[Sir C. Elliot to the Duke of Newcastle.]., November 17, 1863.

[Sir C. Elliot to the Duke of Newcastle.].

My Lord Duke: The United States sloop Vanderbilt called off this port on the 10th instant, but did not anchor. Commander Baldwin was so good as to send me a few newspapers, from which I collect that he had come on from the Cape of Good Hope, after having been as far to the eastward as the Mauritius. The Vanderbilt left this place, steering about west-northwest.

2. I learn from an officer who visited the Vanderbilt that it was said on board she had called at Angra Pequena bay, and captured there, or in that neigh borhood, the British bark Saxon, belonging, as I am informed, to a firm at Cape Town. It was said that this bark had on board part of the cargo of the American bark Sea Bride, taken a few months since by the Alabama and armed, as I am informed, from that vessel, either as a tender to the confederate ship, or under a commission, said to be issued by the Commander of the Alabama. It has also been stated here that the Vanderbilt found and appropriated a considerable quantity of coal at Angra Pequena, intended for the Alabama; whether water-borne or on shore I cannot say.

3. Your grace will probably have correct particulars of the case direct from the Cape, but I have thought it right to mention what has reached me upon the subject.

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