9/51 No answer from the Captain-General yet (noon), as to our being docked. Besides the six ships which Mr.Welles says have been in pursuit of me--viz., the Powhattan, the Niagara, the San Jacinto, the Iroquois, the Keystone State, and the Richmond--the Ino and the Dacotah are also employed in this fruitless business. We are fairly in the hands of the circumlocution office. I suppose they are telegraphing Madrid. The greatest excitement prevails all over Europe to learn the result of the English demand for the Commissioners. |