. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . measures might be taken tostop the building of the rams. He accordinglyarranged with a mercantile firm in Paris, & Co., that they should become the pur-chasers of the vessels, ostensibly for the Viceroy ofEgypt, and that they should subsequently sell them 598 THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. to him. This plan was carried out with every for-mality, and the rams became the property of thefirm of Bravay. Early in June the first of the rams was Adams had for some t
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . measures might be taken tostop the building of the rams. He accordinglyarranged with a mercantile firm in Paris, & Co., that they should become the pur-chasers of the vessels, ostensibly for the Viceroy ofEgypt, and that they should subsequently sell them 598 THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. to him. This plan was carried out with every for-mality, and the rams became the property of thefirm of Bravay. Early in June the first of the rams was Adams had for some time been observing theirprogress, and on the 11th of that month he wrotean urgent letter to Earl Russell, detailing the cir-cumstances, and inclosing four affidavits, whichgave conclusive evidence of the character and des-tination of the rams. More forcible protests, ac-companied by further affidavits, were made on the16th, and again on the 24th of July, on the 14thof August, and on the 3d and 4th of September. All these letters met with no response from theForeign Office other than simple COMMANDER JOHN M. BROOKE. C. S. A PHOTOGRAPH. On the 2 9 th of August the second ram was had been Mr. Adamss belief at the beginningthat in so clear a case it would only be necessaryto recite the facts to induce the Government to takeaction. As the days and weeks passed by and noanswer came, his appeals grew more and moreearnest and forcible, until in the later letters theyhad reached a tone of solemn warning. At last a reply came, which had been written onthe 1st of September, and therefore before the re-ceipt of the last two communications. It repeatedthe usual formula of the Foreign Office that theevidence was insufficient for legal proceedings, andquoted the belief of the collector at Liverpool thatthe vessels were not intended for the was in reply to this letter that Mr. Adams sentthe dispatch containing his famous ultimatum: It would b
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