The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-22 00:00:00

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POLITICAL RXPUGZ AND BRITISH

SHIPS OF WAR.

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A correspondence cm this Nubia* was last night
presented to both Houses of Parliament " by com-
mand." In the first of the letters, Mr. Elliai:e7
Minister at Naplca, writes to Lord Jolla
with reference to a conversation in the Hoare of
Lords :
In the oosvenations I have bad with Captain PrePri, el
the Orion, I have expressed the opinion that it wooed be
extremely undesirable to give out that political refugees
could find a refuge on beard his ship ; but that in the event
of each a person presenting himself he ought to be (*led
by the cironnudenees of the particular case. In the prapeat
excited state of Sicily an announcement that politicipl re-
fugees could led a safe asylum on board her Majesty's ships
would psuibly be nearly sufficient to produce an outbrtak ;
but, on the other hand, it must be recollected that while a
government and its scents are persecuting individuali in
defiance both of law and justice, the persons dying from the
police may fairly be considered as somewhat in the owe
position as those who are escaping from the lynch law of a
mob, and I doubt whether any captain would drive back
into the flip of his pursuers a person who bad once got on
board and appealed far protection. As far as I have moor.
tabled, the applehts at bar Majorly's ship@ have acted with
the Word prima sod dietitian, sod whoa said, as
sons ban Iwo, wham, tiny would poi ug, sopkor to
pelkisal refuges, their reply bas beim that their sole duty
was the peeteeffitni of Britieh laarnaks.

In the second letter Mr. Hammond, of the
Foreign-office, applies by direction of Lord J. Rus-
sell for information as to the general instructions
issued by the Admiralty to naval officers for their
guidanoe, when political refugees ask their protec-
tion. In the third letter Lord C. Paget replies that
no precise regulations have ever been laid down, it
being deemed more expedient to rely on the judg-
ment and discretion of officers in command, exer-
cised according to the circumstances of each in-
dividual case. He states that
Ofiloon in command are at all times enjoined to avoid all
possible cause of offence to the authorities of the ports
which they may visit, sad to respect the established rights,
customs, and regulations of such places. Their principal
duties must be, undoubtedly, to afford protection to British
subjects and to British interests ; and any shelter which
might be afforded to political refugees must, upon grows&
of humanity, be exoeptiooel IS every instance.
Lord C. Paget further states that the last 'untrue-
tions on the subject were contained in a letter to
the Admiralty, written by order of Lord Palmerston
in 1849. In this letter, which is reprinted in these
papemil rs
that

Hie lordship is of opinion that it would not be right to
receive and harbour on board • British ship of war any
person flying from justice on • criminal charge, or who wee
escaping from the sentence of a court of law. But a British
man•of-war bear always and everywhere been coeidelered a
safe place of refuge for persona of whatever country or perty
who have sought shelter under the British flag from perse-
cution on account of their political readuct or °pinkies ;
sad this protection has been equally afforded, whether the
refugee was escaping from the arbitrary acts of a sionarchkal
government or from the Inwlees riches* of a revolutionary
committee. There seems to he nothing in the present state
of affairs at Naples or in May which ought to make a
British ship of war stationed la a Neapolitan or in a Side
Ike port as exemptian to the gemseal rule ; and therefore,
although the Nuirmadw el wet ship of war should not seek
out or invite punka rate's's, yet he ought not to turn
away we te glee up any who nay reach his ship and ask
aniline' en bona Such raw suet of course take care
thed me refugees shell net wiry en, from on board his
thip, any poilthel conesposdenee with their partisans on
above, and be ought to avail himself of the earliest opportu-
nity to seed them to some place of safety elsewhere. Via-
-1 mug psalm eaten as an renew, however, why the fact of
a NW* saw barrier emwelesd this act of usual hoop'.
tarty sheirld watitle the gewinenent of the country to order
him out el the port if the interest. of her Majesty's service
should reguire that he should remain there.

In tir meoluding latter of the series Lord John
I requeris the Admiralty to call the atten-
dee et Vier-Admiral Paathawe to the instructions
contaiaed in Lord Palmerston's letter for hie guid-
ance in the present state of akin in Sicily.

Till GARIBALDI FUND.