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en detained. These instructions were calculated to afford a cheap satisfaction to the United States, without injuring the Confederates. Unfortunately, the Tuscaloosa disturbed the calculation by again coming into port, after a cruise to Brazil, and the colonial governor proceeded to detain her, in accordance with the instructions of his superiors. This was not at all what the Home Government wanted; and it immediately disavowed the act, and ordered the restoration of the Tuscaloosa to Lieutenant Low, her commander, on the ground that having been once allowed to enter and leave the port, he was fairly entitled to assume that he might do so a second time. Comment on these proceedings is hardly necessary. Having made arrangements soon after his arrival at Cape Town for the sale of the Sea Bride, his latest prize, and of the Tuscaloosa's cargo, Semmes retired with his vessels to Angra Pequeña, a point on the west coast of Africa, outside of civilized jurisdiction, and made the tran