Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-22
PRIVATEERS.
The British Government and
Alabama Claims.

The general expectation that United
States Minister Reverdy johnson will
speedily press to q settlement the long
pending Alabama elaims,n makes q
recspitulsticn Of the number of privs-
teers which sailed from English ports,
and the number of vessels captured, and
brief mention OF the action Of the Brit
ish Government and British people in
respect to the privsteers, Otinterest now.
AS early IS May Z, 1851, the palmetto
isg" wes hoisted on an American ves-
sci in Princes Dock, Liverpool, and the
day following the Liverpool Board of
Underwriters pasted in their rooms the
substance OF Jefferson Davis proclama-
ton inviting the service of privateers.
May l3 1861, the Queen issued her proc
lamation Of neutrality, citing the pro-
visions of the foreign enlistment act.
May 18th, Lord BroUgham stated in the
House of Lords that as the Confederate
States had been recognized as {" bellig-
erentR,n their privateering was not
piracy, and the House of Lords general
ly agreed TO the statement that the
" COafeGeracy was q belligerent
power" June lst, circular VS. issued
from the foreign Office directing the
British Government authorities to ex-
clude United States war vessels and Con-
tederste privateers alike from British
pOris auring the war. November 8, 1851,
the FishmOBger's Company, London,
gave public dinner 10 VIM. L. Yaneey,
commissioned by the South to Great
Britain.
10 1882, January s, the United States
steamer TOscarora, Commander Craven,
arrived st Southampton for the purpose
OF watching the movements of the pri-
vateer Sumter, then at sea. The priva-
teer Nashville was then Lying ct South
smptoD, and the Tt scar0ra blockaded
her; but on January 29 the Tuscarora
was ordered away by the British authori-
ties, while the Nashville was permitted
TO remain in port. On the same day
Messrs. Mason and Slidell arrived at
Southampton. Meanwhile, January 10,
the Sumter, WHICH the Tuscsrors was
on the LOOKOUT for, having been driven
away from CadiZ, arrived at Gibraltar.
January q, 1882, Lord Lyons reported
to Earl Russell with regard to his inter-
view with Mr.. Seward on the subject of
the blockade of Charleston, and reported
Mr.. Seward as admitting that the har-
bor was not Inaccessible, inasmuch as
" 3 British steamer, ladened with con-
trRbsnd of war, had jQRL succeeded in
getting in." February 2, I've days after
the Tuscarors had been ordered away,
the privateer Nashville sailed from
Southampton. March p, the steamship
0veto sailed from Liverpool to join the
Southern " commercial feet" April 2
the brigs Adelaide and Mary Wright, la
den with cotton FROM Charleston, arrived
and discharged at Liverpool,
July 20, 1852, the steamship then
known as No. 290 left the Mersey and
went to sea, arrived st Porto Prsys
August 19, and August q; Capt. Raphael
Sem mes toSk command of her, ana
hoisled the Confederate nag over her as
the Alabama. This vessel csptured her
first prize (the bark Alert, from New
London) September 8, 1862, and between
that date aud November TO- 1868, she
csptured % ships, % barks, brigs, 6
schOOners, the steamer Ariel, and the
United States gunbost Hatteras, off Gal
weston, January l3, 1868. The scarcely
less famous Ehensndosh captured no less
than 3S vessels, IaOst Of theEa ships and
bsI ks, and q OF them from New Bedford,
Mass.
Four OF her other captures were from
Boston and four we're from San Fran
CISCO. The privateer Florids, 36 ships,
osrks, brigs, and sehGoners. The Sum-
ter captured q vessels, the Tallahassee
q vessels, the Tscony Is vessels, the
Clarence 3 vessels, the Calhoun 3 vessels,
the st. Nicholas vessels, the Oioustee
vessels, the RetFibution vessels, the
WinsiOw vessels, the Chicamsugs yes.
sels, the JEFF. Davis vessels, the Geor-
gia 10 vessels, the Sallie vessels, the
Tuscarors, Conrad, York, Lapwing, and
5aysupsh each one vessel, the Echo,
the Boston, snd the Nashville each two
vessels, and sixteen more American ves-
sells we're captured oy priyateers not re-
ported.