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THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE ON THE
BRI lISH FLAG.

(Fron..the Mornivg Pjae:)
_That -we. mustilentandtoolegy

American Government,.and the restoration of the
passengers seized on board the West Indian Mail-
steamer, is so obvious, that the Court Circular need
only inform us, as it does, that a Cabinet Council
was held yesterday, to make us certain of the deter-
mination it must have arrived at.

We have therefore no hesitation in asserting that
despatches will be at once forwarded to Lord Lyons,
instructing him to claim the persons of the gentle-
men taken from under the protection of the English
flag, together with an adequate apology for the
outrage committed by the Captain of the San
Jacinto. If these demands are not at once com-
plied with, Lord Lyons will break off diplomatic
relations with the Cabinet of Washington and re-
turn to this country. _ .

The time has now passed away for legal argumen-
tation, which has been exhausted by the subtlety
of the press, and which
.for practical purposes has
been brought to a close by the unanimous opinion
of the law officers of the Crown. That we had
suffered a gross national affront, in the manner in
which the act of Captain Wilks was perpetrated,
was patent even before the piratical nature of the act
had been legally established; and it would, apart
from its illegality, have been incompatible with the
maintenance of the friendly relations which before
existed with the Federal Government of America.
We are reluctantly constrained therefore to see,
in this matter, an act as unfriendly in spirit as
it is piratical in law. We should not be too
glad to think that there is any prospect of such
conduct meeting with a disavowal at the hands of
the Cabinet at Washington. But every considera-
tion leads us to apprehend that the captain of the
San Jacinto acted under the direct authority of his
Government. It seems quite impossible to conceive
that, in so highly disciplined and directly subordi-
nated a service as the navy of the United States,
any officer would venture, of his own motion, to
take a part involving issues of peace and war.
Messrs. Slidell and Mason were in a special manner
objects of the vengeance of the Federal Government.
The San Jacinto, although arriving from Africa,
had been lurking in the waters of the West Indies
for some six weeks, no doubt in pursuance of orders
from the Government of Washington, and there
appears to be no difficulty in assuming that the San
Jacinto received these orders from Havana, where
a had toaohed, and whence she promptly steamed
off to intercept the Trent in the Bahama Channel.
It might have been thought that the Government
of Washington heti its hands too full already to be
willing to encounter fresh dangers. A Government
obviously unable to cope successfully with its pre-
sent antagonists would be in an incomparably worse
position with a maritime foe ready to blockade its
ports, and thereby to destroy one of its chief means
of attack against the Southern Confederacy. It is
true that Governments, either in transports of
passion, or in a vehement tide of warfare, may grow
reckless of fresh antagonism ; and the language of
Mr. Seward has no doubt been haughty enough for

the proudest days of American unity. Whatever may
have been the temper in which his scheme was
enunciated before he took office on the 4th of March

last, for the compensation of the North oat of our
Canadian dominions, on account of its contingent
losses in the South, or whatever the purposes for
which he more lately appealed to the Governors of
the bordering states to fortify their frontiers against
overt acts of hostility from Great Britain, it seems
impossible to divest such proceedings of the cha-
racter of a menace. We should, however, be reluc-
tant to attach undue significance to the astute de-
sign, which it is not unreasonable to ascribe to the
Cabinet of Washington, of relinquishing a contest
which they may already perceive to be hopeless,
under the prospect of engaging in another which
by land at least might offer them for the moment,
with their present immense military organisation,
fairer prospects of success. It is unnecessary to
carry this question at present beyond its immediate
considerations. We have to call upon the Federal
Government for the immediate restitution of Messrs.
Slidell and Mason, with ample satisfaction for the
gross affront which has been offered to our flag.
Whether it is in the temper or policy of that Go-
vernment to concede what must no doubt humble
them equally in the eyes of both North and South,
and whether the violence of public feeling among
their own subjects, both against the South and
against this country, is a thing they are not as
much afraid of as the hostilities that must
spring from their refusal, are matters on which
speculation must be uncertain. We can well
imagine with what trihmph this insult to
our flag will be received by a large party in the
Northern States, and the arrest of the Confederate
Commissioners be welcomed by all the supporters
of the Union. The British Government, however,
has a plain duty to discharge, and to that duty it
has addressed itself with a firm and manly spirit.
No doubt the Commissioners of the Confederate
States to France and England, who were also the
ex-Ministers of the late President, are regarded as
a great prize ; and it is possible that the Lincoln
Government looks upon their offences in a different
light from those of the officers in the Confederate
army whom it has taken prisoners, and to whom it
has extended the rights of war. We trust, above all
things, that the Federal Government will not have
committed themselves to a course so deplorable as
one which would place it out of their power to
satisfy our demands for the restoration of these
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(From the Times.)

