...oal, and, by converting her into a tender, was enabled to supply himself with fuel as long as he wished to remain on the station. On the 6th of May the brig Clarence was captured off the coast of Brazil , armed by Maffitt with some light guns, and placed in command of Lieutenant Charles W. Read, formerly a midshipman in the U. S. Navy--and another Confederate State's vessel-of-war was created in the ...