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with the authority of her Majesty's Government ; but he
did not add that it had not been done with the authority
of Sir G. Le Marchant, under his own directions. Ac-
cording to Lord Clarend,n, he had never given any in-
structions of the kind, but what pessihle ohject could
Mr, Crarnpton have had in communicating these facts to
-the Foreign Secretary ? At first sight it di i not appear,
but on a moment's reflection the house weeld perceive
that it enabled him to rush off to the United States Fo-
reign Secretary, and throw the communication into his
face as a declaration of her Majesty's Government. Mr.
Marcy expressed himself satisfied then with regard to the
acts of Angus M‘Dantald, just as be now declared himi-
self to be satisfied with the recent explanations of her
Majesty's Government. Let him, however, now call at-
tention to the fact that at the very time Mr. Cramp-
ton went to the Foreign Secretary of the United
States the Government were countenancing the issu-
ing 'under the authority of the Royal arms of
another proclamation, containing all that was in
M'Donald's notification, nay, going a great deal
more in advance of it; and 'Net, stupendously inconsi,t:
ent as it might appear, Lord Clarendon declared this
document to be legal while the other was not. There
could be no deubt that Mr. Marcy accepted the commu-
nication made to i?im at this time by Mr. Crampton as a
complete disavowal on the part of her Majesty's Govern-
ment of all participation in the enlistment movement.
Well, Mr. Crarnpton having settled this difficulty pro-
ceeded in hot haste to Canada to organise an extensive
system of enlistment, and under his authority emissaries
of all kinds were employed for working out the scheme,
who were furnished by himself with ciphers for carrying
on a correspondence relative to it. Tney bad this on the
authority of Mr. Strobel, one of the agents employed, a
person of doubtful reputation, certainly; but Mr. Cramp-
ton admits having furnished the agents with memoranda
and ciphers for their guidance in carrying nut his instruc-
tions. It would be scarcely a figure of speech to ray
that at the very moment Mr. Crampton was drawing up
these memoranda and constructing his mysterious cipher
in Canada, Mr. Lumley, his secretary, was explaining
the reason of his absence from Washington to Mr.
Marcy. The absence of Mr. Crampton had become a
source of uneasiness to the Unite-I States Govtriirnent,
and Mr. Marcy applied to Mr. Lumley for some expla-
nation on the suoject. What passed at the interview
Mr. Lumley communicated to Lord Clarendon in the
following terms :

Washington, May 7, 1855.
At an interview which I had with Mr. Marcy, I told
him that he had judged rightly in supposing that Mr.
Crampton's visit to Canada had reference to the enlist-
ment question. I sated that from tho first moment this
question was mooted, Mr. Crampton had shown the
greatest anxiety that it should in no way lead to vio-
lations of the laws of the United States, that he believed
everything that could be done might be effected
and that he was delearnained, as far as lay in his po ver, to
prevent anything like infraction or evasiou of the neutrality
laws of this couutry. Unfortunately the very str ingeut na-
ture of the provi dolls of these laws was not generally under-
stood, and several persons had on their own i esponsinility
acted at variance with them, and it was for the purpose of
fully explaining the bearings of the hew, and of preventing
such infractions, that Mr- Crampton had undertaken his
journey to the British provinces. I then told Mr. Marcy
that as I thought it would i uteresittim to see your lordahip's
last instructions on the subject I had brought them with
me, and I said that I was certain a perusal of this paper
would convince him of two things : first, that the view
which had been taken, and the opinions which had beeu ex-
pressed by Mr. Crampton on this subject, were precisely
Duch as Mr. Marcy might have expected from his knowledge
of Mr. Crampton ; and set:audit,. that those opinions had
been respended to by her Majesty's Government in the same
frank and honourable manner. I then re el to Me. Marcy a
copy of your lordship's depatch of the 12th ult. Hr. Marcy
appeared much pleased with this communication, and said
that as the question was one which had engaged the atten-
tion of the United States Government, he should he very
glad to be able to show this despatch to the Cabinet. I
told Mr. Marcy that I had no instructions to leave it with
him, but I would take upon myself to do so if he would con-
sider it in the light of a private memorandum. Mr. Mercy
said he would note it as such, and that if at any time Mr.
