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action in direct hostility to the Government of the United States. This appears to corroborate in all essential particulars the evidence heretofore adduced from other quarters.

I append the copy of a paper, marked A, showing the extent to which Her Majesty's subjects, many of them alleged to belong to the naval reserve, have been enlisted in a single example of illegal enterprise. I pray, &c., (Signed)

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

[Inclosure in No. 4.]

Affidavit of Clarence Randolph Yonge.

I, Clarence Randolph Yonge, citizen of the State of Georgia, in the United States, laté paymaster on board the steamer Alabama, formerly called the 290, and also called the Eurica, and which was built by Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, in England, make oath and say as follows:

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I came to England in the steamer Annie Childs, which sailed from Wilmington, in North Carolina, early in February, 1862, and landed in England on or about the 11th of March, 1862, and remained at Liverpool until the steamer Alabama went to sea. came over for the express purpose of acting as paymaster to the Alabama. I engaged for that purpose with Captain James D. Bullock, at Savannah, Georgia. He had full authority from the confederate government in the matters about to be mentioned. Lieutenant North had been sent over to England by the confederate government to get iron-clad vessels built. Captain Bullock had been over previously, and had made the contracts for building the Őreto and the Alabama, and was returning to England to assume the command of the latter ship. He was directed at the time to assist Lieutenant North with his advice and experience in building the iron-clads, which Lieutenant North had been sent over here expressly to get built. I was in the naval paymaster's office in Savannah, Georgia, under the confederate government. Captain Bullock wanted some one to accompany him, and I was recommended by the paymaster at Savannah to Captain Bullock. I was then released by the paymaster from my engagement, and was subsequently appointed by Captain Bullock, under the written authority of Mr. S. R. Mallory, the secretary of the navy, a paymaster in the confederate navy, and assigned to the Alabama. I continued as paymaster in the navy of the Confederate States of America from the time of my appointment in Savannah, Geor[4] gia, up to the time of my leaving the Alabama at Port Royal, in January, 1863. The date of my appointment as paymaster in the confederate navy was the 21st of December, 1861. Previous to this time I had attended to Captain Bullock's correspondence with the confederate government, and I therefore knew that these two vessels, afterward called the Oreto and Alabama, were being built in England for the confederate government, and by the same means I knew that Captain Bullock, who is a commander in the confederate navy, was the acknowledged agent of the confederate government for the purpose of getting such ships built. There was some correspondence which I saw between Captain Bullock and Mr. S. R. Mallory, the secretary of the navy, relative to purchasing two English vessels which had been used as transports in the Crimean war, Captain Bullock advising against purchasing them as being unfit for the service for which they were required. I wrote the letters from Captain Bullock (and which he signed) to the secretary advising against this purchase. There was correspondence between Mr. Mallory and Captain Bullock (which I saw and copied) to the effect that the money would be ready and lodged in England to pay for these vessels as it fell due. From what I know I am satisfied that the money was all duly paid as it fell due for these vessels. I saw a letter from Captain Bullock to Fraser, Trenholm & Co. (a firm in Liverpool hereinafter again referred to) thanking them. Captain Bullock kept copies of his correspondence, and they are deposited in one of the banks in Savannah.

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From the time of my coming to England until I sailed in the Alabama my principal business was in paying the officers of the confederate navy, who were over here attached to the Alabama, and sent over for that purpose. I used to pay them monthly, about the 1st of the month, at Fraser, Trenholm & Co.'s office in Liverpool, and I drew the money for that purpose from that firm.

Commander James D. Bullock, John Low, lieutenant, Eugene Maffitt, midshipman, E. M. Anderson, midshipman, came over to England in the same vessel with myself. Captain Bullock came over to England, in the first instance, to contract for building the two vessels, the Oreto, now called the Florida, and the Alabama. He came

to contract for and in behalf of the southern confederacy, with the understanding that he was to have the command of one of the vessels. I have heard him say so; and I have learned this also from the correspondence between him and Mr. Mallory, secretary of the confederate navy, as before mentioned, which passed through my hands.

