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5. &quot; The absence of a previous notice can not be regarded as 

 a failure in any consideration required by the law of nations, 

 in those cases in which a vessel carries with it its own con 

 demnation. 



6. &quot;In order to impart to any supplies of coal a character 

 inconsistent with the second Rule, prohibiting the use of neu 

 tral ports or waters, as a base of naval operations for the Bel 

 ligerent, it is necessary that the said Supplies should be con 

 nected with special circumstances of time, of persons, or of 

 place, which may combine to give them such character.&quot; 



Keeping in view these rules of construction, the 

 Tribunal proceeds to judge the British Government 

 in regard to each of the Confederate cruisers before 

 them. 



As to the Alabama, originally &quot;No. 290,&quot; construct 

 ed in the port of Liverpool and armed near Terceira, 

 through the agency of the Agrippina and Bahama, 

 dispatched from Great Britain to that end, the Tri 

 bunal decides that the British Government failed to 

 use due diligence in the performance of its neutral 

 obligations : 



1. Because &quot;it omitted, notwithstanding the warnings and 

 official representations made by the diplomatic agents of the 

 United States during the construction of the said * No. 290, to 

 take in due time any effective measures of prevention, and that 

 those orders which it did give at last, for the detention of the 

 vessel, were issued so late that their execution was not prac-* 

 ticable ;&quot; 2. Because, &quot; after the escape of that vessel, the meas 

 ures taken for its pursuit and arrest were so imperfect as to 

 lead to no result, and therefore can not be considered sufficient 

 to release Great Britain from the responsibility already in 

 curred ;&quot; 3. Because, &quot; in despite of the violations of the neu 

 trality of Great Britain committed by the * 290, this same ves 

 sel, later known as the Confederate cruiser Alabama, was on 

 several occasions freely admitted into the ports of Colonies of 