The Cabinet met yesterday to deliberate on
the steps which should be taken to obtain satis-
faction for the recent outrage on the British
flag. On so momentous an occasion we cannot
doubt that every point was discussed with the
utmost care, and that the decision was not arrived
at without a fall consideration of the possible
consequences. Among the members of the pre-
sent Government are men of the greatest expe-
rience and the most profound learning. Lord
Palmerston has been engaged in political life
for half a century, and has conducted the foreign
affairs of this country during an age pregnant
with revolutions and dynastic ehan
ges. Lord Mogi

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collated. upon in favour'
liberty. it would nave tjeZil difficult to find at any
period. a more profnawl knawledge combined with it
mare judicial mind than are united in Sir Cornewall
tLl:ewais4s'isatandn Cien the Government
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ac-
cordance with their mature and reiterated opinions;
her Majesty's Government they do but assert a
claim that is founded in truth and justice. We may
say, then, that the Cabinet has come to the conclu-
sion that the act of the Captain of the San Jacinto,
in seizing pabsongcrs upon board a British vessel
and carrying them forcibly away, is a clear viola-
tion of the Law of Nations, and one for which re-
paration must be at once demanded. Id all'
proba-
bility the next steamer will carry out a despatch,
instructing Lord Lyons to demand reparation for
the ill-advised act of the San Jacinto in seizing
Messrs. Mason and Slidell while under the pre•
teetion of the British flag. Should this just de-
mand not be complied with, we cannot doubt that
Lord Lyons will, under the instructions of his Go-
vernment withdraw with the British Legation from
Washington. of the Cit:"lmil"