At the commencement of my engagement with Captain Bullock I acted as his clerk. The contract for building the Alabama was made with Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, by Captain Bullock. I have seen it myself. I made a copy from the original. The copy was in the ship. It was signed by Captain Bullock, on the one part, and Messrs. Laird, on the other. I made the copy at instance of Captain Bullock from the original, which he has. The ship cost, in United States money, about $255,000; this included provisions, &c., enough for a voyage to the East Indies, which Messrs. Laird were by the contract to provide. The payments were all made before the vessel sailed, to the best of my belief. Sinclair, Hamilton & Co., of London, had money. Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool, had money. There was government money in both their hands over here enough for the purpose of paying them. I was over to see the Alabama before she was launched from Messrs. Laird's yard, and was on board the vessel with Captain Bullock, and have met Captain Bullock and one of the Messrs. Laird at Fraser, Trenholm & Co.'s office. Captain Bullock superintended the building of the Alabama and Oreto; also while he was here Captain Matthew J. Butcher was the captain who took her to sea. He is an Englishman, and represented himself as belonging to the royal naval reserve. At the time the Alabama was being built by Messrs. Laird, and when I saw them at different times at their yard in Birkenhead and at Fraser, Trenholm & Co.'s office, I have not the slightest doubt that they perfectly well knew that such steamer was being built for the southern confederacy, and that she was to be used in war against the Government of the United States. When the vessel sailed from Liverpool she had her shot-racks fitted in the usual places; she had sockets in her decks, and the pins fitted which held fast frames on carriages for the pivot-guns and breeching-bolts. These had been placed in by the builders of the vessel, Messrs. Laird & Co. She was also full of provisions and stores enough for four months' cruise. `When she sailed she had beds, bedding, cooking-utensils, and mess-utensils for 100 men, and powder-tanks fitted in.

We sailed from Liverpool on the 29th day of July, 1862. This was some three or four days sooner than we expected to sail. The reason for our sailing at this time before we contemplated, was on account of information which we had received that proceedings were being commenced to stop the vessel from sailing. Captain Bullock sent Lieutenant Law to me on Sunday evening, the 27th of July, to say that I must be at Fraser,

Trenholm & Co.'s office early next morning. The next morning I arrived at [5] half past *9 o'clock. Captain Butcher came in and told me the ship which at

that time was called the 290, also Eurica, would sail the next day, and he wanted me to go with him. In a few minutes Captain Bullock came in and told me he wanted me to go to sea at a minute's notice; that they were going to send her right out. I placed my things on the vessel on that evening. There were about seventy or eighty men in the vessel at this time under Captain Butcher, who had been in command of the vessel for more than a month before she sailed.

I went on the vessel on the morning of the 29th of July for the purpose of sailing. We started out of the river Mersey at about half past 10 o'clock. Captain Butcher commanded; Mr. Low acted as first mate; George T. Fullam as second mate; and David Herbert Llewellyn as assistant surgeon.

Captain Bullock, Lieutenants North and Sinclair were on board, also the two Messrs. Laird, Mr. A. E. Byrne, and five or six ladies, (including two Miss Lairds,) and some other gentlemen whom I do not know. When we sailed it was not our intention to return, but it was with the intention of going to sea, and so understood by us all. The ladies and passengers were taken on board as a blind.

After we got on board, one of the Messrs. Laird who built the vessel came to me and gave me £312 in English gold. Captain Bullock came and asked me if Mr. Laird had given me the money; that he had some to give me which I must put in the safe. I told him I had not received it, and went to Mr. Laird and got it. Mr. Laird counted it out for me, and I gave him a receipt for the amount. Mr. Laird gave me a number of bills and receipts at the same time for things he had been purchasing for the vessel -beds, blankets, tin-ware, knives, forks, for the ship; all of which he (Mr. Laird) had purchased from various parties on account of the ship. My understanding was that the money given me was the balance of the money left, after making these purchases. The bills and receipts which Mr. Laird gave me on this occasion, on account of the purchases he had made, were left on the ship, and were handed over by me to Francis L. Galt, who has succeeded me as paymaster on the ship.

