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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 30
ns of the rest. I design to show that the United States have produced ships, the very counterpartsur day, to look after the welfare of the Confederate States, went to work. Dr. Franklin, in partiisers of the Government of the so-styled Confederate States, and that they received no more shelter,cquire a belligerent character against the United States, had only to leave the British port where l be recollected, too, that Mr. Adams, the United States Minister at the Court of London, frequentln Adams, afterward second President of the United States, the grandfather of Mr. Charles Francis Ade was not entitled to be considered as a Confederate States ship of war. Let us look a little into tpect. [Modern nations, and especially the United States, have left their citizens free to expatriae discussion grew out of the case of the Confederate States steamer Georgia, which had recently retud if we had, I think the Government of the United States would have considered that they had some c[2 more...]
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
already seen, upon the foreign origin of the Alabama, and it has been objected against her, that h produced ships, the very counterparts of the Alabama, in every particular, foreign origin and all,h them for the legality of the origin of the Alabama, as a ship of war, and justify by their acts,ked, with reference to this passage, that the Alabama, though built in England, was not armed or eqpassing beyond the marine league, whereas the Alabama, when she left the Mersey, was entirely unarms one other point in the legal history of the Alabama, which it is necessary to notice, and to whice forgotten. It has been charged against the Alabama, that her crew was composed mostly of foreign. The reader thus perceives, that if the Alabama enlisted some foreigners to complete her crewhe latter, that he inveigled him on board the Alabama. I will now produce the precedent I spoke I had something of a mixture on board the Alabama, but I think Jones decidedly beat me, in the [2 more...]
Lisbon (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
istory] for travelling expenses, when he arrived in Spain, a year or two later, was derived from this source. The Revenge now disappears from view, as the Surprise had done before her, and the historian takes up the Reprisal, the ship, as we have seen, which carried Dr. Franklin over to France. The Reprisal, having refitted, soon sailed toward the Bay of Biscay, on another cruise. Here she captured several more vessels, and among the rest a King's packet, that plied between Falmouth and Lisbon. When the cruise was up, Captain Wickes went into Nantes, taking his prizes with him. The complaints of the English now became louder, and the American Ministers were secretly admonished of the necessity of using greater reserve. The prizes were directed to quit France, though the Reprisal, being leaky, was suffered to remain in port, in order to refit. The former were taken into the offing, and sold, the state of the times rendering these informal proceedings necessary. Enormous losses t
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 30
rt Morris, that it effectually alarmed England, prevented the great fair at Chester, occasioned insurance to rise, and even deterred the English merchants from shipping in English bottoms, at any rate, so that, in a few weeks, forty sail of French ships were loading in the Thames, on freight, an instance never known before. In the same letter the Commissioner adds: In a word, Conyngham, by his first and second bold expeditions, is become the terror of all the eastern coasts of England and Scotland, and is more dreaded than Thurot was in the late war. This same Captain Conyngham, afterward, while cruising on the American coast, fell into the hands of the enemy. He had, of course, become odious to the English people, and they had denounced him as a pirate, as our Northern people have denounced the writer of these pages. Conyngham was closely confined, and the English admiral, whose fleet was then stationed in the waters of New York, threatened to send him to England for trial. L
Mare Cantabricum (search for this): chapter 30
The Revenge now disappears from view, as the Surprise had done before her, and the historian takes up the Reprisal, the ship, as we have seen, which carried Dr. Franklin over to France. The Reprisal, having refitted, soon sailed toward the Bay of Biscay, on another cruise. Here she captured several more vessels, and among the rest a King's packet, that plied between Falmouth and Lisbon. When the cruise was up, Captain Wickes went into Nantes, taking his prizes with him. The complaints of tutenant Nicholson, a brother of the senior captain, and a gentleman who subsequently died at the head of the service. Captain Wickes, in command of this light squadron, sailed from Nantes, about the commencement of June, going first into the Bay of Biscay, and afterward entirely around Ireland, sweeping the sea before him, of everything that was not of a force to render an attack hopeless. The linen ships were missed, but many vessels were taken or destroyed. The sensation produced among t
Liverpool (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 30
