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t to quarters, hoist the colors and load the guns. The next proceeding was to fire a shot across the bow of the Trent, which caused that vessel to display the British colors without arresting its onward speed. A shell from the San Jacinto across her course brought the Trent to without delay and Captain Wilkes then sent his executive officer with a guard of marines and a full armed boat crew to board the British ship. Lieutenant Fairfax, the executive officer, went aboard, and informing Captain Moir of the Trent as to the object of his visit, asked for the passenger list, saying that he would search the vessel to find Mason and Slidell. But while the English captain was protesting against this breach of international law and refusing to show any papers, the two Confederate commissioners with their associates, Eustis and McFarland, appeared and united with the British officer in his protest. At this juncture the other Federal officers in the armed. cutter came aboard with a number