We said we would mention that, and we do, as Captain Semmes’s last.  “The Dido people,” he went on to say, “asked us if we had set the ship on fire, and I answered we had, and had got the crew safe on board.  ’All right!’ was the answer, and we parted.  She was a vessel of about 1000 tons.”  We asked Captain Semmes if he could give us the names of the vessels he had captured.  He answered that he could.  “For,” he said, “you English people won’t be neighbourly enough to let me bring my prizes into your ports, and get them condemned, so that I am obliged to sit here a court of myself, try every case, and condemn the ships I take.  The European powers, I see, some of them complain of my burning the ships; but what, if they will preserve such strict neutrality as to keep me out of their ports, what am I to do with these ships when I take them but burn them?” He then fetched his record books, and we took the following down from his lips:—­“The ships we have captured were—­the Ocmulgee, of 400 tons, thirty-two men on board; we burned her.  The Alert, a whaler of 700 tons; we burned her.  The whaling schooner Weathergauge; we burned her.  The whaling brig Altamaha; we burned her.  The whaling ship Benjamin Tucker; we burned her.  The whaling schooner Courser; we burned her.  The whaling barque Virginia; we burned her.  The barque Elisha Dunbar, a whaler; we burned her.  The ship Brilliant, with 1000 tons of grain on board; we burned her.  The Emily Farnum we captured and released as a cartel, and having so many prisoners we put some of them on board her, and sent them off.  The Wave Crest, with a general cargo on board for Europe, we set on fire.  The Dunkirk brig, with a general cargo on board, we burned.  The ship Tonawanda we captured, with a valuable freight on board, and released her, after taking a bond for a thousand dollars.  The ship Manchester, with a cargo of grain, we burned.  The barque Lamplighter, with an assorted cargo for Europe, we burned.  The barque Lafayette, with an assorted cargo, we burned.  The schooner Crenshaw, with an assorted cargo for the West Indies, we burned.  The barque Lauretta, with an assorted cargo on board for Europe, we burned.  The brig Baron de Custine we took a bond for and released.  The whaling ship Levi Starbuck we burned.  The T.B.  Wales, from Calcutta to Boston, with a valuable cargo on board, we burned.  The barque Martha, from Calcutta to West Indies, with an assorted cargo, we burned.  The schooner Union we, after boarding, found had some English property on board, and we released her on bond.  The mail steamer Ariel Running between New York and Aspinwall, we captured.  Unfortunately she was going, not returning, or we should have had a lot of gold.  We released her on bond.  The United States gunboat Hatteras, who came out to fight us, had the same number of guns and crew.  Our guns were a little heavier than hers, but we equalized them by permitting her to fight us at 300 yards.  We sunk her in thirteen minutes by the watch.