Crampton wished he might recall it ; " the question," Mr.
Marcy added, " will no doubt come before Congress, an-t I
should be glad if this fiespatch could be found among the
papers called for." lain aware that in lekviug this despatch
with Mr. Marcy I have transgressed the regulations ef her
Majesty's service, for which I must throw yourse'f on your
lordship'd indulgence, but Mr. Crampton was anxious that
the United States Government should not for a moment
suppose that a project for enlisting troops for her Majesty's
service within the United States hart ever been contem-
plated. After rea iing the despatch himself Mr. Marcy said
he had no doubt that the course pursued by Mr. Crampton
was the proper one; he was, indeed, convinced 31 this
from having seen Mr. Crampton's instructions to her Ma-
jesty's consuls ,when the question of recruiting iu the
United States first arose.
Lord Clarendon replied t) that, despatch, aparoving of
what Mr. Lumley had dime, and yet he must have known
that the explanation-given was evasive and shuffling. It
needed no lawyer to make out the meaning it intended to
convey ; it was simply to deceive, for at the very time it
was given Mr. Crampton was undoubtedly engaged in mak-
ing arrangements in Canada to defeat the enlistment law
of the United States. He had often heard the hun. mem-
ber for North Warwickshire talk of the mental reserva-
tions—of the suppressio yen and the sugyestio falsi, sanc-
tioned and advocated in the musty volumes of some ancient
Mowan Catholic divine , • but he asked him whether he
was prepared, either by act or speech, or both, to counte-
rianoethis perversion of the English language, whose purity
and simplicity were not calculated to encourage a spirit of
mental reservation, or the conduct of a British minister
who so twisted an explanation as to display more suppressio
yen or suggestio fatsi than would have taxed the iugenuity
or the conscience of an Escobar. Now, in the month of May
these enlistment proceedings in the United States were j
uui-
chilly shown to b s illegal, and yet during the whole of May,
June, and July Mr. Crampton allowed Chose proceedings
to be taken, and so far Mr. Crampton alone was held re-
sponsible. In the month, however, of September, the trial
was made keown, rend the complicity of Lurd Clarendon
with Mr. Crampton's arrangements turret then have become
Cully apparent. The noble lord must then have been fully
aware of Mr. Crampton's having employed German emis-
saries of all kinds of characters ; or his having furnished
Them with memoranda for their 'gui unit of his
having invented a cipaer for carrying ou their corres-
pondence. Well, now, did Lord Clarendon ever hypothe-
tically express the em Blest disapproval of any one of these
proceedings / He did not. The answer of the Ameri-
can Government to these insolent charges was before the
world, and it was as complete as it was unexception-
able in its tone and temper. Lord Clarendon said that
the American judges, the American courts, and the
American Government, supported as they were by the
opinion of their own legal advisers,--were all wrong ;
and the noble lord offered to furnish them with a correct
c instruction of their own law. The noble lord's argument
was most p culler. He sail that no infringement of the
American law could take place unless there war a valid
contract to enlist ; but then he said that, iu wafer to con-
stitute a valid contract, the party must be attested, and
the attestation could not take piece anywhere except upon
English territory. Tue noble lord, not satisfied with de-
fending the conduct of his Government, went ou, without
the smallest reason, deliberately to advance claims on the
part of the Crown that were of a most dangerous charac-
ter. In a letter to Mr. AI ircy he said that her Majesty
lied a right to recall to her service any of her own sub-
jects who were capable of bearing arms. (Loud cheers.)
