...ech in the House of Commons, in defence of himself, in the course of which he stated the fact I have charged, to wit: that Mr. Welles endeavored to make a contract with him, for building some Federal Alabama s. Here is so much of his speech as is necessary to establish the charge:—In 1861, said he, just after the war broke out, a friend of mine, whom I have known for many years, was over here, and c...