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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Inducements to naval enterprise. (search)
ta, and it slipped out of port, followed by Nelson, who tried two courses for Alexandria, and missed the French in both. The sea was narrow; the vessels numerous; the fleets actually crossed each other on a certain night; yet Nelson could see nothing of them himself, and heard nothing of them from merchant vessels. In 1805 another Toulon fleet escaped from Nelson. He sought for it in vain in the Mediterranean; then proceeded to the West Indies; then back to Europe, along the coast of Portugal, in the Bay of Biscay, and off the English Channel. But all in vain. When they did meet at last at Trafalgar it was because both fleets were willing to try the issue of a battle. If great squadrons can thus elude the vigilance of an enemy, how much more easily single ships, built for speed, and designed to prey upon the commerce of its adversary. We have seen how for years a few Confederate vessels have foiled the whole naval power of the United States. --Whenever they have come in
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
A case and a parallel. In the year 1811, Marshal Massens, "the spoiled child of victory," as he had been styled, with an army of 70,000 veterans, the flower of Napoleon's legions, undertook the invasion of Portugal by the Northern route. He had been ordered to take Lisbon at all hazards, and to drive the English into the sea. "On to Lisbon" was the word, and not a man in the French army doubted that Lisbon would soon be captured. Wellington, with an army of 60,000 men, 35,000 of them Brire them for two months, and losing half his army in partial attacks, in which, from the protection afforded by their works, he inflicted scarcely any loss upon the enemy, he fell back, and was pursued by Wellington, who drove him entirely out of Portugal and into Spain. Every military writer who has written upon this campaign — among them Napoleon himself, and Napier — has described the attack upon Busaco as an enormous blunder, which occasional the loss of eight or ten thousand men, which was
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Staunton — further particulars of the late fight. (search)
with so little loss. The only defensives campaign of modern times which can be compared to this, is Wellington's in Portugal, in 1810. Compare the two, and the campaign of Lee will be found to be infinitely the more brilliant.--Portugal was thrPortugal was threatened by an army of 70,000 men under Massena. Wellington met him on the frontier, and repulsed him in the battle of Basaco. After that he fell back, covered his retreat by the Cos, and leisurely entered the lines which he had been fortifying for y due to the English General for his forethought in creating these works; but once erected, they rendered the defence of Portugal a matter of absolute certainly, for no force could prevail against them. In the meantime Massena advanced through a couing, wounding, and making prisoners, 75,000 men; more than Wellington put hors de combat during the whole time he was in Portugal. Arrived in the neighborhood of his works, he does not seek shelter behind them. He defies his enemy outside of them,
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of the Georgia. (search)
teamer of the Georgia (s), formerly in the Confederate service, but lately publicly disposed of to an English merchant at Liverpool, has produced considerable excitement among the underwriters, who contend that the act was illegal, and demand the immediate attention of the Government to the seizure. [from the Dublin Freeman's Journal, August 25.] Private telegrams received at Liverpool announce that the Federal frigate Niagara has seized the ex-Confederate cruiser Georgia, bound to Portugal, landed her crew, and sent the ship to New York. Liverpool, August 24.--The master (Withycombe) and thirty-three of the crew of the steamship Georgia have been landed at Dover by the Federal steamer Niagara. The following has been received by the Secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in London: Ellora (s. sr.), Gibraltar, August 15, 1864. To the Managing Directors Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company: Gentlemen: On the 15th ins
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
family then settled in France, and took service in the French army. Major Fraser's father emigrated to Portugal in 1790, and took a Portuguese wife. The issue of this marriage made its way in the world. Two daughters, yet living, are the wives of rich noblemen; the one is a Marquis de Bombolles, and the other the Marquisone son was a secretary of embassy in Austria; the other, Henry Erskine Fraser, was the Major Fraser who has just gone to his grave. He was born at Badajoz, Portugal, where he lived up to the age of eleven years. He had then lost both father and mother, and was committed to the care of M. de Labselern, the tutor of Prince Fel in Paris, but never played himself. Notwithstanding his eccentric, and, as many supposed, frivolous life, he had a practical taste for the industrial pursuits of the present age. He was a director of several railways, and died ultimately from a fever caught in Portugal, whither he had gone to organize a company.--London Globe.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