There was a tug-boat in attendance when we left Liverpool on the 29th of July, in which the ladies and all the passengers left. We ran down immediately for Moelfra Bay, and lay there all that night, all the next day and next night, until 3 o'clock on Friday morning. I copied a letter of instructions from Captain Bullock to Captain

Butcher, in which Captain Butcher was directed to proceed to Porto Praya in Terceira, one of the Azores, where it was intended that we should go to receive the armament. I knew, and all the officers knew, before we went on board that this vessel had been built for the purpose, and was to go out with the intention of cruising and making war against the government and people of the United States. This, as I verily believe, was well known by the Messrs. Laird, who built her and helped to fit her out, and by Fraser, Trenholm & Co., and by A. E. Byrne, of Liverpool, who also assisted in fitting her out, and by Captain Butcher and the other officers who sailed in her.

The next day after we left, the tug-boat Hercules came to us from Liverpool about 3. o'clock. She brought to us Captain Bullock and S. G. Porter, (who for a time superintended the fitting of the vessel,) and some two or three men. The men signed articles that night. They had signed articles before at various times while in Liverpool, but they all came up again and renewed the articles. The advance-notes had been given them in Liverpool by Captain Butcher, and made payable at Cunard, Wilson & Co. The original articles are now in Fraser, Trenholm & Co.'s office, but in possession of Captain Bullock, who transacts all his business and keeps all his. papers at Fraser, Trenholm & Co. I do not know the name of the man who acted as shipping-master at Liverpool. Captain Bullock wrote a letter of instructions to me before we left Liverpool, directing me to circulate freely among the men, and induce them to go on the vessel after we got to Terceira. I accordingly did circulate among the men on our way out, and persuaded them to join the vessel after we should get to Terceira. Low did the same.

We sailed from Moelfra Bay at 3 o'clock on Friday morning. We went out through the Irish Channel. Captain Bullock left us at the Giant's Causeway. We were some ten or eleven days going out to Terceira. We were in quarantine three days at Porto Praya. There was no transfer of the vessel or anything of the kind there. The bark Agrippina, from London, arrived there with a part of the armament and all the ammunition, all the clothing and coals. She was commanded by Alexander McQueen. The first day after the arrival of the bark she was getting ready for discharging. This bark is owned by the confederate government, but is nominally held by Sinclair, Hamilton & Co., of London, and sails under the British flag. This firm are connected with the confederate government.

[6] *Early the following day the bark Agrippina hauled alongside, and we commenced to take the guns on board. Two or three days after this the Bahama arrived with the officers. This steamer was in command of Captain Tessier. She also sailed under the British flag. The Bahama came in, and Captain Butcher went on board, and received orders to sail to Angra. The Bahama took the bark in tow, and we all went round to Angra. After we got there we were ordered away by the authorities. There was also correspondence took place between Captain Butcher and the British consul at that place, but I never heard what it was. We went out, and continued discharging and taking in all that day, and at night we and the bark ran into the bay, the Bahama keeping outside. By this time we had got all the guns, ammunition, and cargo from the steamer and bark. During all this time the three vessels were sailing under the British flag. We finished coaling on Sunday, the 24th day of August, about 1 o'clock. We received from the bark Agrippina four broadside guns, each 32-pounders, and two pivot-guns, one 68-pounder solid-shot gun, and one 100pounder rifled gun; 100 barrels of gunpowder, a number of Enfield rifles, two cases of pistols and cartridges for the same. All the clothing for the men was also received from the Agrippina, and the fuses, primers, signals, rockets, shot, shell, and other munitions of war needed by the ship; also a quantity of coal. We received from the Bahama two 32-pounder broadside guns, a bale of blue flannel for sailors' wear, and a fire-proof chest with $50,000 in English sovereigns and $50,000 in bank-bills.

Captain Butcher or Mr. Low, the first mate, told me that Mr. M. G. Klingender had been directed to purchase in Liverpool, where Mr. Klingender resides and does business as a merchant, such supplies of tobacco and liquor as were required for the ship's use. I made out the advance notes for the men at Liverpool on the 28th of July, 1862, while she was lying in the Birkenhead docks, which advance-notes were made payable by Cunard, Wilson & Co., at Liverpool; the half-pay notes which I made out in Moelfra Bay on board the No. 290 were made payable at Liverpool by the aforesaid Mr. M. G. Klingender. After we arrived at Angra, and had armed the ship, and were leaving that port to enter upon the cruise, we were still under the British flag. Captain Semmes then had all the men called aft on the quarter-deck. The British flag was hauled down and the confederate one raised. He then and there made a speech; read his commission to them as a commander in the confederate navy; told them the objects of the vessel, and what she was about to do; mentioned to them what their proportion of prize-money would be out of each $100,000 worth of property captured and destroyed; said he had on board $100,000; and asked them to go with him, at the same time appealing to them as British sailors to aid him in defending the side of the weak.

