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and finding that the Federal authorities would do nothing, an arrangement was made with an English passenger ship for their transportation to Europe by giving a draft to be paid at Liverpool. (Report of Lieutenant Porter.) Upon the demand of Brazil, the act of Collins, commander of the Wachusett, was disavowed, and on the 20th of December, Mr. Seward informed the minister of Brazil that the prisoners would be set at liberty. He said the act was an unauthorized, unlawful and indefensible exBrazil that the prisoners would be set at liberty. He said the act was an unauthorized, unlawful and indefensible exercise of the naval force of the United States within a foreign country. Professor Soley, of the United States navy, discussing the conduct of Collins, has said: The capture of the Florida was as gross and deliberate a violation of the rights of neutrals as was ever committed in any age or country. It is idle to attempt to apologize for it or to explain it; the circumstances were such that the question does not admit of discussion. (The Blockade and the Cruisers, Soley, p. 189.) If it had