170 MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY 



and honored with a dinner on board H. M. S. Immortality 

 then stationed at Port Hamilton. 



When the EngHsh ship sailed, she was followed to sea 

 by the U. S. Sloops of War San Jacinto and Mohican in 

 a threatening manner as though about to repeat the 

 "Trent Affair" and take Maury from the vessel; but 

 nothing of the sort materialized. At Halifax, where 

 Maury arrived November 9, he received the most dis- 

 tinguished consideration from the general commanding 

 the troops, the admiral of the fleet, and the governor of 

 Nova Scotia. The Confederate flag was flown from the 

 top of the hotel in his honor, and the hand-organs ground 

 "Dixie" under his window all day. 



Here Maury's party took passage, on November 13, 

 on the Cunard Steamer Arabia, a paddlewheel fuU- 

 .'jged ship plying between Liverpool and Boston. The 

 ship tumbled about considerably during a great part of 

 the voyage, and Maury was "as seasick and amiable as 

 usual". The voyage was uneventful, and Liverpool was 

 reached in safety. 



On arrival, Maury conferred with Captain James T. 

 Bulloch, C. S. Navy, who had an office with Eraser, 

 Trenholm, and Company, the financial agents of the 

 Confederate government, at No. 10 Rumford Place. 

 After a short stay in Liverpool, he went on to London to 

 a house in Sackville Street which had already been en- 

 gaged for him, where, according to Morgan, "All day 

 long there would be in front of the house a string of 

 carriages with coronets on their doors, while their owners 

 were paying their respects to the great 'Lieutenant 

 Maury'". Early in 1863, Maury established himself 

 at Bowdon, a village about nine miles from Manchester, 



