Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-11-09
I'd cAsrLEREAcu TO mR. RUSSELL.
Foreign O8ice, J,lne Is, 1912.

ORD cAsrLEREAcu TO wR. RUSSELL.
Foreign OSice, Jilpe IS, 1912.
SIR,
In communicating TO your government
The order in couDch os this date, re, oking |
(under certain conditions therein specifed) |
those OF January 7th and OF April goth, 1909, |
l am 10 request that you viii at the sam,
time acquaint themthat the prince regents
ministers have taken the carries, oppurtuni-
~, after the resumption If the government
to advise his royal highness to the adoption
NJ measure grounded upon The documents
communicated by You TO this oftice on the
Goth ultimo and his royal highness hopes
that this proceeding on the part Of the Brit
ish government may accelerate good I'M
Outstanding on all points of difference be-
tween the two states.
shall be happy to have the honor of see
ms you at the foreign Office, at O'Clock to.
morrow; and beg to apprizc you that one
o. his majesty's vessels viii sail for America
with the dispatches of the government in
the course of the present week.
have the honor to be with great con-
sideration,
Sir,
Your most ob't humble servant,
Signed,
Gas
u Russell, Esq. &c.
MR. RUSSELL TO LORD cAsrLRREAcH,
| 18, Benfinck sfreet, Junc 90, 1912.
My LoRD,
| have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt OF the two notes address ed to me
by your i,ordship, OH the 23d. of this mon tn,
enclosing an order in Council. issued that day
by his royal highness the Prince Regent, act
ing In the name and on behalf of his Britain
nc Majesty, ter the revocation (on the con :
ditions therein speci6ed) of the orders in
council OF the 9Th OF January, 1907. and of
the Goth of April 1907, so far as may regard
American vessels and their careoes, being
American property, from the LIST of August
next
In communicating this document 10 nv
government, shall with much satisfaction
accompanyit with the hopes which you state
70 De entertained by his royal highness the
Prince Regent, that it may accelerate good
understanding on all points of difference be-
| tween the states-I am the more en-
couraged to believe that these hopes will not
be disappointed from the assurance which
your lordship was pleased to give me, in the
i conversation OF this morning, that in the OPT
mon OF your lordship, the blockade of the
| io.n Oh way, 1910, had been merged in the
orders IN Council, now revoked, and ext:n-
guished with them; and that no condition
contained IN the order of the 23d inst. is to
be Interpreted to restrain the government
OF the United States from the exercise of its
right to exclude British armed vessels from
the harbors and waters of the United States
whenever there shall be special and suffici
eni eau e ter SO doing; or whenever such
exclusion shall, froma general policy, be ex-
tended to the armed vessels ofthe enemies
OF Great Britain: This assurance am hap
Ply 10 consider as evidence. of conciliatory
spirit which willafford, on every othe,. no;nt
OF difference, an explanation equally frank
and satisfactory.
am, my lord, with great consideration,
your lordship's most obedient servant,
| Signed,
| IONA. RUSSELL.
Inc right hon. lord discount CaSflereagh, syc.