I had two sets of articles prepared; one for men shipping for a limited time, the

other for those willing to go during the war. The articles were then re-signed, while the vessel was in Portuguese waters, but under the confederate flag. This was on Sunday, the 24th of August, 1862. At the same time Captain Semmes announced that the ship would be called the Confederate States vessel Alabama. The guns which were brought out to the No. 290 in the Agrippina and the Bahama were made and furnished by Fawcett, Preston & Co., of Liverpool. The ammunition and entire armament of the vessel, as well as all the outfit, were purchased in England.

The list hereunto annexed, marked A, contains a list of the names of all the officers on the Alabama when I left, except myself, and of all the men whom I can now remember. My belief is that we had eighty-four shipped men, inclusive of the firemen and coal-trimmers, when we left Angra. All the men but three signed the articles for the period of the war. The half-pay notes were then drawn in favor of and given to the men. These half-pay notes entitled their families or friends to draw half of their pay on the 1st of every month. They were all payable by Fraser, Trenholm & Co., with whom the money for the purpose of meeting them was lodged. The first set of notes (payable at Cunard, Wilson & Co.'s) were in the form of the British marine service; the second set (payable at Fraser, Trenholm & Co.'s) were in the form used by the United States and confederate navy. Several of the men refused to sign, and returned in the Bahama to Liverpool. Captain Butcher and Captain Bullock also returned in the Bahama. We then entered upon our cruise.

Out of the eighty-four men I believe there were not more than ten or twelve Americans. There was one Spaniard, and all the rest were Englishmen. More than onehalf of the Englishmen belonged to the royal navy reserve, as they informed me, and as was generally understood by all on board. Four at least of the officers were English; that is to say, John Low, fourth lieutenant; David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon; George T. Fullam, master's mate; and Henry Allcott, the sail-maker. I never

remember at any time seeing any custom-house officer aboard this vessel. I re[7] mained aboard the vessel as paymaster from the time I joined her, as before stated, until the 25th day of January, 1863, at which time she was lying at Port Royal, Jamaica. During the whole time that I was on board her she was cruising and making war against the Government and people of the United States. I cannot recollect the names of all the vessels which she captured, but I know that the number which were captured and destroyed up to the time I left her was at least twenty-three, and, as I believe, was more. Of these twenty-three, four were released upon giving ransom-bonds payable to the confederate government; such four were, the ship Emily Farnham, of New York, bound to Liverpool; the Tonawanda, of Philadelphia, bound for Liverpool; the brig Baron de Custine, bound for the West Indies; and the mailsteamship Ariel, on the Californian line. All the rest were burned or destroyed.

The first port we went into after leaving the Western Islands was Port Royal, Martinique, where we went to provision and coal. The bark Agrippina was lying with coals for us, being the same vessel as took out the armament. We did not provision or coal there, but we went out, and afterward met the Agrippina at the island of Blanco, belonging to Venezuela. We only took coal in there. We then proceeded to the Arcas Keys, near Yucatan Banks, where we lay about ten days; where we painted the ship and re-coaled from the Agrippina, and gave the men a run on shore.

We then steered for Galveston, where we destroyed the United States gun-boat Hatteras, which was the last vessel we destroyed before I left her.

