XI.—Consideration of the duties of Great Britain, as established and recognized by the treaty, in regard to the offending vessels, and its failure to fulfill them, as to each of…
X.—The Sumter, the Nashville, the Retribution, the Tallahassee, and the Chickamauga. June 10, 1872. The attention of the Arbitrators has thus far been directed, in the progress of this investigation…
IX.—The Shenandoah. June 10, 1872. Open hostilities were commenced by the insurgents against the Government of the United States on the 12th of April, 1861, by an attack on Fort…
VIII.—The Georgia. June 10, 1872. This vessel was built at Dumbarton, on the Clyde, a few miles below Glasgow, by William Denny and Brothers. She was launched on the 10th…
VII.—The Alabama. June 10, 1872. As to this vessel, Her Majesty’s Government admits, “that at the time when she sailed from England in July, 1862, she was, as regards the…
VI.—The Florida. June 10, 1872. We now proceed to refer the Arbitrators to the evidence upon which the Government of the United States relies as applicable to the case of…
V.—Statement of some general facts pertaining to the inquiry, and applicable to each cruiser. June 10, 1872. The United States in their Case, which was delivered to the Tribunal of…
IV.—Miscellaneous considerations. June 10, 1872. The British Case and Counter Case are largely occupied with matters which are secondary, immaterial, not to say totally irrelevant, in the judgment of the…
III.—General discussion of questions of law. June 10, 1872. We arrive, now, in sequence of the foregoing exposition of the origin, history, and nature of the pending controversy between the…
II.–The controversy submitted to arbitration. June 10, 1872. The counsel of the United States, in propounding to this august tribunal the cause in controversy between that nation and Great Britain,…