160 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
5. “' 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. “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.” 
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 “No. 290,” 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 “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 ;” 2. Because, “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 ;” 8. Because, “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 
