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| have the honor to be, &c &c.
(Signed) J. BARLOW.
Mr.. Russell TO Mr.. Monroe.

Of the adoption Of more lust and enlightened
policy in favor nf the II States, than h". h1-
therto prevailed.
The partial changes in the ministry will
probably produce no change of its character
or lead to an abandonment of the existing sys
TEN in relation to US
have the honor to be- &c:
fSieneG IONA. RUSSELL.
The Hon. Jas. Monroe,
Sec'ry Of State Of U. s.
Mr.. RUSSELL TO MR. MONROE.
London, ed Feb. 1912.
S1R-I have the honor TO hand you enclos-
ed a copy of letter to me from the carl OF Ii
verpool, relating to person by the name OF
Bowman, said to be British subject, and FOR
chilly detained on board the United States ship
Hornet, together with copies of the deposi-
ton Of Elizabeth Eleanor Bowman which &C
companied ii, and of ray reply.
| have the honor, &c.
(S.gned) IONA. RUSSELL.
The Hon. Jaa. Monroe, &c. &c.
THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL TO MR RUSSELL.
Foreign Office, 2osA eco. 1912.
S1R-I have the honor to transmit to you
the COPY of an affidavit, sworn at Portsmouth,
bv Elizabeth Eleanor Bowman, stating herself
10 he the wife of William Bowman, one of his
majesty's subjects, now detained against his
will on board the United States sloop l1or-
net. az present In Cowes' road.
You cannot but be aware of the urgent ne
cessity of putting the facts, alleged In this do
cument, into an immediate train OF lnvestIga-
tion: and | am to request that you will com
municate, without loss of time, with the COM
r IL npTe t,of
he may afford you all information In his pow
or, and that the vessel may not put to sea
before the result of the inquiry shall be as
certained, in a manner satisfactory to your
self and TO this government
You must likewise be aware, that this go-
vernment has no power TO prevent the lssu-
ing of writ of habeas corpus by the friends
of Bowman and that, in that case. 1t would
be impossible 10 impede or delay It's execn-.
ton, and the consequent removal OF this ques-
ton out of the hands of the two governments,
into those of the legal force and authorities
of this country.
Anxious to prevent any such proceeding,
the Inconvenience of which, even if they did
not involve the possibility of forciblc exc.
cution of the legal process, might yet DC con-
siderable, request your immediate attention
to this communication, and confidently hope
that you WILL by aHording the means OF an
amicable investigation, supercede the necessl-
ty, in which the friends of Bowman may o.
therwise feel themselves, of taking the course
to which have before alluded.
I have the honor, sc.
(Signed) LlEERFooL'
Borough of Portsmouth
in the
county of Southamhton
| Elizabeth Eleanor Bowman, of Kingston,
near Portsmouth,, in the said county, maketh
oath. that she was married to William Bow
man, late of Portsmouth, shipwright, about
SIX years ago; that he was employed in the
dock-yard there, which he quilted about three
! years ago, and sailed from hence in the Ed
ward Fork, transport, which was wrecked
| on the island OF Cuba. That she was inform
ed by her husband that he got from Cuba to
N. York in an American ship, and about the
fourth of June last, having got in liquor, he
found himself in the American rendezvous
there, and that he was compelled, against his
inclination, to 60 on board the Hornet, an
American sloop of war, being conducted on
board her by file of soldiers that the Hor-
net having arrived lately at Cowes, she re-