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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice (search)
n and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately they floated, and were picked up by the British. The discovery, through them, of a good understanding between Holland and the Colonies, led to a short war between Great Britain and the former power, the only incidents of any account in which were the obstinate, but indecisive sea-fight off the Dogger Bank, between Admiral Hyde Parker and the Dutch fleet, and the capture and plunder of the Dutch Island of St. Eustatia, by the British West India fleet under Admiral Rodney, and a land force under Gen. Vaughan. This latter enterprise had a most important bearing upon the issue of the war in America, and is on