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.

complains of insurgent operations in British jurisdiction...

248

101

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

114-115

288

117

289

117

notifies Earl Russell 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..

complains to Earl Russell of enlistments for the Georgia.

complains to Earl Russell of the Georgia

complains to Earl Russell about the Shenandoah.
complains to Earl Russell about the Laurel.....

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY:

ADMIRALTY AND COLONIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

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

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.....

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

AMENDMENTS:

of municipal laws may be asked by a belligerent.....

of law of 1819 asked by the United States and refused..... 251, 253

103

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

computes amount of cotton in 1861

BENJAMIN, JUDAH P.:

BERMUDA:

(steamship) runs blockade with arms, &c.................
(island) well adapted as a depot of insurgent supplies..
an insurgent depot established there..

BERNARD, MR. MOUNTAGUE:

statement regarding Fraser, Trenholm & Co....
describes Nassau..

describes the Alexandra..........

sends agents of insurgent war department to Nassau....

224

221

224

238

notice of, by proclamation.....

45

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

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25

25

92

164

BRAZIL:

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 :)

CLAIMS OF THE UNITED STATES:

general statement of, by American commissioners.

rejection of, by British commissioners.

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

469, 480 185, 189

CLARENCE, THE:

charge to jury in Highatt's case

career of

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

great need of insurgents of, at Bermuda, in 1863
what is a just rule regarding supplies of..

COCKBURN, SIR ALEXANDER:

COBDEN, RICHARD:

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

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

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

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

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

a ship constructed in a neutral port for the use of a bel-
ligerent not to be confounded with

193

90

91

48

DACOTAH, THE:

treatment of, at Bermuda...........

353

141