He (Mr. Moore) would only like to see any Government
attempt to put a claim like that iu force in case hostilities
arose between this country and America. Such a claim
involved questions upon which the Americans felt
strongly, and he should like to see any English Govern-
ment hang a person found on board an A inerican ship on
the plea that he was an English subject. He (the hoc.
member) would now take leave of Lord Clarendon's cor-
respondence; but he must be allowed to make some re-
marks upon the conduct of her Majesty's Government in
impugning the testimony and bolouling the character of
their own officers. (Hear.) They had audaciously and un-
necessarily proclaimed to the world that men in the Bri-
tish service who had been confidentially employed by Bri-
tish agents abroad had characters so abominably flagitious
that they were not to be believed upon their oath. Mr.
Strobel was a captain in the British service; he was
asked to dine with Sir Gaspard Le Marchaut, and he was
called " Dear Mr. Strobel" till he was called to bear wit-
ness against Mr. Crampton. Then a compatriot was cited
to prove that Strobel was a Russian spy. Presently, how-
ever, this new witness was found swearing against Mr.
Crampton harder than Strobel himself, and then it was
discovered that his character was also bail. (A. laugh.)
Such a procedure he (Mr. Moore) could not help regarding
as most discreditable not only to'the Government who put
forth such a plea, but to the nation. Lord Clarendon might
have known from experience the results that would be cer-
tain to follow the employment of such means. Not long
ago there was a journal in Dublin called the World. It
was for some months the organ of the I ish Government,
and Vie character both of the paper and of its conductors
was known from the first to everybody'. As soon as the
connection became inconvenient Lord Clereudon found out
that the editor was a most doubtful person, and the noble
lord went into a court of justice in order to depose to the fact.
The conduct of Lord Clarendon bore a striking resemblance
to that of the late Mr. Palmer. Palmer also impeached
the character of the witnesses, and he also found fault
with the Attorney-General.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—No, no. (Laughter.)

Mr. M.OJRB—Palmer also favoured the world with his
own peculiar notions of jurisprudence. He was charged
with murdering the deceased with strychnine, and he con-
tended that as he did not use that drug he was not guilty.
The answer ot the Government was illogical, but conclu-
sive—they hanged him. And in like wanner the Ameri-
can Government were treated with equally cogent argu-
ments; but they dismissed Mr. Cramptim. He (Mr.
Moore) thought that they had no other course to pur•
sue. Tneir neutrality had been grossly violated ; their
confidence had been r;baken ; they had been imposed on
by false assurances ; they bad been surrounded by a
sys'.einatic conspiracy to defeat the laws of their coun-
try ; their cPmPlaints had been met by recriminations,
by insolent criticisms on their courts of wijudicature,
and by special reading Ns bleb was in-uiting alike to
their authority aid to their intelligence. The English
people could take no just exceriou to the curse which
the American Government bad pursued, or t.) the tone
and temper in which it had vindicated its honour. But
in the meantime bow had her Majesty s Government
vindicated theirs ? To the heaped-up accumulation ot
disgrace they had added vet another —they bad nothing
to say but that they lined it. The noble lord began by
observing :

Her Majesty's Government are gratified at learning that
the assurances contained iu my note to you of April 30, that
no intention existed on thepartof her Maj esty's Government
to violate the laws, compromise the neutrality, or disregard
the sovereignty of the United States, have been unreserv-
edly accepted by the President, and that all cause of diffe-
rence with respect to the question of enlistment has ceased
to exist between the Governments of Great Britain and of
the United States."

Now it was not the fact that the President had accep'ed
the assurances of h-r 51.9asty's Government unreserv•
edly. The case was as it one man %ere to strike another
and then deny that he had done yo ; and if the injured
party were to reply, " My dear sir, I am perfectly satis-
fied with your statement, but, as I am certain that your
hand did strike me, I shad take the liberty of chopping
it off." The answer of her Majesty's Government was
as it the other man was to say in return that, although
the offending hand had umfoubtedly been struck off, he
was glad to find that the person who had so mutilated