My coxswain ran off to-day, and I was pulled off by a drunken crew.
_Sunday, February 9th._--Did not go to church, but remained on board to be present at muster.

Eleven of my vagabonds still on shore.

Some of these, we learn, have gone to the United States Consul, and claimed his protection.

This official has been seducing them off by an emissary.
Wrote to the Governor charging this on the Consul, and wrote also to Captain Warden, asking to be supplied with coal from the Government dockyard.
C.S.Steamer Sumter, Bay of Gibraltar, Feb.

10, 1862.
Sir,--I have the honour to state for the information of his Excellency the Governor of Gibraltar, that I am informed and believe that the United States Consul, at this place, has, by means of his emissaries, tampered with, and seduced from their allegiance, several of the crew of my ship who have visited the shore on liberty.