nental Congress of 1774 in resolving to discontinue the slave trade. On the 1st of March, 1807, Congress passed an act against importations of Africans into the United States after January 1st, 1808. An act in Great Britain in 1807 also made the slave trade unlawful. Denmark made a similar prohibition as to her colonies, to take effect after 1804. The Congress of Vienna, in 1815, pronounced for the abolition of the trade. France abolished it in 1807. Spain, to take effect after 1820. Portugal abolished it in 1818. The slave trade continued in despite of the abolition. The average number of slaves exported from the coast of Africa averaged 85,000 per annum from 1798 to 1805; and from 1835 to 1840 there was a total of 135,810; in 1846 and 1847, it was 84,000 per annum. Between 1840 and 1847, 249,800 were taken to Brazil and 52,027 into the Spanish colonies. Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780. In New Jersey, it was provisionally abolished in 1784; all children b
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Pope's letter. (search)
The Pope's letter. --The Pope's encyclical letter has met with disfavor from the different Governments of Europe.--In Russia and Poland the reading of it has been absolutely prohibited. So it has been in France; but in that country the greater part of the archbishops and bishops have set the Government at defiance, and have, read the letter from their pulpits. In Austria, Prussia, Spain and Portugal, the Government has contented itself with reminding the clergy that the publication of such a document, without the consent of the temporal ruler, is an infraction of the law which will subject them to penalties. In England, the Government does not trouble its head about such matters; so that the Catholic clergy can do as they please about it.
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
stant parts, and there received armaments which enabled them to cruise against the commerce of the United States. I must say, my Lords, looking at of the precedents, looking at the international law, looking at the declarations that were made by the United States Government themselves in the case of the Spanish and Portuguese war, when there were ships of war directly fitted out from the United States port for the South American continent, where they preyed on the commerce of Spain and Portugal, that such a claim upon the Government of this country would be utterly unjust. Well, I say that while we make every allowance for irritation that may arise in the United States in the course of the war which has come upon them unexpectedly, and has caused to both sides a great loss, we think unnecessarily, and are most strict and scrupulous in performing all the duties of neutrality, we must not allow any unfounded claims to be pressed as founded in justice. There is one thing I cannot h
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cholera and cattle plague. (search)
are being made to meet it. Our Consul at Liverpool also writes under the same date that the cattle plague is making sad havoc in that district, and is on the increase. From seven hundred per week the deaths in England and Scotland have gone up to twenty-five hundred. Our Consul at Oporto writes, under date of November 18, 1865, that the cholera had entirely disappeared from the city of Elvas, and the bulletins of the General Council of Health in Lisbon announce the country as free from the epidemic. It is untrue that the "Rinderpest" or cattle plague had broken out in that country. A disease, called the "hoof and tongue" disease, has prevailed to some extent, but few cases have proved fatal. It is an infections disease, and easily communicated; but as there have been several shipments lately made of hides and horns to America, the Consul states that the disease now prevailing in Portugal is not the destructive pest now committing such havoc in Europe.--Washington Star.
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], French industrial Exhibition. (search)
the Governor's peace proclamation. They murdered the first messenger who bore it to them, and an interpreter in the service of Government has also fallen a victim to their savagery. There is a rumor of a Garibaldian corps being formed at Genoa. The General himself remains at Caprera, and enjoys moderate health. Queen Emma of Hawaii has gone to Hyeres. About twenty thousand dollars have been raised during her visit to England for the Hawaiian Mission. The King and Queen of Portugal arrived in Paris on the evening of the 10th, on their way to England, and slept at the Grand Hotel. The death of the King of the Belgians prevented their visit to Compeigne and the Tuileries. The Mexican question — the Beginning of the end.[Correspondence London Observer (Ministerial), December 10.] The Empress Charlotte has left Mexico for Europe en route by Yucatan. The French Emperor is apprehensive lest Maximilian should shortly follow his consort, and has prevailed on Senor H
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