...der a neutral flag, they might get conveyance to Europe. They took passage in the Trent, bound from Havana to St. Thomas, from which island a regular line of British steamers ran to England. In Mr. Richard H. Dana 's notes to Wheaton's Elements of International Law, he says of the envoys: Their character and destination were well known to the agent and master of the Trent, as well as the great interest felt by ...