It will be recollected, too, that Mr. Adams, the United States Minister at the Court of London, frequently protested, in his correspondence with the English Foreign Office, against the Confederates being permitted to have stationed agents, at Liverpool, and elsewhere in the British dominions, conducting a Naval Bureau. Had he forgotten the Naval Bureau which was conducted in France, by Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane, who were stationed agents of the Colonies? How they built, and purchased, an from a speech made by Sir Hugh Cairnes, her Britannic Majesty's Attorney-General, in the House of Commons, on the 12th of May, 1864. The discussion grew out of the case of the Confederate States steamer Georgia, which had recently returned to Liverpool, after a cruise. Among other questions discussed was whether the Georgia should be excluded from British ports, because of some alleged infraction on her part, of the British Foreign Enlistment Act. In speaking to this question, the Attorney-G
France (France) (search for this): chapter 30
e Declaration of Independence, and appeared in France, in the autumn of 1776, bringing in with her slidell arrived there. In short, the people of France had found out that this thing of getting up a into Cooper, to see what their business was in France, and how they performed it. In order, says thi her hereafter, under the name of the Queen of France. Some time in the spring of 1777, an agent y equipped as a cruiser, at Dunkirk, a port of France, then at peace with England—for France had notFrance had not yet joined the Colonies in the war—but she got all her officers and crew there, many of whom were hor for a cruise, still lying in the waters of France, she was a perfectly armed and equipped ship o have seen, which carried Dr. Franklin over to France. The Reprisal, having refitted, soon sailed tter reserve. The prizes were directed to quit France, though the Reprisal, being leaky, was sufferewhether I was a native of England, Germany, or France, or of any other foreign power. All that he c[3 more...]<
Dunkirk (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
s, where he purchased a fine, fast-sailing, English-built cutter, and had her carried across to Dunkirk. Here she was privately equipped as a cruiser, and named the Surprise. To the command of this any other that was ever issued by the same authority. Having obtained his officers and crew at Dunkirk, Captain Conyngham sailed on a cruise about the 1st of May, and on the 4th he took a brig calles her crew enlisted there; whilst the Surprise was not only privately equipped as a cruiser, at Dunkirk, a port of France, then at peace with England—for France had not yet joined the Colonies in theurprise became known to the Commissioners, they dispatched one of their agents, a Mr. Hodge, to Dunkirk, where he purchased another cutter, which was fitted with all dispatch, as a cruiser, as the Sus and Countess of Scarborough. Mr. Cooper thus describes the crew of Jones' ship, picked up at Dunkirk, or Nantes, or some of the other French ports:— To manage a vessel of this singular armame
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 30
isers, during the war of 1776 Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, as chiefs of a naval Bureau in Paris the surprise, and the revenge Wickes and Conyngham, and Paul Jones. Mutato nomine De te fabulas this writer, to complete the account of the proceedings of the American Commissioners in Paris, so far as they were connected with naval movements during the years 1776 and 1777, it is necess and we hear no more of her. But we do hear more, and that immediately, from the Naval Bureau in Paris, under the guidance of Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane. As soon as the seizure of the Surprise beche Lexington arrived in France, and the old difficulties were renewed. But the Commissioners at Paris, who had been authorized to equip vessels, appoint officers, and do other matters to annoy the eed after Dr. Franklin's Poor Richard, in the almanac, of which this Chief of the Naval Bureau in Paris was the author,) and the British ships Serapis and Countess of Scarborough. Mr. Cooper thus des
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 30
is passage, that the Alabama, though built in England, was not armed or equipped there, nor was herDunkirk, a port of France, then at peace with England—for France had not yet joined the Colonies inly armed, equipped, and manned anywhere in Great Britain, or in any foreign country, or on the high a treaty then existing between France and Great Britain, providing that neither should permit the urprise was a mere blind, intended to satisfy England. The ship herself was suffered to pass out or. Charles Francis Adams, Federal Minister to England during the war; and the antagonism in which tcome the terror of all the eastern coasts of England and Scotland, and is more dreaded than Thurotwaters of New York, threatened to send him to England for trial. Let us see what steps the Americas closely confined, and ordered to be sent to England, and praying that measures may be taken for t see my commission, whether I was a native of England, Germany, or France, or of any other foreign
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