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CORRESPONDENCE.
GREAT BRITAIN.
(CONTINUED.)
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
No. 950.1 DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
     Washington, May 18, 1864.
 SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the
27th of April, together with the reports of debates which have occurred in
the House of Lords and in the House of Commons, concerning the case of the
Tuscaloosa. I observe with much pleasure that the ministry have successfully
vindicated the proceedings which they adopted in that case, for the purpose
of maintainhiig the neutrality which her Majesty so uneciuivocally, though
prematurely. proclaimed at the beginning of our civil war.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
 WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
CHARLES F. ADAMS, Esc1., 4-c., 4-c., 4-c.
Air. Seward to Mr. Adams.
[Extract.]
No. 951.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
     Washington, May 18, 1864.
 SIR: Your despatch of the 28th of April, No. 672, has been received, together
with copies of your correspondence with Earl Russell, on the subject of enlistments
for the insurgent seamen in British ports; also reports of the judicial proceedings
in the case of Rumble, who is implicated in these unlawful enlistments ;
as well as a report of similar proceedings in the case of the pirates of
the Joseph L. Gerrity.
 * * * * * a * * *
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
 WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
C. F. ADAMS, Esq., 4-c., 4-c., 4-c.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
No. 952.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
    Washington, May 18, 1864.
 SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 28th ultimo,
No. 671, which relates to the approaching trial of the case of the Messrs.
Laird's rams; the restoration of the Alexandra to the nominal owners, her