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[55] *FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE ALABAMA.

No. 1.

The Duke of Newcastle to Governor Bayley.

DOWNING STREET, August 1, 1862.

Alabama.
Further papers.

SIR: I transmit to you the copy of a communication which has just reached me from the foreign office,' from which you will perceive that a vessel, evidently built for warlike purposes, and probably in the service of the Confederate States of North America, left England on the 29th ultimo, and that, in the opinion of the law-officers of the Crown, she ought to be seized.

You will further perceive that Lord Russell desires me to communicate to you this opinion of the law-officers, by which, of course, you will be guided in case this vessel should reach Nassau.

I have, &c.,

(Signed)

Governor BAYLEY, C. B., &c., &c., &c.

NEWCASTLE.

No. 2.

The Duke of Newcastle to Governor Bayley.

DOWNING STREET, August 8, 1862.

SIR: With reference to my dispatch of the 1st instant, marked “confidential," I transmit to you the copy of a further letter from the foreign office, suggesting the detention of the gun-boat No. 290, should she put into Nassau.

The instruction conveyed to you in my dispatch of the 1st instant will have already shown you the wishes of Her Majesty's government on this point.

I have, &c.,
(Signed)

Governor BAYLEY, &c., &c.

NEWCASTLE.

No. 3.

The Duke of Newcastle to Governor Bayley.

DOWNING STREET, September 30, 1862.

SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatches of the 11th and 14th of August, the first reporting that the judges of the vice-admi

1 See Appendix to British Case, vol. i, p. 202, Alabama, part 1, No. 26.

Ibid., p. 203, Alabama, part i, No. 30.

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ralty court had decreed the restoration of the steamer Oreto; the second inclosing a copy of the decree.

I inclose for your information a copy of the letter in which I forwarded your dispatches to the foreign office for the consideration of Earl Russell,' and I also annex for your information and guidance a copy of the reply, covering a copy of the report which Lord Russell has received upon the subject from the law-officers of the Crown.2

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DOWNING STREET, January 20, 1872.

SIR: With reference to your letter of the 16th instant, I am directed by the secretary of state for the colonies to inform you, for the information of Earl Granville, that the following is a copy of a telegram received yesterday from the administration of the government at Singa. pore:

Two hundred and fifty tons of coal supplied by Borneo Company to Alabama in December, 1863.

I am, &c.,
(Signed)

The UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE,

ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

Foreign Office.

1 See Appendix to British Case, vol. i, p. 37, Florida, No. 36.

2 Ibid., p. 212, Alabama, part i, Nos. 37, 38.

FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE SHENANDOAH.

[59] *FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE SHENANDOAH.

Viscount Canterbury to the Earl of Kimberley.

GOVERNMENT OFFICES,

Melbourne, November 6, 1871. .

MY LORD: With reference to the dispatches marked in the margin, I have now the honor to transmit to your lordship a nar- Shenandoah. At rative of the proceedings of the Shenandoah in the waters Melbourne.

of this colony, and of those of the governor and government of the colony in connection with that ship.

This narrative is as complete as it can be rendered, and it exhausts, so far as I am aware, the subject to which it relates. It has been prepared under the direction of Mr. Michie and Mr. Higinbotham, who held respectively the offices of minister of justice and attorney-general when the Shenandoah was here, and it is signed by them and by Sir James McCulloch and Mr. Francis, the former of whom was chief secretary, and the latter commissioner of customs at that time.

I have not yet received from the solicitor, (Mr. Malleson,) whom I have employed in this matter, a statement of the expense of preparing the narrative. As soon as it is forwarded to me, I shall have the honor to transmit it to your lordship.

I have, &c.,
(Signed)

CANTERBURY.

NARRATIVE OF FACTS RESPECTING THE CONFEDERATE STATES STEAMER✨ OF WAR SHENANDOAH, WHILE IN THE PORT OF MELBOURNE.

PART I.-As to the necessary repairs permitted to the vessel, and the supply of provisions, coals, &c., to her.

It is not contended that the Shenandoah was fitted out, armed, or equipped within the jurisdiction of the colony of Victoria, and the following facts and circumstances clearly show that the Shenandoah was not specially adapted, in whole or in part, within the jurisdiction aforesaid, to warlike purposes; nor were the Confederate States. of America permitted to make use of the ports or waters of Victoria either as the base of naval operations against the United States, or for the purposes of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or, so far as the government of Victoria could prevent it, for the recruitment of men.

The steamer of war Shenandoah arrived in Hobson's Bay, port of Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria, on the 25th of January, 1865, and James J. Waddell, esq., lieutenant-commanding, wrote on the same day to his Excellency Sir Charles Darling, K. C.B., governor and commander-in-chief and vice-admiral of the colony, applying for permission to repair the machinery of the steamer, and to take in a supply of coals. On the following day, the commissioner of trade and customs wrote that Sir Charles Darling was willing to allow the necessary repairs and the coaling of the vessel being at once proceeded with, and he forwarded extracts of orders issued by Her Majesty's government, and publicly notified in the Victoria Government Gazette, on the 17th of March and 24th of April, 1862, with respect to armed vessels, whether belonging to the United or Confederate States of North America; and requested information as to the nature and extent of the repairs and supplies required, in order that Sir Charles Darling might be enabled to judge of the time necessary for the Shenandoah to remain in the port of Melbourne.

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*On receiving this communication, Lieutenant Waddell employed Messrs. Langlands Brothers & Co., iron-founders, of Melbourne, to examine the vessel and to

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