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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Flag-Officer Stringham, U. S.
Navy, commanding Atlantic Blockading Squadron, referring to the
English brig Herald and the schooner Tropic Wind.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, July 24, 1861.
SIR: Your No. 76,* in relation to the English brig [Herald], captured
by the St. Lawrence, has been received.
The Department is of opinion, under the circumstances mentioned,
that she is good prize and should be sent to some court for adjudica-
tion.
Please inform the Department if the schooner Tropic Wind is at
Hampton Roads, and whether she has been turned over to you or what
has been done with her.
Her papers were sent to the Department by General Butler.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
GIDEON WELLES.
Flag-Officer S. H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Flag-Oficer Stringham, U. S.
Navy, commanding Atlantic Blockading Squadron, transmitting infor-
mation from U. S. consul at Liverpool regarding the movements of the
vessels Gondar, John Fraser, and Monterey.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, July 24, 1861.
SIR: I herewith enclose for your information a letter from the Secre-
tary of State, dated the 20th instant, with an extract from a dispatch
received from the U. S. consul at Liverpool, in reference to certain
vessels fitting out in England for the Atlantic ports of the insurgent
States.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
GIDEON WELLES.
Flag-Officer S. H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Blockading [Squadron], Hampton Roads.
[Enclosure.]
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WIVashington, July 20, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for your information an
extract from a dispatch, No. 23, received from the U. S. vice-consul at
Liverpool, in reference to certain vessels which, as there is reason to
believe, are fitting out in England by parties in the interest of the
insurgents.
I beg leave to suggest that the attention of the commanders of our
blockading forces be called to the representations of Vice-Consul Wild-
ing.
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM HE. SEWARD.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy.
*See p. 19.
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