The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-05 00:00:00

(Entered at Stationers' Hall.)

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GENERAL SCO7T ON THE AMERICAN

-DIFFICULTY.

The following is a copy of the letter just ad-
dressed by General Scott, in reply to the anxious
enquiries of a friend,:—
My Dear Sir,—You were right in doubting the
declaration imputed to me, to wit, that the Cabinet
at Washington had given orders to seize Messrs.
Mason and Slidell even under a neutral flag, for I
was not even aware that the Government had had
that point under consideration. At the time of my
leaving New York it was not known that the San
Jacinto had returned to the American seas ; and it
was generally supposed those persons had escaped
to Cuba for the pui pose of re-embarking in the
Nashville, in pursuit of which vessel the James
Adger and:other cruisers had been despatched.

I think I can satisfy you in a few words that you
have no serious occasion to feel concerned about
our relations with England, as her rulers pro-
fess, she has no disposition to encourage the dis-
sensions in America.

In the first place it is almost superfluous to say to
you, that every instinct of prudence, as well as
ur,„„a prompts our Government to
regard no honourable sacrifice too great for the
preservation of the friendship of Great Britain.
This must be obvious to all the world. At no period
of our history has her friendship been of more im-
portance to our people—at no period has our Govern-
ment been in a condition to make greater conces-
sions to preserve it. The two nations are united by
interests and sympathies—commercial, social, poli-
tical, and religious—almost as the two arms to one
body—and no one is so ignorant as not to know
that what harms one must harm the other in a
corresponding degree.
I am persuaded that the British Government can
entertain no doubt upon this point; bat if it does,
I feel that I may take upon myself to say that the
President of the United States, when made aware of
its existence, will lose no opportunity of dispelling
it.
Nor is there anything, I venture to affirm, in the
seizure of these rebel emissaries which ought to re-
ceive an unfriendly construction from England.
Her statesmen will not question the legal right of
an American vessel of war to search any commer-
cial vessel justly suspected of transporting contra-
band of war ; that right has never been surrendered
by England ; it was even guaranteed to her by the
Treaty of Paris; and British guns frowning down
upon nearly every strait and inland sea upon the
globe is conclusive evidence that she regards this
right as one, the efficacy of which may be not yet
entirely exhausted. Of course, there is much that
is irritating and vexatious in the exercise of this
right under the most favourable circumstances, and
it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when the
maritime States of the world will agree in placing
neutral commerce beyond the reach of each
vexations. The United States Government has
been striving to this end for more than fifty years;
to this end early in the present century, and in its
infancy as a nation, it embarked in a war with
the greatest naval Power in the world, and it is
even now a persistent suitor at every maritime
Court in Europe for a more liberal recognition
of the rights of neutrals than any of the other great
maritime nations have yet been disposed to make.
But till those rights are secured by proper inter-
national guarantees upon a comprehensive and en-
during basis, of course England cannot complain of
an act for which in all its material bearings her
own naval history affords such numerous precedents.
Whether the captives from the Trent were
ateewere,
esiy
me a
is rebellion, An id arsll con-
traband of war or not, is a question which the two
Governments can have no-serious difficulty in agree-
ing upon: If Mr. Seward cannot satisfy Earl
Russell that they were, I have no doubt Earl Itus-
sell r
o will
not.
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satisfy impartial
agents
less Contraband than a file of rebel soldiers or a
battery of hostile cannon.

But even should there be a difference of opinion
upon this point, it is very clear that our Govern-
ment had sufficient grounds for presuming itself in
the right, to escape the suspicion of having wantonly,
violated the relations of amity which the two coun-
tries profess a desire to preserve and cultivate.
The pretence that we ought to have taken the
Trent into port and had her condemned by a prize
court, in order to justify our seizure of four of her
passengers, furnishes a very narrow basis on which
to fix a serious controversy between two great
nations. Stated in other words, an offence would
have been less if it had been greater. The wrong
done to the British flag would have been mitigated
if, instead of seizing the four rebels, we had
seized the ship, detained all her passengers for
weeks, and confiscated her cargo. I am not sur-
prised that Captain Wilkes took a different
view of his duty, and of what was due to the
friendly relations which subsisted between the two
Governments. The renowned common sense of
the English people, I believe, will approve of his

On the other hand, should England be unpre-
pared to make a corresponding sacrifice, should she
feel that she could not yet afford to surrender the
advantages which the present maritime code gives
to a dominant naval Power, of course she will not
put herself in a false position by asking us to do it.
In either case, therefore, I do not see how the
friendly relations of the two Governments are in
any immediate danger of being disturbed.
That the over-prompt recognition as belligerents
of a body of men, however large, so long as they
constituted a manifest minority of the nation,
wounded the feelings of my countrymen deeply, I
will not affect to deny, nor that that act, with some
of its logical consequences which have already
occurred, has planted in the breasts of many the
suspicion that their kindred in England wish them
evil rather than good ; bat the statesmen to whom
the political interest of these two great people are
confided act upon higher responsibilities and with
better lights, and you may rest assured that an
event so mutually disastrous as a war between
England and America, cannot occur without some
other and graver provocation than has yet been
given by either nation.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Hotel Westminster, Paris, Dec. 2, 1861.
To —, Esq.