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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Alabama and Kearsarge. (search)
ers also left Paris yesterday morning to join their ship, and to prepare at once to go to sea. The festivities offered to Capt Winslow and officers by the American residents at Paris came to a close on Sunday by a handsome dinner given by Mr. Monroe, the banker, at the Hotel des Reteraoirs at Versalites. Besides the officers of the Kearsarge and the members of the American Legation, a few other invited guests partook of Mr. Monroe's liberal hospitality. It was the annual fete day of Versailles; and after dinner the party repaired to the Park to see the fire works and the illumination, in variegated colors and by electric lights, of the hundred of jets d eau of the magnificent fountain of Neptune. On this occasion I learned that the Commission which had been appointed by the Emperor to visit the Kearsarge and inspect and report upon her armament, had performed that duty on Friday last. On that day Lieut Thornton, First Lieutenant of the Kearsarge, reported to Capt Winslow t