As soon as we got the prisoners from the Hatteras on board we started straight for Jamaica, (Port Royal.) There we provisioned, coaled, and repaired ship. All the twenty-three ships which we had burned or destroyed had been so burned or destroyed in the interval between our leaving the Western Islands and steering for Port Royal. I heard of no objection from the authorities in Jamaica to our repairing, coaling, or provisioning the ship in Port Royal; but, on the contrary, we were received with all courtesy and kindness. We were there about a week. While we were there the English admiral at Port Royal paid a visit to Captain Semmes on board the Alabama. I was on shore on duty at the time of the visit, but I heard of such visit immediately upon my return to the ship, for it was the subject of much conversation and remark among the officers; and, in particular, I remember Mr. Sinclair, the master, speaking of it. I also know that Captain Semmes paid a return visit to the English admiral on the day that the Alabama left Port Royal; I myself saw him start for the purpose. My connection with the ship terminated in Port Royal, and I subsequently came to England, where I arrived on the 22d of March, 1863.

(Signed)

CLARENCE R. YONGE.

Sworn at the judge's chambers, Rolls Gardens, Chancery Lane, this 2d day of April, 1863, before me, JOHN PAYNE, A Commissioner, &c.

(Signed)

A.-Officers and crew of the Alabama.

Raphael Semmes, commander.

J. M. Kell, first lieutenant.

Richard F. Armstrong, second lieutenant.

Joseph Wilson, third lieutenant.

John Low, fourth lieutenant; Englishman; sisters living in Liverpool; made his allotment payable to brother-in-law, Charles Green, jr. Fraser, Trenholm & Co. pay the men all the allotments; that is, the half-monthly pay. Every month they drew this allotment.

Arthur Sinclair, master; that is, sailing-master.

Francis L. Galt, surgeon; from Virginia; now acting as paymaster.

Miles J. Freeman, first assistant engineer; ranks as chief; born in Wales; does not know whether naturalized.

David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon; Englishman.

B. K. Howell, (brother-in-law of Jeff. Davis,) lieutenant of marines-no marines on board.

William H. Sinclair, midshipmen.

Irvine S. Bullock, midshipman; Captain Bullock's brother.

Eugene Maffitt, midshipman; Captain Maffitt's son.

Edward Maffitt Anderson, midshipman; son of Colonel Anderson.

William P. Brooks, second assistant engineer.

S. W. Cummings, third assistant engineer.

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Matthew O'Brien, third assistant engineer.

*John M. Pundt, third assistant engineer.

George T. Fullam, first master's mate; Englishman; father teacher of naviga

tion school in hull.

James Evans, second master's mate; Charleston pilot.

William B. Smith, captain's clerk.

Benjamin L. Mecasky, boatswain.

T. C. Cuddy, gunner.

William Robinson, carpenter.

Henry Allcott, sail-maker; Englishman.

Petty officers and seamen.

James King, master-at-arms; Savannah pilot.

Adolphus Marmelstein, signal quartermaster; Savannah pilot.
Wm. A. King, quartermaster; Savannah pilot.

James G. Dent, quartermaster; Savannah pilot.

Wm. Forestall, quartermaster; Savannah pilot.

Ralph Masters, quarter-gunner.

Wm. Crawford, quarter-gunner, royal naval reserve; England.

George Addison, armorer.

Wm. Rinton, carpenter's mate; Englishman.

Edward Rawes, ship's carpenter; Englishman.

George Harwood, chief boatswain's mate, English reserve; English government pay

him a pension; time up February 24, 1863, (as he states.)

Michael Genshla, fireman; has a pension in England; has been discharged November 25, 1862; Irishman.

Brent Johnson, second boatswain's mate; English reserve.

Wm. Pundy, sail-maker's mate; English.

John Latham, fireman; English.

David Roach, fireman; English.

Thomas Murphy, fireman; English.

John McAlee, ordinary seaman; English.

Thos. Welsh, ordinary seaman; English.

James Smith, captain of the forecastle; English.

Edwd. Fitzsmorris, ordinary seaman; English.

George Egerton, fireman, lives at Liverpool; English.

James McFaden, fireman; time up February, 1863; English.

Wm. Robinson, able seaman; English.

Martin Molk, able seaman; English.

Geo. Yeoman, ordinary seaman; English.

Wm. McGinley, able seaman; English.

George Freemantle, able seaman; English.

Frederick Johns, purser's steward; English.

John Grady, boy; uncle lives at 56 Regent street, Liverpool, bootmaker; English. Thos. Weir, gunner's mate; English.

James Brasner, able seaman; English.

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