The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter: From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other OfficersSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1864 - 338 էջ |
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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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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 296 - Bay four [six] days already, and a week previously on the coast, and has forfeited all right to remain an hour longer by this breach of neutrality. Painting a ship does not come under the head of
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 296 - States, and has not recognised the persons in revolt against the United States as a Government at all, the vessel alluded to should be at once seized and sent to England, from whence she clandestinely escaped. Assuming that the British Government was sincere in exacting the bonds, you have doubtless been instructed to send her home to England, where she belongs. .But if, from some oversight, you have not ^received such instructions...
Էջ 286 - Wentzel, standing in for Table Bay. On my pointing out to him that he had done so in neutral waters, he assured me that it was quite unintentional, and, being at a distance from the land, he did not observe that he had got within three miles of an imaginary line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Hanglip, but on discovering it he did not detain the vessel.
Էջ 310 - Semmes while the Tuscaloosa was still within British waters, and that he should have been requested to state whether he did or did not admit the facts to be as alleged. He should also have been called upon . (unless the facts were admitted) to produce the Tuscaloosa's papers.