or other chief authority of each of such territories or possessions, respectively, shall have notified and published the same, stating in such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed by all persons within the same territories and possessions. I. During the continuance of the present hostilities between the Government of the United States of North America and the States...
Page 170 - SIR: I am commanded by my lords commissioners of the admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of Earl Russell...