unjust to impose further delay, and the expense of presenting claims to another Tribunal, if the evidence which the United States have the honor to present for the consideration of these Arbitrators shall prove to be sufficient to enable them to determine what sum in gross would be a just compensation to the United States for the injuries and losses of which they complain.

Above all it is in the highest interest of the two great Powers which appear at this bar, that the causes of difference which [481] have been hereinbefore set forth should be speedily and forever

set at rest. The United States entertain a confident expectation that Her Majesty's Government will concur with them in this opinion.

says insurgent government is interested in blockade-running 282-284
further representations as to blockade-runners.

114-115

288

117

representations as to the Honduras...

notities Earl Russeli that sale of Sumter will not be recognized
informs Earl Russell of the character of the Florida.

brings to Earl Russell's notice treatment of Florida in colonies
calls Earl Russell's attention to the Alabama..

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY:

correspondence regarding claims of Portugal................

ADMIRALTY AND COLONIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

of January 31, 1862, unfriendly to United States....
abstract of those instructions

orders revealed and Alabama escapes..

goes to Moelfra Bay and the Hercules follows next day with

receives arms, stores, and coal from Bahama and Agrippina.

was adapted for warlike purposes when she left Liverpool...
was fitted out there, at least in part....

Semmes's opinion of the vessel...

she receives coal from Agrippina at Martinique..
is received at Jamaica as a man-of-war..

ruling of the court in, emasculated the foreign enlistment act
of 1819...

course of the government of, contrasted with that of the
British government..

BERNARD, MR. MOUNTAGUE:

gives list of vessels detained by Great Britain..

his criticism on Mr. Fish's dispatch not sustained..

his statement concerning the Florida

his statement as to prosecutions for offenses against foreign
enlistment act

296

300

.note

344

400

proclamation of, when news of, received in England.
an imperfect copy submitted to law officers
for opinion

47

49

BLOCKADE-RUNNERS:

general character of, determined by insurgent government..
converted into men-of-war, and vice versa...

223

414

BLOCKADE-RUNNING:

operations in 1862

operations in 1863 .

insurgent government interested in....

complaints thereof to British government..

answer that it is no offense..

237

120

further proof of insurgent interest in..

course of the government of, contrasted with that of the
government of Great Britain....

thrown upon Great Britain to show that it exercised dili-
gence.

his opinion regarding conduct of United States as a neutral..
CAPE TOWN, (see Tuscaloosa :)

CLARENCE, THE:

career of

CLAIMS OF THE UNITED STATES:

general statement of, by American commissioners......
rejection of, by British commissioners...

detailed statement or, where to be found and should be met
by award of a gross sum..

COAL, (see Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Shenandoah :)

great need of insurgents of, at Bermuda, in 1833
what is a just rule regarding supplies of....

permission refused to the United States to deposit at Nassau..

COCKBURN, SIR ALEXANDER:

charge to jury in Highatt's case

395

157

COBDEN, RICHARD:

says Great Britain has recognized duty to detain offending
vessel coming within its jurisdiction..........

solicitor general in 1833, and now attorney general
his opinions in the Alabama matter..........

comments on loss of mercantile marine of United States...

COLLIER, R. P.:

COMMISSION:

as man-of-war, effect of on offending vessel.....

202

84

how regarded by France, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal..

a ship constructed in a neutral port for the use of a bel-