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Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.
Sir: In regard to the hope expressed in your No. 803 of the 6th instant, that the rumor of the stopping of the Pampero at Glasgow might prove true, you will long ere this have received full confirmation of it. I had considered Lord Russell’s intimation to me, as reported to you in my No. 552, of the 10th of December, so distinct, that I had little doubt of the result from that moment It is announced in the newspapers that the trial will come on in about a month.
One good effect of these various proceedings has been to remove all further anxiety respecting the destination of the formidable iron-clad ram in process of construction at the same place. That she was ordered in the first instance by the rebels I have no manner of doubt. She has now been purchased by the Danish government, as I learn from the minister, M. de Bille.
The prosecutions against Mr. Rumble, the inspector of machinery at the Sheerness dockyard, for complicity in the proceedings of the steamer Victor, alias Scylla, alias the Rappahannock, and against Messrs. Jones & Co., at Liverpool, for enlisting and paying men for service in the Georgia, are going on.
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I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.