IC^Q THE TUKATY OF WASHINGTON. 



r>. "The !il)souce uf a previous notice can not be rcgardcil as 

 ft failure in any consi<leration required by the law of nations, 

 in tli()>e casc's in Avhicli a vessel carries Avitli it its own con- 

 (.k-ninatioii. 



0. "In order to iinitart to ariy supplies of coal a character 

 inconsistent with the second llule, prohibitin:; the use of neu- 

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

 li"erent, it is necessary that the said supplies should l;c con- 

 neeteu with special circumstances of time, of ])ersons, or of 

 place, which may combine to give them such character." 



K(3C'i>ing in view these riil-js of construction, tlie 

 Tribunal proceeds to judge the Britisli Government 

 in re^^•\rd to each of tlie Confederate cruisers "before 

 them. 



As to tlie Alahama, originally "No. 200," construct- 

 ed in tlie ])urt of Liverpool and armed near Terceira, 

 througli tlic agency oi {\\q. A(jrij>piint and JSiduoncf^ 

 dlsi)atched from (Jreat Britain to that end, tlu; Tri- 

 bimal decides that tlie British Government failed to 

 use due diligence in the performance of its neutral 

 obliLcations: 



1. Tiecause " it omitted, notwithstanding the warnings and 

 olVu'ial rei)resentalions made by the diplomatic agents of tho 

 I'niled States during the construction of the said 'No. 290,' to 

 take in d\ie time any ctVectivc measures of pre'cntion, and that 

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

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

 ticable;" 2. Uccause," 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 suflicicnt 

 to release (ireat Uritain from tho responsibility already ii>- 

 ciirretl;" .T. Uecanse, *' in despite of the vio ations of the neu- 

 trality of (treat Britain conunitted 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 