We believe that the Cabinet has taken a view
of the matter which will be satisfactory alike to the
patriotism and the reason of the country. Without
questioning the right of a belligerent vessel to stop
and search our merchantmen for contraband of war,
our Ministers entirely deny the claim which was
asserted in this case, and which would permit a
foreign officer to take persons at his own discretion
from under the British flag, on the pretence that
they are rebels or citizens of a hostile State. The
law which governs the stopping, the seizing, the
judging, and the condemning of neutral merchant
ships is clearly laid dowii, and being, at the best,
highly oppressive to neutrals, it must be strictly
adhered to. This law, even when interpreted by the
harsh practices of a bygone age, contains nothing
which can justify the carrying off of persons in the
position of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who were at
the most civil servants of the hostile Power, and
were travelling from one neutral port to another in
a neutral vessel. If the Government of Washington
holds that the Confederates are belligerents, then
it is bound by the laws of war, which treat only
military and naval persons travelling for bellige-
rent purposes as contraband, and even in that case
direct that the contraband character shall be
duly established in a Prize Court. If, on the
other hand, it declares that Messrs. Mason
and Slidell were seized as rebels by virtue of
its Municipal Law, then the right of asylum liss
been clearly violated. Indeed, on the latter plea
the Federal Government might station a sloop
in the Channel to board the hover and Folkestone
steamers daily, and carry off every Southerner who
might be found. The principle on which our
Government rests its demand is, that a British
ship must—until her violation of neutral rights is
fully proved—be held to be British ground, as much
as if she were an actual piece of British soil, and
the right to protection of all persons on board is as
valid am if they were on British territory. Now,
no such violation has been proved, or has been
sought to be proved, against the Trent, and conse-
quently the seizure of the four persons who were
forcibly dragged from her decks Ras entirely illegal.
We hear there is a possibility that the seizure
was the act of the American commander, and was
not expressly directed by his Government. Lieut.
Fairfax, of the San Jacinto, said, we are informed,
on board the Trent that his commanding officer
acted on his own responsibility. We fear, however,
that the Federal Government had deliberately de-
termined to seize the Southern Commissioners. That
the James Adger came to Southampton with the in-
tuition of stopping the last West India steamer was
stated at the time and cannot now be doubted, and
we are informed that General Scott has declared,
since his arrival at Paris, that the seizure of the
Southern Commissioners had been the subject of
Cabinet discussions at Washington long before lie
left. In confirmation of this opinion we may add
that, though the Federal Government has a consul
at Havannah, and though the fact that Messrs.
Mason and Slidell were about to leave for England in
an English steamer was well known, yet no intima-
tion was given to the English company that these pas-
sengers would be looked upon as contraband of war,
or otherwise subject to seizure. The object of the
Washington authorities was apparently not to pre-
vent the sailing of their enemy's envoy s, which they
had an opportunity of doing by warning the Eng-

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lish steamer at Havannah that their presence on
board would subject her to seizure and forfeiture by
a Prize Court ; it was to get possession of the envoys
themselves, and for that purpose they made no re-
monstrance, as they were bound to do, against
taking them on board, but secretly planned the
outrage for which we are now asking reparation.
How necessary it is to uphold our strict rights in
this controversy will be seen by a recent occurrence
at Panama. While the Federal Captains are as-
serting their right to seize Secessionists on board
neutral vessels, Federal Generals are asserting their
right to hold them prisoners on neutral territory.
The Orizaba, a steamer from San Francisco to
Panama, had on board three gentlemen who were
"suspected of Secessionist principles." General
Sumner, commanding the United States' land forces
in the Pacific, arrested them the day before the
steamer reached Panama, and determined to carry
them across the Isthmus. The three gentlemen de-
manded the interference of the New Granadian
Governor to pretect them in neutral territory, and
the Governor sent to demand their release. This
" was declined by General Sumner peremptorily."
The police officer, " with a force of 40 men could not,
of course, offer resistance to 500 United States
troops, and General Sumner was at liberty to
take his prisoners with him." The Governor
protested, but in vain, and the Minister of New
Granada will probably be as unsuccessful in his
remonstrances at Washington. Here it will be seen
there was no question of an enemy's Envoy, or of
persons engaged in the military service of the
enemy. The prisoners were mere suspects, who
were thus carried by main force through a neutral's
territory in spite of an official demand for their
liberation.
All that now remains for us is to adjure the Go-
vernment and people of the Northern States to do
us justice in this matter. They must by this time
know us and our unwillingness to draw the sword
against them, or to take any part in their unhappy
quarrel. Indeed, our patience and long-suffering
have not improbably led to the series of insults of
which the outrage on the Trent is the last and most
offensive. We have maintained the most rigid
neutrality in their dispute; during the year which
these troubles have lasted the Americans cannot
complain of a:single unfriendly act on our part ;
and at this moment we are permitting our industry
to suffer in deference to a blockade so ineffective
that it is daily violated. We appeal, then, to the
moderate and enlightened of the Northern people.
Let them be assured that the pretensions which
their Government has made cannot be allowed by
any State which respects its own dignity, or even
its own safety. Let them be assured that the for-
bearance of this country has not been dictated, as
their ignorant politicians tell them, by any dread
of their power, and that, though we can
disregard
much petulance, we will not sit down under an
injury.

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