English Neutrality: Is the Alabama a British Pirate? |
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... crew was found to consist of fifty - two English- men and one American , and her cargo of one hundred and seventy - three tons of arms , for Palermo and Jamaica . These suspicious circumstances , together with the universal public rumor ...
... crew was found to consist of fifty - two English- men and one American , and her cargo of one hundred and seventy - three tons of arms , for Palermo and Jamaica . These suspicious circumstances , together with the universal public rumor ...
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... crew receive from the Con- federate government half the value of every American ship and cargo destroyed . The Bahama ' took out gold to pay the crew , and after transferring her cargo returned with the barque to England , while the ...
... crew receive from the Con- federate government half the value of every American ship and cargo destroyed . The Bahama ' took out gold to pay the crew , and after transferring her cargo returned with the barque to England , while the ...
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... crew of about eighty men , " & c , to go in pursuit of the ( unard steamers . This statement of the con - ul's was backed by the affidavits of two policemen , who swore upon information aud belief that the vessel was fitted out as a ...
... crew of about eighty men , " & c , to go in pursuit of the ( unard steamers . This statement of the con - ul's was backed by the affidavits of two policemen , who swore upon information aud belief that the vessel was fitted out as a ...
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... crews were always composed of a great number of Frenchmen , who entered with impunity under the very eyes of their governors and the officers of the maritime provinces . And numerous swarms of these corsairs , animated by a spirit of ...
... crews were always composed of a great number of Frenchmen , who entered with impunity under the very eyes of their governors and the officers of the maritime provinces . And numerous swarms of these corsairs , animated by a spirit of ...
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... crew by force , the same as if she were a lawfully commissioned vessel , with whom the seamen might have a lawful contract of service . The legal liabilities which , under these circumstances , attach to the offending nation , are ...
... crew by force , the same as if she were a lawfully commissioned vessel , with whom the seamen might have a lawful contract of service . The legal liabilities which , under these circumstances , attach to the offending nation , are ...
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Adams affidavits American armament armed vessels assuming to exercise attempt Azores Bahama barque Maury Beaumarchais belligerent Birkenhead bound breach Britain British consul British government British port cargo character citizens colonies commission complain conduct Confederate consul court of Versailles crew criminal cruise cruisers declared Don Miguel engaged England equipped exercising or assuming expedition fitted Florida Foreign Enlistment Act French glish HARVARD COLLEGE honor hostilities infractions infringement Jacob Bell Jefferson Jefferson Davis justice king's ambassador Kingdom law of nations letter Liverpool Lord Russell majesty majesty's dominions majesty's government matter Memoire Justificatif ment merchants minister N. Y. Chamb Nassau obligations of neutrality offender officers Oreto and Alabama owners peace pensation persons Phillimore pirates ports of France Portuguese prevent privateers prizes prosecuted province punishment rebels restitution revolted seized seizure ship or vessel sovereign steamer subjects taken Terceira ternational THOMAS JEFferson tion United United Kingdom violate York
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Page 6 - ... or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province or people...
Page 7 - States for any ship or vessel to the intent that she may be employed as aforesaid. 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procuring to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, which at the time of her arrival...
Page 6 - ... ship and vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board of...
Page 6 - Majesty shall not then be at war; or shall, within the United Kingdom, or any of his Majesty's dominions, or in any settlement, colony, territory, island, or place belonging or subject to his Majesty, issue or deliver any commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed as aforesaid...
Page 12 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall within the cognizance of the courts of the United States violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 15 - Having, for particular reasons, forborne to use all the measures in our power for the restitution of the three vessels mentioned in my letter of August 7th, the President thought it incumbent on the United States to make compensation for them ; and though nothing was said in that letter of other vessels taken under like circumstances, and brought in after the 5th of June and before the date of that letter, yet, where the same forbearance had taken place, it was and is his opinion that compensation...
Page 6 - That if any person, within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, shall, without the leave and...
Page 7 - ... employed in the service of any foreign prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of anj province or people, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government in or over any foreign state, colony, province, or part of any province or people...
Page 15 - Governors may use the means in their power for making restitution. Without knowledge of the capture, they cannot restore it. It will always be best to give the notice to them directly; but any information, which you shall be pleased to send to me also, at any time, shall be forwarded to them, as quickly as distance will permit.
Page 14 - Dublin, and jthat should the measures for restitution fail in their effect, the President considered it <as incumbent on the United States to make compensation for the vessels.